Berkline names chief financial officer

— Furniture Today,
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — Upholstery producer Berkline


Benchcraft Holding has hired Steven M. Smith as chief financial officer, replacing Mark A. Roberts.
Smith previously was a financial executive at MTD Products, an Ohio-based consumer products company.
Roberts, a managing director of Alvarez & Marsal, assumed the CFO duties last July and remains with the company in a senior advisory capacity. Alvarez & Marsal is assisting Berkline Benchcraft in an executive management reorganization.
Bill Wittenberg, president and CEO of Berkline Benchcraft, said Smith has experience in
consumer products, manufacturing, distribution and retail.
“He also brings an international expertise at a time when our industry is undergoing accelerated change as more and more of our operations are being conducted in a global environment,” said Wittenberg. “We now have in place one of the strongest executive management teams in the furniture industry that will drive the implementation of our strategic business plan.”