Longwei Petroleum appoints new CFO

Longwei Petroleum Investment Holding Ltd. announced that Michael Toups has joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO), as of June 23. Toups, who is succeeding James Crane, will have overall leadership responsibility for the company’s finance and control functions. Toups is an accounting and corporate finance executive with 20 years of experience in senior business management and specialties in business strategy, mergers and acquisitions and international trade. Toups holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration in Finance from the University of Notre Dame. (June 25, 2010)