Allen Austin Completes CFO Search for Houston Chronicle

February 5, 2013 – Allen Austin Global Executive Search has recruited Michael A. Rutledge to serve as chief financial officer at the Houston Chronicle for Hearst Newspapers. As a CPA with 20 years of experience in the finance field, Mr. Rutledge joins the Houston Chronicle most recently from Cantel Medical Corporation, in Houston. Since March 4, 1887, Hearst has grown from a single newspaper into one of the world’s most admired private media and information companies with some 200 businesses in more than 150 countries. Allen Austin is a privately owned Houston-based executive search and consulting firm with 22 partners in 10 U.S. locations and two Asian locales.