William Restrepo has been appointed CFO andtreasurer of Smith International, a Houston-basedprovider of oilfield services with $10.7 billion of 2008 revenue.He succeeds Margaret Dorman, the company's CFO andtreasurer since 1999, who is retiring. Restrepo, 50, was mostrecently CFO, executive vice president and secretary of Seitel,which provides seismic data to the oil and gas industry. Earlier,he spent two decades at Schlumberger, where his positions includedcorporate treasurer.

Advanced Micro Devices, a $5.8 billiontechnology computing, has named Thomas Seifert CFOand senior vice president. He succeeds RobertRivet, who was promoted to chief operations andadministrative officer of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company.Seifert, 46, most recently was CFO and COO at Qimonda. Previouslyhe was senior vice president and general manager of the WirelineBusiness Group at Infineon.

Anthony Massetti has been appointed CFO andsenior vice president of Avaya, the Basking Ridge,N.J., communications equipment company that was taken private byventure capitalists in 2007. Massetti is joining Avaya from NCR,where he had served as CFO since 2008. Earlier, he served as CFO ofQLogic and vice president of finance for SanDisk, and spent 17years in finance positions at IBM.