PEOPLE : Search Firm Korn / Ferry Shuffles Leadership Posts

Korn/Ferry International announced Monday that it is restructuring some of its leadership posts.

Michael D. Boxberger, the firm’s president in North America, will immediately assume the new post of president of Korn/Ferry International. He will be responsible for the North American, Latin American and Asia-Pacific regions and for the firm’s global specialty practices.

The Los Angeles executive search firm created an office of the chairman, consisting of Boxberger; Chairman Richard Ferry; Peter L. Dunn, vice chairman of management services, and Edward W. Kelley, vice chairman of Europe, to concentrate on overall strategy and major policy decisions.

Ferry will remain chairman and chief executive of the company he helped found in 1969.

* Keitha T. Schofield has been appointed senior vice president and chief information officer of Farmers Group Inc., the Los Angeles-based insurance management company.

Schofield comes to Farmers from Continental Airlines, where she served for the past five years as vice president of the airline’s technology division.

* Michael A. Beindorff has been named executive vice president of marketing and product management for Visa U.S.A. Inc. Beindorff, 43, will head all of the San Francisco-based firm’s marketing functions.

Before joining the credit card company, Beindorff was senior vice president of marketing at Atlanta-based Rhodes Furniture Inc.

* Richard J. Stegemeier, 66, chairman of Unocal Corp., was elected a director of Pacific Enterprises, parent of Southern California Gas Co., at the company’s annual meeting in Universal City last week. Stegemeier replaces Joseph R. Rensch, 72, who retired after 25 years as a director of the Los Angeles-based company.

* Steven D. Munter has been appointed senior vice president of Bank of America. Munter is the the commercial banking manager of the San Francisco bank’s Los Angeles Regional Commercial Banking Office.