Starving Students Appoints CFO

* Los Angeles-based Starving Students, one of the largest moving companies in the U.S., has named Richard Noyes its chief financial officer. He previously worked as controller at Merchants Home Delivery Service. Starving Students operates in 10 states.

Data Exchange Corp. has named Philip Pietrowski executive vice president of business development. Pietrowski, a former senior vice president of business development of Cerplex Corp. in Irvine, will be responsible for helping Data Exchange expand its global operations. The Camarillo-based company, which also has offices in Dublin, Ireland, is a developer of computer repair technology.

* Real estate brokers Hunt Barnett, Chris Hogue and Rick Buckley, have joined Insignia/ESG’s Los Angeles office as senior managing directors. They will focus on the West L.A. commercial real estate market. Insignia is a unit of New York-based Insignia Financial Group Inc.