Blumberg, Godbold on Ceradyne Board

Paul N. Blumberg and Wilford D. Godbold Jr. have been elected to the board of directors of Ceradyne Inc. in Costa Mesa. Blumberg is director of the Chemical and Physical Sciences Laboratory, Ford Research Laboratory. Godbold, currently a private investor, was president and chief executive of Zero Corp.

* Harold Fox has been appointed chief financial officer of Western Dental Services in Orange. He previously spent seven years as chief financial officer for RJME Inc., a restaurant operating and management company. Fox was also executive vice president and chief financial officer of Del Taco Inc. and vice president of finance and corporate secretary of American Restaurant Group.

* Robert L. McCauley has been named chief technology officer of Superwire.com Inc. in Irvine. Previously, McCauley was with IIT Research Institute as a senior science advisor. Prior to that, he was with Lockheed Martin Corp., Computer Science Corp. and Control Data Corp.

* Robert H. Bancroft has joined MedicineNet.com as chief financial officer. He was formerly chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Walsh Healthcare Solutions Inc., and before that chief financial officer and chief information officer at Zee Medical Inc.