Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. announced that John C. Weisenseel, who has more than 20 years of experience in senior financial leadership roles, has been appointed to the company?s Board of Directors and to its Audit Committee. Weisenseel, 64, retired as senior vice president and chief financial officer of AllianceBernstein LP, where he supervised all global finance activities for the publicly traded asset management company and was a member of its executive Operating Committee, which established and guided strategic direction for the firm. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein in 2012, Weisenseel held leadership roles at McGraw Hill, initially as senior vice president and corporate treasurer and later as senior vice president and chief financial officer of McGraw Hill?s Standard & Poor's subsidiary.

Earlier he was vice president and corporate treasurer for Barnes & Noble and held a variety of derivatives trading and financial positions at Citigroup. Since his retirement, he has been an Executive-in-Residence at Lipscomb University?s College of Business in Nashville. He currently serves as a member of the Finance Committee of Nashville Zoo, and as a board member and immediate past chair of both Nashville Public Television and Thistle Farms. Weisenseel earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Adelphi University in Garden City, NY and an MBA in Finance and Computer Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).