January 26, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX: WPT) (NASDAQ: WPRT) has appointed Bill Larkin as chief financial officer, effective February 15, 2010.

Most recently, Larkin served as Interim chief financial officer for DDi Corp., a publicly listed manufacturer of circuit boards, beginning October 2009.

Prior to that, Larkin served as chief financial officer of Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc. from May 2008 to May 2009, and corporate controller and chief accounting officer of FSYS from November 2006 to May 2008.

Before that, he served as director of financial reporting at Standard Pacific Corp and as an auditor at Deloitte & Touche LLP, based in Los Angeles.

Westport Innovations is a supplier of technologies meant to allow engines to operate on clean-burning fuels such as compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen and biofuels such as landfill gas.

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