CFOs On the Move: Week Ending February 26
Matthew Discipline
Joby Aviation employed Matthew Discipline as finance chief of the electrical air taxi enterprise. Discipline is now CFO of North The us at Ford Motor Corporation. Discipline has invested extra than two many years doing the job at Ford, in roles like general auditor, in which he led the modernization of inner audit, and CFO at Lincoln, in which he released the brand in China and reinvigorated commercial overall performance in the U.S. Prior to Ford, he worked at Goldman Sachs and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Process. He has worked in intercontinental functions for much of his occupation, like nine many years in Asia Pacific and on selected initiatives in South Africa, Brazil, Europe, and Egypt.
Virgin Galactic Holdings appointed Doug Ahrens as its new CFO. Ahrens most lately served as CFO at Mellanox, a public enterprise in the semiconductor industry, in which he was liable for all finance functions right until the acquisition by NVIDIA in 2020. Prior to that, he was CFO for software package engineering enterprise GlobalLogic. Earlier in his occupation, he invested in excess of a ten years at Maxim Integrated Products, main monetary scheduling and coordinating M&A pursuits. Prior to that, he served in various monetary roles at Intel for six many years and as an environmental engineer at Chevron. He replaces Jon Campagna, who is stepping down as CFO.
Debbie Clifford
Autodesk named Debbie Clifford as chief monetary officer, efficient March 8. Clifford, who now serves as finance chief at SurveyMonkey, returns to Autodesk, in which she invested 13 many years in numerous monetary management roles, like as vice president for monetary scheduling and evaluation. Clifford succeeds R. Scott Herren, who left the layout and engineering software package enterprise to come to be CFO at Cisco.
Maxeon Photo voltaic Systems employed Kai Strohbecke as chief monetary officer, efficient March fifteen. Most lately, Strohbecke has been the vice president of finance and world wide functions controller for Micron Technology. Prior to that, he invested 10 many years as CFO at Inotera Reminiscences, a memory semiconductor manufacturing enterprise positioned in Taiwan that he helped checklist on the Taiwan Stock Trade in 2006. Prior to 2003, Strohbecke worked in numerous management roles at Infineon and Siemens Semiconductor Group. Strohbecke succeeds Joanne Solomon, who is retiring.
James Allen
Healthcare enterprise B. Braun Health-related named James Allen as chief monetary officer. For the very last six many years, Allen served as an operating enterprise CFO with Metal Associates. His earlier knowledge contains fifteen many years at Johnson & Johnson in a wide range of organization growth and monetary management roles. He started his occupation at Amoco Corporation. Allen replaces Bruce Heugel, who is retiring following twenty many years doing the job at the enterprise.
Novolex appointed Dennis Norman as finance chief. Norman joins the food packaging maker from health care IT and products and services enterprise nThrive, in which he was CFO. Prior to that, he invested 16 many years as an govt leader in cost of strategic scheduling, finance, and company growth at Polymer Group/Avintiv, the very last six many years as CFO. He succeeds Paul Palmisano, who is retiring following extra than eight many years at the enterprise.
Ena Singh
Biofacturing enterprise Zymergen promoted Enakshi (Ena) Singh to finance chief. Singh has helped Zymergen close extra than $1 billion in equity funding and $100M in financial debt because signing up for the enterprise as vice president of finance in 2014. Singh beforehand served as senior vice president of asset management at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign prosperity fund. Formerly, she was the vice president of technologies expense banking at Merrill Lynch and an analyst for Latin American expense banking at Salomon Smith Barney.
Loyola Marymount University promoted Aimee Uen to senior vice president and chief monetary officer. Uen, who has worked at the college for 10 many years, was most lately vice president for finance and controller. Prior to signing up for LMU, Uen was an assurance supervisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
GameStop CFO Jim Bell is resigning following fewer than two many years. Bell reportedly was compelled to resign as part of a press by activist trader Ryan Cohen to “reshape the ailing retailer.” Bell will step down on March 26 and GameStop has released a lookup for a alternative. The announcement of his departure arrived about a month following a buying and selling frenzy fueled by retail investors despatched GameStop’s stock on a Wall Road rollercoaster ride.
