CFOs On the Move: Week Ending February 26
Matthew Industry
Joby Aviation hired Matthew Industry as finance main of the electrical air taxi firm. Industry is at this time CFO of North The united states at Ford Motor Business. Industry has invested extra than two decades doing work at Ford, in roles together with general auditor, in which he led the modernization of inner audit, and CFO at Lincoln, in which he launched the brand in China and reinvigorated commercial efficiency in the U.S. In advance of Ford, he labored at Goldman Sachs and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has labored in international functions for considerably of his vocation, together with nine decades in Asia Pacific and on picked jobs in South Africa, Brazil, Europe, and Egypt.
Virgin Galactic Holdings appointed Doug Ahrens as its new CFO. Ahrens most a short while ago served as CFO at Mellanox, a community firm in the semiconductor sector, in which he was responsible for all finance capabilities right up until the acquisition by NVIDIA in 2020. In advance of that, he was CFO for software program engineering firm GlobalLogic. Before in his vocation, he invested over a decade at Maxim Integrated Goods, main economic organizing and coordinating M&A functions. In advance of that, he served in many economic roles at Intel for six decades and as an environmental engineer at Chevron. He replaces Jon Campagna, who is stepping down as CFO.
Debbie Clifford
Autodesk named Debbie Clifford as main economic officer, successful March eight. Clifford, who at this time serves as finance main at SurveyMonkey, returns to Autodesk, in which she invested thirteen decades in numerous economic management roles, together with as vice president for economic organizing and investigation. Clifford succeeds R. Scott Herren, who left the structure and engineering software program firm to develop into CFO at Cisco.
Maxeon Solar Technologies hired Kai Strohbecke as main economic officer, successful March fifteen. Most a short while ago, Strohbecke has been the vice president of finance and worldwide functions controller for Micron Engineering. In advance of that, he invested ten decades as CFO at Inotera Memories, a memory semiconductor production firm found in Taiwan that he served listing on the Taiwan Inventory Exchange in 2006. In advance of 2003, Strohbecke labored in numerous management roles at Infineon and Siemens Semiconductor Team. Strohbecke succeeds Joanne Solomon, who is retiring.
James Allen
Health care firm B. Braun Clinical named James Allen as main economic officer. For the past six decades, Allen served as an working firm CFO with Metal Associates. His earlier knowledge involves fifteen decades at Johnson & Johnson in a wide variety of company growth and economic management roles. He started his vocation at Amoco Corporation. Allen replaces Bruce Heugel, who is retiring after 20 decades doing work at the firm.
Novolex appointed Dennis Norman as finance main. Norman joins the foods packaging company from healthcare IT and companies firm nThrive, in which he was CFO. In advance of that, he invested 16 decades as an government chief in demand of strategic organizing, finance, and corporate growth at Polymer Team/Avintiv, the past six decades as CFO. He succeeds Paul Palmisano, who is retiring after extra than eight decades at the firm.
Ena Singh
Biofacturing firm Zymergen promoted Enakshi (Ena) Singh to finance main. Singh has served Zymergen near extra than $1 billion in fairness funding and $100M in personal debt considering that joining the firm as vice president of finance in 2014. Singh previously served as senior vice president of asset management at Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign prosperity fund. Earlier, she was the vice president of technologies financial investment banking at Merrill Lynch and an analyst for Latin American financial investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney.
Loyola Marymount College promoted Aimee Uen to senior vice president and main economic officer. Uen, who has labored at the university for ten decades, was most a short while ago vice president for finance and controller. In advance of joining LMU, Uen was an assurance manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
GameStop CFO Jim Bell is resigning after significantly less than two decades. Bell reportedly was pressured to resign as element of a press by activist trader Ryan Cohen to “reshape the ailing retailer.” Bell will phase down on March 26 and GameStop has launched a search for a substitute. The announcement of his departure arrived about a month after a buying and selling frenzy fueled by retail traders sent GameStop’s stock on a Wall Road rollercoaster experience.
