CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 3
Journey-hailing provider Lyft on Thursday introduced that Elaine Paul was named chief economical officer, successful Jan. 3, 2022. Paul replaces Brian Roberts, who is stepping down but will stay an adviser until June 2022. Since 2019, Paul has served as CFO and vice president of finance for Amazon Studios, dependable for portfolio and economical scheduling for Amazon’s slate of initial film and tv programming. Ahead of signing up for Amazon, Paul was CFO of Hulu. Ahead of Hulu, she spent 19 decades at Disney in senior finance, technique, and business enterprise progress roles. Paul was named a CFO to Watch by CFO Magazine in 2018.
Chryssa Halley
Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored enterprise that guarantees mortgage loan financial loans, promoted Chryssa Halley from controller to chief economical officer. Halley will be dependable for Fannie Mae’s economical administration and financial and strategic exploration functions. She joined Fannie Mae in 2006 and is a CPA. The corporation also introduced that Jim L. Holmberg had been promoted to senior vice president and controller.
Aston Martin CFO Kenneth Gregor is stepping down right after about 18 months in the position, the luxury carmaker reported. The transfer was due to own factors. Gregor will depart as finance chief and government director no later on than June 30, 2022, and the board has initiated a approach to appoint a replacement.
Chesapeake Vitality named Mohit Singh as CFO, successful Dec. 6. He most not too long ago led the M&A, company land, and reserves functions at BPX Vitality, a U.S. subsidiary of BP PLC. Prior to signing up for BPX, Singh labored as an financial commitment banker targeted on oil and gasoline transactions for RBC Cash Markets and Goldman Sachs.
Simone Walsh was appointed vice president, chief economical officer, and treasurer of activewear corporation Delta Attire. Walsh joins Delta from Novelis, where by she most not too long ago served as vice president, deputy controller. Ahead of that, she served as chief accounting officer, controller, and principal accounting officer of PRGX Global and had a stint as vice president, finance at PGRX from 2017 to 2019.
Owen Humphries
Employment website Glassdoor named Owen Humphries as CFO, successful instantly. Humphries has been at Glassdoor given that 2016. He earlier was senior vice president, finance and business enterprise functions. Prior to Glassdoor, Humphries led consulting groups for The Boston Consulting Group.
As reported earlier this week on CFO.com, Swiss bank UBS named JPMorgan Chase veteran Sarah Youngwood as its future CFO, including a lady to its government board. Youngwood will exchange Kirt Gardner when he techniques down in May well 2022 to “pursue other possibilities,” UBS reported. Youngwood has labored at JPMorgan for 24 decades, most not too long ago as finance chief for purchaser and group banking given that 2016.
In other appointments this week: Verve Therapeutics employed Allison Dorval as its chief economical officer. Verve, which went community this yr, is operating on genetic-based mostly treatment options for cardiovascular sickness. … Excellarate introduced Rob Howe as the company’s CFO. Howe joins Excellarate with twenty five decades of practical experience in finance, which includes roles at Liquidnet and General Electric. … Meta-optics technology company Metalenz named Brad MacMullin its chief economical officer. He was earlier CFO of Lucidity Lights. … Rapid7 appointed Tim Adams, formerly of BitSight Systems, to the CFO spot. Adams officially begins the career on Jan. 3, 2022.