CFOs On the Move: Week Ending February 26

Joby Aviation employed Matthew Discipline as finance chief of the electric powered air taxi organization. Discipline is at the moment CFO of North The us at Ford Motor Company. Discipline has put in a lot more than two a long time operating at Ford, in roles which include general auditor, wherever he led the modernization of interior audit, and CFO at Lincoln, wherever he released the brand in China and reinvigorated commercial effectiveness in the U.S. Prior to Ford, he worked at Goldman Sachs and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Method. He has worked in worldwide operations for significantly of his profession, which include 9 decades in Asia Pacific and on chosen jobs in South Africa, Brazil, Europe, and Egypt. 

Virgin Galactic Holdings appointed Doug Ahrens as its new CFO. Ahrens most not long ago served as CFO at Mellanox, a general public organization in the semiconductor sector, wherever he was responsible for all finance functions right until the acquisition by NVIDIA in 2020. Prior to that, he was CFO for program engineering organization GlobalLogic. Earlier in his profession, he put in about a ten years at Maxim Integrated Items, top fiscal setting up and coordinating M&A functions. Prior to that, he served in various fiscal roles at Intel for 6 decades and as an environmental engineer at Chevron. He replaces Jon Campagna, who is stepping down as CFO. 

Autodesk named Debbie Clifford as chief fiscal officer, effective March eight. Clifford, who at the moment serves as finance chief at SurveyMonkey, returns to Autodesk, wherever she put in 13 decades in different fiscal leadership roles, which include as vice president for fiscal setting up and assessment. Clifford succeeds R. Scott Herren, who left the style and engineering program organization to develop into CFO at Cisco. 

Maxeon Solar Technologies employed Kai Strohbecke as chief fiscal officer, effective March fifteen. Most not long ago, Strohbecke has been the vice president of finance and world wide operations controller for Micron Technological know-how. Prior to that, he put in ten decades as CFO at Inotera Reminiscences, a memory semiconductor manufacturing organization positioned in Taiwan that he aided checklist on the Taiwan Inventory Exchange in 2006. Prior to 2003, Strohbecke worked in different management roles at Infineon and Siemens Semiconductor Team. Strohbecke succeeds Joanne Solomon, who is retiring.

Healthcare organization B. Braun Professional medical named James Allen as chief fiscal officer. For the previous 6 decades, Allen served as an running organization CFO with Steel Companions. His past expertise involves fifteen decades at Johnson & Johnson in a range of company progress and fiscal leadership roles. He began his profession at Amoco Corporation. Allen replaces Bruce Heugel, who is retiring following 20 decades operating at the organization. 

Novolex appointed Dennis Norman as finance chief. Norman joins the food stuff packaging producer from healthcare IT and services organization nThrive, wherever he was CFO. Prior to that, he put in 16 decades as an executive chief in cost of strategic setting up, finance, and corporate progress at Polymer Team/Avintiv, the previous 6 decades as CFO. He succeeds Paul Palmisano, who is retiring following a lot more than eight decades at the organization.

Biofacturing organization Zymergen promoted Enakshi (Ena) Singh to finance chief. Singh has aided Zymergen close a lot more than $one billion in fairness financing and $100M in financial debt because signing up for the organization 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. Beforehand, she was the vice president of technological know-how financial commitment banking at Merrill Lynch and an analyst for Latin American financial commitment banking at Salomon Smith Barney.

Loyola Marymount College promoted Aimee Uen to senior vice president and chief fiscal officer. Uen, who has worked at the college for ten decades, was most not long ago 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 decades. Bell reportedly was pressured to resign as section of a press by activist trader Ryan Cohen to “reshape the ailing retailer.” Bell will stage down on March 26 and GameStop has released a research for a replacement. The announcement of his departure came about a month following a trading frenzy fueled by retail investors sent GameStop’s stock on a Wall Street rollercoaster journey. 

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