CFOs On the Move: Week Ending February 26

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Matthew Area

Joby Aviation employed Matthew Area as finance chief of the electric powered air taxi firm. Area is presently CFO of North The us at Ford Motor Organization. Area has expended a lot more than two a long time doing the job at Ford, in roles including general auditor, in which he led the modernization of inside audit, and CFO at Lincoln, in which he launched the brand name in China and reinvigorated commercial efficiency in the U.S. Before Ford, he labored at Goldman Sachs and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Process. He has labored in international operations for a great deal of his vocation, including nine many years in Asia Pacific and on chosen assignments in South Africa, Brazil, Europe, and Egypt.

Virgin Galactic Holdings appointed Doug Ahrens as its new CFO. Ahrens most just lately served as CFO at Mellanox, a general public firm in the semiconductor market, in which he was responsible for all finance functions until eventually the acquisition by NVIDIA in 2020. Before that, he was CFO for software program engineering firm GlobalLogic. Earlier in his vocation, he expended more than a 10 years at Maxim Integrated Merchandise, major fiscal arranging and coordinating M&A activities. Before that, he served in a number of fiscal roles at Intel for 6 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 fiscal officer, effective March 8. Clifford, who presently serves as finance chief at SurveyMonkey, returns to Autodesk, in which she expended 13 many years in different fiscal leadership roles, including as vice president for fiscal arranging and assessment. Clifford succeeds R. Scott Herren, who remaining the design and engineering software program firm to develop into CFO at Cisco.

Maxeon Photo voltaic Systems employed Kai Strohbecke as chief fiscal officer, effective March fifteen. Most just lately, Strohbecke has been the vice president of finance and global operations controller for Micron Technological innovation. Before that, he expended ten many years as CFO at Inotera Reminiscences, a memory semiconductor producing firm located in Taiwan that he aided listing on the Taiwan Stock Trade in 2006. Before 2003, Strohbecke labored in different management roles at Infineon and Siemens Semiconductor Team. Strohbecke succeeds Joanne Solomon, who is retiring.

James Allen

Health care firm B. Braun Professional medical named James Allen as chief fiscal officer. For the very last 6 many years, Allen served as an operating firm CFO with Metal Partners. His former expertise incorporates fifteen many years at Johnson & Johnson in a assortment of organization progress and fiscal leadership roles. He began his vocation at Amoco Company. Allen replaces Bruce Heugel, who is retiring after twenty many years doing the job at the firm.

Novolex appointed Dennis Norman as finance chief. Norman joins the foodstuff packaging company from health care IT and services firm nThrive, in which he was CFO. Before that, he expended 16 many years as an govt leader in cost of strategic arranging, finance, and corporate progress at Polymer Team/Avintiv, the very last 6 many years as CFO. He succeeds Paul Palmisano, who is retiring after a lot more than eight many years at the firm.

Ena Singh

Biofacturing firm Zymergen promoted Enakshi (Ena) Singh to finance chief. Singh has aided Zymergen shut a lot more than $one billion in equity funding and $100M in personal debt given that signing up for 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 wealth fund. Earlier, she was the vice president of engineering expenditure banking at Merrill Lynch and an analyst for Latin American expenditure banking at Salomon Smith Barney.

Loyola Marymount University promoted Aimee Uen to senior vice president and chief fiscal officer. Uen, who has labored at the college for ten many years, was most just lately vice president for finance and controller. Before signing up for LMU, Uen was an assurance manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

GameStop CFO Jim Bell is resigning after significantly less than two many years. Bell reportedly was forced to resign as portion of a drive by activist investor Ryan Cohen to “reshape the ailing retailer.” Bell will action down on March 26 and GameStop has launched a search for a alternative. The announcement of his departure came about a thirty day period after a investing frenzy fueled by retail traders despatched GameStop’s stock on a Wall Street rollercoaster experience.