CFOs on the Move: Week Ending December 17

Katja Dürrfeld

Vehicle elements maker Continental AG named Katja Dürrfeld chief economic officer, efficient quickly. Dürrfeld will be liable for group finance and controlling and group information technologies. She will also be liable for finance in the upcoming automotive group sector beginning in 2022. Dürrfeld commenced her career at Continental in 1997, holding operational positions in IT, marketing and advertising, gross sales, logistics, auditing, and paying for. In 2013, she was named head of group audit.

Previous chief business enterprise officer of ZipRecruiter Timothy Yarborough was named the career aggregator’s finance chief previous week. Yarborough normally takes over for David Travers, who was named president. Yarborough has also held the positions of senior vice president and vice president of finance. He joined ZipRecruiter in 2014. The company also named Amy Garefis chief accounting officer.

Dave & Buster’s Amusement,  an proprietor and operator of enjoyment and dining venues, introduced that it had appointed Michael Quartieri as CFO, efficient Jan. one, 2022. Quartieri will be liable for accounting, offer chain, and investor relations. He was previously CFO and corporate secretary at live streaming company LiveOne. In advance of that, Quartieri was finance chief at Scientific Games, a gaming products and techniques provider. Quartieri replaces Scott Bowman, who was named CFO of Correct Food stuff Kitchen area, a wellbeing-pushed seasonal restaurant chain, before this thirty day period.

The board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG appointed Remco Steenbergen to the placement of chief economic officer starting up in the new year. His contract will run till Dec. 21, 2023. Steenberg will head up controlling and hazard administration, corporate finance, accounting and equilibrium sheets, taxes, paying for, and mergers & acquisitions. Most just lately, Remco Steenbergen was CFO of Zurich-based mostly Barry Callebaut Group, a company of chocolate and cocoa products. He has also worked at Philips and KPMG. Steenbergen replaces Ulrik Svensson, who resigned for wellbeing explanations in April 2020.

Reported Lufthansa Group Chair Karl-Ludwig Kley: “Remco Steenbergen delivers with him outstanding economic experience from various businesses as well as industries … Particularly now, when the pandemic is having these types of critical implications for air travel, an internationally expert and well-highly regarded CFO is more significant than at any time for Lufthansa Group: not only to triumph over the latest disaster but also for the coming a long time, when we have to — and want to — pay out again authorities stabilization resources.”

Zrinka Dekic

Children’s enjoyment company Genius Models Global went outside the house its organization to appoint Zrinka Dekic as chief economic officer and head of system and mergers and acquisitions. A previous govt in the expenditure administration division of Goldman Sachs, Dekic held posts in corporate system, strategic arranging, and business enterprise advancement at The Walt Disney Business. Dekic replaces Bob Denton, who Genius Models moved to govt vice president of finance and accounting.

Electrical power company Williams promoted John D. Porter to senior vice president and CFO, efficient Jan. one, 2022. Porter will change John Chandler, who introduced his prepared retirement from Williams before this year. Previously, vice president and chief accounting officer, controller, and head of FP&A, Porter commenced with Williams in 1998, left in 2001 for Forest Oil, and returned in 2005. Mary Hausman will suppose the vice president, CAO, and controller job. She now serves as staff members vice president, internal audit.

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