CFOs On the Move: Week Ending May 7

Sherry Home
Lucid Motors appointed Sherry Home as chief economic officer, in which she will concentration on the electric car or truck automaker’s changeover to a publicly traded enterprise. Home joins the enterprise from Alphabet’s self-driving unit Waymo, in which she was treasurer and head of trader relations for the final 4 a long time. She has about 10 a long time of practical experience with automotive OEM, Tier one supplier, and mobility companies, as very well as numerous a long time in the capital markets industry as a know-how trader, expenditure banker, and economic functioning govt.

Kathy Willard
Are living Nation Amusement CFO Kathy Willard will retire right after twenty five a long time at the enterprise on June thirty. Willard has spent the past fourteen a long time controlling the finances for the reside leisure and ticketing enterprise. Willard was appointed CFO in September 2007 next 9 a long time at the enterprise in various roles like govt vice president and chief accounting officer. Joe Berchtold, who presently serves as Are living Nation’s president, will consider on the additional function of CFO on July one.
PUMA has appointed Hubert Hinterseher as its new CFO commencing June one. Hubert has worked at the sporting activities enterprise for 16 a long time, most just lately as the world-wide director of economic controlling. Hubert replaces Michael Lämmermann, who is retiring right after 28 a long time with PUMA and eight a long time as CFO. Lämmermann will stay on as an adviser until finally the finish of the year.

Elena Gomez
Cafe software program enterprise Toast hired Elena Gomez as CFO. Considering the fact that May perhaps 2016, Gomez has been finance chief at Zendesk, in which she helped scale the world-wide enterprise to about $1B in annual earnings. Prior to that, Gomez held senior finance roles at companies like Salesforce, Visa, and Charles Schwab. She presently sits on the board of administrators at Smartsheet and PagerDuty.
Mobile online games system Skillz hired Airbnb govt Ian Lee as its new CFO, helpful June 21. Lee served as head of trader relations and was on the core deal crew for the company’s 2020 IPO. He has also led trader relations as a senior finance govt at other know-how corporations, like Atlassian and Trulia, each of which he helped consider community. He previously held trader relations leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard and Omnicom Group.

Sarah Broderick
Marketing and advertising agency Acknowledged appointed Sarah Broderick as its new finance chief. Beforehand, Broderick served as the chief functioning officer, CFO, and a member of the Board of Directors of VICE Media. Prior to that, she was a senior vice president at NBCUniversal, in which she performed a essential leadership function in the spinoff of the enterprise from General Electric powered. She later on served as the deputy controller at GE in which she was dependable for SEC and external reporting. Right after GE, Broderick grew to become the initially world-wide controller/chief accounting officer for Endeavor, right after the merger of IMG and William Morris Endeavor.
Kristina Campbell will be part of Ripple as the blockchain and cryptocurrency provider’s chief economic officer. Campbell was previously CFO at billing and payments system PayNearMe. Prior to Ripple, she held numerous roles at GreenDot, a now $2.5B community fintech enterprise, like GM of GoBank.

Mark McCaffrey
GoDaddy appointed Mark McCaffrey as the net domain registrar’s CFO, helpful June 2. McCaffrey spent additional than twenty a long time as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and most just lately served as the head of PwC’s U.S. know-how, media, and telecom sector, a $2.7B follow. Prior to that, he was the leader of the world-wide software program follow at PwC. McCaffrey replaces Ray Winborne, who is retiring.
Elizabeth Radcliffe has joined the biopharmaceutical enterprise Affinivax as finance chief. Radcliffe most just lately served as vice president of finance and method and treasurer at Arrakis Therapeutics. Prior to that, she was vice president of economic preparing and assessment at Agios Prescription drugs and spent about 10 a long time at Biogen, culminating in the function of senior director, head of R&D finance. Previously in her job, Radcliffe held consulting positions at The Parthenon Group and Exelon.

Eric Javidi
Renewable natural gas company Archaea Energy hired Eric Javidi as CFO. Javidi previously served as the CFO of CrossAmerica Partners, a wholesale distributor of motor fuels. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of vitality infrastructure enterprise Southcross Holdings GP. Previously in his job, Javidi was a controlling director at Kayne Anderson Cash Advisors, an alternative expenditure administration firm. He also worked as an expenditure banker at UBS, Barclays, and Lehman Brothers, concentrating on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets in the vitality infrastructure sector.
Automation Anyplace named James Budge as the cloud RPA company’s chief economic officer. Most just lately, Budge was the CFO at Pluralsight in which he led the enterprise through an IPO. Prior to that, he served as CFO at Anaplan, as COO and CFO at Genesys, and as COO and CFO at Rovi. All through his tenure at these companies, he collectively elevated additional than $six billion in funding from community fairness and personal debt offerings.