Yoana Land | Jaya Apparel Group
Yoana Land has shared exclusively with CFO.com that she has joined Jaya Apparel Group, the owner of Cinq-a-Sept and Likely, two women’s fashion designer brands with a notable private equity backing, as CFO. Prior to joining Jaya Apparel, Land was a divisional CFO at L’Oreal for over a decade. She worked in four different CFO roles at L’Oreal, most recently as Transformation CFO of L’Oreal North America after working in leadership roles at Novartis and American Airlines earlier in her career.
Georges Elhedery | HSBC
HSBC promoted its chief financial officer, Georges Elhedery, as the chief executive of Europe’s largest bank, effective September 2. Elhedery succeeds current CEO Noel Quinn, who will retire on September 1. Elhedery will continue as group CFO during the transition period as his replacement has not been named. Elhedery joined HSBC in 2005 and was appointed as group CFO in January 2023. Previous roles include co-CEO of global banking and markets, global head of markets and CEO of Middle East, North Africa and Turkiye.
David Rosato | Eastern Bankshares
David Rosato, a banking executive who most recently was CFO and senior executive vice president of Berkshire Hills Bancorp and Berkshire Bank, was named CFO of Eastern Bankshares. Before his CFO role at Berkshire Bank, he was at People’s United Financial for over 15 years, including nine years as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer. He previously was senior vice president and treasurer at Webster Financial and a senior vice president, asset/liability manager at M&T Bank. Rosato also sits on the NASDAQ Exchange Board where he is a member of the Regulatory Oversight Committee. Rosato replaces James Fitzgerald, who will continue in a senior advisory role.
Christian Rothe | Rockwell Automation
Christian Rothe will join industrial automation company Rockwell Automation as its new chief financial officer on Aug. 19. For the last 13 years, Rothe has held several positions at Graco, an industrial company specializing in developing and manufacturing fluid-handling systems and products. Rothe worked as chief financial officer and treasurer at Graco before moving into roles leading Graco’s global business divisions. He is currently the president of its global industrial division. Before Graco, he worked at Gardner Denver in finance and strategic development roles. Rothe replaces Nick Gangestad, who is retiring.
Logan Powell | Puttshack
Puttshack promoted its CFO, Logan Powell, to chief executive officer. Since 2019, Powell has been global president and chief financial officer of the tech-infused mini golf chain. Powell previously worked at Copper Beech Capital, where he was a partner. Earlier roles include financial analyst at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and controller at Forza Retail. Powell succeeds Joe Vrankin, who oversaw the company’s growth in the U.K. and subsequently brought the concept to the U.S. in 2021. Vrankin will be leaving the company.
Greta Hager | Fortitude Re
Greta Hager will take over as finance chief of Fortitude Re on August 17. Hager has been head of financial planning analysis for the last five years at Mass Mutual. Before that, she held several leadership positions at AIG over her seven years there, including head of life capital management and financial planning and analysis. Earlier in her career, she worked at Grant Thornton, most recently as manager in its national professional standards group.
Charles Pavlounis | The Associated Press
Global news agency the Associated Press appointed Charles Pavlounis as its new finance chief. Pavlounis joins the company from Argus Holdings, where he was executive vice president and chief business development officer. Before that, he spent five years at CBS News, most recently as executive vice president of business development and CFO of CBS News. He also worked at CBS as senior vice president and chief audit executive. Earlier in his career, he held several roles in financial management and corporate compliance at Wyndham Worldwide, Dun & Bradstreet, Interpublic Group of Companies, Mercer and KPMG. Pavlounis replaces Ken Dale, who is retiring.
Sharon Geib | Woodforest Acceptance Solutions
Woodforest Acceptance Solutions named Sharon Geib as the payment platform’s finance chief. She was previously senior vice president of finance at the company. Before that, she was chief operating officer of Cadence Mortgage and president of the mortgage division at Cadence Bank, N.A. Geib earlier held CFO roles at Amegy Mortgage Company and Mitchell Mortgage Company.
Ken DiStefano Jr. | Girl Scouts of the USA
Girl Scouts of the USA promoted Ken DiStefano Jr. to chief finance officer. DiStefano Jr. became deputy chief financial officer for the girls’ youth organization in 2019. Before that, he was global chief financial officer, shared services, for Mars, leading a $600M global services portfolio. DiStefano Jr. had a 16-year career at accounting firm EY in several roles, including director of IT Decision Support, EY Global Services Finance and assistant director of finance, National Finance.
