Amy Shapero | VAST Data
AI data platform company VAST Data named Amy Shapero as its first finance chief. From 2018 to 2022, Shapero was the chief financial officer of the e-commerce platform Shopify. During her time at Shopify, she helped lead the business from under $700 million in revenue to nearly $6 billion. She earlier held the top finance spot at independent online financial advisor Betterment, marketing automation SaaS company Sailthru and fintech company Spot Trading.
Shankha Sen | Responsive
Responsive, a response management software provider, hired Shankha Sen as its first finance chief. Since May 2022, Sen has been group vice president of finance at PowerSchool, a cloud-based software provider for K-12 education that was recently acquired by Bain Capital in a $5.6 billion transaction. Before that, he spent 14 years in several roles at Red Hat, including vice president of global finance, where he led global finance teams during Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM for $34 billion. Earlier, he held a variety of finance positions at EMC/Dell Technologies and Sequent/IBM.
D. Anthony Scaglione | ODP Corporation
D. Anthony Scaglione is stepping down as chief financial officer of ODP Corporation, the parent company of office supply retailers Office Depot and Office Max. Scaglione is leaving for a new career opportunity after four years as CFO; his last day will be Sept. 13. Scaglione joined ODP from facility management provider ABM Industries, where he worked for 11 years, most recently as CFO. Scaglione will continue to work closely with ODP chief executive Gerry Smith until he leaves the company as it “formulates its plans to fill the chief financial officer role.”
Mark Hazeltine | SOLVD Health
Mark Hazeltine was named chief financial officer of SOLVD Health, a patient intelligence company. Before joining SOLVD Health, Hazeltine spent over eight years working at Exagen, a diagnostics company specializing in autoimmune testing. He held several positions over this time there including senior vice president of finance and corporate development, general manager and chief operating officer. He also co-led its IPO process and significantly increased reimbursement rates through improved billing processes.
Noel Watson | LegalZoom
LegalZoom’s CFO Noel Watson has taken on the additional role of chief operating officer for the online legal help company. Watson will also continue to be the company’s principal accounting officer and principal financial officer. Watson joined LegalZoom in 2020 from the digital car-buying marketplace TrueCar, where he was chief financial officer.
Ram Mayampurath | Rogers Corporation
Ram Mayampurath has resigned as chief financial officer of Rogers Corporation, an engineered materials maker. Mayampurath will stay with the company through September to help with the transition. Laura Russell took over as interim CFO on Aug. 12 as the company initiated a CFO succession process. Russell joined Rogers in September 2023 as vice president of finance. She previously held senior finance roles at Wolfspeed and NXP Semiconductors.
Rachel Stack | Lightpath
Fiber infrastructure provider Lightpath appointed Rachel Stack as CFO. Stack joined the company from data center company Cologix, where she was CFO for four years. She previously spent four years as senior vice president of corporate strategy and development at Zayo Group Holdings, another fiber infrastructure provider. Earlier in her career, she was an investment banker covering the communications infrastructure sector at RBC Capital Markets.
Justin Johns | esVolta
Justin Johns was named the new finance chief of esVolta, a developer of utility-scale battery energy storage projects. Johns has spent 15 years at Shell, most recently, as CFO of its SouthCoast Wind Energy offshore wind joint venture. He was previously CFO of Shell’s global renewable energy business where he supported Shell’s entry into international onshore and offshore renewable power.
Jack Hartung | Chipotle
Chipotle’s outgoing CFO Jack Hartung has postponed his retirement and will stay on at the company as president of strategy, finance and supply chain. The change of plans comes after the fast food chain’s CEO, Brian Niccol, announced his departure to take over as CEO of Starbucks. Adam Rymer, Hartung’s successor, will continue his transition to chief financial officer, planned for early 2025.
