Cristina Gallo-Aquino | Ryder
Ryder promoted Cristina Gallo-Aquino to finance chief of the logistics and transportation company. Gallo-Aquino has been senior vice president, controller and principal accounting officer since August 2020 and will take over the top financial position on Jan. 1. Gallo-Aquino joined Ryder in 2004 and was previously vice president and chief financial officer for its FMS business unit and vice president and corporate controller. She succeeds John Diez, who was appointed Ryder’s president and chief operating officer. Diez has worked at the company for 22 years and has been CFO since 2021.
Scott Schenkel | Expedia Group
Scott Schenkel has been named CFO of online travel platform Expedia Group. He will replace Julie Whalen, who will remain in the role until the company files its end-of-year reports. Estimations for Schenkel’s start date currenty hover around Feb. 7. Schenkel currenty holds board seats at Pinterest, Forter and NetApp. He worked for over 13 years at eBay where he served in multiple CFO positions and as interim CEO before his departure in 2020. Prior to his time at eBay, he worked for nearly two decades at General Electric in a variety of finance roles.
Christopher Miller | Grocery Outlet
Christopher Miller will join Grocery Outlet as its new chief financial officer on Jan. 6. Miller joins the bargain supermarket chain from food service distributor Shamrock Foods Company, where he was its CFO for nearly two years. Before that, he spent over 15 years at Core-Mark Holding Co., one of the largest distributors in the convenience retail industry. He held several financial and leadership roles at Core-Mark, including chief financial officer for six years. Earlier in his career, he held finance and accounting roles with retail and consumer products companies including Cost Plus World Market, Levi Strauss & Co. and Hermes. Miller takes over for Lindsay Gray, who has been interim CFO since March. Gray will continue her role as senior vice president of accounting, which she held before her interim CFO appointment.
Ashima Ghei | Broadridge Financial Solutions
Broadridge Financial Solutions’ interim CFO Ashima Ghei was appointed to the role permanently. Ghei stepped into the interim CFO role for outgoing finance chief Edmund Reese in July. Reese left the company to become CFO of global professional services firm Aon. Ghei joined Broadridge in 2022 as chief financial officer of its $4.5 billion revenue Investor Communication Solutions segment. She previously worked at American Express for 18 years, most recently as its head of merchant pricing for the Americas.
Hao Qian | MoneyHero
Hao Qian resigned as chief financial officer of MoneyHero, a personal finance aggregation and comparison platform, after eight months in the role. Qian joined MoneyHero in May from global e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, where he worked for nearly eight years including as CFO of its Lazada business unit. The company named Danny Leung as interim CFO. Leung joined MoneyHero this year as its group director of finance. Before joining MoneyHero, he was the senior financial controller of the international business platform Marga Group.
Farhan Ahmad | Enovix
Advanced silicon battery company Enovix’s chief financial officer Farhan Ahmad has left the company. Enovix is now searching for Ahmad’s replacement. Ahmad joined the company in July 2023 from memory and storage solutions provider Micron Technology, where he was vice president of investor relations and finance strategy. Earlier roles included an equity analyst at Credit Suisse, where he covered stocks across semiconductors, semiconductor capital equipment and cleantech, and at Applied Materials in several roles including engineering, product management and strategic marketing.
David DeLucia | FibroGen
David DeLucia is the new CFO of biopharmaceutical company FibroGen. DeLucia has worked at FibroGen since 2022 and was most recently vice president and head of corporate FP&A and investor relations. He earlier held positions of increasing responsibility at TherapeuticsMD, where he oversaw FP&A, corporate development and investor relations. Earlier in his career, DeLucia was a buy-side investor at JP Morgan Asset Management, covering small and mid-cap healthcare companies. DeLucia replaces Juan Graham, who stepped down on Dec. 15.
Varun Athi | IQM
IQM named Varun Athi as CFO and chief operating officer of the global media buying platform. Before joining the team full-time, Athi was an advisor to IQM. He earlier held senior leadership and advisory roles in technology companies including chief financial officer and interim COO of Lumar, head of strategic finance consultant at Wonder and head of FP&A at Dataminr.
Heather Sachs | BlueTeam
Heather Sachs was named finance chief of BlueTeam, a commercial restoration, construction and roofing services provider. Sachs most recently worked at finance and insurance product company APCO Holdings, where she was senior vice president of finance. Before that, she worked at diversified automotive company JM Family Enterprises most recently as senior manager of financial planning and analysis for Southeast Toyota. Earlier in her career she was a senior auditor at Deloitte.
