Kenta Kon | Toyota Motor
Toyota Motor’s finance chief, Kenta Kon, was promoted to president and chief executive officer of the automaker, effective April 1. Kon has been with the automaker since 1991 and has been CFO since July 2025. He succeeds Koji Sato, who was named CEO in 2023 to replace the company’s longtime leader Akio Toyoda. Sato will transition to the role of vice chairman and chief industry officer. Toyota’s executive vice president, Yoichi Miyazaki, was named to Kon’s former position as CFO. Miyazaki has been with the company since 1986 and has held several leadership positions throughout his tenure, including as CFO and CEO of the Asia Region.
Balaji Krishnamurthy | Uber
Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah will step down as CFO of Uber on Feb. 16. Mahendra-Rajah, who has been finance chief of the ride-sharing and food delivery business since November 2023, will work as a senior finance adviser through July 1, 2026. He will be replaced by Balaji Krishnamurthy, who is currently Uber’s vice president of strategic finance. Krishnamurthy joined the company in 2019 and has held several leadership roles, including head of investor relations. Before that, he spent over eight years at Goldman Sachs as a vice president, according to his LinkedIn page.
Peer Bueller | Kayak
Kayak, a travel search engine owned by Booking Holdings, promoted its chief financial and operating officer, Peer Bueller, to chief executive officer. Bueller joined Kayak in 2016 as chief financial officer and assumed the additional role of chief operating officer in 2021. Bueller succeeds cofounder and CEO Steve Hafner. Hafner will become executive chair of Kayak and will take on a new leadership role at Booking Holdings to focus on “advancing AI innovation,” according to a news release.
Liz Coddington | Peloton
Peloton chief financial officer Liz Coddington is leaving the company for the same role at Palmetto, a solar energy firm. Coddington will remain with the fitness equipment maker until she starts at Palmetto on March 30. Coddington joined Peloton as CFO in June 2022 from Amazon, where she was most recently vice president of finance for Amazon Web Services. Earlier roles include CFO of Adara and Walmart.com, as well as vice president of FP&A at Netflix.
Anubhav Mittal | Universal Corp.
Leaf tobacco supplier Universal Corp. withdrew its previous employment offer to Anubhav Mittal, who was set to become senior vice president and chief financial officer on Feb. 17. As a result, Johan Kroner will continue to work as SVP and CFO until his successor is named. Mittal has worked at ADM for the last 10 years, most recently as chief financial officer of ADM Nutrition, its $8 billion global nutrition, flavors and ingredients business. His rescinded offer comes amid a lawsuit filed last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission against ADM’s former CFO, Vikram Luthar. The SEC accused Luthar of artificially inflating the value of ADM’s nutrition business unit while he was CFO.
Loveen Advani | Better
Better, a mortgage and home equity finance firm, appointed Loveen Advani as chief financial officer. Loveen joins the company from marketing technology company Zeta Global, where he was most recently executive vice president of finance and led its IPO. Previous roles include senior vice president of FP&A and investments at LivePerson, a data-driven conversational messaging platform, and head of corporate development at health care technology company Inovalon, where he helped establish its corporate development function after its IPO. Earlier in his career, heheld roles in corporate development and FP&A at Aetna and IBM.
Scott Drake | CEC Entertainment
Scott Drake was promoted to president and CEO of CEC Entertainment, the parent company of Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza. Drake joined the company in 2024 as chief financial officer. Before that, he was CFO of Farmer Brothers Coffee Co. and held senior leadership roles at GameStop Corp. and 7-Eleven. Drake will succeed David McKillips on Feb. 13. McKillips has been president and CEO since 2020.
David Joseph | The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review hired David Joseph as the education services company’s new finance chief. Joseph previously spent over two years as the CFO of Cornelis Networks, an AI infrastructure company spun out of Intel. He was previously the founding CFO of online educational services firm AVENU Learning. Earlier in his career, Joseph worked at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as SVP of global strategic alliances.
Steven Mahr | City of Chicago
Steven Mahr was named as the interim chief financial officer of the City of Chicago. Mahr has worked for the city since March 2024, most recently as assistant commissioner. Before that, he spent eight years at Stifel Financial Corp. as a vice president. Mahr succeeds Jill Jaworski, who left her position with the city to become chief financial and administrative officer of nonprofit Navy Pier Inc.
