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Gary Ferrera | MoneyGram
MoneyGram appointed Gary Ferrera as finance chief of the financial technology company. Ferrera was most recently chief financial officer of Driven Brands, the largest automotive services company in North America. Before that, he held CFO roles at Skillsoft, Cardtronics, DigitalGlobe, Intrawest, Great Wolf Resorts and National CineMedia. Ferrera succeeds Larry Angelilli, who is retiring after more than 12 years with the company.
Curt Calaway | Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods suspended chief financial officer John R. Tyson—the great-grandson of the company’s founder —after being arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated. The food company named Curt Calaway as interim CFO. Calaway has worked at the company for the last 18 years, most recently as senior vice president of finance, corporate development and treasurer.
Lewis Black | SolarWinds
IT management software provider SolarWinds named Lewis Black as CFO, effective August 2024. Black most recently worked at Actian, a hybrid data management, analytics and integration company, where he was CFO for two years before being promoted to CEO. He previously worked at Nexmo, where he held several roles including chief financial officer and chief operating officer, and at Citrix where he was most recently vice president of finance and operations. Black replaces J. Barton Kalsu, who is resigning and will step down as CFO mid-August.
Sarah Friar | OpenAI
OpenAI appointed Sarah Friar as its new finance chief. Friar was most recently chief executive officer of Nextdoor, social networking service for neighborhoods, and was previously CFO of financial services platform Square. Earlier in her career, she worked at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Salesforce. She is a Board Member of Walmart and Consensys, a Fellow of the Aspen Institute and Co-Chair of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.
Leanne Molter | Amy's Kitchen
Organic and natural frozen food maker Amy's Kitchen promoted Leanne Molter to chief financial officer. Molter joined the company in May 2023 as vice president of finance and strategy and has been its chief transformation and strategy officer since November 2023. She previously worked at food and beverage manufacturer J.M Smucker Company for over 16 years, most recently as vice president of finance. Molter succeeds Peter Wong, who is retiring.
Kirkland Andrews | Con Edison
Kirkland Andrews will take over as chief financial officer of energy company Con Edison on July 8. Andrews joins the company from electric services company Evergy, where he was CFO. Andrews was previously chief financial officer of NRG Energy. He previously spent 15 years working in investment banking, including as managing director and head of power mergers and acquisitions at Citigroup Global Markets and as managing director and co-head of Power and Utilities – Americas at Deutsche Bank. Andrews succeeds Robert Hoglund, who will continue as senior vice president of Con Edison and Consolidated Edison Company of New York before retiring later in 2024.
Timothy Yost | BlueVoyant
BlueVoyant named Timothy Yost as CFO of the cybersecurity company. Yost most recently was CFO of legal services company Consilio. Before that, he was chief financial officer of Axiom Global, a legal services provider, where he played a significant role in its monetization through a private equity transaction. He was also a key deputy during Corporate Executive Board’s 1999 IPO and was the then-public company's CFO for several years.
Sam Dundee | Hayden AI
Sam Dundee was appointed finance chief of Hayden AI, an artificial intelligence and geospatial analytics company that offers a mobile perception platform to automate traffic enforcement. Most recently, Dundee was vice president of finance at Gatik AI, an autonomous middle-mile logistics provider, where he was the first dedicated finance and accounting hire. Before that, he was the vice president of finance at strategy at battery pack engineering company Romeo Power, where he led it through a special purpose acquisition merger where it raised $390 million in equity financing and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Ariel Porat | SolarEdge
Ronen Faier, CFO of smart energy technology firm SolarEdge, will step down in about three months and will be succeeded by Ariel Porat. Faier is the company’s longest-serving CFO, taking over the role in 2010. Porat joins the company as senior vice president of finance until he takes over as chief financial officer. Porat has more than a decade of leadership and finance experience and was most recenlty head of the Europe Region for Siemens Energy. Previous roles include CEO of Siemens Israel and CFO of Siemens Israel.
