US Chapter of the CFO Leadership Network
The network brings together a group of leading CFOs from large businesses seeking to embed the management of environmental and social issues into business processes and strategy.
The US chapter was launched in San Francisco in April 2018. The network members have committed to take action by being a leading source of knowledge and experience.
Speaking at the launch of the chapter, Jessica Fries, Executive Chairman of A4S, said “To create a sustainable economy at the scale and space required, we need the kind of leadership, energy and innovation that members of the US chapter will bring, collaborating with their global peers and committing to making change happen.”
For more information on the US Chapter please email info@a4s.org
Mark Hawkins, President and CFO Emeritus Advisor, Salesforce.com, explains why it was important for his organization to join the chapter.
Mark Kaye, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Moody's Corporation, explains why sustainability is a long-term financial and risk management issue, and how he believes the A4S CFO Leadership Network provides a unique forum for promoting ideas and best practices.
US CHAPTER MEMBERS:
Claus Aagaard, Mars (Co-chair)
Chief Financial Officer, Mars
Claus is Mars, Incorporated’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He was appointed CFO in 2016, with responsibility for Finance, Strategy, Corporate Development, Digital and Shared Services for the Mars group of businesses.
Claus has been with Mars for 18 years and brings to the Mars leadership team an extensive background in finance, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisitions. Beyond the numbers, Claus is widely admired for his strategic thinking and leadership qualities.
Claus has spent all of his career in finance and strategy roles and prior to his current role, served as CFO for the Petcare business from 2009-2016, where he drove many years of exceptional growth, strategic portfolio expansion, financial performance and value creation. Claus was instrumental in the acquisition of IAMS, and the expansion into pet health services.
Claus earned both a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a Master Diploma degree in Finance and Accounting from the Business School in his native Herning, Denmark.
Harmit Singh, Levi Strauss & Co. (Co-chair)
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Levi Strauss & Co
Harmit is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Levi Strauss & Co. Harmit is responsible for managing the company’s finance, information technology, strategic sourcing and global business services functions globally. This includes: financial planning and analysis, strategic planning and corporate development, accounting and controls, tax, enterprise risk management, treasury, internal audit, and investor relations.
Harmit is a seasoned financial executive with almost 30 years of experience in driving growth for global consumer brands. Throughout his career, he has worked at companies that serve consumers in the hospitality, restaurant, travel and financial industries.
Prior to joining LS&Co. in January 2013, Harmit served as chief financial officer of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, where he successfully established a global financial structure, took the company public, built a strong balance sheet, and drove growth by supporting capital deployment for acquisitions and investments.
Before Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Harmit held various global leadership roles at Yum! Brand foods, the world’s largest restaurant company, (including CFO of Pizza Hut U.S. and CFO of Yum restaurants International). Early in his career, Harmit also worked at American Express India and Price Waterhouse in India.
Harmit holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, and is a chartered accountant from India. He is also a proud member of the CNBC Global CFO Council and Wall Street Journal CFO Network. In 2018, Harmit was named to the board of OpenText, a global enterprise information management software company.
Ray G. Young, ADM
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, ADM
Ray G. Young joined ADM in 2010 following a 24-year tenure with General Motors Co., during which he held executive leadership positions in finance, general management, planning and operations on four continents, with the last role being Vice President, International Operations, based out of Shanghai.
Ray graduated in 1984 from The Ivey School of Business, Western University, in London, Canada, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Ray is a member of the board of International Paper Company, and serves as the chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of Wilmar International, the leading Asian agribusiness and food company, as well as the University of Chicago Booth School CFO Advisory Board. He also serves on the board of directors of the American Cancer Society Illinois Division, and was recognized as one of the most significant volunteers to the American Cancer Society with the St. George National Award.
Debbie Clifford, Autodesk
Chief Financial Officer, Autodesk
As Autodesk’s CFO, Debbie Clifford is responsible for all aspects of finance including accounting, tax and treasury, procurement, operations, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, and corporate development.
Debbie was previously the chief financial officer at SurveyMonkey, where she successfully scaled the finance function during a period of high growth and maturation as a public company. Before SurveyMonkey, Debbie spent 13 years in various financial leadership roles at Autodesk and was an instrumental player in the company’s transition from a perpetual to subscription business model. Prior to Autodesk, she held positions at Virage, Inc. and Ernst & Young.
Debbie serves on the board of Harmonic, a video technology and services company. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Debbie is a certified public accountant (inactive) in the state of California.
Mick Beekhuizen, Campbell
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Campbell
Mick Beekhuizen has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Campbell since September 2019. He reports to Mark Clouse, President and CEO, and is a member of the Campbell Leadership Team.
Mick leads Campbell’s finance function, including controllership, tax, treasury, internal audit, investor relations, and corporate financial planning and analysis, as well as the company’s information technology group, corporate development and strategy.
Previously, Mick spent more than three years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Chobani, where he led the improvement of the company’s capital structure and supported its growth and expansion. Before that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Education Management Corporation, and he also spent 13 years with Goldman Sachs in roles including Managing Director in the merchant banking division.
Mick earned his M.S. degree in industrial engineering and management from The University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Andrew Bonfield, Caterpillar
Chief Financial Officer, Caterpillar
Andrew has responsibility for Finance Services, Financial Products and Global Information Services.
Andrew joined Caterpillar on 1st September 2018 and brings more than three decades of financial expertise to the role, most recently serving as Group CFO and board member of National Grid plc, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company. Prior to National Grid, Andrew held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Cadbury plc and also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb.
Andrew is a chartered accountant and holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa.
He serves as a non-executive director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, a British multinational consumer goods company.
R. Scott Herren, Cisco
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Cisco
R. Scott Herren is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Cisco, managing the financial strategy, global finance organization, procurement, and mergers/ acquisitions and integrations for the company with total revenue for fiscal year 2020 of $49.3 billion and 77,500 employees. Herren is focused on accelerating Cisco’s shift towards a more software-based business model, maximizing long-term shareholder value, and maintaining the high level of integrity and transparency for which Cisco is known.
Prior to joining Cisco in 2020, Herren spent over six years as CFO at Autodesk where he was responsible for global financial strategy including operations, corporate development, financial systems, tax and treasury as well as the company’s procurement organizations. Herren was instrumental in orchestrating Autodesk’s business-model transformation – shifting from selling perpetual licenses to selling subscriptions. Before Autodesk, he held senior level strategy and financial positions at Citrix Systems, FedEx and IBM.
Herren is a member of the Georgia Tech Industrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Board. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Columbia University.
Keith Taylor, Equinix
Chief Financial Officer, Equinix
Keith joined Equinix in 1999 and has served in a variety of roles, such as Equinix's Director of Finance & Administration, Vice President, Finance & Chief Accounting Officer, and now as CFO. Before joining Equinix, Keith served as Vice President of Finance and Controller for International Wireless Communications, Inc., an operator, owner, and developer of wireless communication networks throughout Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining International Wireless Communications, Inc., Keith was employed by Becton Dickinson & Company, a medical and diagnostic device manufacturer, as a Senior Sector Analyst for the diagnostic businesses in Asia, Latin America, and Europe.
Keith holds a B.B.A. from Bishop's University in Quebec, Canada, and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants
Steve Voskuil, The Hershey Company
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Hershey Company
Steve Voskuil is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for The Hershey Company. In this role, he is responsible for leading the company's global finance and IS organizations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, tax, treasury, internal audit, and investor relations.
Prior to joining Hershey, Voskuil worked at Avanos Medical (previously “Halyard Health”), a global medical device company, where he served as Chief Financial Officer since 2014.
Before Halyard Health Inc., Voskuil worked for 23 years at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Fortune 500 global consumer products company, from 1991-2014. During this time, he served in various leadership roles in which he gained deep financial experience, broad operational management experience, international experience, and transformative leadership experience.
Voskuil has a bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison and a master’s degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto.
David Zinsner, Intel
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Intel
David Zinsner is Executive Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Intel Corporation. He leads Intel’s global finance organization, including finance, accounting and reporting, tax, treasury, internal audit, and investor relations.
Prior to joining Intel in January 2022, David was Executive Vice President and CFO at Micron Technology Inc.
Earlier in his career, David served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Affirmed Networks. He also served as Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO at Analog Devices, and Senior Vice President and CFO at Intersil Corp.
Tim Nicholls, International Paper
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, International Paper
Tim Nicholls was elected International Paper’s senior vice president and chief financial officer in June 2018, a position he previously held from 2007 to 2011
Tim has nearly three decades of experience in the packaging and paper industry. He joined IP in 1999 through the company's acquisition of Union Camp, where he held a series of finance, business planning and leadership positions.
He has held numerous roles at IP including senior vice president, Industrial Packaging the Americas, leading the company’s Papers and Pulp the Americas business and serving as vice president and chief financial officer for IP Europe. He was also president of Weldwood, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of IP in Vancouver, British Columbia
Mark Kaye, Moody's Corporation
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Moody's Corporation
Mark is the Chief Financial Officer of Moody’s Corporation with responsibility and oversight for all global financial activities. He leads a team whose mission is to provide near real-time data driven financial insight to support the execution of superior operational and strategic decisions. He is an actively involved diversity and inclusion leader and business partner, with a passion for creating a high performance and transparent culture, developing talent and fostering employee growth.
Mark joined Moody’s in 2018 after more than 15 years of diverse experience in business finance, financial planning and analysis, strategy and large-scale project management. Mark came to Moody’s from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), where he served as Chief Financial Officer of MassMutual U.S. Prior to his work at MassMutual, Mark held a range of senior finance leadership roles at Voya Financial (formerly ING U.S.). He began his career in the investment banking division of Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mark has an M.B.A. in Finance and a B.S.E. in Statistics and Actuarial Science, both from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He enjoys spending time with his family and is a licensed pilot.
Amy E. Weaver, Salesforce
President and Chief Financial Officer, Salesforce
As President and Chief Financial Officer at Salesforce, Amy Weaver is responsible for leading the company’s global finance organization and is a member of the company’s executive committee reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff.
Amy is an experienced public company leader with significant technology industry expertise and deep knowledge of Salesforce’s business and culture. Amy previously served as President and Chief Legal Officer, playing an integral role in building the global legal and corporate affairs organizations, as well as driving many of the company’s most important strategic and operational initiatives – from advancing Salesforce’s technology leadership and deepening customer and government relationships to executing complex financial transactions.
Prior to joining Salesforce in 2013, Amy was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Univar Solutions Inc. Previously, she was Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Expedia Inc. Amy also practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and at Perkins Coie LLP, where she focused on project finance, credit agreements, securities offerings, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a legislative aide to a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and as a clerk on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Amy currently serves on the board of directors of BSA (The Software Alliance), the Board of Trustees of Lehigh University, the Board of Trusteed for Habitat for Humanity International and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Wellesley College.
Ewout Steenbergen, S&P Global
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of S&P Global
As CFO, Ewout is responsible for all aspects of the Finance department, focused on growth and sustainable shareholder value. Moreover, he is responsible for Strategy & Corporate Development, Digital Infrastructure and Kensho.
Ewout was appointed CFO of S&P Global in 2016. Previously, he was Executive Vice President and CFO of Voya Financial, Inc. Under Ewout's leadership, Voya successfully strengthened its balance sheet, de-risked its investment portfolio and executed a robust initial public offering in 2013.
Prior to his role as Voya's CFO, Ewout was CFO and Chief Risk Officer for ING Asia-Pacific and held a number of management roles for ING Group, including serving as regional general manager in Hong Kong and as a Chief Executive Officer of RVS, an ING Group company based in the Netherlands. He has also held other international roles such as CEO of ING's Retail Business in the Czech and Slovak Republics and CEO of ING Nationale-Nederlanden Slovak Republic.
Ewout holds a master's degree in actuarial science from the University of Amsterdam and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Rochester and from Nyenrode University. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.
Warren Zaccaro, Securian Financial
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer, Securian Financial
Warren is responsible for several enterprise functions including financial management, business development (including mergers and acquisitions), risk management, corporate actuarial, auditing, tax, information protection, cyber security, corporate compliance and medical. As a member of the company’s Strategy Council, he provides executive leadership for strategic planning and is the executive in charge of Securian Financial’s Audit Committee.
Warren serves on the boards of Minnesota Life Insurance Company, Securian Life Insurance Company, Securian Ventures, Inc., (president), and Allied Solutions, which are all affiliates of Securian Financial Group.
Prior to joining Securian Financial in 2005, Warren spent over 24 years in public accounting, primarily at KPMG where he attained partner and served public and privately held companies in the insurance and banking industries.
Warren has a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts. He is a licensed certified public accountant in Minnesota, Connecticut and Texas
Warren is also an active supporter of the local community and currently serves on the Executive Council of the Minnesota Historical Society.
Matthew D. Ellis, Verizon
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Verizon
Matthew is executive vice president and chief financial officer for Verizon Communications, responsible for the company’s finance operations.
Prior to becoming Verizon’s CFO on November 1, 2016, Matthew was senior vice president and CFO - operations finance, responsible for providing financial support to the wireless and wireline business units. Before this, Matthew was senior vice president and treasurer for Verizon, responsible for corporate-wide financing, cash management, pension and insurance activities, and the Verizon Capital Group.
Matthew joined Verizon in 2013 after 15 years at Tyson Foods, Inc., most recently as vice president and treasurer responsible for financing, cash management, insurance and credit. Prior roles included vice president of finance (responsible for M&A activity, including transactions in China, Brazil and India), vice president, country manager with responsibility for all aspects of Tyson’s Mexico subsidiary, and other positions within finance and accounting.
Previously, he worked in England for Dixons Stores Group plc and Coopers & Lybrand where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He lives in New Jersey with his family.
Zane Rowe, VMWare
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, VMware Corporation
Zane serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer of VMware and is responsible for the company’s overall finance and accounting functions, as well as business operations, investor relations and strategic sourcing. Zane also leads the Real Estate and Workplace organization. Prior to joining VMware, Zane held the role of executive vice president and chief financial officer at EMC.
Prior to his role at EMC, Zane led North America sales for Apple Inc. Zane began his executive career at Continental Airlines where he rose to executive vice president and chief financial officer, then as executive vice president and chief financial officer of United Continental Holdings, Inc.
Zane holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and a Master of Business Administration degree from San Diego State University.
He currently serves on the boards of Sabre Corporation and Pivotal Corporation and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
