Word: cfo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...clear victor in this battle is the airline passenger. "There has never been a better time to be looking for a cheap ticket," says Frontier's CFO Paul Tate. Stephen Kulakowski couldn't agree more--he happily flew home from Florida on JetBlue...
...investment banker who helped take Krispy Kreme Doughnuts public, Phalen, 33, became well acquainted with the company, based in Winston-Salem, N.C. In January he became CFO of the rapidly growing chain. His experience with consumer companies while he was in corporate finance at CIBC World Markets will come in handy as he manages Krispy Kreme's balance sheet for future growth. The firm, with about 340 shops in the U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia, enters Mexico this winter and is eyeing Asia...
...which VW typically competes. At the same time, he is wringing costs out of manufacturing through design changes and by getting relief from VW's expensive German work force. The firm recently announced that net profit was down 51% in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, and CFO Hans Dieter Potsch warned that the firm would take a charge of "a couple hundred million" euros this quarter to offset R.-and-D. costs...
MAUREEN O'CONNELL Consulting Queen Fresh out of high school, O'Connell, 42, developed her finance talents at a New York City company that sold plants. Her career has since sprouted: she's had CFO stints at Bertelsmann's BMG Direct, Publishers Clearing House and Barnes & Noble. Now Gartner, the world's top IT research and consulting company, has named the Bronx, N.Y., native its president and COO. O'Connell plans to add important new voices to Gartner's analyst reports: clients who actually use the technology being covered...
...Wong, 43, was snatched up in February by DBS Group Holdings, parent of Singapore's largest bank. As chief administrative officer, she wasted no time in designing new structures for how the bank handles everything from diversifying loan-portfolio risk to recruiting employees. In October, Wong moved up to CFO. Her charge: to add greater sophistication to the way DBS manages its capital and help the company further expand into Asian countries such as China, India, Thailand and Indonesia...