Ken Cook | Wendy’s
Wendy’s chief financial officer, Ken Cook, was named interim CEO of the fast food chain. He will take on the role on July 18 and will remain in the CFO seat. Cook joined Wendy’s as CFO in Dec. 2024 after spending 20 years at United Parcel Service. At UPS, he was most recently head of financial planning and analysis and was earlier chief financial officer of its $60 billion U.S. domestic segment. Cook replaces Kirk Tanner, who is leaving the company to become president and CEO of The Hershey Company.
Chadwick Westlake
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Chadwick Westlake | OpenText
OpenText’s CFO, Chadwick Westlake, is leaving the company to become president and CEO of Canadian financial services firm EQB following the unexpected passing of its longtime CEO, Andrew Moor. In March this year, Westlake left his role as CFO of EQB to join cloud and AI company OpenText. He will rejoin his former employer on Aug. 25. Cosmin Balota, OpenText’s senior vice president and chief accounting officer, will serve as interim CFO while the company searches for Westlake’s successor. Balota joined OpenText in 2019 and has over 30 years of experience.
Gregor van Issum | Wolfspeed
Semiconductor company Wolfspeed named Gregor van Issum as its new finance chief, effective September 1. Van Issum’s appointment comes as the company navigates a restructuring after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 30. Since 2018, van Issum has worked at the light and sensor solutions company ams-OSRAM, where he has held various roles, including executive vice president, group controller, and chief transformation and performance officer. He previously served as vice president of strategy for NXP Semiconductors’ secure transactions and identification solutions segment and CFO of the secure identification solutions and analog mixed-signal units. Van Issum succeeds interim CFO Kevin Speirits, who will remain with the company to help with the transition.
Narinder Sahai
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Narinder Sahai | Sinclair
Narinder Sahai was named chief financial officer of Sinclair, a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. Before joining Sinclair, Sahai was CFO at leisure and hospitality operator Arcis, and before that, chief financial officer of omnichannel powersports platform RumbleOn. His earlier roles include head of worldwide go-to-market finance for compute and AI/machine learning services at Amazon’s AWS and senior vice president, treasurer, and investor relations at Target Hospitality. Sahai succeeds Lucy Rutishauser, who is stepping down as CFO but will remain as an executive vice president to support the transition. After her retirement later this year, she will take on the role of senior adviser.
Mark Segal | EG Group
Mark Segal is the new finance chief of convenience store operator EG Group. Segal will be based in the U.S., the U.K.-based company’s largest market by revenue. He joins the company from the global children’s entertainment business Spin Master, where he held the CFO role for 20 years in two different stretches before retiring in May. At Spin Master, he was part of the team that led its IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2015. He was earlier vice president of finance and CFO for Husky Injection Moulding Systems, an injection moulding machinery and equipment manufacturer. Segal succeeds Russell Colaco, who was promoted to EG Group’s CEO in April.
Stacey Ryan Cornelius
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Stacey Ryan Cornelius | Burson
Ogilvy’s global chief financial officer, Stacey Ryan Cornelius, has left the U.K.-based advertising agency to take the same role at public relations and communications firm Burson. Ryan Cornelius first joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1999 as senior partner, director of financial planning for North America and rejoined in her most recent role in Jan. 2021. Between her stints at Ogilvy, she was CFO of WPP Health & Wellness and global chief financial officer and chief operating officer of Geometry Global.
Marcy Withington | The Women’s Tennis Association
The Women’s Tennis Association appointed Marcy Withington as its chief financial officer. Withington joins the WTA from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, where she has served as CFO since 2018. Beginning in 2022, she also held roles as deputy director and interim chief operating officer. Before that, Withington was the chief financial officer and executive vice president of operations at Mystic Seaport Museum, where she worked for over 10 years. She also previously worked at Viacom and several of its subsidiaries, including MTV Networks, where she was senior vice president for finance, and the Nickelodeon Network, where she was the head of finance.
Cindy Curry
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Cindy Curry | AdMarketplace
Native search advertising firm AdMarketplace hired Cindy Curry as its new finance chief. Most recently, Curry served as global CFO of marketing service provider Rakuten Advertising. She previously held CFO positions at creative agency BBDO Worldwide; IPG Mediabrands, the media and marketing solutions division of Interpublic Group; and Broadwind, a precision manufacturer for clean tech and other specialized applications. Curry also spent over 11 years at Live Nation Entertainment, most recently as vice president of finance.