Thursday, June 21, 2012

By the numbers | Hiring new CFO at a faster pace

Harker
Corporate announced today that it had hired Victoria Harker, 47 46, as chief financial officer, effective July 23. She replaces Paul Saleh, who quit May 20 for a larger company. Harker was CFO since January 2006 of AES Corp., an operator of electric utilities and wholesale power generators. Some key numbers:


1
month to hire Harker

9
months to hire Saleh in November 2010, after Gracia Martore was promoted to president and chief operating officer

23 comments:

  1. She has an incredible resume. Great hire

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  2. Good to see, My wife is a Finance Manager at a "Southern" paper..

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  3. Dubow took nine months. This is how Matore rolls!!!!!

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  4. White guys need not apply.

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  5. Wow. Another woman in a top position at Gannett ... surprise, surprise.

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  7. Wasn't AES where Robin Pence came from?

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  8. Gosh no one had a problem when every Division head for 100 years was a guy. What the heck is the problem with you people? Check out her history. She's more qualified then the guy she replaced.

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  9. Must have been baseball bat speech

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  10. 6:59 so Dickey, Lougee, Kramer, Payne don't count? I'm not seeing what you are seeing?

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  11. @659 - Gives me hope!

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  13. Dickey and Loughee and I believe Payne were hired under Craig Dubow's watch.

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  14. Gracia hired Kramer for the most important position in teh company. Get off of the female issue. We get it you were happy with the all boys club.

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  15. Robin Pence was VP Communications for AES. She's the one who recommended Harker eight months ago. Obviously Pence still has some pull around here.

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  16. What white males do you look up to? Hunke? The epitome of the old boys network. An utter failure as a manager and judge of talent.

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  17. 9:17,
    No, women don't bother me at all. Women with an agenda against men certainly do.

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  18. Leaves $18 billion multinational with 50% earnings growth for a $5 billion company whose strategic goal is to grow at about the rate of inflation?

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  19. 12:45 now that's funny on several levels!

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  20. 9:17 and what exactly is this insidious agenda? She hired Jeremy, the new Robin Pence. She hired Kramer, the new Hunke. Whom other than M Banikarm did she hire that reports directly to her?

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