Baxter Appoints Joel Grade Chief Financial Officer
03 Outubro 2023 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global medtech leader,
today announced it has appointed Joel Grade as executive vice
president and chief financial officer (CFO), reporting to Baxter
chairman, president and CEO, José (Joe) E. Almeida, effective Oct.
18, 2023. At that time, Brian Stevens, who has served as the
company’s interim CFO since May 31, 2023, will transition to his
prior role as senior vice president, chief accounting officer and
controller.
“Joel is a seasoned global financial executive with decades of
deep operational and broad business experience as well as a proven
record of results-driven impact,” said Mr. Almeida. “I am confident
we will benefit from Joel’s leadership as we continue to advance
the transformational actions announced earlier this year to help
fuel enhanced growth, innovation and value for the patients,
clinicians, investors and numerous other stakeholder communities
that depend on us.” Added Mr. Almeida, “I’d also like to thank
Brian for serving as our interim CFO; we’re grateful for his
contributions during the transition and look forward to his
continued leadership in Baxter’s Finance organization.”
Mr. Grade, 53, joins Baxter following a distinguished 25-year
career with Sysco, the world’s global foodservice leader with
fiscal-year 2023 sales of more than $76 billion. Mr. Grade brings
deep experience from various financial, commercial and executive
leadership roles. He most recently served as Sysco’s executive vice
president, corporate development, and previously held the roles of
executive vice president and CFO as well as senior vice president
of finance and chief accounting officer, and senior vice president
of foodservice operations. He started his career as a senior
auditor at Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Grade earned a bachelor’s
degree in accounting and finance with a specialization in
international business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and
an MBA in finance, strategy and marketing from Northwestern
University's Kellogg School of Management.
“I’m very excited to join Baxter, an industry leader with a rich
history, compelling future, patient-centric mission, and
best-in-class talent,” said Mr. Grade. “The opportunity to
contribute to Baxter’s ongoing transformation and make a meaningful
difference for our many stakeholders is both motivating and well
aligned with my experience in driving scale across large
organizations and successfully executing against a company’s
strategic objectives.”
About Baxter
Every day, millions of patients, caregivers and healthcare
providers rely on Baxter’s leading portfolio of diagnostic,
critical care, kidney care, nutrition, hospital and surgical
products used across patient homes, hospitals, physician offices
and other sites of care. For more than 90 years, we’ve been
operating at the critical intersection where innovations that save
and sustain lives meet the healthcare providers who make it happen.
With products, digital health solutions and therapies available in
more than 100 countries, Baxter’s employees worldwide are now
building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs
to advance the next generation of transformative healthcare
innovations. To learn more, visit www.baxter.com and follow us on
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