{"id":50647,"date":"2024-08-29T00:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-hires-delta-air-lines-gary-chase-as-cfo-moves-shawn-duffy-to-new-role\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T16:10:50","slug":"viasat-hires-delta-air-lines-gary-chase-as-cfo-moves-shawn-duffy-to-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-hires-delta-air-lines-gary-chase-as-cfo-moves-shawn-duffy-to-new-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Hires Delta Air Lines\u2019 Gary Chase as CFO, Moves Shawn Duffy to New Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Global satellite operator <strong>Viasat<\/strong> announced Wednesday that it has hired <strong>Delta Air Lines<\/strong>\u2018 Senior Vice President of Operational Finance Gary Chase as its new CFO. Chase will start with Viasat on September 16. Viasat\u2019s current CFO Shawn Duffy will remain with the company as its chief accounting officer.<\/p>\n<p>Chase spent more than 12 years at Delta and spent some time as the airline\u2019s chief strategy officer. As a member of Delta\u2019s leadership committee, Chase reported directly to Delta CEO Ed Bastian. Prior to joining Delta, Chase worked on Wall Street as an investor analyst and equity research director specializing in airline and transportation markets at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome Gary to Viasat and look forward to adding his expertise in scaled operational financial systems to support our growth objectives,\u201d said Mark Dankberg, chairman and CEO of Viasat. \u201cGary\u2019s extensive operational experience, and his perspective as a Viasat customer, make him well positioned to increase financial and operational automation and rigor, and sharpen our focus on cash generation and Inmarsat integration. He will play a pivotal financial and business oversight role for Viasat, with emphasis on data systems architecture and linking operational and financial metrics, delivering efficiencies, and optimizing our capital structure to create value for our employees, customers, and shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dankberg also praised his former CFO, Shawn Duffy, and explained her newly created role as chief accounting officer. \u201cSince becoming CFO in 2014, Viasat\u2019s revenues have more than tripled to $4.5 billion. Her deep understanding of the industry, as well as our company, make her a valued member of our executive team, and she\u2019ll continue to provide financial advisory, accounting and reporting, tax strategy and governance oversight,\u201d said Dankberg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global satellite operator Viasat announced Wednesday that it has hired Delta Air Lines\u2018 Senior Vice President of Operational Finance Gary Chase as its new CFO. Chase will start with Viasat on September 16. Viasat\u2019s current CFO Shawn Duffy will remain with the company as its chief accounting officer. Chase spent more than 12 years at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}