Wizz Air appoints Adecco's Hooghe as CFO
Wizz Air on Thursday appointed Jourik Hooghe as executive vice president and group chief financial officer, effective from 1 February.
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Hooghe has served as senior vice-president of group strategy, finance and accounting at Adecco since January last year.
Meanwhile, current chief financial officer Iain Wetherall will take up the newly-created chief investment officer position, where his responsibilities will extend over corporate finance, investor relations, strategic analytics and subsidiary financial governance.
Chief executive József Váradi said: "Wizz Air's continuing high growth and geographic diversification creates a requirement to constantly plan for the future scalability and evolution of our core functions. Through these appointments we are enhancing our leadership capacity and capability in our finance function.
"The appointments of the executive vice president and group CFO and the chief investment officer allow us to further refine our subsidiary structure, to up our corporate finance activities and at the same time to bring further focus on our aircraft delivery program and associated financing requirements."
Wizz Air shares were up by 0.15% at 3,973.00p at 1041 GMT.