{"id":53900,"date":"2014-03-04T16:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53900"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:14:53","slug":"apple-cfo-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53900\/apple-cfo-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CFO steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc said Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer would retire at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Maestri, Apple&#8217;s vice president of finance and corporate controller, will succeed Oppenheimer as CFO, reporting to Chief Executive Tim Cook.<\/p>\n<p>Oppenheimer, who has been CFO since 2004, was named to the board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Before moving to Apple, Maestri previously worked at General Motors, and spent 20 years in finance and operating roles in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe, Apple said.<\/p>\n<p>While at GM, Maestri had many significant assignments building and operating the business.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the team that established GM\u2019s regional operations in Asia Pacific, including manufacturing investments in China and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Maestri was later CFO of the team that restructured operations in Brazil and Argentina and returned the region to profitability.<\/p>\n<p>His last role at GM was CFO for all of GM\u2019s operations in Europe, which spanned over 45 countries with annual net revenue of approximately $40 billion.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/96925-hackers-brainstorm-for-cash.html\">Hackers brainstorm for cash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/96793-bidorbuy-forums-hit-with-stealth-hack.html\">BidorBuy forums hit with stealthy hack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/96427-sa-networks-mum-on-nsa-spying.html\">SA networks mum on NSA spying<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/96473-the-mask-cyber-spying-campaign-uncovered.html\">\u2018The Mask\u2019 cyber spying campaign uncovered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc said Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer would retire at the end of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,51,7557,7556,269],"class_list":["post-53900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-luca-maestri","tag-peter-oppenheimer","tag-tim-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53901,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53900\/revisions\/53901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}