CFO moves, week of August 31 – September 6, 2026

The week in numbers

SEC filings captured 27 CFO moves in the week of August 31 to September 6, 2026. Transitions led all event types at 12, followed by appointments at 7, interims at 5, and departures at 3. Of the 24 seats filled, 11 came from external hires and 9 from internal promotions; for 4 moves that distinction is not established. Interim placements represented 18.5% of all moves. None of the 24 incoming CFOs were identified as first-time CFOs; that status is not established for 14 of them, while 10 are confirmed to have held the role before. Median tenure at departure is not available because none of the 3 departures had known tenure on record.

Notable individual moves

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated recorded the longest lead time in the week: Jonathan Poole is set to replace Charles F. Wagner, Jr. with an effective date of 2027-01-01. At Charter Communications, Inc., Kevin D. Howard steps in as interim CFO replacing Jessica M. Fischer, effective 2026-10-15. WD-40 Company named Keith Stauffer to succeed Sara K. Hyzer, effective 2026-11-02.

Among same-week appointment pairs, Nixxy, Inc. logged both a departure, MeiLin Yu, effective 2026-08-28, and a fresh appointment of Elsa Sung, effective 2026-08-31, with no successor named at the departure filing. Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. recorded Geoffrey Parker's departure effective 2026-11-06 with no incoming CFO identified. At Innventure, Inc., David Yablunosky's departure was filed with no effective date stated and no replacement named.

Sector breadth was wide: Surgical and Medical Instruments and Apparatus and Services-Computer Programming Services each posted 2 moves, while 5 moves came from sectors not on the standard roster. The remaining sectors each contributed 1 move, reflecting a dispersed week with no single industry dominating the activity.