{"id":13076,"date":"2024-05-01T01:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T01:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T12:07:44","slug":"fortna-names-phelps-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/fortna-names-phelps-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortna Names Phelps CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fortna<\/a>, an automation and software company for the full logistics value chain, has named Kathleen Phelps chief financial officer.<\/p>\n

Phelps brings 20 years of financial leadership experience with global multi-billion-dollar businesses and offers a robust background of driving seamless enterprise integrations, systems implementations and organizational transformations. She is passionate about working across functions to foster a unified culture and achieve business objectives.<\/p>\n

Phelps\u2019s impressive career includes 12 years with Newell Brands, a publicly traded company of many well-known consumer brands (Coleman, Rubbermaid, Sharpie, others); four years with publicly traded packaging giant WestRock; and most recently, she served as CFO for cement producer Argos USA.<\/p>\n

In her most recent role, she played a pivotal part in optimizing the company\u2019s financial systems and processes, significantly growing its value, and executing a successful sale.<\/p>\n

Phelps holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Business from The University of Georgia. She currently serves on the Alumni Board of The University of Georgia\u2019s Terry College of Business and on the Board of Trustees of Springmont School.<\/p>\n

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Fortna has named Kathleen Phelps chief financial officer.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe CFO role is crucial to our strategy and growth and propelling us toward the future we envision. Kathleen thrives on improving business performance, linking operations and finance, building relationships and removing obstacles to empower teams to act,\u201d said Rob McKeel, chief executive officer, Fortna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to welcome Kathleen to the Fortna<\/a> executive leadership team and look forward to her many contributions to our future success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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