Kingfisher has hired Bernard Bot as its new chief financial officer.
He will join the business on October 21st, and will be appointed to the board of directors on the same day.
Bot was previously in the same role at Travelport Worldwide. Before that, hew was the chief financial officer at Aer Lingus, and has also held roles at TNT Express and McKinsey & Company.
Thierry Garnier, chief executive of Kingfisher, said: “Bernard is a highly experienced CFO whose credentials and track record are ideally suited to Kingfisher.
“He played a central role in the successful transformations at both TNT and Travelport, where he also gained a deep knowledge of technology and digital services, and he has a career-long understanding of logistics and supply chain optimisation.
“His career at international businesses has also given him strong capital markets expertise as the group CFO of companies listed in the US, UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. We look forward to him getting started later this month.”
