CFO Moves UK – week ending January 18, 2013

CFO Moves in the UK this week include:

DB Schenker	Cluff Natural Resources PLC	The Financial Times
Charles Taylor

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DB Schenker has announced the appointment of Petra Kuester as the new CFO of Schenker Limited. She will join towards the end of January replacing Per Holst-Nielsen who has moved back to Sweden to a position within Schenker AB. Kuester joins from a CFO position for DB Schenker in Canada. Kuester joined DB Schenker in 1998, where she held various financial roles based in Germany, before moving to Canada in 2007.

Cluff Natural Resources plc announced that it has appointed Anna Obolenskaya as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Anna was an independent consultant assisting oil and gas and mining companies preparing for IPOs and other corporate transactions.

The Financial Times has appointed Tas Viglatzis as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Board member, effective from the beginning of February. Tas takes over from Scott Henderson who leaves to pursue new opportunities in North America after six successful years as FT CFO, three with the additional responsibility of COO.

Charles Taylor plc (LSE: CTR) announced the appointment of Tito Soso to the board as an executive director and Group Chief Financial Officer. As previously announced, Tito initially joined the Company as Interim Group Chief Financial Officer on 1 October 2012. Tito Soso was most recently a Managing Director at Investcorp.  He has also held a senior role in corporate finance and was finance director in the UK and Eastern Europe for a global industrial business.