GM’s CFO resigns to join fintech company

NEW DELHI:

General Motors

’s

CFO Dhivya Suryadevara

is stepping down after two years to take join a fintech startup in an unexpected move prompting the automaker to appoint an acting successor.


GM said Tuesday that Dhivya Suryadevara, who had served as CFO since September 2018, is leaving and it would start a search for her successor immediately. Suryadevara will join closely held Stripe as its CFO, the San Francisco-based company said.

Suryadevara’s departure leaves GM without a talented executive who oversaw its finances during last year’s strike and a pandemic-induced factory shutdown earlier this year. At 41, she was one of the youngest leaders on chief executive officer Mary Barra’s team.