transition from Steve Vamos to step up to the new CEO February 1, 2023
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND, November 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — XRO – The Board of Directors of Xero Limited XRO announces the appointment Sukhinder Singh Cassidy as the new CEO of Xero, from February 1, 2023. Sukhinder will succeed Steve Vamos who is retiring from that role after nearly five years as CEO and plans to return to his former portfolio of business coaching and leadership development as an advisor, director and investor.
Sukhinder is a veteran Silicon Valley executive with more than 25 years of global leadership experience, including serving as President, Asia Pacific & Latin America at Google; President at StubHub; Founder of theBoardlist; Founder of Joyus, where she was CEO; and co-founder of Yodlee. She has extensive experience on public and private boards at several companies.
Xero chair David Thodey commented, “As Xero remains focused on achieving our global ambitions, we are pleased to appoint someone of Sukhinder’s caliber as CEO to lead Xero through our next phase of growth. Sukhinder’s appointment follows a rigorous global recruitment process in which we considered a number of exceptional candidates.”
Sukhinder will start at Xero November 28, 2022. She will work closely with Steve to manage the CEO transition, with Steve available as an advisor until the end of the year May 2023.
Mr. Thodey continued, “Sukhinder is a purpose-driven and people-centric leader who is passionate about improving our…
