Winners of the NextGen CFO Awards 2024 announced at the CFO Summit

In the competition initiated by the CFO Foundation, CFOs can nominate employees from their teams in two award categories. The awards include partial scholarships for part-time MBA and Executive MBA programs at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. In the NextGen CFO Executive Award category, Frank Muusse, Head of Treasury at C&A, was announced as the winner. The second category, the NextGen CFO Young Talent Award, was won by Fabian Brune, Senior Finance Manager Consumer Health at Bayer. The categories vary in terms of the professional and leadership experience of the nominees. Muusse, from the Netherlands, traveled from Amsterdam to receive the award on site: "Receiving this award at the CFO Summit in front of many leading CFOs is a special honor. Brune, who was traveling abroad on business, accepted the award digitally: "I am very pleased to be honored by the CFO Stiftung and of course proud that Bayer nominated me." Birgit Kretschmer, CFO of C&A, welcomes the initiative of the CFO Stiftung : "In view of the diverse challenges of the future, the CFO community needs top talent with a broad range of skills more than ever. We need to actively promote them at all career levels. She continued: "We at C&A are very proud of Frank's win. He is representative of many highly motivated C&A colleagues who, with their expertise in finance, are helping to drive our company forward in its transformation process".

Wolfgang Nickl, CFO of Bayer, also thanked his Bayer team, which was actively involved in the internal selection of candidates and was represented at the award ceremony by Rolf Hoffmann, CFO of the Consumer Health Division North America: "The development of NextGen is an integral management task for all of us." He is delighted that one of his employees has won the award. "Fabian's career is an example of how very young talent grows through international experience and working in different businesses and functions.

On behalf of the three founders PWC, EQT and SAP, Gori von Hirschhausen, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the CFO Stiftung and Partner at PWC, and Peter Kreutter (WHU) presented the awards in Düsseldorf. Tobias Naumann (CFO of SAP Germany and also a trustee of the CFO Foundation) was impressed by the profiles of the nominees and especially the two winners. Looking ahead to the NextGen CFO Awards in 2025, his fellow trustee Matthias Wittkowski (Partner at EQT) called for the nominations to be used as an opportunity to actively develop diversity in the finance and CFO community.

From September 1, 2024, CFOs can again nominate their talents, or talents can apply with a letter of recommendation from the CFOs.
 

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