Paul Jacobson, Delta Air Lines vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) has resigned his position with the airline to become the CFO of General Motors. His resignation will be effective as of November 15, 2020.
Delta states that it will conduct a global search to identify its next chief financial officer. In the interim, Delta’s senior vice president – business development & financial planning, Gary Chase, and senior vice president – finance & controller, Bill Carroll, will serve as co-chief financial officers.
Chase, age 49, joined Delta in 2012 and was appointed to his current position on October 1, 2020 after previously serving as senior vice president – financial planning & analysis, investor relations and corporate planning (2014-2016), senior vice president – financial planning (2016-2018), and senior vice president – planning and chief strategy officer (2018-2020).
Carroll, age 63, joined Delta in 2013 and served as senior vice president – finance & controller (2013-2016), senior vice president – international CFO & administration (2016), and senior vice president – international CFO & alliances (2016-2018) before resuming his position as senior vice president – finance & controller in 2018.
Carroll will continue as principal accounting officer of Delta.