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Upper Crust owner SSP names CFO designate, deputy CEO to retire
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on January 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
Global Banking and Finance Review
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on January 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 27, 2026
SSP names Geert Verellen as CFO designate, succeeding retiring Jonathan Davies. Verellen joins from Maple Leaf Foods. SSP plans IPO for Travel Food Services.
(Reuters) - Upper Crust owner SSP said on Thursday Geert Verellen will join in early April as CFO designate, as current finance head and deputy CEO Jonathan Davies decided to retire after 20 years with the company.
Verellen will take on the role of CFO and join the board from June 9, 2025, and Davies will remain on the board until Sept. 30 and continue as Deputy CEO until the end of December 2025, London-based SSP said.
Verellen comes from Canadian consumer packaged goods maker Maple Leaf Foods, where he has been CFO for four years.
The management changes come over a month after the cafes, bars and restaurants operator said it was planning an initial public offering in India of airport lounge operator Travel Food Services, its venture with K Hospitality Corp.
(Reporting by Chandini Monnappa in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich and Subhranshu Sahu)
The article discusses SSP's appointment of a new CFO and the retirement of the current Deputy CEO.
Geert Verellen has been appointed as the new CFO designate of SSP.
SSP plans an IPO for its Indian venture, Travel Food Services.
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