Chief Financial Officer
Dhivya Suryadevara is an Indian-American executive and the current chief financial officer of Stripe, an American e-commerce payments company. She is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors.
Early life and education
Suryadevara was brought up in Chennai, India along with two sisters by her mother, who worked in Syndicate Bank in Chennai.[1]
Suryadevara studied in St John's Senior Secondary School in Mandaveli, Chennai. She did her bachelor's degree in commerce from the Ethiraj College for Women of the University of Madras. She later went on to pursue Chartered Accountancy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She is also a chartered financial analyst, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.[2][3]
Career
Suryadevara started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers while attending the University of Madras.[4] She then interned at the World Bank in 2002 and went on to UBS as an investment banker.Template:When[4] She joined General Motors in 2004.[5] In 2013, she was appointed the CFO and chief investment officer of GM Asset Management. In 2015, she accepted a role as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer. In 2017, she became the first female Chief Financial Officer at General Motors.[3][6]
On August 13, 2020, Suryadevara resigned her position as chief financial officer at General Motors to work as Chief Financial Officer for e-commerce payments company, Stripe.[7]
Suryadevara was named to Fortune's 40 Under 40 in 2015 and 2018.[8]
References
- ↑ Who is Dhivya Suryadevara?. The Hindu(23 June 2018).
- ↑ Dhivya Suryadevara: From St John’s, Chennai to General Motors CFO. The New Indian Express(21 June 2018).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 A Chennai girl's rise from Madras University to General Motors's first female CFO(13 June 2018).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 GM’s new 39-year-old CFO Dhivya Suryadevara is making history(15 June 2018).
- ↑ GM appoints new vice president of finance and treasurer. The Detroit News(13 June 2018).
- ↑ In-Demand CFO(4 October 2020).
- ↑ GM Financial Chief Dhivya Suryadevara Steps Down in Surprise Departure. Wall Street Journal(2020-08-11). Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ↑ Dhivya Suryadevara, 39. Fortune. Retrieved 30 May 2019.