MUNICH & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 2, 2024--
Celonis, the global leader in Process Mining and Process Intelligence, today announced the appointment of Benoit Fouilland as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective December 1, 2024. As part of the executive management team, Fouilland will be responsible for the global Finance organization and strategy as Celonis extends its global growth, technology innovation and market leadership.
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“Benoit is a forward-thinking executive with extremely relevant tech-industry experience, an international outlook, and a proven track record leading global Finance organizations,” said Bastian Nominacher, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis. “Benoit is the right leader to help us drive and expand our market leadership being fueled by our latest product innovations like the Process Intelligence Graph which creates unparalleled levels of value for our customers and delivers effective enterprise AI.”
Fouilland is a seasoned business leader with over three decades of finance and executive management experience at global, industry-leading companies. He joins Celonis from Contentsquare, a global leader in digital experience analytics, where he served as CFO. Before that he was CFO of Firmenich, the largest private fragrance and taste company in the world, where he was a Celonis customer and instrumental in coordinating their industry-changing merger with DSM, another Celonis customer. Prior to Firmenich, Fouilland held CFO roles at Criteo SA, a global advertising technology company, where he led its successful initial public offering (IPO), SAP AG and Business Objects SA.
“I got to know Celonis five years ago and have been impressed from day one by the power of the platform and the solid foundations on which the company is built,” said Benoit Fouilland. “I admire the remarkable momentum Celonis has gained since then. I am excited by the opportunity to shape the future of process intelligence and to drive impact for leading companies across all industries around the globe. I am thrilled to join the team and looking forward to helping the company scale, sustainably, to its full potential.”
Fouilland has served on the Board of Directors of VTEX, an enterprise digital commerce platform company, since May 2021, where he chairs the audit committee. He earned his MBA from INSEAD (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) and has master’s degrees from Université Paris Dauphine and Paris ESLSCA Business School.
About Celonis
Celonis makes processes work for people, companies, and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses industry-leading process mining and AI technology and augments it with business context to give customers a living digital twin of their business operation. It’s system-agnostic, without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving businesses. Celonis enables its customers to continuously realize significant value across the top, bottom, and green line.
Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.
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Celonis, the global leader in Process Intelligence, has appointed Benoit Fouilland as CFO (Photo: Business Wire)
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An impeachment complaint was filed Monday against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, who is facing a legal storm over a death threat she made against the president, the alleged misuse of government funds by her office and other criminal accusations.
The impeachment bid filed by several prominent opponents and activists in the House of Representatives accuses Duterte of violating the country’s Constitution, massive corruption and other “high crimes,” including the death threats she made against the president, his wife and the speaker of the House of Representatives.
The vice president’s threats showed the “extent of respondent’s mental incapacity, her depravity and lack of mental fitness to continue holding the high office of vice president of the Philippines,” said a copy of the complaint seen by The Associated Press. “The same constitute not only betrayal of public trust but also a high crime which would warrant her immediate impeachment from office.”
Duterte, a 46-year-old lawyer, was also accused in the complaint of having unexplained wealth and of allowing extra-judicial killings of drug suspects begun by her father, a former mayor of southern Davao City, when she held that position in the past.
The vice president’s legal troubles have unfolded with the backdrop of her increasingly bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his allies. She said in online news conference on Nov. 23 that she has contracted an assassin to kill Marcos, his wife and Speaker Martin Romualdez if she were killed, a threat she warned was not a joke.
She later said she was not threatening him but was expressing concern for her own safety.
The impeachment complaint will be scrutinized by the Philippine Congress, which is dominated by allies of Marcos and his cousin and key backer, Romualdez, who also has been politically at odds with the vice president.
The process could take weeks or months. Congress is to start its Christmas recess on Dec. 20 and resume on Jan. 13. Many legislators will then start campaigning for reelection before May 12 midterm elections.
The House has been investigating the alleged misuse of 612.5 million pesos ($10.3 million) of confidential and intelligence funds received by Duterte’s offices as vice president and education secretary. She has since left the education post.
She has refused to respond to questions in detail in tense televised hearings. Duterte also vehemently protested when her chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, was ordered temporarily detained for allegedly hampering the inquiry. Lopez has been released from hospital detention.
Philippine police have filed criminal complaints against Duterte and her security staff for allegedly assaulting authorities and disobeying orders in an altercation in Congress over Lopez’s detention.
Duterte has accused Marcos, his wife and Romualdez of corruption, weak leadership and attempting to muzzle her because of speculation she may seek the presidency in 2028.
The National Bureau of Investigation subpoenaed Duterte to face investigators about her threats against them.
The police, military and the national security adviser immediately boosted the security of the Marcoses after the threats.
The president has said an impeachment of Duterte would waste time while the country faces other challenges, but her opponents have said they will proceed to foster accountability and the rule of law.
Marcos and Duterte won landslide victories as running mates in the 2022 election but have since fallen out over key differences. The two offices are elected separately in the Philippines, which has resulted in rivals occupying the country’s top political posts.
Marcos and Duterte differ on their approaches to China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and their views on the deadly anti-drug crackdown conducted by Duterte’s father, Rodrigo Duterte, who was the previous president in addition to ex-mayor of Davao.
The brutal crackdown left thousands of mostly poor suspects dead in killings mostly by police that are being investigated by the International Criminal Court as a possible crime against humanity.
This combination photo shows Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, left, in Quezon City, Philippines, Nov. 13, 2024, and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Vientiane, Laos, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo)
