CBIZ, Inc. announced that Brad Lakhia will become its next Chief Financial Officer (CFO), succeeding Ware H. Grove who plans to retire after a successful 24-year tenure in the role. As part of a planned transition, Lakhia will assume the CFO role and join the CBIZ senior team on March 17, 2025. Lakhia, 52, brings nearly 30 years of successful experience leading and developing teams within large, complex global companies across a broad array of critical finance disciplines including capital markets, multi-billion-dollar M&A and integration, treasury, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, and operational finance.
This experience makes Lakhia an excellent fit to support CBIZ's continued growth. Most recently, Lakhia served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of OPENLANE, Inc. Prior to that, he most recently served as Vice President of Finance for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's Americas business segment where he gained over 20 years of combined finance leadership experience that included multiple international assignments. Lakhia holds a BSBA degree in accounting from The Ohio State University Fisher School of Business and an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Mr. Lakhia was Vice President, Business Planning & Analysis of Andeavor (formerly Tesoro Corp.) from September 2016 to October 2018 and Vice President, Treasurer and Credit of Andeavor from February 2014 to September 2016. Prior to joining Andeavor, Mr. Lakhia served in accounting, treasury and divisional finance roles with increasing responsibility at Goodyear from October 1996 to February 2014.
