CBIZ, Inc. announced that Brad Lakhia will become its next Senior Vice President, succeeding Ware H. Grove who plans to retire after a successful 24-year tenure in the role. 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., a leading operator of digital marketplaces for wholesale used vehicles. 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.
Ware H. Grove, who has served as the Company?s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since 2000, will retire from his position as of the effective date of Mr. Lakhia?s appointment. In addition, effective as of Mr. Grove?s retirement on March 17, 2025, Michael Mangan will be promoted to Chief Accounting Officer and serve as the Company?s principal accounting officer. Mr. Mangan, 56, has served as the Company?s Vice President, Corporate Controller since May 2022 and joined the Company as the Senior Director of Accounting, Financial Services in March 2021 after serving as a consultant to the Company during 2020 in connection with the design and implementation of an accounting system upgrade.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Mangan served as the Senior Director of Financial Reporting at Nordson Corporation from 2013 through 2019 and served in various roles at OM Group prior to that. Mr. Mangan began his career at Ernst & Young.
