Covetrus, announced the appointment of Ajoy Karna as executive vice president. Karna succeeds Matthew Foulston, who announced previously his retirement from the company. Karna joins Covetrus from Sysco Corporation, where during his 10 years with the company, he held a number of seniorfinance and strategic leadership roles, including senior vice president of finance for international, as well as the company's North American foodservice distribution businesses.

He was also CEO of Sysco's European operations. Prior to that, Karna spent over 20 years at PepsiCo where he led global finance, strategy, and mergers and acquisition teams. In his role as CFO for Covetrus, Karna will lead the company's finance, accounting, and auditing functions, as well as the IT and cybersecurity teams, expanding his leadership across many of the company's shared service and centers of excellence functions. Karna has an undergraduate degree in finance from Georgetown University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University.