Gentherm announced that Jonathan (?Jon?) Douyard will join the Company?s leadership team as Executive Vice President and Treasurer, effective January 1, 2025. Douyard will lead all of Gentherm?s finance, treasury, investor relations, and IT operations on a global basis. Douyard succeeds Matteo Anversa, who served as CFO until September 2024 when he left the position to accept the role of CFO for Logitech International.
Douyard joins Gentherm from The Shyft Group, the North American leader in specialty vehicle manufacturing, assembly, and upfit for the commercial, retail, and service specialty vehicle markets, where he was CFO since March 2020. At Shyft, he played a key role in driving financial performance, generating cash flow, managing merger and acquisition activities, strengthening corporate controls and processes, and developing the finance organization. Prior to Shyft, Douyard spent four years as CFO for Fluke Corporation, a leading global industrial technology company within Danaher /Fortive, where he led the Finance and IT functions.
Prior to Fluke, he spent 15 years in key financial leadership positions at United Technologies and General Electric. He joined Sikorsky Aircraft, a leader in the design, manufacture, and service of military and commercial helicopters, in 2012 where he served as the CFO, Commercial Systems and Services at United Technologies? Sikorsky Aircraft division.
Douyard began his career with GE in 2001, where he served in multiple divisional CFO and financial planning roles and was also a graduate of the Financial Management Program and Corporate Audit Staff. Douyard holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Bentley University and has earned Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt certifications.
