Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Victoria Lake as chief financial officer for Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Lake joins from Accenture, where she was deputy CFO of its EMEA business. During her 20 years at Accenture she served in multiple leadership roles, including managing director, Accenture corporate development, leading merger and acquisitions teams on acquisitions.
Her experience also includes leading teams and large-scale programmes across audit, advisory, client transactions, financial reporting and strategic planning. She began her career at Deloitte.
Lake, based in London, is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Cushman & Wakefield has its headquarters in Chicago.
Neil Johnston, global chief financial officer of Cushman & Wakefield said in a statement: "[Lake] is a senior leader who has designed and implemented finance transformations that improve decision-making and drive significant profitable growth and I’m looking forward to her joining our global finance leadership team."
Matthew Bouw, chief executive, APAC and EMEA, at Cushman & Wakefield, added: "Victoria will bring a depth of experience and expertise that will further accelerate our transformation to a globally integrated and digital enabled platform.
"This includes a fluency in digital operating models, AI and advanced analytics which will not only drive productivity and efficiency gains for our business but will also help broaden our suite of advanced digital tools for our salesforce, coupled with innovative solutions for our clients."
Earlier this month the company made two senior leadership appointments in its EMEA capital markets team, appointing Jeff Alson as head of EMEA logistics and industrial capital markets and Reno Cardiff as head of EMEA office capital markets.
