CLS Hires New CFO

CLS Group has hired Trevor Suarez as chief financial officer.

He joins the executive management committee and reports to David Puth, chief executive officer of CLS and will be a key contributor to the Audit and Finance Committee of the CLS Board.

Suarez joined CLS in February 2014 as head of Financial Planning and Analysis and, since September, has held the role of co-CFO. Prior to CLS, he was finance director for the UK Wealth Division of Lloyds Bank and Head of Group Planning & Performance at Halifax Bank of Scotland.

Now assuming overall leadership for the Finance function, Suarez will oversee all aspects of CLS’s financial management, planning, control and reporting. His focus will be on steering CLS’s financial strategy, including risk, cost management, pricing, capital and balance sheet management.