TAMPA — Mike Kipphut, Sykes Enterprises Inc.'s executive vice president and chief financial officer, announced he will retire April 15.
The company will be relocating John Chapman, who has led the company's finance group in Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA), to the United States to take over the CFO role.
Chapman has been with Sykes for a total of 12 years. He joined the company as the vice president of finance, managing the EMEA finances. Prior to joining Sykes, Chapman worked as a financial controller for seven years for Raytheon UK, an aviation and aerospace company.
“[Kipphut] joined the company at a pivotal time, just as the dot-com bubble was unwinding and our business model was undergoing a shift to offshore,” Chuck Sykes, president and CEO of Sykes, says in a press release. “And over the ensuing period, he helped us manage through the transition offshore while elevating the finance group by bringing great rigor to areas such as M&A, strategy, financial planning, tax, treasury and financial reporting. We will all miss him tremendously and wish him the best in his retirement.”