Rolls-Royce recruits next head of finance from BP

Rolls-Royce has announced that BP’s Helen McCabe will be joining its board chief financial officer after August 31 and has named Rob Watson as president, civil aerospace. McCabe, who is senior vice president, finance for the customer & products division of BP, will replace Panos Kakoullis, bringing with her “more than 25 years of experience in senior finance and performance management roles within complex multi-national engineering organisations”. “I would also like to extend the thanks of the whole Board to Panos for his hard work. It has been my pleasure to work alongside him over the last 18 months as