Anita Zielinski to Join Sysco Corporation as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer
March 01 2017 - 9:00AM
Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY) today announced that Anita Zielinski
will join the company as senior vice president and chief accounting
officer, effective April 3, 2017.
"We are pleased to have Anita join Sysco and
bring her extensive experience in financial accounting and
reporting, internal controls and compliance with GAAP and IFRS,"
said Joel Grade, Sysco's executive vice president and chief
financial officer. “Her vast knowledge of technical and complex
accounting matters, including working with large public
multinational companies and her strong analytical and managerial
skills, make her well-suited to join our finance leadership
team.”
As chief accounting officer, Zielinski will
oversee all accounting functions, with responsibility for financial
accounting and reporting, accounting policy, tax compliance and
strategy and internal controls. She will also act as key liaison to
external auditing firms, with responsibility for confirming the
company’s views on technical accounting matters. Zielinski will
report directly to Mr. Grade.
Prior to joining Sysco, Zielinski was a member
of Ernst & Young’s Assurance practice in Houston for 20 years,
and was promoted to partner in 2013. She has extensive experience
working with Sysco as a client, as well as other large and midcap
public companies in the distribution, real estate, transportation
and manufacturing industries. This work included overseeing SEC
registration statements, including filings, business combinations,
and complex accounting and financial reporting matters. Her
accounting experience includes both U.S. GAAP and International
Financial Reporting Standards.
Zielinski earned a bachelor’s degree in business
administration from Texas A&M University. She is a Certified
Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified
Public Accountants.
About Sysco
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing
and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and
educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers
who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also
includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality
industries. The company operates 198 distribution facilities
serving approximately 425,000 customers. For fiscal year 2016 that
ended July 2, 2016, the company generated sales of more than $50
billion. Subsequent to fiscal year 2016, the company completed the
acquisition of the Brakes Group, a leading European foodservice
distributor with operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France,
Sweden, Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg.
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