La-Z-Boy Announces Changes to Legal and Finance Teams - Seite 3

About Uzma Ahmad
Uzma Ahmad currently serves as La-Z-Boy’s Senior Director of Corporate Law and Assistant Secretary, a role she has held since joining the company in April 2019. She has responsibility for legal matters related to corporate governance, securities and public company regulatory compliance, benefit and executive compensation plans administration, and treasury and international commercial matters. Prior to joining La-Z-Boy, she was the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of Con-way Inc., a Fortune 500 transportation and logistics company. In that role, she advised the board of directors and executive team on corporate and securities law matters, including Con-way’s $3 billion acquisition by XPO Logistics, Inc. Earlier in her career, Ahmad practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at Dechert LLP and Dykema Gossett PLLC and taught a securities regulation seminar as an Adjunct Professor at University of Michigan Law School. Ahmad earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Harvard University and a juris doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School.

About Lindsay Barnes
Lindsay Barnes joined La-Z-Boy in 2011 and has held roles of increasing responsibility. She currently serves as Vice President, Corporate Controller, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer, where she is executive leader of enterprise-wide accounting, treasury, and shared services functions and is directly accountable for accounting policies and procedures, compliance with U.S. GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley internal control design, cash and investment management, and insurance risk management. She joined La-Z-Boy from Borders Group, Inc., where she was Director – Assistant Controller. Prior to that she held auditor roles at PwC and Arthur Andersen. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Eastern Michigan University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accounting, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

About Jennifer McCurry
Jennifer McCurry joined La-Z-Boy in 2019 as Director of Financial Reporting where she is responsible for technical accounting research, consolidation of financial results, external financial reporting to the SEC, internal financial reporting to executive management, and leadership of the corporate accounting team. Prior to joining La-Z-Boy, she was Director of External Reporting at Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. and, before that, was with the Ford Motor Company in multiple roles of increasing responsibility in the Finance & Accounting organization. McCurry earned her bachelor’s degree in finance from Grand Valley State University and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Michigan – Dearborn.