Elisha W. Finney
Corporate Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Elisha Finney was named corporate vice president, finance and CFO of Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) in April, 1999. In January, 2005, she was promoted to corporate senior vice president and given the additional responsibility of managing the corporate Information Systems group. Today, Ms. Finney manages a staff of approximately 250 people worldwide. Her management responsibilities include corporate accounting; corporate communications and investor relations; internal audit; regulatory affairs; risk management; tax and treasury; business development; and corporate information systems.
Ms. Finney joined Varian as risk manager in 1988 and has assumed a wide variety of finance functions over her last 20 years with the company. Prior to joining Varian, Ms. Finney was with the Fox Group in Foster City, California and Beatrice Foods in Chicago, Illinois.
She holds a BA degree in risk management and insurance from the University of Georgia as well as an MBA degree from Golden Gate University in San Francisco where she received the 1992 “Outstanding Graduate Of The Master's Programs in Finance” award.
Ms. Finney served on the Board of Directors of Laserscope (NASDAQ: LSCP) based in San Jose, California from August, 2005 until July, 2006 when Laserscope was sold to American Medical Systems (NASDAQ: AMMD). She has served on the board of Thoratec (NASDAQ: THOR) based in Pleasanton, California since July, 2007.
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