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Executive Moves: Brambles and Port Manatee

Brambles Ltd. appoints new CFO, while Port Manatee names senior business administration director and senior communications manager.

   Brambles Ltd., an international pallet and crate supplier, has appointed Nessa O’Sullivan chief financial officer. She succeeds former CFO Zlatko Todorcevski, who will retire Nov. 17. O’Sullivan joins Brambles from Coca-Cola Amatil, based in Sydney, where she served as group CFO from 2010 until 2015. Prior to that, she held several senior management positions with PepsiCo and Yum! Restaurants International. Brambles is the parent of pallet pool operators CHEP and IFCO.

   Port Manatee has promoted Denise Stufflebeam to senior director of business administration and finance and Virginia Zimmermann to senior communications manager. Stufflebeam, who has served since 2013 as Port Manatee’s director of business administration and finance, joined the port in 1991, while Zimmermann has been Port Manatee’s public relations and marketing manager since 2013.

Chris Gillis

Located in the Washington, D.C. area, Chris Gillis primarily reports on regulatory and legislative topics that impact cross-border trade. He joined American Shipper in 1994, shortly after graduating from Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md., with a degree in international business and economics.