Leadership Change and Growth: BD’s CFO Chris DelOrefice surprised the market by resigning in mid-Octoberprnewswire.com. According to the official release, DelOrefice is pursuing an outside opportunity, and Roque will cover the CFO role through the transition. Polen emphasized DelOrefice’s contributions to BD’s strategic overhaul and said Roque — a 20-year finance veteran at BD — is “well positioned” to keep executing the company’s plansprnewswire.comreuters.com. The leadership news coincided with a positive earnings update: BD reported that Q4 sales hit $5.89 billionfinimize.com and full-year revenue about $21.8 billion. On a constant-currency, organic basis growth was more modest, reflecting a mixed environment.
