{"id":159816,"date":"2018-03-02T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T08:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:52:18","slug":"asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/","title":{"rendered":"ASOS CFO Helen Ashton stands down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASOS<\/a> has revealed that CFO Helen Ashton has decided to move on from her role at the young fashion etailer and will <strong>officially stand down from its board at the end of next month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ashton, who joined ASOS in 2015, will remain with the company until August, to ensure an orderly handover to <strong>CEO Nick Beighton who will cover her role until a replacement is found<\/strong>. Beighton was CFO at ASOS from 2009 to 2014 before being promoted to COO and, eventually, CEO in September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\"The Board <strong>expresses its appreciation for the contribution that Helen has made<\/strong> to the Group during her tenure and wishes her all the very best in the next stage of her career,\" a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining ASOS, Ashton was CEO at Capquest Group and had previously held senior roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays Bank and Asda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":148428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9762,6,10494],"tags":[7329,9816,12788,9817],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ASOS CFO Helen Ashton stands down - TheIndustry.fashion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ASOS has revealed that CFO Helen Ashton has decided to move on from her role at the young fashion etailer and will officially stand down from its board at\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASOS CFO Helen Ashton stands down - TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ASOS has revealed that CFO Helen Ashton has decided to move on from her role at the young fashion etailer and will officially stand down from its board at\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TheIndustry.fashion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theindustryfashion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-02T08:36:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-12T13:52:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-02-at-08.15.39-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"652\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@theindustryfash\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lauretta Roberts\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lauretta Roberts\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#\/schema\/person\/85b04a16eba8c6cd7a9534c5a4262b89\"},\"headline\":\"ASOS CFO Helen Ashton stands down\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-03-02T08:36:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-12T13:52:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/asos-cfo-helen-ashton-stands-down\/\"},\"wordCount\":147,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"ASOS\",\"ecommerce\",\"Helen Ashton\",\"Nick Beighton\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Features\",\"Interviews\",\"News &amp; 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