With close to 30 years of international finance and leadership experience, Maria will steer the company’s finance strategy with a strong focus on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation.
“I am delighted that Maria will be joining our executive leadership team. She is an accomplished CFO with a proven track record of heading major transformations. She will lead the next phase of our finance strategy, focused on disciplined capital allocation and value creation to deliver world-class returns to all our stakeholders,” said Warwick Brady, President and CEO of Swissport.
The company also thanked Craig Cavin, who has served as Interim CFO since April 2025. During his tenure, Swissport continued to deliver strong financial performance and operational excellence as the world’s leading aviation services provider.
Before joining Swissport, Maria Grigorova spent over 3 years at The Adecco Group as Group Senior Vice President and Global Head of Finance for Adecco, its largest global business unit with revenues exceeding €18 billion. As part of the Executive Leadership Team, she led all financial aspects of performance and transformation, managing a finance organization of more than 3,000 professionals and sponsoring enterprise-wide finance modernization.
Earlier at Adecco, she served for nearly 2 years as Group Senior Vice President – Strategy, Finance and Accounting, acting as Deputy to the Group CFO of the €25 billion publicly listed group. In this role, she led group controllership, FP&A, global finance operations, procurement, and data science, while supporting the Board Audit Committee and contributing to the Future@Work transformation program.
Prior to Adecco, Maria spent nearly 6 years at JLL as CFO – EMEA. She oversaw a $3+ billion reported segment across 40+ countries and 270 legal entities, guiding triple-digit growth, more than 20 acquisitions and divestitures, and the transformation of a 600-member finance organization. She also served on the EMEA Management Board with oversight of property management, legal & compliance, and procurement.
Maria’s earlier experience includes over 5 years at Ideal Standard International as Senior Director Finance within a $1 billion private equity portfolio company, along with senior finance roles at American Standard Companies and Newell Rubbermaid. She began her career at Procter & Gamble across Central & Eastern Europe.
Maria holds an MBA in Corporate Finance from the University of Rochester – Simon Business School, a B.S. in Consumer Economics from Cornell University, and completed the Global Leadership Program in Enterprise Transformation at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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