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XERO COO JENKINS TO LEAVE Featured

Ross Jenkins,  XeroRoss Jenkins, COO of Xero, is retiring from the company by the end of the year. He will not be replaced. Jenkins started with the low-cost cloud accounting software company as CFO in 2011. His LinkedIn profile describes that as his "dream job." In late January, Jenkins became COO when the company named Doug Jeffries as CFO. Jeffries, who was based in the San Francisco area, left after eight weeks on the job and Jenkins became interim CFO. He will remain in the transition when Sankar Narayan takes over as CFO.

Meanwhile, Andrew Lark, who has served as chief marketing officer since November, had his responsibilities immediately expanded to cover all go-to-market activities including sales, marketing, education and partnering. CEO Rod Drury said Xero will not hire a new COO. "We're good. Just part of planned transition with new CFO and Andy our CMO fully up to speed with the business." to cover all go-to-market activities including sales, marketing, education and partnering.

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