Shift chooses new chief accounting officer familiar to company leadership – Auto Remarketing

Shift recently created the position of chief accounting officer and filled it with an executive familiar to chief financial officer Oded Shein.

The auto ecommerce platform announced on Thursday that Jason Curtis has been appointed as chief accounting officer in a move that was effective on June 1.

In this role, Shift said Curtis will be responsible for all accounting and reporting functions to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Shift highlighted that Curtis extensive public company finance and accounting experience in the retail industry will support Shift’s rapid growth.

Most recently, Curtis served as CFO of Boscov’s, a family owned department store chain. Previously, he was CFO of Stage Stores, a public company where he also held various senior finance and accounting roles and worked closely with Shein.

“We are excited to welcome Jason as our first chief accounting officer,” Shift co-founder and co-chief executive officer Toby Russell said in a news release.

“With his years of experience leading the finance functions of public companies, Jason is a valuable addition to our management team, and this is just another step in growing our finance organization,” Russell added.