Tonio Bogdanski has been appointed CFO of Universal Germany, the German arm of Universal Music International. He joins from VG Media, the collecting society for radio and television stations, where was managing director since 2002. Douglas Shumate has resigned as CFO from US communications company ITC Deltacom for undisclosed reasons. Richard Fish, chief administrative officer since February, has been promoted to replace him. Fish, who was instrumental in the company's debt restructuring last month, was previously CFO of telecommunications provider ICG Communications.
French food company Danone has appointed Antoine Giscard d'Estaing as finance director, replacing Emmanuel Faber who moves to head up the company's Asia Pacific zone. D'Estaing joins from Schneider Electric.