Gary Cleaver

About Gary Cleaver

Gary Cleaver serves as Chief Financial Officer of Latécoère, a leading French aerospace industrial group specialized in aircraft structures, electrical interconnection systems and related solutions for major airframe manufacturers. He joined the company’s leadership team in November 2023 as part of a broader executive refresh aimed at strengthening operational execution, financial discipline and industrial ramp-up. Within Latécoère, he leads Finance and M&A, with responsibilities that include performance management, financial control, and support for the group’s transformation priorities. Prior to Latécoère, Gary Cleaver built an international career focused on corporate finance, operational improvement and value creation. Latécoère states that he brings a strong track record as a highly operational industrial CFO from his time at Ideal Standard. He also brings deep finance-function expertise from 20 years at PwC and Arthur Andersen, where he developed broad technical knowledge across audit, advisory and finance disciplines. In addition, he spent seven years at Core Equity Holdings, which added a private-equity mindset to his profile and strengthened his ability to drive transformation, improve rigor, and support value-enhancing change initiatives. His background makes him particularly relevant for industrial and listed-company environments where financial leadership must be tightly aligned with manufacturing performance, working capital management, investment discipline and strategic execution. At Latécoère, his role sits within a wider corporate governance and leadership model that has emphasized clearer priorities, stronger customer focus, and a “first-time-right” mindset across sites and functions. The group has also highlighted investment in digital and data solutions to improve frontline tools and efficiency, areas in which the CFO organization plays a central role. Overall, Gary Cleaver’s profile reflects a combination of technical finance expertise, industrial exposure and transformation experience. At Latécoère, he is positioned as a key executive supporting the company’s growth trajectory, profitability improvement and long-term operational resilience in the demanding aerospace supply chain.