FedEx (NYSE:FDX) Appoints AutoZone Finance Chief Jamere Jackson as Chief Financial Officer

Sonal Goyal

27 October 2026 12:24 AM AEDT

FedEx (NYSE:FDX) Appoints AutoZone Finance Chief Jamere Jackson as Chief Financial Officer

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Key Highlights

FedEx (NYSE:FDX) appointed Jamere Jackson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective 30 November.
Jackson succeeds Claude Russ, who has been interim CFO since 1 June.
He has been AutoZone's CFO since January 2021 and previously held the role at Hertz and Nielsen.
Jackson serves on the Eli Lilly board, where he chairs the Audit Committee.

FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) has appointed Jamere Jackson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective 30 November 2026. The announcement, made on 26 October 2026, ends an interim period that began on 1 June, when Claude Russ took on the role. Jackson currently serves as chief financial officer of AutoZone.

Appointment and Transition

Jackson will join FedEx's executive leadership team and report to president and chief executive officer Raj Subramaniam. He succeeds Russ, who has served as interim chief financial officer for just under five months. FedEx thanked Russ for his leadership during the transition. No details on compensation or on Russ's role after 30 November were included in the announcement.

Background and Management Comments

At AutoZone, Jackson has been chief financial officer since January 2021 and led both Finance and Store Development. Before that he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Hertz Global Holdings and as chief financial officer of Nielsen Holdings. Earlier in his career he held several leadership roles at General Electric, including chief financial officer of a division of GE Oil and Gas.

He also serves on the board of directors of Eli Lilly & Co, where he chairs the Audit Committee. FedEx described his background as combining financial management, capital allocation and operational experience.

Subramaniam said Jackson understands how financial strategy translates into operational performance and has balanced investment in growth with attention to profitability, cash generation and capital allocation. Jackson said he looks forward to learning from the finance team and applying his experience as FedEx executes its profitable growth strategy.

The appointment follows a period in which the role was filled by an interim officer. FedEx's statement describes Jackson as an experienced public-company chief financial officer and notes that at AutoZone his responsibilities extended beyond finance to store development. In the announcement he described FedEx as a company with a large team and significant opportunity ahead and referred to its profitable growth strategy.

Why This Could Matter

The chief financial officer role at FedEx has been held on an interim basis since June. The appointment fills the position with an executive who has run finance at three other large companies and who has experience as an audit committee chair. FedEx's announcement frames the hire around capital allocation and cash generation, areas the chief financial officer typically oversees.

Jackson's prior roles span retail, vehicle rental, measurement and information services and industrial businesses at General Electric. His board service at Eli Lilly, where he chairs the Audit Committee, adds public-company governance experience. These facts are drawn from the company's biography of him.

The Bottom Line

FedEx has named a permanent chief financial officer, effective 30 November, bringing to a close the interim arrangement with Claude Russ. Jackson moves from AutoZone, where he held the same title for almost six years.

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