McCarthy Stone appointed Jo Bennett as CFO. Jo Bennett was chief business officer at the pizza restaurant chain. Bennett was most recently chief business officer at the restaurant group, where she was responsible for finance, legal, IT, property, the value creation plan, business transformation and the supply chain.

Prior to this, she was group CFO of Hilding Anders Group. Bennett?s focus will be on delivering McCarthy Stone?s growth, helping the group take advantage of improving market conditions to build and sell around 2,000 new apartments and bungalows a year, and operating its 530 open retirement communities, including its 120 housing with care schemes. Bennett also spent time as a director at KKR Capstone and at TPG Capital, where her remit was to drive value creation throughout the life of the investments.

She originally trained as an accountant at EY and is a member of the ICAEW.