Dan Sullivan, current SVP of business planning and performance for Carlisle, Pa.-based Ahold USA, will succeed Paula Price (left) as the company’s EVP and CFO, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Price, who held the dual position for almost five years, will become a university lecturer on leadership and technical topics, as well as pursuing further corporate board roles.<br /><br />“During her tenure, Paula transformed Ahold USA’s financial organization and led programs that delivered hundreds of millions of cost savings and helped to build a strong foundation for our future,” noted COO James McCann, to whom Sullivan will report.<br /><br />Sullivan (right) brings to the position more than 20 years of wide-ranging financial and commercial experience. Before coming to Ahold USA in 2010, he was chief financial and operating officer and SVP, <br />strategy for White Plains, N.Y.-based Heineken USA.<br /><br />“Since joining the company, Dan has strengthened our business-planning and performance team, and executed changes within the business that have led to significant savings, enabling Ahold USA and its divisions to reinvest in their customer propositions,” said McCann.<br /><br />Ahold USA, part of Ahold, an Amsterdam-based international food retailing group operating supermarkets in the United States and Europe, supports four regional divisions – Stop & Shop New England, Stop & Shop New York Metro, Giant-Landover and Giant-Carlisle – that collectively operate more than 760 supermarkets with about 120,000 associates in 14 states and the District of Columbia, as well as e-grocer Peapod.