Reina Ponce will be the Miami Herald Media Company’s new chief financial officer and vice president of finance, Publisher David Landsberg announced Friday.<br /><br />Ponce, 41, succeeds Susan Rosenthal, who resigned to become vice president of business and finance at Barry University.<br /><br />Ponce joined MHMC in 2005, as budgeting and planning manager. She was promoted to director of finance in 2006.<br /><br />Prior to joining the Herald, Reina served as controller of North American operations at Del Monte Fresh Produce, and she was an audit manager at Ernst & Young. Ponce is a certified public accountant, and has a master’s degree in taxation as well as a bachelor’s degree in accounting, both from Florida International University.