# ‘Long gone are the days where we just provided numbers’: The CFO-to-CEO pipeline is growing but does a finance background always make a good leader?

- Source: Fortune | FORTUNE
- Published: 2026-11-02T09:36:16+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://fortune.com/2026/11/02/long-gone-are-the-days-where-we-just-provided-numbers-the-cfo-to-ceo-pipeline-is-growing-but-does-a-finance-background-always-make-a-good-leader/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/long-gone-are-the-days-where-we-just-provided-numbers-the-cfo-to-ceo-p-b4623d/

One in five new CEOs at Europe's largest listed companies came from finance last year. But the transition from managing the numbers to running the business requires a broader set of skills.

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