Vicinity Centres promotes Westfield veteran Peter Huddle to permanent CEO role

 Yet another ASX-listed company has upgraded a temporary leadership fill-in to a permanent fixture as Vicinity Centres (ASX: VCX) promotes interim CEO Peter Huddle to the role permanently starting 1 February.

Westfield veteran Huddle joined the shopping centre giant in 2019 as chief operating officer (COO) - a position he occupied until securing the interim CEO job following the shock departure of Grant Kelley three months ago.

The news comes within two weeks of gas company AGL (ASX: AGL) promoting interim CEO Damien Nicks to the role permanently, while in December Healius (ASX: HLS) looked internally to line up COO Maxine Jaquet for the top job when the healthcare group's current CEO steps down in March.

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