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• Scott Maw, Starbucks CFO since 2014, announced his November 30 retirement yesterday, though he will continue as a senior consultant to the company until March 2019.

The retirement announcement comes as Starbucks’ chairman, Howard Schultz, leaves the company after three decades. Starbucks says that it already has begun a search for Maw’s successor.
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