Drugstore giant Rite Aid needed a new leader—and so it turned to its trusted Chief Financial Officer Matt Schroeder, naming him CEO in September. In doing so, Rite Aid became just the latest large corporation to elevate its finance chief to the top job—a practice that appears to be gaining steam in corporate America. Fortune identifies below nine current CFOs who appear to have what it takes to follow Schroeder's example.
First, some important context: The C-suite trend of CFO-to-CEO didn’t happen overnight, and its growing popularity is the result of several factors. Those include economic uncertainty, and the evolution of the CFO role from a back-office function to a leader of company strategy.
