Airbnb Names CFO to New Chief Business Officer Role in Shake-Up

Airbnb Inc. elevated Chief Financial Officer Dave Stephenson to a new role overseeing its business strategy, including the home-sharing company’s overseas expansion.

Stephenson, who has been the company’s finance head since 2019, will be Airbnb’s first chief business officer, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Ellie Mertz, a finance executive who has been at the company 11 years, will take over as CFO.

The new structure will put Airbnb’s global business operations under Stephenson, an Amazon.com Inc. veteran who previously served as CFO of that company’s worldwide consumer business before being hired by Airbnb to bring the company ...