{"id":20453,"date":"2021-12-27T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20453"},"modified":"2021-12-27T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:45:03","slug":"memphis-shelby-county-airport-authority-vp-of-finance-cfo-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/tennessee\/memphis-shelby-county-airport-authority-vp-of-finance-cfo-to-retire\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority VP of Finance\/CFO to Retire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forrest-Artz-edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20454\" width=\"242\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forrest-Artz-edit-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forrest-Artz-edit-2-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><figcaption><em>Forrest Artz<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Forrest Artz, Vice President of Finance\/CFO for the\nMemphis-Shelby County Airport Authority (MSCAA), has announced his retirement effective\nOctober 29, 2022. Artz joined MSCAA in 2008 and he has 23 years of experience\nin the aviation industry. His leadership responsibilities include managing\nMSCAA\u2019s strategic business, preparing and monitoring the airport\u2019s budget,\nmanaging airline use and lease agreements, negotiating rates and charges to\nensure a strong financial airport position, treasury oversight, revenue bond\ndebt issuance, risk management, and federal and state grant oversight. Artz\noversees the Airport\u2019s Procurement, Properties, Human Resources, Finance and IT\ndepartments. MSCAA will begin an immediate national search for his successor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThroughout Forrest\u2019s tenure with MSCAA, we have\nconsistently maintained a very strong financial foundation,\u201d said Scott\nBrockman, MSCAA President and CEO. \u201cHe has been instrumental to the success of\nmany critical projects including debt management, use and lease agreements, and\nnavigating our financial operations through both a de-hubbing and a pandemic.\nWe are so grateful for Forrest\u2019s contributions to the airport and our community\nand wish him the best in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artz was recently honored by the Memphis Business Journal as\na finalist for its 2021 Nonprofit CFO of the year. Under his leadership, MSCAA\nhas consistently maintained high ratings from financial agencies, including\nMoody\u2019s (A2), Fitch (A), Standard and Poor\u2019s (A) and KBRA (A+).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An active member of the community, Artz was appointed as\nChairman of the Memphis &amp; Shelby County Sports Authority in 2014. He is a\nmember of the Leadership Memphis Executive Class of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining MSCAA, he served the Deputy Comptroller for\nthe City of Chicago\u2019s Aviation Department overseeing O\u2019Hare International and\nMidway Airports\u2019 financial activities for more than 10 years. Artz also\npreviously served as an Audit Manager with Deloitte &amp; Touche and as the\nFinance Manager for the City of Tucson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of\nArizona and is a licensed CPA. Artz is a graduate of Cochise College with a\nfocus on the professional pilot\u2019s program, holds a commercial pilot\u2019s license\nand is a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He and his wife, Melinda, have two children and three\ngrandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forrest Artz, Vice President of Finance\/CFO for the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority (MSCAA), has announced his retirement effective October 29, 2022. Artz joined MSCAA in 2008 and he has 23 years of experience in the aviation industry. His leadership responsibilities include managing MSCAA\u2019s strategic business, preparing and monitoring the airport\u2019s budget, managing airline use and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennessee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20455,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20453\/revisions\/20455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}