Upadhyaya hired as Mercury's VP of finance

Mercury Systems announced this week it has hired Vivek Upadhyaya to be the company's vice president of finance.

Upadhyaya will "lead the corporate finance team and be responsible for forecasting and analysis as well as internal management reporting," according to a company statement.

Upadhyaya was most recently chief financial officer, treasurer and chief information officer of Leonardo Electronics U.S., a subsidiary of Leonardo. Before that, he was CFO and interim president and CEO of IAI North America, the U.S. subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries.

From 2012 to 2019, Upadhyaya was vice president of financial planning at Orbital ATK, which was acquired by Northrop Grumman during that time. He has also held finance roles with Honeywell International, Medtronic and Amgen, according to Mercury.