Crane Holdings, Co. (Crane) announced that Christina Cristiano has been appointed Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Crane NXT, a premier Industrial Technology business. A highly experienced finance executive with broad-based expertise, Ms. Cristiano prior to this appointment served as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Crane since 2019.

Over the past year, she has led the corporate efforts to separate Crane Holdings, Co. into two independent, publicly traded companies, which is expected to occur on April 3, 2023. As part of the Crane NXT leadership team, Ms. Cristiano will be a key partner to Crane NXT's President and Chief Executive Officer Aaron W. Saak, responsible for financial strategy, including future portfolio growth initiatives and capital allocation as well as overseeing all aspects of finance, investor relations, IT and global information security.

In her role as VP, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Crane, Ms. Cristiano's work has included oversight of internal and external financial reporting, transaction diligence and integration, enterprise risk management, and leading critical continuous improvement projects in collaboration with each of the company's business units and corporate functions. Prior to joining Crane, Ms. Cristiano spent a decade at Thomson Reuters in roles of increasing responsibility, including serving from 2016-2019 as Vice President, Global Controller, leading the company's global accounting and statutory reporting organization and playing a key role in transaction execution. Ms. Cristiano began her career at Ernst & Young, where she spent 14 years and rose to become a Senior Manager in Transaction Advisory Services.

Ms. Cristiano earned a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.