Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
James A. (Jim) Barna currently serves Diebold Nixdorf as executive vice president and chief financial officer. In this role, he is responsible for optimizing the organization’s global financial systems and driving the alignment of the company’s strategy to its financial performance to build stakeholder value.
Barna has more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance, with over 10 years in senior leadership roles. He joined Diebold Nixdorf from Ferro Corporation, a global leader in specialty chemicals, where he served in key financial leadership roles including vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer. Before his career in senior corporate leadership, Barna worked at PwC in the assurance and business advisory services practice.
Barna obtained a Master of Business Administration degree and a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from John Carroll University in Cleveland.
Executive Vice President, Global Banking
Executive Vice President, Global Banking
Executive Vice President, Global Retail
Executive Vice President, Global Retail
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
Jonathan Leiken currently serves as executive vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary. He oversees the organization’s global legal function and global corporate compliance program as well as enterprise risk management, business continuity and resiliency and the Company's environmental, social and governance (ESG) program. He serves as corporate secretary to the Board of Directors.
Before joining Diebold Nixdorf, Leiken worked as a partner at global law firm Jones Day, where he represented public and private companies, boards of directors, special committees and individuals in complex civil lawsuits, significant government investigations and at trial. Leiken represented numerous public and private companies in the Fortune 500 in industries ranging from technology to manufacturing to retail and financial institutions. While at Jones Day, Leiken served as one of the Company’s leading external counsel on various litigation and investigative matters.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Leiken served as a federal prosecutor in New York City, working as an assistant United States attorney in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in the United States Department of Justice. As a federal prosecutor, Leiken successfully tried numerous criminal cases to jury verdict in New York federal court and represented the United States on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Leiken received commendations from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of State and numerous other federal agencies for his work in the Justice Department. Early in his career, Leiken served as a federal judicial law clerk to United States District Judge Sam H. Bell of the Northern District of Ohio.
A Cleveland native, Leiken is an active contributor to the community in Northeast Ohio and is a past president of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, which advances justice and represents the interests of Northeast Ohio’s approximately 10,000 practicing lawyers and judges. For more than ten years, Leiken has served as an adjunct professor of law at Case Western Reserve University Law School where he teaches a course on prosecuting and defending white collar crime. Beginning in 2020, Leiken began teaching "To be a GC: The Role of the Modern General Counsel," a course he developed which surveys the GC role at public and private institutions, at Ohio State University Law School. Additionally, Leiken co-founded the CMBA's Criminal Law Section and created Criminal Justice Day for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, teaching students about the criminal justice system. Leiken is the current president of Cleveland’s Legal Aid Society, which provides pro bono legal representation to underprivileged members of the community. Leiken is also a volunteer and contributor to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and appeared in the organization's Anniversary in the School's webinar in September 2020 discussing the birth of his daughter on September 11, 2001 in New York City. Leiken was honored as public company General Counsel of the year by Crain’s Cleveland Business (2017) and is a past recipient of the ORT America Jurisprudence Award for professional contributions and community leadership (2016). He is featured in the October 2022 edition of the Financial Times' Business Legal Leaders.
Leiken earned a juris doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a bachelor's degree in political science from Brandeis University, both with honors.
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Susan Malcolm currently serves as vice president, chief ethics and compliance officer for Diebold Nixdorf. In this role, she oversees the development, implementation and management of the company’s global ethics and compliance program including anti-corruption and bribery compliance; trade law compliance; anti-trust compliance and data privacy.
Prior to being appointed to her current role, Malcolm was vice president, global head of ethics and compliance, for Diebold Nixdorf. Before joining the company in 2013, Malcolm worked at BT Group plc, a multinational communications services company headquartered in the U.K. While there, she held a variety of legal and regulatory roles including building compliance programs. She was a member of BT’s legal leadership team before joining the Governance team, where she became Head of Ethics. At BT she also gained experience in sales, and in human resources leading on policy development and managing contracts with key HR suppliers. Malcolm started her career in London at Ashurst, an international law firm where she specialized in anti-trust/competition law.
Malcolm earned her law degree, with honors, from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), and obtained a master of science degree in Telecommunications Business from University College London. She is a member of the the Law Society of England and Wales. Malcolm is also a trustee of Elmwey Trust, which runs schools in Surrey, U.K.
Sr Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Sr Vice President & Chief Information Officer