Joe Billante

Joe Billante is Chief Financial Officer of Credit Acceptance Corporation, the Southfield, Michigan automobile finance company listed on Nasdaq as CACC, effective 27 July 2026. He brings more than 25 years of executive leadership and finance experience across public company, private equity and high-growth environments.

Billante joined Credit Acceptance Corporation from Barracuda Networks, where he was Chief Financial Officer and led global finance operations through a period of significant strategic transformation. Before that he spent 13 years at eBay in a series of increasingly senior finance and business leadership roles, including Chief Financial Officer for the company's core European and Greater China businesses and Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications, where he managed relationships with institutional investors, buy-side analysts and shareholders and led the company's first Investor Day in nearly a decade. Earlier in his career he spent 11 years at General Electric, including a period as Chief Financial Officer of a global division of GE Healthcare.

Career History

• Chief Financial Officer, Credit Acceptance Corporation (from July 2026)
• Chief Financial Officer, Barracuda Networks
• Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications, eBay
• Chief Financial Officer, core European and Greater China businesses, eBay (13 years at the company)
• Chief Financial Officer, global division of GE Healthcare, General Electric (11 years at the group)

What Joe Billante brings to the Chief Financial Officer role at Credit Acceptance Corporation: operational finance depth built over 11 years at General Electric, direct experience of complex investor and capital markets situations from 13 years at eBay, and a record of running a complete finance organisation as Chief Financial Officer of Barracuda Networks. On announcing the appointment, Chief Executive Officer Vinayak Hegde framed that combination as a strategic partner profile connecting financial discipline to long-term value creation as the company builds a more data-driven, customer-focused and technology-enabled business.