Hawaiian Holdings Inc. has appointed a new chief financial officer.

The company announced Tuesday that Scott E. Topping as executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Hawaiian Holdings and its subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines.

He will join the company on Nov. 1 and succeed Peter Ingram, who is Hawaiian's new chief commercial officer.

Topping spent 16 years at Southwest Airlines, where he directed the company's corporate finance, treasury, fleet planning and risk management strategies. He developed and managed Southwest's fuel hedging program.

He has an MBA from University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of science degree in agriculture from Kansas State University.