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Explore how today’s finance leaders connect numbers to narrative and data to meaning. Each edition spotlights the courage, curiosity, and empathy that define modern CFO leadership—revealing how storytelling turns financial insight into influence.
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When the pandemic began reshaping the world in early 2020, Sarah Riley was helping guide finance at Zoom through an unprecedented surge in demand. “You could see the volume of Zoom almost spiking up …
Continue Reading about 1185: Scaling Smarter in the AI Era | Sarah Riley, CFO, dbt Labs →
Rick Hasselman recently boarded “a moving train,” describing his arrival at a newly merged SalesLoft and Clari business as both complex and energizing. Just a month and a half into the role, he is …
Continue Reading about 1184: From Deal Sheets to Operating Seats | Rick Hasselman, CFO, Salesloft →
Macrina Kgil recalls a moment when she first encountered blockchain technology and “could not grasp whatever it was trying to do,” she tells us. Even with an engineering background, the concept felt …
Andre Mancl recalls sitting only a few months into his first CFO role when a senior technology executive arrived with an urgent warning: engineers were leaving for Google and Facebook, and the company …
Continue Reading about 1182: From Cockpit Decisions to Capital Decisions | Andre Mancl, CFO, Nium →
In the desert during military officer training, Yuval Atsmon entered one wrong number into a GPS device. Instead of reaching the intended destination, he and his team ended up in the wrong location, …
Before his career became closely tied to middle-market businesses, Scott Thorell built his foundation in larger arenas. He began at Ernst & Young in New York, auditing financial services firms, …
Continue Reading about 1180: Where Finance Meets the Real World | Scott Thorell, CFO, Benetrends →
