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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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Before his first cup of coffee, Alex Melamud opens Slack—not to scan revenue charts first, but to read customer feedback. “The first one that may surprise you as a CFO that I look at is actually NPS,” …
Continue Reading about 1164: From Boardroom Lens to Operator Reality | Alex Melamud, CFO, Engine →
On her first day at Greenphire, Sue Vestri sat in a conference room “learning all of the acronyms” of the clinical trial industry, she tells us. There were “many, many, many,” she recalls, and she …
Continue Reading about 1163: The Discipline Behind Transformational AI | Sue Vestri, CFO, CRIO →
In his early 30s, Guillermo Lopez walked into finance as an outsider. “Nobody was giving me a chance in finance because I was an engineer,” he tells us. Then a boss took “a risk” and moved him into a …
An employee is on vacation in the mountains when it happens: “I left my laptop at home.” Instead of scrambling, the employee logs into a virtual desktop from another device, pulling up what looks and …
Continue Reading about 1161: From Carve-Out to Standalone Enterprise | Steve Shimizu, CFO, Omnissa →
As he nears the end of his first 100 days at Nintex, Burt Chao is doing something many new CFOs resist: listening more than talking. Understanding the business, its people, and its real growth …
The lesson arrived abruptly in a boardroom in Battle Creek. After months of analysis, charts, and market data, the president of Kellogg’s cereal division looked up and said, “That’s all interesting. I …
