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883: The Confidence That Only Experience Brings | Javier Echave, CFO, Heathrow

When Heathrow CFO Javier Echave tells us that one of his greatest career lessons was learned from being passed over for the giant airport’s CFO position, we wonder whether we misunderstood him.   He continues: “It was then that I learned in the most painful way that securing my own succession to the CFO office…
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882: The Chronic Door Opener | Brianna Gerber, CFO, ChromaDex

When Brianna Gerber tells us that during earnings season at Mattel, Inc., she was once known as the investor relations person most likely to be “knocking on doors,” we can’t help but want to learn more about her IR tour of duty at the toy giant.   “I’d be calling on the marketing team and…
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881: The Firm of Many Lives | Keith Taylor, CFO, Equinix

As our finance leader guests well know, we seldom hesitate to ask where they spent their career-building years. Moreover, if we learn that a CFO spent more than 5 years with any one company, we’re apt to ask, “Why? What kept you there?”  On the other hand—and somewhat oddly—finance career investments spanning a decade or…
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880: When Success Begets Risk | Teodora Gouneva, CFO, NEXT Insurance

Teodora Gouneva was enjoying one of the more satisfying chapters of a 25-year finance career when she began hearing voices again. She tells us that although for most of her work trajectory she had been able to ignore them, on this occasion the contentment that she had so carefully guarded began to give way. The…
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879: Where SaaS Roots Run Deep | Bas Brukx, CFO, Allego

With regard to finance leaders who are counted among the ranks of today's SaaS CFOs, it goes without saying that 20 years ago, most were somewhere other than at SaaS companies. In fact, many of them have no doubt arrived inside the SaaS realm only within the past 10 years or so as part of…
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878: When the Path Rises to Meet You | Don Bassell, CFO, ARKO Corp.

As we have been interviewing CFOs from different industries, many finance leaders have told us that they had bracketed the CFO office as their preferred career destination beginning from Day One of their professional lives. Still others have reported that it was only due to the intervention of a determined mentor that they were able…
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