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901: The Welcome Box | Scott Healy, CFO, Fortera

It’s perhaps appropriate that Scott Healy’s finance career began at an airport. With a boarding pass in hand, Healy thought that he was ready for takeoff—only to have his new boss board with a mystery box under one arm. “He was carrying a package that I thought was some sort of welcome gift for me…
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900: A Dose of Professional Fulfillment | Alison Staloch, CFO, Fundrise

While chief accountant for the SEC’s investment management division, Alison Staloch reports, she found herself being greeted by a degree of inclusive enthusiasm that she had seldom encountered before. “People would say, ‘Great, the accountants are here!,’” recalls Staloch, who tells us that accountants at divisional meetings were sometimes sparse in comparison to the number…
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899: Democratizing Workforce Opportunities | Simone Nardi, CFO, Globalization Partners

Gray-haired late-night fans may remember when David Letterman sought to ingratiate himself with his network’s new owner, General Electric Corp., by hand-delivering a bowl of fruit to GE’s executive brass. Nearly 20 years later, Simone Nardi became a benefactor of GE’s media aspirations when he traded a senior manager position on GE’s audit team for…
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898: Making Finance Proactively Persuasive | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay

By the time Russell Lester landed inside Intuit’s department of analysis in 2009, the unremarkable career path on which he had first set out nearly 10 years earlier had become brimming with possibilities. Back in the early 2000s, Lester tells us, he was hired by the company Harland Clarke (now Vericast) as an analyst specializing…
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ON LOCATION Perform23 | Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful

GUEST: Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful Regarding Performance Management Being an Enabler Grant Halloran: Finance has often been seen as a gatekeeper or they have the keys to the kingdom. At the end of the day, they can restrict or unconstrained spending and all those sorts of things. The analogy I used or the comparison I…
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897: Satisfying a Growth Appetite | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat Software

Last October, when it was announced that Bobby Leibrock would become the next CFO of IBM subsidiary Red Hat, finance team members no doubt understood that the open-source developer was coronating not just any IBM veteran but a strategic finance executive who for years had been entrenched along the front lines of IBM’s software acquisition…
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