Amid a competitive, banker-led acquisition during COVID, he insisted on traveling to meet the founder in person. That relationship-building shifted perceptions, secured the deal, and underscored how trust can decisively shape enterprise outcomes.
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Chris Miorin traces a leadership-first path to finance, forged at West Point, Ranger School, and as an Army infantry officer partnering with an Iraqi colonel. After Kellogg, investment banking gave him a front-row view of capital-intensive decisions, while corporate development and investor relations sharpened a returns-based discipline and storytelling with numbers. As CFO at apexanalytix, he describes a 30-year evolution from recovery audits to end-to-end supplier risk management, private-equity ownership by KKR, and a leveraged balance sheet. He details secure, on-prem AI infrastructure and agents integrating with ServiceNow and ERPs, and sees AI accelerating diligence and scenarios—yet humans still decide.
| CFO’s Strategy Playbook |
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| • Allocate capital with rigorous ROIC discipline |
| • Build trust to unlock strategic outcomes |
| • Secure, on-prem AI to accelerate execution |