When Erik Wissig recalls his early years as a founder, one moment still stands out. The team had met its growth goals and earned their bonuses—but the company’s cash flow hadn’t caught up. “You need …
The EQ Advantage in Financial Turnarounds
Discovering a 20-point gap between sales dashboards and true margins at a prior marketplace company, Niels Boon built a CFO-led pricing function, abolished blanket rebates, tied commissions to net …
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1140: The EQ Playbook for Post-Merger Reality | Niels Boon, CFO, Cint
The moment that stayed with him began at a marketplace where sales dashboards showed 40% gross margin—yet finance closed the books at 20%, Boon tells us. The gap, he discovered, lived in the shadows: …
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Bridging Legal & Finance: Closing Contact Risk Gaps – A Suite Voices Miniseries Episode
In this special episode of CFO Thought Leader—the first of three produced in collaboration with The Suite, Shaun Sethna (General Counsel and GM for the L Suite) maps where CFOs and GCs misjudge …
1139: The Global Lens of Finance Leadership | Atsushi Kitamura, CFO, Astellas Pharma
When Procter & Gamble asked Atsushi Kitamura to move from finance analysis into running a manufacturing plant, he didn’t hesitate. “They always give me next challenge to stretch me,” he tells us. …
When Finance Teaches Innovation How to Scale | Michael Levine, CFO, Fireblocks
Upon joining Fireblocks, Michael Levine discovered engineers building “$400,000 cars” without ROI discipline. He introduced a financial lens to product development—teaching teams to balance innovation …