636: Being Part of the Team | Marsha Smith, CFO, Siemens USA
Members of Siemens USA’s finance team would probably not be surprised to learn that when their CFO, Marsha Smith, is asked to reveal the experiences that prepared her for a finance leadership role, the ones that she relates most often originate from being part of a team. Such was the case in 2004, when she…
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635: Finding Your Finance Team’s North Star | Markus Harder, CFO, Contentful
The Berlin headquarters of software developer Contentful occupies an old brick warehouse with heavy metal doors and broad functional corridors and spaces native to its industrial past. Standing six stories high, the structure once accommodated its worker population with a miniature kitchen on every floor, a favorite employee perk perhaps first introduced by a coffee-loving…
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634: Milestones for M&A Success | Steve Young, CFO, Duke Energy
It was a little over 40 years ago when Steve Young first joined what would become Duke Energy, the giant electric power holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Not only has it been a long tenure, but also it is the only post-college job that I’ve ever had,” says Young, who first roamed the…
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633: Marching to Fintech’s New Beat | Matt Briers, CFO, TransferWise
Among the more transformative chapters of Matt Briers’s finance career was his 3-year stint monitoring and forecasting margin performance inside Google’s UK operations. “The core role was really to understand what was happening in the organization from a revenue and margin performance perspective and then help to operate the organization so that it could better…
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632: Exposing the Connection Between Financial and Operational Data | Jacqueline Purcell, CFO, Deputy
Jacqueline Purcell’s path to the CFO office began inside an Australian law firm where as a young attorney she was advising corporate clients and their bankers on how to best address some of the legal hurdles that their M&A deal-making might confront. At the time, her routine collaboration with different banking executives gave her a…
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631: Explaining the Business Reason Behind the Number | Steven Springsteel, CFO, betterworks
Back in the early 1990s, Steven Springsteel nabbed an interview for a CFO role with a high-flying tech start-up. At the time, he was controller for Apple’s worldwide manufacturing operations, but the buzz surrounding the brash start-up intrigued him, and the young but accomplished executive shortly found himself waiting to be interviewed by the firm’s…
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630: Building the Business Case | Bennett Theimann, CFO, Applicaster
It was the type of role that any recent business school graduate could envy—not because of the position’s title (Chief of Staff) or how much it paid, but because of its proximity to management decision-making. The job is one that Bennett Theimann remembers well as he looks back on the days when he served as…
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629: Freshly Ripens On The Vine | Matt Hagel, CFO, Freshly
It’s a story that Matt Hagel likes to share as he networks with fellow finance executives and accounting types. Back in 2017—only days after stepping into a finance leadership role at the online prepared meals company Freshly—Hagel was reviewing the company’s chart of accounts when he asked himself: “Why is Plant, Property, and Equipment (PPE)…
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Opening Customer Doors with a “Work from Home” Mind-Set | Steven Springsteel, CFO, Betterworks
As more businesses become accustomed to having their employees work at home, software developers specializing in applications designed to help companies better manage their workforces that include far-flung employees are finding talent management a growing concern for their customers. Or so Steven Springsteel, CFO of Betterworks in Redwood City, Calif., tells us in an upcoming…
628: Allocating Resources to Achieve the Right Outcomes | Inder Singh, CFO, Arm
Inder Singh started off his professional life as an engineer, only to learn that the large engineering projects that he aspired to someday lead often faced as many financial obstacles as they did engineering challenges. So, Singh says, he went back to school and earned an MBA in finance, allowing him to redirect his career…
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