Hello, we’re attending Perform 2019 Host Analytics Annual Conference and we’re speaking with Israel Askew, CFO of Emissions Monitoring. QUESTION: Israel as Emissions Monitoring climbs the ranks of middle market companies, we’d be interested in discovering how your role is changing and how your priorities are changing and let’s just look into the future, maybe […]
496: Making Finance Your Company’s Information Hub | Adam Meister, CFO, Talend
A career stint inside the corporate development realm at Visa quickly came to mind for CFO Adam Meister when he was asked about the experiences that he believed had shaped his CFO mind-set. Characterizing his time at Visa more as "a detour" than as a straight line along his career- building trajectory, Meister recalls the…
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495: Putting Three-Wheelers in Gear | Bal Bhullar, CFO, Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corp.
Thanks to an entrepreneurial itch, Bal Bhullar will never be a conventional CFO. In fact, her CFO resume may be the only one ever to include three-wheel electric cars alongside vitamin supplements. However, when it comes to finance milestones such as the $12 million in new financing on which Electra Meccanica closed last March, Bhullar…
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494: The Fruitful Mix of Mindbody & Data | Brett White, CFO, Mindbody, Inc.
One of Brett White's first assignments as a CFO was also one of his toughest. Back in 2001, with 10 years of career-building at Oracle Corp. behind him, White recalls eagerly stepping into his first CFO role--only to be handed a less than exhilarating task. During a meeting in his first week on the job,…
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493: A CFO for All Seasons | Vijay Kumar, CFO, Sify Technologies
At times, it must seem to Vijay Kumar that his 12-year tenure as a CFO has been spent not at one company but three. This must be a sense that most C-suite members at Sify Technologies likely experience in light of the company's appetite for continuous reinvention. Back in 2007, when Kumar arrived at the…
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492: Moving Finance to the Center | David Evans, CFO, Cardlytics
It wasn't long after David Evans arrived inside the CFO office at Cardlytics that finance team members learned that their office surroundings were about to change. Originally domiciled in the less-trafficked--some would say "quiet"--side of the building, Evans wasted little time in relocating his team to more central (and arguably more social) office space. "Physically…
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