What's Rarely Measured Matters Most
At Diageo Mexico, Jorge Pliego helped lead a six-month, cross-functional strategy to triple the business. Finance moved beyond accounting to partner with sales, marketing, and operations, framing risk …
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In his late 20s, Jorge Pliego found himself financing a major expansion in Mexico—not by calling corporate for cash, but by rethinking the entire structure. At Procter & Gamble, he was given the …
Manny Korakis points to McGraw Hill’s growth and value plan as his defining finance moment, when portfolio management replaced pure accounting focus. Finance drove decisions on which assets to acquire …
In his first “60 to 90 days” as CFO of Presidio, Manny Korakis learned that preparation doesn’t cancel pressure, he tells us. “Now the buck stops here,” he tells us, and he “didn’t really appreciate …
In late 2022, as funding markets collapsed, Roy Hefer reframed Perk’s choices: accept punitive, dilutive capital or pivot to profitability. By trading growth for faster profitability, finance …
Roy Hefer expected a quick coffee. Instead, a “30 minutes” introduction with a newly appointed Lumenis CEO stretched “more than three hours,” he tells us, as they talked through her plan to transform …
