Brett & Jack discuss why a 4-year degree isn’t quite the job requirement it used to be and how finance leaders are reworking their company’s talent equation. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CFO Brandon Maultasch of Moloco, CFO Steve Vintz of Tenable and CFO Kent Kelley of Unanet.
796: Gene Editing’s Next Frontier | Elaine Sun, CFO, Mammoth Biosciences
Having grown accustomed to charting the careers of our finance leader guests from their early professional days up through their entry into the CFO office, we did not change course for Elaine Sun, an accomplished investment banker turned finance leader who last month stepped into her third successive finance chief position at Mammoth Biosciences of…
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795: The Canary in the Coal Mine | Anisha Sood, CFO, First Choice Health
Back in 2001, as the dotcom bubble imploded and the U.S. economy took a downward spiral, Anisha Sood, a recently hired consultant for Accenture, felt fortunate. “There were rounds of layoffs happening and Accenture was trying to manage it well, but I got lucky because I was in healthcare,” explains Sood, who reports that other…
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794: The Customer’s Many Experiences | Will Johnson, CFO, Iterable
Will Johnson can still hear the question that momentarily muted a management dinner and prodded the gathering’s executive diners to thoughtfully dispatch an answer. “'If you weren’t in your current role, which one—held by a peer at this table—would you assume?,'” recalls Johnson, echoing the inquisitor’s words. “There were some really surprising answers,” he…
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793: When Timing Matters | Adriana Carpenter, CFO, Emburse
As we seek to highlight the milestones that mark the path to the CFO office, one of our favorite queries is to ask finance leaders to recall from their career-building years the first time they presented to their company’s board. For Adriana Carpenter, memories of that board gathering will forever call to mind ASC…
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792: Blazing the Cash-to-Crypto Path | Chris Roling, CFO, Coinme
Reflecting on a finance career that has spanned nine different countries and three decades, Chris Roling says that he may have received his most valuable career lesson at a plant in Pennsylvania's Amish Country. As a newly minted MBA, Roling was hired by Armstrong Industries in the late 1980s to augment the finance executive ranks…
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