By Elias MurrayMetzger As the Chief Financial Officer of Botrista, growth is often a high-touch and high-demand focal point of my days. During the past year our company has grown from an ambitious startup to a prominent market leader in data-fueled beverage automation. With the recent closing of our Series C funding, we are poised to […]
Adapt and Excel: CFOs Changing Industry Landscape
This article originally appeared on Forbes.com CFOs often build their careers within a specific industry, leveraging their accumulated expertise to navigate complexities and add value over time. This steady climb enables finance leaders to deepen their understanding of industry-specific regulations, operations, and customer behavior. However, a daring segment of CFOs seeks opportunities beyond familiar territory, […]
CFO Book Picks – September 2024
From fiction as a mental escape to deep dives into leadership, health, and emerging technologies, CFOs featured on the CFO Thought Leader podcast in September shared a diverse range of book recommendations. Their selections offer valuable perspectives on balancing business demands with personal growth. ADP CFO Don McGuire recommends Getting Things Done by David Allen, […]
Shaping ADP’s Global Strategy: Don McGuire’s Unique CFO Journey
This story originally appeared on Forbes.com In 2021, ADP’s HR leader reached out to Don McGuire, then the company’s globe-trotting EMEA president, to gauge his interest in stepping into the CFO role. McGuire was surprised, as it had been nearly two decades since he had shifted away from the traditional finance track. In the intervening […]
A CFO Helps Cardinal Health Find Its Value-Creation Groove
This story originally appeared on Forbes.com Back in August 2022, when Cardinal Health, Inc.’s finance chief, Jason Hollar, succeeded CEO Mike Kaufmann as the healthcare giant’s top executive, among the immediate challenges facing new CEO Hollar was filling the company’s CFO vacancy. At the time, an activist investor with an eye toward management change had […]
At Moderna, A CFO Vows To De-risk R&D As mRNA Tech Promises To Shorten Success Path
This article first appeared on Forbes.com Speed to market has always been critical in the life sciences industry. Companies that bring products to market quickly and efficiently are better positioned to succeed and improve patient outcomes. Or so the industry wisdom goes. For Moderna, the covid wunderkind that captured almost $40 billion in sales over the […]
A CFO Finds Traction Solving The Almond World’s Labor Equation
As California’s 2023 almond harvesting season nears its end, the management of Monte Vista Farming Company has begun to turn its attention from the almond producer’s seasonal flow of “almonds in” and “almonds out” to people and operations. “After what we pay our growers for the almonds, our number one cost becomes labor,” explains Mark […]
At GoDaddy, CFO McCaffrey “Made a Connection” With a CEO’s Strategic Vision
When 21-year PwC veteran Mark McCaffrey decided that it was time to open his post-PwC career, he briefed the firm’s U.S leadership about his plans, diligently outlined 24 months of departure prep, and set aside an extra helping of patience. Two weeks later, he had a CFO job offer from publicly traded Internet domain […]
How A Talent-Minded CFO Became Part Of The HHG Family
Among family-owned restaurants groups, Hofman Hospitality Group (HHG) weathered the pandemic better than most. As it turned out, though, the 75-year-old company found itself obligated to evolve with the times, adding food trucks and ghost kitchens (detached kitchens serving pickup and delivery only)—not to mention a chief financial officer. And just who the southern California […]
MedSpeed CFO’s M&A Roots Expose The Human Side Of Enterprise
For corporate finance executives, few professional experiences are as adeptly converted into social currency as those manifested inside the realm of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It seems that regardless of whether a finance executive has been involved in one deal or 40, they are usually able to quickly share a takeaway or two. For finance […]
CFO Ana Chadwick’s Career Links Pitney Bowes’s 21st Century Ambitions With GE Capital’s Historic End Chapter
Back in 2020, the call that longtime General Electric veteran Ana Chadwick accepted from a recruiter would prove to be the one solicitation in a career’s worth of such outreaches that would ultimately result in an executive search fee. Still, while Chadwick would be a prize placement for any headhunter, it is clear that this […]
How Consumers Are Becoming First Among Equals At Levi Strauss
This article was originally published on Forbes.com When it comes time for Harmit Singh to brief Levi Strauss & Co.’s management team regarding the latest performance results, Levi’s CFO will often share a briefing document that features a front page bearing the heading “What’s Working and What’s Not.” “It’s more difficult to understand what’s not working, and […]