This article was originally published on Forbes.com Back in 2015, after nearly two decades of diligent career-building across United Technologies, Paul Lundstrom fixed his career builder’s gaze upon the span of companies known as the Fortune 500. Like many seasoned finance executives who spend the balance of their careers inside large enterprise companies, Lundstrom had to confront the […]
When It Comes to Divestitures, Operations-Minded CFOs Are Always In Demand
This article was originally published on Forbes.com When the door to the CFO office at tech-security company SonicWall swung open for Ravi Chopra, there was a chair, a desk, and over $100 million in customer revenue. What was missing, however, were fully-staffed human resources and finance departments. So it goes inside the world of spin-offs and carve-outs, where newly divested organizations frequently lose some of […]
In Praise Of Public Markets: A CFO All-Star Pursues A Remedy For Wall Street’s IPO Blues
This article was originally published on Forbes.com “It’s not cheap to go public,” concedes CFO Steve Cakebread, echoing the oft-repeated refrain that founders and CFOs confront when considering the prospect of selling shares in their companies to the public. Concessions aside, it will come as little surprise to Wall Street and private investors alike that Cakebread—a […]
CFO Says Savings Strategy Is Helping Ingredion Thwart Recession’s Bite
This article was originally published on Forbes.com It’s the type of business restructuring capable of striking envy in the hearts of many a company board member—and particularly those known to favor one oft-repeated bit of business wisdom: Never waste a recession. At food ingredient maker Ingredion, where the recession’s bite is directly linked to the eating habits […]
Freshly Says It’s Time for Lunch | Matt Hagel, CFO, Freshly
As the pandemic last spring bore down on different U.S. geographies, Freshly was enjoying a profitable quarter—a trend that the online prepared meals company was determined to repeat. “I’m proud to say that for 2020, we have year-to-date profitability, and we expect that trend to continue,” explains Freshly CFO Matt Hagel, who entered 2020 keen […]