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How Growth and Transformation Prepared a Future CFO | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
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Peering Deeper Into the Sales Funnel | Tony Tiscornia, CFO, Coupa
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How AI is Behind Document Processing’s Next Great Wave
Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) is gaining traction across the U.S. mortgage industry as demands for end-to-end automation are more robust than ever, spurred by rising home sales and a collective push toward greater use of technology for the sake of efficiency, cost savings and compliance requirements for all parties involved. Join us as CEO and […]
Why Agility In Decision-Making May Be ADI’s Accretive Superweapon
This article was originally published on Forbes.com Given the clouds that frequently gather over the self-driving car industry, you might have expected Analog Devices, Inc., CFO Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah to avoid any mention of ADI’s high-performance radar. Why draw attention to a previous pivot away from a product line when the semiconductor giant can spend its days […]
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 […]
In Search of a Culture Metric
Avalara CFO Ross Tennenbaum remembers that back in 2018, when he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, he had conversations with a number of senior executives from Slack Technologies, Inc. At the time, the fast-growing workplace messaging and communication platform was preparing to go public, and the company was making a special effort to […]
Defining Your Social Space
The Berlin headquarters of software developer Contentful occupies an old brick warehouse with heavy metal doors, broad functional corridors, and spaces native to its industrial past. Standing six stories high, the structure once accommodated its worker population with a miniature kitchen on every floor, a favorite employee perk perhaps first introduced by a coffee-loving tenant. […]
Shaping a Workforce Philosophy
Just as Michelle McComb was imagining that she would shortly be joining another Silicon Valley start-up as a finance leader, the CFO of Lucent Technologies helped to upend her plans. Back in the early 2000s, Michelle McComb’s first CFO tour of duty was coming to an end with the successful sale of her company to […]
Pulling a Post Merger Alarm Bell | Chad Cohen, CFO, Adaptive Biotechnologies
Among the different human capital moments of insight that Chad Cohen has experienced over the years, few are likely as memorable as the one that woke him up from a sound sleep.At the time, he was CFO of online real estate company Zillow Group, a CFO tour of duty that he completed just prior to […]
For CFOs, Turnaround Chapters Frequently Open Doors To Bigger Opportunities
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 […]