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654: The Path to Being IPO-Ready | Drew Vollero, CFO, Allied Universal

When Drew Vollero arrived in the CFO office of Snap (formerly Snapchat) in 2015, the executives occupying the tech world’s traditional IPO talent bench no doubt raised a few eyebrows. Having spent the previous 25 years inside the corporate corridors of Mattel, Inc., and PepsiCo, Vollero had a resume chock-full of strategic planning initiatives that…
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653: From Real Estate to the Immune System | Chad Cohen, CFO, Adaptive Biotechnologies

Of all of the business discussions that Chad Cohen has had over the years, few are likely as memorable as the 20-second conversation he had with Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff about midway into his 9-year career stint with the online real estate company. Cohen joined Zillow back in 2006 as corporate controller, a position that…
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652: Exposing Gross Margin’s Hidden Levers | Jeff Nichols, CFO, UJET

In 2016, when Jeff Nichols had been a senior member of Glassdoor’s FP&A team for 2 years, he and other members of the finance team were confronting the nagging truth that the firm’s path to going public wasn’t getting any shorter. The online job recruitment firm’s efforts to grow its profit margins had met only…
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651: Remedying Your Metrics Disconnect | Ross Tennenbaum, CFO, Avalara

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 educate bankers…
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650: When Opportunity Comes Your Way | Kieran McGrath, CFO, Avaya

In 2008, as the economic downturn threatened to upend IBM Corp.’s financial well-being, the company’s leadership was considering different candidates to lead a corporatewide restructuring when Kieran McGrath’s name surfaced. McGrath was known as a troubleshooter inside the ranks of IBMers, a seasoned finance executive whose 27 years with the company had produced a zigzag…
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649: Entering the Auction Room | Martin Nolan, CFO, Julien’s Auctions

Had Martin Nolan studied engineering instead of accounting, his career path would likely never have entered the worlds of Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, and Michael Jackson. Still, Irish-born Nolan is quick to point out that it was a Green Card lottery, not his accounting degree, that facilitated his relocation to New York City, where he…
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648: A Life Sciences Angler Casts a Sturdy Line | Bill Adams, CFO, NervGen Pharma

It’s a familiar sequence: A strong-minded investor musters the will to lead and steps into the CEO office determined to revitalize a struggling technology company and put it back on the growth track. For Bill Adams, this swift turn of events occurred only a year into his first industry stint as a corporate controller—a career…
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647: Accruing Your Global Acumen | Adrian Talbot, CFO, Hotwire

When Adrian Talbot tells us that he parachuted into Thames Television in the early 1990s, the image of the London skyline—once used to brand the popular British broadcasting company —quickly comes to mind. Suddenly, in our mind’s eye, just to the right of St. Paul’s dome, we spy a 20-something-year-old Talbot floating confidently downward. Along…
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The Networking Imperative | Robert Bendetti, CFO, Life Cycle Engineering

Guest: Robert Bendetti Company: Life Cycle Engineering Connect: www.lce.com Connect: www.globalcfocouncil.com Headquarters: Charleston, SC CFOTL: So tell us about the CFO Council and its new virtual world. Bendetti: In the past, we've had folks participating who maybe only came once a year to meetings because they take their kids to school, or they've got a…
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646: Making Finance a Workforce Whetstone | Michelle McComb, CFO, Bluecore

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, McComb’s first CFO tour of duty was coming to an end with the successful sale of her company to a…
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645: The Investor Came Knocking | Glenn Schiffman, CFO, IAC

There’s little question that 2020 will long be remembered as a year of crisis for the casino industry. Commercial gaming revenues in the U.S. were down 79 percent during the second quarter when compared to Q2 2019, a fact that made IAC/Interactive’s August announcement that it was purchasing 12 percent of hospitality and gambling giant…
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COVID Keeps People Top of Mind Among Business Leaders

More keenly aware of the competitive price of employee burnout and workforce attrition — many midsize companies are today busy rethinking how they attract, hire and inspire employees.The Workplace Champions Podcast explores the innovative workforce practices of talent-minded business leaders tasked with opening a new chapter of growth for their midsize organizations.
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