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439: Keeping CROCI Top-of-Mind | Amit Singhi, CFO/COO, The Piston Group

The Goal: To Achieve Better Governance—Without Bureaucracy The Piston Group "The intent was not to try to centralize everything. I believe in keeping the organization decentralized, nimble, fast, and flexible ... but at the same time, we want to figure out how to better leverage the synergies that exist and can benefit all of the company.…
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438: The Skills Development Path | Four CFOs Discuss Techniques for Acquiring Skills

Exposing the Skill-Building Path "Well, I think there are three things that I can point to when I consider my development as a finance leader. I started my career in public accounting, and what that gave me, I believe, is a good foundation, a solid technical base. This gave me a broad scope of experience…
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437: The Big World of Microfinance | Pamela Yanchik Connealy, CFO, Kiva

“I’ve had the good fortune to work at places like Genentech and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where we were able to implement both financial constraints and head count constraints to force ourselves to make the appropriate trade-offs between portfolio decisions and investment decisions by the organization. I believe that this actually forced higher-quality hiring […]

436: Making “Try It and Track It” Your Finance Mind-set | Bob Cruickshank, CFO, ezCater

Lessons Learned: Always Expect the Unexpected "Kiva Systems was a robotics company that helped to revolutionize robotics inside e-commerce distribution centers. It was a very cool company with a very cool product. In early 2011, I joined them to start to put controls in place to get the company ready to go public. I thought…
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434: The Courage to Challenge Without Bias | Rick Young, CFO, Tangoe

"I have a personal mantra that is 'progress over perfection.' There's no such thing as perfection. To me, perfection means that the world is static, and the world isn't static. You always have to constantly change and do better and always look to do better. I believe that our company's most important value is courage.…
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432: Sizing Up Streaming with Steve Louden, CFO, Roku

While the viewing public watches TV, Roku CFO Steve Louden and his finance team are watching Roku's data—a treasure trove of viewing tastes, habits, and streaming developments that are being derived from the billions of hours of content that Roku streams quarterly. Join us when Steve explains how a data science and analytics platform—originally incubated…
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431: Arriving at Your S-Curve’s Inflection Point | Sian Wang, CFO, FastSpring

Regarding Growth: "We've done very well historically in terms of year-on-year revenue growth. But as we climb the inflection point of that curve, I think that we're trying to figure out how high our growth can be. This might involve greater international expansion or maybe improving or expanding our product offering. So there are a…
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430: Identifying Metrics That Drive Revenue | James Ciroli, CFO, Flagstar Bank

Join us when Jim Ciroli discusses how finance is helping to identify the levers that drive revenue and unlock new growth for Flagstar, the fifth largest bank mortgage originator nationally and third largest savings bank in the country. "At the end of the day, you can't manage more revenue. You can manage activities that you…
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428: How Do You Measure Your Business? | Marc Linden, CFO, Sage Intacct

At first, CFO Marc Linden's ambition to drive growth appeared to be a victim of poor timing when the economic downturn upended Intacct's customer purchases. However, as more companies emerged from the nation's economic malaise, they revealed a growing appetite for cloud technologies. This was an appetite that Intacct was determined to satisfy with a broadening…
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