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069: Rethinking Your Firm’s IP Strategy, Sumitra Rajagopalan, CEO, Bioastra

How does a company develop a sound IP strategy - one that can create win-win partnerships for the business? Join us as Sumitra Rajagopalan, explains how her company Bioastra  is today positioning itself as a world leader in smart materials thanks to open innovation and an enlightened IP strategy. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance…
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068: Ink & Innovation: Bill Swanson’s Crusade to Upend the Office Products Status Quo

If an opportunity came along to reinvent yourself would you take it? Join us as Bill Swanson, CEO, Cartridge World, NA, reveals the milestones that shaped his finance career and the pivotal moment that would swing open the door to an entirely new world of business — one that would require him to become a…
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067: How Precious Metals Whet the Appetite for New Capital, Peter Mitchell, CFO Coeur Mining

What if the price variations of precious metals had a direct impact on your company's cash flows? Join us as Peter reveals his CFO mind-set, and the strategies he has used to protect Coeur Mining's stockholders  from the cyclicality of metal pricing and its potential impact on the mining company's results. What is Misunderstood About…
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066: Why Now is the Time to Join the Subscription Economy, Tyler Sloat, CFO, Zuora

Is your company part of the subscription economy? Join us as Tyler reveals his CFO mind-set and the how the fruits of digital recurring revenue are quickly altering how companies acquire and engage their customers. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo today…
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065: Digital Customer Engagement: A Warning Label for CFOs

Is your firm about to experience a customerpocalypse? Join us as Alan Trefler, CEO, Pegasystems, shares insights from his new book Build for Change and urges CFOs to help their firms radically change the rules of customer engagement. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo today visit  www.CFOthoughtleaderdemo.com…
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064: Positive Energy: A Prescription for the Cheerless CFO, Brenda Morris, CFO, 511 Tactical

What if CFOs were largely known for their positive energy? Join us as Brenda reveals her CFO mind-set as well as the energetic personality that has propelled her finance leadership and advanced her into the CFO office at six different companies. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute.…
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063: Knowing Your Customer’s Lifetime Value: Rob Hull, Founder of Adaptive Insights

What’s a CFO to do when he sees his reflection through the lens of a business opportunity? Join us as Rob shares his entrepreneurial CFO mind-set and reveals the A-ha! moment that led him to start up a firm dedicated to empowering finance executives with SaaS-based performance tools. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives…
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062: How Finance & Innovation Became Triggers for Growth, Bill Chorba, CFO, NineSigma

What is it like to be CFO of a firm that specializes in open innovation? Join us as Bill shares his CFO mindset and reveals the inner-workings of a firm dedicated to helping its clients recognize the value of tapping into a global innovation community. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile…
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061: Midmarket Firms Expected to Boost Employment as Economic Optimism Grows

Why are middle-market business leaders increasingly optimistic about the economy? Join us as Tom Stewart, Executive Director, The Center for the Middle Market shares his insights and analysis of  the latest NCMM's quarterly survey findings. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo today…
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060: From Public to Private: How Change Became a Way of Life For Carrie McIntyre, CFO, Interstate Hotels & Resorts

What is it like driving change inside today's hotel management industry? Join us as Carrie shares her CFO mindset and reveals the challenges a firm faces as it changes its ownership structure and rapidly expands globally. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo…
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059: A CFO’s Guide to Informing Management Decision-Making: How Barak Ben-Gal, CFO, Findly, Demystifies the Numbers

Where do numbers and management decision-making intersect? Join us as Barak charts his path from Fortune 100 controller to the CFO office and reveals a finance philosophy that  embraces the simple premise that numbers, in and of themselves, are never an end. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions…
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058: Confessions of a Start-Up CFO, Andrew Eisele of JW Player

Ever wonder how the CFO of a start-up company spends his or her day differently than the CFO of a midmarket or large-enterprise firm? Join us as Andrew shares his start-up mind-set and reveals the day-to-day decision-making that punctuates life in a start-up. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of…
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