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056: Finance Goes Spinal: Fiona Lazarow, CFO, AccelSPINE

What role can finance play when it comes to repairing a human spine? Join us as AccelSPINE's Fiona Lazarow reveals her CFO mind-set and the steps she took to become finance leader of a firm dedicated to developing the next generation of products designed to remedy spinal disorders. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance…
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055: At DocuSign, How to Scale is Top of Mind

What’s it like to be CFO of a firm that has grown from 50 employees to more than 1,000 in less than 5 years? Join us as DocuSign CFO Mike Dinsdale returns to CFO Thought Leader to update us on the firm’s global dimensions. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions…
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054: Hooked on Organic Growth: How an Appetite for Success Led United Capital to Modify Its Diet Plan

What’s it like to be CFO of a firm that specializes in wealth counseling? Join us as CFO Gary Roth highlights the elements of a business plan that facilitated the rise of United Capital, a national financial planning firm that has grown into a 47-office organization thanks to an energetic mix of organic growth, acquisitions, and investment…
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053: Why Cash Flow Per Share Trumps EPS, Eric Loughmiller, CFO KAR Auction Services

Ever wonder about the power of free cash flow? Join us as Eric explains how KAR Auction Services touches more than $25 billion in cash each year, while it captures close to $2 billion in revenue. 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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052: Making Finance Your Firm’s Go-To Department, Maria Izurieta, CFO, 3Pillar Global

How do you empower others to facilitate change? Join us as Maria shares her CFO mind-set and charts the organizational dynamics inside an innovative professional services firm determined to help its clients innovate. People-Based Metrics “Given the fact that we're actually a professional services organization we are a people-based organization and our key metrics are…
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051: What Finance Can Learn From the Lean Startup, Marc Scheipe, CFO, Sage, NA

How do different career experiences shape a CFO’s mind-set? Join us as Marc charts his unconventional CFO career path and explores how the skills and experiences he garnered as a fighter pilot, entrepreneur, small business owner, and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt propelled him into the CFO office. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance…
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050: The Growth Killers: Robert Sher Prescribes Strong Medicine for Midmarket CFOs

What kills growth inside middle-market firms? Join us as Robert reveals the seven silent growth killers unique to midsize firms and explores some of the approaches CFOs can use to detect and overcome the organizational shortcomings that routinely prove fatal for growth.   Letting Time Slip-Slide Away “What you see over and over again is…
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049: Triggering Innovation One Strategic Pivot at a Time, Ticketleap’s Tim Raybould

Ever wonder how strategic decisions are made in a venture-backed firm? Join us as Tim shares the entrepreneurial mindset he adopted as a CFO and that he now embraces as a CEO of Ticketleap, a Philadelphia company determined to disrupt the event ticketing business. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions…
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048: Gaining an Operational Edge, Bill Elkin, CFO, Interflex Group

What types of skills are required to build a company through M&A? Join us as Bill shares the operational mindset he adopted to help Interflex Group execute an M&A growth strategy that  would expand the firm's manufacturing capability to seven facilities across North America and the United Kingdom. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives…
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047: When Regulating Risk Becomes a Driver of Change: Dan Crumb, CFO, Kansas City Chiefs

How can the regulation of organizational risk become a driver of change? Join us as Dan shares his “A-ha!” moment when he realized that the regulation of risk could become a powerful lever to drive change across the Kansas City Chiefs’ growing franchise. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions…
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046: Championing Change with the Cloud: Darrell Powell, CFO, Treehouse

What’s the most effective way to drive change inside a nonprofit organization? Join us as Darrell shares the entrepreneurial mind-set that he’s used to help his organization embrace cloud technologies and replace wasteful dated processes. 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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045: What We Know Now: Six CFOs Offer Career-Building Insights to Future Finance Leaders

What piece of advice do you wish someone had shared with you earlier in your finance career? Join us as six of our CFO Thought leaders look back and share their individual career insights when it comes to building a CFO career. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions…
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