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987: May the Road Rise to Meet You | Jennifer Loo, CFO, Tala

Back in 2009, with a law degree in hand along with a smattering of frontline consulting experience, Jennifer Loo swung open the door at LegalZoom—where in short order she was tasked with architecting the fast-growing company's FP&A function from the ground up. For Loo, the responsibilities that would quickly surface at LegalZoom did not necessarily…
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The 20 Leading CFOs | A.I.

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979: The Changing Stripes of Finance Leadership | Chermaine Hu, CFO, Episode Six

At the very beginning of our talk with CFO Chermaine Hu, she revealed an irony about the CFO title that we rarely get to expose. To wit: The very title toward which any executive has invested so many illustrious career years conveys ownership of what might seem to be a less than illustrious role—or at…
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935: Why People Are Finance’s X Factor | Derrek Gafford, CFO, TrueBlue

Not unlike that of many of his CFO peers, Derrek Gafford’s career path has been shaped in part by geography—specifically, by having its origins in a city that was at once home to a state college, the corporate headquarters of a marquee company, and a Big Four accounting office populated with new college grads. In…
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906: When Strategy and Profits Meet | Taryn Aronson, CFO, Tovala

Back in 2011, the buzz surrounding the launch of Redbox’s Blu-ray disc rental business was getting increasingly dour. For Taryn Aronson, who had been hired to help to execute the firm's digital content strategy, the performance woes of physical discs were not anything to lose sleep over. However, the negative notions surrounding Blu-ray’s lackluster performance…
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ON LOCATION Perform23 | Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful

GUEST: Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful Regarding Performance Management Being an Enabler Grant Halloran: Finance has often been seen as a gatekeeper or they have the keys to the kingdom. At the end of the day, they can restrict or unconstrained spending and all those sorts of things. The analogy I used or the comparison I…
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Planning Aces | John McCauley, CFO, Calendly

McCauley: When you have such a heterogeneous install base that Calendly has, we have so many different use cases in so many different industries with so many different levels of complexity. When you look at our data at a consolidated basis, it has nominal value. It’s hard to take action on this heterogeneous group that […]

60 Sec Stories (February)

| Episode #876 Jim Young, CFO, Coalition | Eliron Glazer, CFO, Monday (Episode 875) | Wailun Chan, CFO, Grafana Labs (Episode #874) | Michael Kopelman, CFO, Meow Wolf (Episode #873) | Dan Fletcher, CFO, Planful (Episode # 872) | Jared Poff, CFO, Designer Brands (Episode #871) | John McCauley, CFO, Calendly (Episode 870) |

60 Sec Stories (January)

Ravi Narula, CFO, FinancialForce (Episode #869) | Tom Fennimore, CFO, Luminar Technologies (Episode: #868) | Don Alvarez, CFO, Cyngyn (Episode #867) | Steven Mitchell, CFO, Redgate Software (Episode #864) | David Quinn, CFO, BlueVine (Episode #861) |