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932: Finance’s Leadership Paradox | Jeff Coulter, CFO, Cognite
Looking back, Jeff Coulter is not exactly certain how he landed a spot on a team tasked with designing and implementing the first-ever budgeting and reporting processes responsible for tracking Procter & Gamble’s marketing dollars on a single worldwide system. “P&G had hundreds of disparate setups that we had to bring into one system globally,”…
Creating an A.I. Framework | Jeff Laborde, CFO, JAGGAER
930: Where Leaders Are Made | Tony Boor, CFO, Blackbaud
While the leadership journeys of many of our CFO guests began on an upper floor of a glass-and-steel skyscraper affording a wide-angle view of a cosmopolitan metropolis, that of Blackbaud CFO Tony Boor started at street level in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert. Less than an hour's drive north…
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Evaluating AI’s Productivity Boost | Scott Bennion, CFO, Paystand
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Achieving Your Total Addressable Market (TAM) | Rob Goldenberg, CFO, 6sense
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925: A.I. and the Hands of Time | Scott Bennion, CFO, Paystand
If Paystand CFO Scott Bennion were to break his three-decade-long finance career into different chapters, the software finance leader would likely agree that he and many of his peers have recently opened a new one. As a starting—or concluding—point, the chapter that has just ended might simply be titled "The Data Set," in order to…
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Achieving Creative Collaboration Via Finance | CFO Jim Caci of AvePoint
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923: From Inside a Remote Address | Jim Caci, CFO, AvePoint
The big-city addresses that frequently prettify the office locations of esteemed accounting houses have continued to be a reliable draw for 20-something-year-old accounting grads eager to be counted among urban professionals. Thus we would not have been surprised to learn that back in the late 1980s, when recent grad Jim Caci was assigned to…
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922: The Lessons We Learn | Dev Ahuja, CFO, Novelis
Among the learnings that Dev Ahuja has gleaned from his three-decade-long, globe-hopping finance career, perhaps none has delivered a more enduring instruction than that which followed his very first hop. By his own account, after Ahuja had reached the summit of Novartis’s finance executive ranks in India, the drug giant invited him to occupy an…
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The Last Mile to the CFO Office | CFO Chris Kramer of Axonius
CFO GUEST: Chris Kramer of Axonius
919: Adopting a Broader View | Chris Kramer, CFO, Axonius
Among the different career highlights that Chris Kramer shares with us, perhaps none is as memorable as what might be called his "Indiana Jones moment." Having distinguished himself as a “technical accountant” during the first half of his career, Kramer was often dispatched to observe and scrutinize the accounting practices of prospective acquisition targets in…
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