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719: Achieving New Finance IT Synergies | Madhu Ranganathan, CFO, OpenText

“The aspiration to become a CFO was always there,” says Madhu Ranganathan, executive vice president and chief financial officer of OpenText, a leader in information management based in Waterloo, Ontario. “I just didn't know what the journey would look like." Along the way, Ranganathan says, she learned that while technical acumen remains critical to a successful career, collaboration…
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717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies

Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare’s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career—a high-calorie leadership stint that would ultimately propel him into the CFO office at Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a publicly traded provider of digital workflow and tracking solutions. Says Winters: “It…
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714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, Transfix

In March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an independent company. “As we spun off, we paid a massive dividend to the parent of $18 billion, and our central thought became: ‘How do we survive? How…
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710: Supply, Demand, and Oil in the Gears | Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah, CFO, Analog Devices, Inc.

It was nightly business conversations at his parents' dinner table that first led Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah to consider alternatives to business when it came to building a career. "As most small business owners do, my parents worked all the time—and as with most small businesses, things could at times be financially challenging," explains Mahendra-Rajah, who vividly…
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692: Unlocking Capital for Growth | Tim Murphy, CFO, REPAY

In 2008, as the subprime mortgage crisis began turning the Street’s brash dealmakers into a squeamish clan of risk-averse bankers, Tim Murphy, an associate at Credit Suisse, decided that it was time to try some slots. Lots of them. “I took a gamble in the casino space—it was probably one of the best decisions that…
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689: Be the Bridge | Terry Coelho, CFO, BioDelivery Sciences International (BDSI)

Within 4 months of her 2019 arrival inside BDSI’s CFO office, Terry Coelho had spearheaded a product acquisition and managed a successful equity raise—two finance milestones that would produce generous sales tailwinds for the specialty pharmaceutical firm.   BDSI would experience 100% net sales growth in 2019, followed by 40% net sales growth in 2020. …
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680: Making Sales Success a Must-See Metric | Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products

As the newly appointed CFO of Lawson Products a little more than a decade ago, Ron Knutson realized the significant infrastructure and technology investments that would be required to meet the productivity goals that he was expected to help drive.  In anticipation of the investments that would need to be made, Knutson recalls, he first…
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673: Advancing Down the Transformation Path | Will Bondurant, CFO, Castlight Health

Years from now, when Castlight Health CFO Will Bondurant reflects back on the varied chapters of his finance career, he may title the current one "The Turnaround"—that is, if he and Castlight CEO Maeve O’Meara are able to achieve what the firm's previous management team had not been able to: a strategy transformation. Like his…
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672: Finance From the Top Down | Tom Berquist, CFO, TIBCO Software

When an inquisitive software analyst takes a seat across the table from TIBCO Software CFO Tom Berquist, the inquisitor may not know that TIBCO’s finance leader once sat on their side of the table and in certain ways still prefers it. From 1996 to 2006, Berquist added a distinguished equity research chapter to his career…
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653: From Real Estate to the Immune System | Chad Cohen, CFO, Adaptive Biotechnologies

Of all of the business discussions that Chad Cohen has had over the years, few are likely as memorable as the 20-second conversation he had with Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff about midway into his 9-year career stint with the online real estate company. Cohen joined Zillow back in 2006 as corporate controller, a position that…
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645: The Investor Came Knocking | Glenn Schiffman, CFO, IAC

There’s little question that 2020 will long be remembered as a year of crisis for the casino industry. Commercial gaming revenues in the U.S. were down 79 percent during the second quarter when compared to Q2 2019, a fact that made IAC/Interactive’s August announcement that it was purchasing 12 percent of hospitality and gambling giant…
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634: Milestones for M&A Success | Steve Young, CFO, Duke Energy

It was a little over 40 years ago when Steve Young first joined what would become Duke Energy, the giant electric power holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Not only has it been a long tenure, but also it is the only post-college job that I’ve ever had,” says Young, who first roamed the…
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