Early in his tenure at Docusign, CFO Blake Grayson identified lingering inefficiencies and moved quickly to act. By making difficult decisions within his first 90 days, he stabilized operations, reset cost discipline, and positioned the business for growth—reinforcing his belief that speed in tough moments preserves momentum and clarity. Now Watch Our Complete Episode Featuring […]
1176: From Signatures to Systems of Value | Blake Grayson, CFO, Docusign
Within his first 90 days at Docusign, Blake Grayson recognized the company needed to make difficult efficiency decisions following a post-COVID slowdown. Acting quickly, he partnered with leadership to address the issue, noting that “making the hard decision faster is way better than waiting,” Grayson tells us. That moment set the tone for how he…
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732: A Walk on the Creative Side | Matthias Tillmann, CFO, Trivago
It was little more than 6 months after Matthias Tillmann first joined Trivago—and shortly after the travel booking company’s December 2016 IPO—when the company’s future CFO decided to step away from his senior IR role in order to head up Trivago’s creative production function. However, the jump to the creative side was not triggered by…
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685: When Opportunity Knocks | Rebecca Mahadeva, CFO, Greater Than One
For Rebecca Mahadeva, the late 1990s audit of a minor league baseball team was the type of rare career assignment that never failed to intrigue both accountants and non-accountants alike. At the time, Mahadeva was serving a variety of technology audit clients as a young associate for Coopers & Lybrand when she added to her…
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