CFO GUEST: Rex Jackson of ChargePoint
909: Get It Done | Rex Jackson, CFO, ChargePoint
We often like to ask our CFO guests if they remember the first time that they presented to a board of directors. For many, this happened earlier than you might expect—but few of our interviewees have exposed the benefits of “early access” for us better than Rex Jackson. “I grew up in boardrooms,” comments Jackson, who…
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908: Back to School | John Rex, CFO (emeritus), Microsoft NA
As John Rex tells it, when he first arrived inside the finance function at Microsoft Corp. in 2007, one executive greeted him with “Hey, welcome to Microsoft—if you’re still here a year from now, let’s reconnect.” A senior finance hire with experience in manufacturing and consumer products at such companies as Novartis (3 years) and…
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ON LOCATION: IMA 2023 with IMA CEO Mike DePrisco
Mike DePrisco is the new CEO of the IMA, taking over from Jeff Thompson who led the organization for nearly 15 years. The IMA recently celebrated its 100th anniversary and aims to support and optimize the accounting profession while helping individuals achieve their career aspirations. Mike DePrisco has a background in higher education and previously…
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907: Leaning In to Operations | Rick Rosenthal, CFO, CLARA Analytics
Rick Rosenthal had been working as an investment analyst at Bear Stearns for some 3 years when the bank became a casualty of the subprime mortgage crisis. He remembers sitting in front of his Bloomberg terminal in March 2008 and watching a news conference at which a Wall Street expert was assuring viewers that Bear…
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904: Becoming a Catalyst for Growth | Dayton Kellenberger, CFO, Vendavo
Even today, Dayton Kellenberger marvels at his good fortune in having landed inside the corporate finance department of Coleman Company. Of course, like a lot of career success stories, this tale had timing as a large contributor, especially inasmuch as a little more than 10 years ago, Coleman was experiencing declining gross margins across its…
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903: Making the Data Matter | Ryan Lockwood, CFO, CarParts.com
While April 2020 may forever bring to mind corporate corridors newly silenced by COVID 19’s arrival in the United States, CarParts.com CFO Ryan Lockwood will likely always remember it as the month when opportunity knocked. Having spent the previous 10 years in investment management, Lockwood, a portfolio manager for a Southern California investment house, was…
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902: Finding Your Fire | Celeste Ackert, CFO, Fairmarkit
Of all of the places future CFOs could have been employed in the late 1990s, the printing division of RR Donnelley might seem to have been among the least likely. However, what's important to note is that this period predated the wide deployment of EDGAR, the database system that electronically automates the collection, validation, and…
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Turning the Dials Up On Key “Handoff Points” | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay
CFO GUEST: Russell Lester of Versapay
899: Democratizing Workforce Opportunities | Simone Nardi, CFO, Globalization Partners
Gray-haired late-night fans may remember when David Letterman sought to ingratiate himself with his network’s new owner, General Electric Corp., by hand-delivering a bowl of fruit to GE’s executive brass. Nearly 20 years later, Simone Nardi became a benefactor of GE’s media aspirations when he traded a senior manager position on GE’s audit team for…
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Rewiring FP&A to Better Serve Business Ops | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat
CFO GUEST: Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat
897: Satisfying a Growth Appetite | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat Software
Last October, when it was announced that Bobby Leibrock would become the next CFO of IBM subsidiary Red Hat, finance team members no doubt understood that the open-source developer was coronating not just any IBM veteran but a strategic finance executive who for years had been entrenched along the front lines of IBM’s software acquisition…
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