CFO GUEST: Galit Yaakobovitz of AmyriAD Yaakobovitz: I think it’s also a part of my personality. Uh, I like the journey, and I’ll tell you about my personal life later, but, uh, I, I like to enjoy the journey. And if I’m, uh, in a certain path and I enjoy it, I don’t really care […]
887: From Tech to Biotech: Enjoying Today’s Journey | Galit Yaakobovitz, CFO, AmyriAD
After Galit Yaakobovitz relocated from Israel to the United States back in the mid-2000s, there was little question that the move had given her career a boost. Still, it was the next relocation—the one that would move her and her husband from New Jersey to California—that ultimately allowed her to place both feet on a…
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Expanding Horizontally: The Key to Long-Term Business Growth | Alka Tandan, CFO, GainSight
CFO GUEST: Alka Tandan of Gainsight Tandan: I think, you know, one of the, the biggest one, um, you know, was essentially at Gainsight when we had to sort of make a decision where, you know, how were we gonna expand? Were we going to, you know, we’re mostly in the enterprise space and there […]
Where FP&A Resides | Gary Zyla, CFO, AssetMark
Zyla: The Finance team I oversee, it’s fun and it’s broad. You have Business Intelligence, I have Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Communications, and PR are part of our Finance team, which is somewhat unusual. Sometimes, we have FP&A, of course, we have Controllership. But, the Business Intelligence is amazing. And, I think in many companies, […]
As Crisis Hits, Finance Asks: What Will Success Look Like? | Javier Echave, CFO, Heathrow Airport
Echave: But very early in the pandemic, we realize that actually, we’re going to survive, because we have a robust organization, we have a strong balance sheet. We have responsible shareholders, we have fantastic creditors, that actually supported us through the worst moment of times, but we realize that as important as protecting the business […]
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877: The Transformative Transaction | Gary Zyla, CFO, AssetMark
It was the type of CFO position that Gary Zyla probably would not have been able to find outside of Genworth Financial, a financial services company that he had first joined in 2004. Not that his resume didn’t already have some solid CFO prerequisites, but the leadership challenge that Zyla was about to take on…
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872: Opportunities Along the xP&A Frontier | Dan Fletcher, CFO, Planful
During the early years of his finance career Dan Fletcher was accustomed to being the executive from somewhere else. When he first joined the asset management team at Allstate Investments, he was “the auditor from Price Waterhouse”, and when he landed inside an interim management role as a private equity advisor he was the former…
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871: Keeping in Stride in a High-Pressure Economy | Jared Poff, CFO, Designer Brands
One of the unspoken truths about interim CFO roles is that they sometimes don’t lead to an actual CFO role—a fact that has turned more than a few seasoned finance executives into chronic nail-biters. For Jared Poff, who ultimately cleared all hurdles as an interim chief to land inside the CFO office at Designer…
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Gleaning Insights Along Calendly’s Up Market Climb | John McCauley, CFO Calendly
CFO GUEST: John McCauley of Calendly EPISODE: #870: When Preparation Matters
Ep 25: The Chatbot Chill: Why Business Will Be Anything But Usual
Our resident thought leader Brett Knowles explains how artificial intelligence is already being used to predict employee turnover, job satisfaction, and other key metrics, allowing managers to take proactive steps to improve employee engagement and retention. Brett & Jack discuss how AI-powered performance management systems are already tracking employee performance and are providing feedback and […]
Beyond Your Comfort Zone | Steven Mitchell, CFO, Redgate Software
CFO GUEST: Steven Mitchell of Redgate Software EPISODE: #864: Excelling Beyond Your Comfort Zone