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934: You’ll Figure It Out | Svai Sanford, CFO, Rani Therapeutics
We are near the end of our discussion with CFO Svai Sanford when he permits us to unlock one last door to his past. Unbeknownst to us, 20 minutes earlier, Sanford had handed us the key to its lock in the form of a short story. The story had begun with Sanford receiving a job…
The Climb to Profitability | Jeff Coulter, CFO, Cognite
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,”…
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Creating an A.I. Framework | Jeff Laborde, CFO, JAGGAER
Recounting Transformation Milestones | Tony Boor, CFO, Blackbaud
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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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
CFO GUEST: Jim Caci of Ave Point
Transplanting Your Resource Allocation Gene | Dev Ahuja, CFO, Novelis
CFO GUEST: Dev Ahuja of Novelis
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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913: The Rewards of “Ruthless Transparency” | Jeff Noto, CFO, Zayo
When Jeff Noto is asked to reflect back on his 35 years with Verizon, he tells us that his earliest years with the company were spent scoring quick returns on investments that Verizon had made inside its fledgling wireless business. “I always have to chuckle when I think back to how certain people thought that…
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