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824: An Appetite for Change | Rajesh Gupta, CFO, OakNorth Bank

When Rajesh Gupta tells us that he likes change and fixing things that are broken, we can’t help but wonder how a finance career that has encompassed more than 20 years with General Electric has come to satisfy that appetite. Certainly, we reason, this number of years with a single company is more likely to…
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Ep 10: Getting in Deeper

Steve and Jack discuss how successful financial planning teams are always looking to “get in deeper” and help their organization’s extend their lines of sight. Featuring commentary and FP&A insights from Planning Aces: CFO Adriana Carpenter of Emburse, CFO Kent Kelley of Unanet and CFO Brandon Maultasch of Moloco. Kent Kelley—a 15-year Oracle veteran whose […]

778: Finance: Not a Function but a Profession | Russ Porter, CFO, IMA

Looking back on the 28 years that he spent inside IBM’s finance function, Russ Porter notes that his career climb paralleled the evolution of FP&A inside the giant technology provider. Turn back the clock to the early to mid-1990s and, Porter tells us, many of IBM’s FP&A professionals were more or less serving as budget…
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715: Advancing Down a New Strategic Path | Todd McElhatton, CFO, Zuora

"Take risks and fail. The best learning experiences come from plans that didn’t turn out the way you thought, but force you to put them back on track." - CFO Todd McElhatton of Zuora Among the growing number of finance leaders who can be classified as cloud computing CFOs, few have arguably stayed in step…
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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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