Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Patrick Fleury shares key insights into TeraWulf’s approach to cash management and the company’s strategic pivot toward AI and high-power compute. Fleury emphasizes the importance of using a 13-week cash flow analysis, a tool he implemented during restructuring to stabilize operations and manage finances. This practice provided critical visibility into the […]
1,006: Finance and Strategy: A Dual Approach | Jorge Stevenson, CFO, Yuvo Health
CFO Jorge Stevenson’s finance career journey began in Santiago, Chile, where both of his parents—leaders within the business community—instilled in him the importance of finance when it comes to achieving business success. Stevenson’s formal business education began with an MBA from Duke University, where he honed his finance acumen. His professional journey has included stops…
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The Mentoring Round | Julien Lafouge, CFO, Spendesk
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Julien Lafouge emphasizes the importance of understanding others’ perspectives and fostering buy-in for effective decision-making. CFO Lafouge enjoys swimming and finds it liberating, setting KPIs and defining the right ones to monitor both swimming and work as a CFO.
The Mentoring Round | Marc Suidan, CFO, The Beachbody Company
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Marc Suidan reflects on (1) his decision to join McKinsey & Company following business school, (2) a unique approach to stimulating demand in the semiconductor memory business, (3) and why after 17 years with PwC, he decided to join The Beachbody Company during a pivotal time of turnaround and transformation. […]
975: Turning the Tide at Beachbody | Marc Suidan, CFO, The Beachbody Company
When PwC partner and relentless champion of shareholder value Marc Suidan stepped into the CFO office at The Beachbody Company in April 2022, intrigue was bound to follow. Certainly, a struggling fitness and health company may not be viewed by many as the optimal door-of-entry to the operations side of things. However, for Suidan—a 17-year…
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The Enterprise Mindset: When Firm Trumps Function | Julie Swinney, CFO, Zendesk
CFO GUEST: Julie Swinney of Zendesk Julie Swinney, CFO, Zendesk reflects back on a career chapter at Intel Corp. when she stepped into a General Manager role after a GM departed the company. Swinney, a career finance executive, stresses the importance of an enterprise mindset, which involves putting the company’s interests first, instead of just […]
894: The Opportunity That Everyone Must See | Julie Swinney, CFO, Zendesk
By the time the general manager of Intel’s data center chipset business parted ways with the company, Julie Swinney had already advanced into one of their coveted business unit CFO positions. To Swinney—who had already served in a series of senior finance roles—the GM’s departure seemed to leave a startling void in a business that…
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Ep 21: When Sales is at the Table
In this Planning Aces episode, host Jack Sweeney and guest host Ben Murray discuss the collaborative organizational effort behind generating business intelligence (BI) and the different places BI resources may reside within a business, with reference to an episode featuring Gary Zyla, CFO of AssetMark. The hosts also discuss the role of finance in enabling…
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