Inside The Mentoring Round, Brian Hogeland, CFO, Packer Fastener highlights key themes around leveraging technology, data, and intentional planning to drive business growth. He emphasizes the role real-time financial insights have when it comes to streamlining operations, and supporting the alignment of financial and operational metrics. Hogeland also focuses on balancing data-driven decisions with a […]
1,045: Cash Flow Focus: Building a Sustainable Growth Strategy | Brian Hogeland, CFO Packer Fastener
In his three years as CFO of Packer Fastener, Brian Hogeland has led a milestone transformation of the company’s financial operations. Joining in 2021 during a period of rapid growth, Hogeland tells us he quickly identified opportunities to streamline processes, align business goals, and introduce technology-driven solutions. With Packer Fastener’s quirky culture—known for slogans like…
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686: Making “Why Not?” Your Career Door Opener | Hamza Benamar, CFO, Kyriba
Long before growing numbers of digital nomads freely roamed the planet, Hamza Benamar had achieved a borderless professional life inside the world of internal audit. “I went through a phase in my career when I was not even planning the next year—I was too busy getting my work noticed and getting proposals to go…
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461: Authoring Your Finance Career Adventure | Andrew Jackson, CFO, Ra Medical Systems
High-Risk, High-Reward Career-Building At first glance, Ra Medical Systems CFO Andrew Jackson’s 20 years as a finance executive in life sciences and technology companies seem to have progressed in a traditional, orderly manner. A closer inspection of Jackson’s experience reveals that taking early-career risks can pay off handsomely. Jackson joined the manufacturer of laser-based solutions…
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447: Making Shareholders Top-of-Mind | Alex Garini, CFO, Sysmex America
Prior to joining Sysmex, a medical diagnostic testing equipment and information systems technology company, five years ago, Alex Garini spent his formative years in Siemens, where his varied experience covered every aspect of corporate finance in addition to stints as the head of strategic projects for one of the conglomerate’s companies. One of Garini’s guiding…
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336: All Eyes on Cash | Tony Tripodo, CFO & Author: “The Successful CFO”
There was a time when Tony Tripodo envisioned building a finance career around his tax expertise. The decision to step beyond his specialization and onto a broader finance leadership path was not one he took lightly, but one from which he would perhaps garner greater satisfaction in the years ahead as it challenged his relationship-building…
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