Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Steve Vintz of Tenable shares key career insights, emphasizing his passion for growth companies and entrepreneurship. Early on, he realized the appeal of smaller, venture-backed companies over large corporations, leading him to a career focused on growth-oriented businesses. Vintz discusses a critical acquisition decision where he advocated against proceeding with […]
The Mentoring Round | Michael O’Grady, CFO, Permutive
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Michael O’Grady explains how he initially struggled to understand why he wasn’t succeeding despite positive feedback from colleagues. O’Grady explains how he developed strategies to block time for important tasks and manage daily operational duties more efficiently. O’Grady Highlights the importance of clear communication and education about key financial metrics […]
989: The Homecoming: A Tale of Growth, Leadership, and Return | Jeremy Johnson, CFO, Dayforce
Back in September 2021, Jeremy Johnson, senior vice president of finance at Ceridian (now Dayforce), decided that it was time to test his mettle—a step that would lead him to returning from a long personal journey with a leadership perspective somewhat different from what he had expected might be the case. Determined to challenge himself…
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896: Why Context Trumps Playbooks | Aneal Vallurupalli, CFO, Airbase
Back in 2010, when the flow of hiring by investment banks had been reduced to a meager trickle of new faces in the wake of the economic downturn, Aneal Vallurupalli walked through the doors of San Francisco's Union Square Advisors. For Vallurupalli—a recent graduate of a Bay Area college not necessarily known as a…
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465: Catching the Next Wave, Again and Again | Steve Cakebread, CFO, Yext
A Humble Take on a Hall-of-Fame Career Yext CFO Steve Cakebread’s resume is extraordinary, given the preeminent companies he’s worked for (HP, Silicon Graphics, Autodesk, Salesforce.com, Pandora, and Yext), the new technology categories that he’s helped to bring to market, and the staggering growth that those organizations posted under his corporate-finance leadership. Cakebread joined Salesforce…
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436: Making “Try It and Track It” Your Finance Mind-set | Bob Cruickshank, CFO, ezCater
Lessons Learned: Always Expect the Unexpected "Kiva Systems was a robotics company that helped to revolutionize robotics inside e-commerce distribution centers. It was a very cool company with a very cool product. In early 2011, I joined them to start to put controls in place to get the company ready to go public. I thought…
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369: The Digital DNA Frontier | Beth Jantzen, CFO, Applied DNA Sciences
Join us when CFO Beth Jantzen spotlights opportunities along the ethical sourcing frontier and explains the career milestones that led her to join a management team determined to apply cutting-edge science to some of the supply chain world's most daunting challenges. The Commercialization Chapter "Since we are still in a commercialization phase and expanding our…
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358: One Year After the IPO | Kim Drapkin, CFO, Jounce Therapeutics
Join us when CFO Kim Drapkin explains how she prioritizes the different aspects of her finance leadership role inside the biotech sector and reveals the different experiences that helped to prepare her to lead inside the entrepreneurial world of a mission-driven company. 2018 Milestones “We have our first clinical data coming out this year. So our…
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326: The Road Less Taken: CFO to CEO | Roger Varin, CEO, Stäubli N.A.
Being fluent in French may not rank high among the desired qualifications for most industry CFOs, but for Stäubli of Switzerland, few proficiencies could add more luster to a finance leader's resume than the words "French-speaking." Or so recalls Roger Varin, whose fluency in French helped to swing open the door to Stäubli North America's…
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294: The Missing CFO | Making Room in the C-Suite
For most companies, the hiring of a finance leader represents a milestone in a company's growth trajectory. However, the question as to when a company should make a CFO hire appears to have as many answers as there are C-suites. Join us when we pop the question to two CEOs who have built impressive high-growth…
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Dynamic Duos | Behind Successful CFO CEO Teams
Join us when we highlight the CEO CFO teamwork that punctuates the growth of three successful midsized firms.
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Why Customer Success is Requiring CFOs to Take a Leadership Leap
As data mining around customer interaction becomes the new nectar of the metric-minded number-crunching set – it’s time for CFOs to influence C-suite decision making . What if an emerging class of new data mining tools and metrics promised to unlock untold revenues for your organization—but, members of the C-suite determined that the team of […]