CFO GUEST: Scott Healy, CFO, Fortera Corporation
901: The Welcome Box | Scott Healy, CFO, Fortera
It’s perhaps appropriate that Scott Healy’s finance career began at an airport. With a boarding pass in hand, Healy thought that he was ready for takeoff—only to have his new boss board with a mystery box under one arm. “He was carrying a package that I thought was some sort of welcome gift for me…
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900: A Dose of Professional Fulfillment | Alison Staloch, CFO, Fundrise
While chief accountant for the SEC’s investment management division, Alison Staloch reports, she found herself being greeted by a degree of inclusive enthusiasm that she had seldom encountered before. “People would say, ‘Great, the accountants are here!,’” recalls Staloch, who tells us that accountants at divisional meetings were sometimes sparse in comparison to the number…
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Turning the Dials Up On Key “Handoff Points” | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay
CFO GUEST: Russell Lester of Versapay
899: Democratizing Workforce Opportunities | Simone Nardi, CFO, Globalization Partners
Gray-haired late-night fans may remember when David Letterman sought to ingratiate himself with his network’s new owner, General Electric Corp., by hand-delivering a bowl of fruit to GE’s executive brass. Nearly 20 years later, Simone Nardi became a benefactor of GE’s media aspirations when he traded a senior manager position on GE’s audit team for…
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“The Need to Know Why” – Every CFO’s Greatest Credential | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay
CFO GUEST: Russell Lester of Versapay Russell Lester: I remember being in the middle of transitioning out of working from multi-billion dollar companies and moving into the startup world. Smaller companies and operational work that I really had little to no prior experience and that’s a vulnerable place to be. Anytime we’re learning something new, […]
898: Making Finance Proactively Persuasive | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay
By the time Russell Lester landed inside Intuit’s department of analysis in 2009, the unremarkable career path on which he had first set out nearly 10 years earlier had become brimming with possibilities. Back in the early 2000s, Lester tells us, he was hired by the company Harland Clarke (now Vericast) as an analyst specializing…
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ON LOCATION Perform23 | Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful
GUEST: Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful Regarding Performance Management Being an Enabler Grant Halloran: Finance has often been seen as a gatekeeper or they have the keys to the kingdom. At the end of the day, they can restrict or unconstrained spending and all those sorts of things. The analogy I used or the comparison I…
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Rewiring FP&A to Better Serve Business Ops | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat
CFO GUEST: Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat
897: Satisfying a Growth Appetite | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat Software
Last October, when it was announced that Bobby Leibrock would become the next CFO of IBM subsidiary Red Hat, finance team members no doubt understood that the open-source developer was coronating not just any IBM veteran but a strategic finance executive who for years had been entrenched along the front lines of IBM’s software acquisition…
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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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The Role of the CFO in the Age of AI | Mike Ettling, CEO, Unit4
GUEST: Mike Ettling, CEO, UNIT4 CEO Mike Ettling explains how CFOs must guide their peers on the leadership team to focus on areas where AI can improve their company’s “outputs”. Unit4’s CEO emphasizes that the CFO’s role must be about identifying opportunities for improvement and guiding other leaders in the company on how AI can […]