GUEST CFO: Scott Bennion of Paystand
Achieving Your Total Addressable Market (TAM) | Rob Goldenberg, CFO, 6sense
CFO GUEST: Rob Goldenberg, CFO, 6sense
925: A.I. and the Hands of Time | Scott Bennion, CFO, Paystand
If Paystand CFO Scott Bennion were to break his three-decade-long finance career into different chapters, the software finance leader would likely agree that he and many of his peers have recently opened a new one. As a starting—or concluding—point, the chapter that has just ended might simply be titled "The Data Set," in order to…
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924: When AI is Business as Usual | Rob Goldenberg, CFO, 6sense
Of all of the career experiences that Robert Goldenberg has acquired on his way to the CFO office, you would think that his stint with a bankrupt landscaping company would not be apt to make his list of all-time opportunity door-openers. Still, when we asked Goldenberg to look back to share the experiences that first…
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Achieving Creative Collaboration Via Finance | CFO Jim Caci of AvePoint
CFO GUEST: Jim Caci of Ave Point
923: From Inside a Remote Address | Jim Caci, CFO, AvePoint
The big-city addresses that frequently prettify the office locations of esteemed accounting houses have continued to be a reliable draw for 20-something-year-old accounting grads eager to be counted among urban professionals. Thus we would not have been surprised to learn that back in the late 1980s, when recent grad Jim Caci was assigned to…
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Transplanting Your Resource Allocation Gene | Dev Ahuja, CFO, Novelis
CFO GUEST: Dev Ahuja of Novelis
922: The Lessons We Learn | Dev Ahuja, CFO, Novelis
Among the learnings that Dev Ahuja has gleaned from his three-decade-long, globe-hopping finance career, perhaps none has delivered a more enduring instruction than that which followed his very first hop. By his own account, after Ahuja had reached the summit of Novartis’s finance executive ranks in India, the drug giant invited him to occupy an…
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921: The Work Comes First | Niki Heim, CFO, LogicSource
It’s perhaps no secret that this podcast can be rather rigid when it comes to our policy for welcoming guests: Invitations are reserved for CFOs and CFOs alone. In fact, we regularly turn away book authors, consultants, and even CEOs. Such was the case for David Pennino, CEO of LogicSource, who recently was “pitched” to…
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Biotech’s Quest for Growth | Erin Golgan Sensei Bio
CFO GUEST: Erin Colgan of Sensei Bio
920: When Leadership Calls | Erin Colgan, CFO, Sensei Bio
For many professionals, the period stretching roughly from March 2020 to December 2022 will forever be known simply as “COVID," as in “I changed jobs during COVID.” Thus it was for Erin Colgan, who in July 2020—after having invested 9 years within the finance rank-and-file of pharma giant Vertex Pharmaceuticals and 8 years with PWC—opted…
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The Last Mile to the CFO Office | CFO Chris Kramer of Axonius
CFO GUEST: Chris Kramer of Axonius