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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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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 […]

895: Learning to Manage Upward | Paul Sheriff, CFO, NewDay

Back in 2006, when Paul Sheriff had only recently been named group financial director for a midsize banking business based in the United Kingdom, his team noticed that the profit margins of a certain banking product were experiencing a steady decline. What’s more, the customers being drawn to the product were deemed to be at…
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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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893: Smart Mobility’s Fast Lane | Craig Conti, CFO, Verra Mobility

Among the keepsakes that Craig Conti collected during the more than two decades of his finance career, the item to which he refers simply as “the list” remains one of his most prized career souvenirs. Having graduated from General Electric’s Financial Management program in 2001, the 20-something Conti had only recently been assigned to GE's…
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