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847: When Minding the Business Is a Cultural Mandate | Jim Morgan, CFO, CallRail

We can’t help but cringe when a finance leader tells us that they don’t want to be known as “the CFO of 'No'”—that shopworn characterization of CFOs who seem to enjoy giving thumbs down verdicts.    So, we were pleased when CFO Jim Morgan of CallRail steered clear of the trite trope when he recently…
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846: Influencing Your Operating Inputs | Ambereen Toubassy, CFO, Airtable

When Ambereen Toubassy decided that it was time to start up her own hedge fund, it's likely that no one cast doubt on the experienced investor’s grand plan. That is, no one except Toubassy herself.   After 7years as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and a dozen running hedge funds, Toubassy says, she told…
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How the Digital Wave is Energizing Midsize Businesses | Tom Lang, EVP, Treasury Management, Product & Operations, PNC

GUEST: Tom Lang, Executive Vice President, Treasury Management, Product and Operations, PNC HOST: Jack Sweeney of CFO Thought Leader Machine Generated Transcript (unedited) CFOTL: Hi, it’s Jack Sweeney with the CFO Thought Leader Podcast, and we’ve caught up with Tom Lang, executive vice president, head of Treasury Management Product and Operations at PNC.Tom is attending […]

845: Levers of Growth, Doors of Opportunity | Darren Cooper, CFO, Reveal Group

When Darren Cooper was named CFO of Reveal Group of Melbourne, Australia, in 2019, there was no friendly board member or executive recruiter seeking kudos for having completed a successful a CFO search. Instead, Cooper says, his twist of fate was due to a personal relationship that he had established with Reveal management after his…
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844: The Virtues of Work, Sleep, and Success | Gillian Sheeran, CFO, Pricefx

Gillian Sheeran’s was perhaps 17 years into an illustrious finance career and on her second CFO tour of duty when she finally met the limits of her CFO superpowers. These powers had first guided her into a CFO role at the tender age of 32, where during her tenure she would help to turn a…
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843: Making Finance Part of the Business’s Operating Fabric | Adil Syed, CFO, Rippling

If, as the old maxim suggests, "life" is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans, Adil Syed’s other plans most likely did not include Snap Inc—or at least they didn’t when he first headed east to attend business school. Having spent the previous 3 years at Redpoint Ventures helping to raise…
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Ep 22: Hires, Fires and a Stable Economy

Brett & Jack discuss how hiring challenges have led certain organizations to be more tolerant of poor employee behaviors – a development that could be putting growing numbers of businesses at risk. Meanwhile, Brett points out that new hires continue to fetch bigger salaries creating an imbalance with existing employee salaries. Also, performance is not […]

842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics

It was after Ross Muken had been gainfully roaming the corridors of equity research for more than a dozen years that the acquisition of his firm administered a dose of operations insight that began to feed his aspirations to become a CFO.   At the time, Muken was a top research analyst for ISI Group,…
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