CFO Guest: Claire Bramley of Teradata Episode: #828: When Finance Talks to the Business
828: When Finance Talks to the Business | Claire Bramley, CFO, Teradata
From the very start of our talk with CFO Claire Bramley, she let us know that she has long been part of the bigger conversation represented by the everyday back-and-forth discourse that punctuates decision-making inside a business. “I’m always saying that If you can’t explain it to the business, if you can’t explain it to…
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The One Question (more than any other) that Reveals Strategic Leadership
CFO Guest: Pat Dillion Episode: #826 Along the CFO Continuum
827: The Leap Beyond Tax | Debbie Schleicher, CFO, EasyKnock
When Debbie Schleicher tells us that a football game between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Clemson Tigers became her door-opener to the CFO office, we can’t help but want to listen. Back in 2014, she and her family were invited by a former client and serial CEO to one of the rivalry's most anticipated…
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Keep it Simple: “That One Metric” | Pat Dillon, CFO, Freight Flock
CFO Guest: Pat Dillon of Flock Freight Episode: #826: Along the CFO Continuum | Pat Dillon, CFO, Flock
826: Along the CFO Continuum | Pat Dillon, CFO, Flock Freight
When Flock Freight CFO Pat Dillon thinks back to his investment banking days at Morgan Stanley and considers the variety of CFOs from whom he once sat across, the banking veteran is struck by how at times the CFOs seem to have had little in common with one another. “What I saw was that their…
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825: With the Intent to Help Others | Bona Allen, CFO, KBD Group
Bona Allen was never a country doctor—but he recollects feeling like one at one point in his finance career. Or, rather, being paid like one. By the early 2000s, Allen had served in multiple CFO/controller roles, a series of consecutive appointments that from time to time had led different Georgia business owners to seek…
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824: An Appetite for Change | Rajesh Gupta, CFO, OakNorth Bank
When Rajesh Gupta tells us that he likes change and fixing things that are broken, we can’t help but wonder how a finance career that has encompassed more than 20 years with General Electric has come to satisfy that appetite. Certainly, we reason, this number of years with a single company is more likely to…
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822: The CFO Trifecta: Finance, Strategy, Leadership | Peter Walker, CFO, Sterling
When Peter Walker looks back on his career, he doesn't hesitate to highlight “the big asks,” or those times when he asked a boss to "take a chance" on him. One such instance occurred when he asked his CEO to sponsor his studies as he pursued an executive MBA on nights and weekends at New…
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821: When Leaders Want More | Michael Sumruld, CFO, Parker Wellbore
Michael Sumruld recalls that after investing 10 of his career–building years in oil field services giant Baker Hughes, he found a deep fog settling on the career path before him. Unlike the case with BH engineers—who could always be confident of being able to place a foot on the next rung of an ever-present career…
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820: Establishing Milestones for the Stakeholder Ecosystem | Adam Swiecicki, CFO, Brex
As the 32-year-old CFO of Brex, Adam Swiecicki has a professional narrative unpopulated by the tales of economic and business hijinks that many of our CFO guests share. Instead, Swiecicki’s forward-looking delivery seems intent on making a clean break from the CFOs of the past, whose career lessons frequently have involved the same one or…
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