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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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819: Set Your Data Free! | Glenn Hopper, CFO, Sandline Global

Just where and how Glenn Hopper came to acquire his finance skillset exposes an organizational dysfunction to which no small number of finance leaders have likely contributed. As a product manager for a small telecommunications firm, Hopper was asked by the vice president of marketing to begin giving presentations at a recurring management meeting regarding…
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818: Breaking Finance’s “Glass Wall” | David Bedell, CFO, Lendio

Looking back at the early years of his finance career, David Bedell recalls being frustrated when a business unit leader remained leery about the merits of a potential deal. “I had done all of the analysis and was convinced that it would make a lot of money for the company, but I just couldn’t figure…
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Five Ways Middle Market CFOs Can Make Sound Financial Decisions | Bill Fink, EVP & Head U.S. Middle Market Banking, TD Bank

This transcript has been machine generated CFOTL:Hello, we’re pleased to catch up with Bill Fink, Executive Vice President and Head of Middle Market Banking for TD Bank. Bill, welcome. Bill Fink:Jack, it’s a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to chat. CFOTL:Yeah, Bill. So it was only last month really that I […]

815: Out Front Inside the Aftermarket | Jeff Shepherd, CFO, Advance Auto Parts

Last winter, when China ordered tens of millions of people back into a pandemic lockdown, executives inside the $170 billion automotive aftermarket parts industry took a deep breath. Jeff Shepherd, CFO of aftermarket giant Advance Auto Parts, says that the possibility of another China shutdown had just not been part of Advance’s procurement calculus. Still,…
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814: Why Swim Lanes No Longer Matter | Manish Sarin, CFO, Sprinklr

Even after serving in multiple CFO roles and spending 10 years on Wall Street, Manish Sarin still marvels at the plus-size experience that he acquired in the mid-1990s when he worked for Price Waterhouse as a financial advisor in its Nairobi office in Kenya, East Africa. At the time, Sarin recalls, an abundance of available…
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813: A Mandate to Improve | Mark George, CFO, Norfolk Southern Corporation

When Mark George first joined Otis Elevator’s accounting team back in the late 1980s, he found fixed asset accounting to be different from what he expected. Says George: ”We had to run around the company and put barcodes on any new piece of furniture that the company had purchased.” What’s more, George tells us, he…
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The Great Reassessment | eBook

As the rate of worker resignations continues to grab headlines, seven CFOs explain why they view the movement as more of an employee self-reassessment than a Great Resignation. Plus, they share a few workforce reassessments of their own. Download the eBook

809: Leading Inside a Remote World | Danielle Murcray, CFO, AttackIQ

Among the many strategic changes that finance leader Danielle Murcray has helped to put in motion during her multi-chapter CFO career, perhaps none better reveals her mantle as a strategic leader than the move by cybersecurity firm AttackIQ to adopt a 100 percent–remote U.S. workforce.   With the arrival of the pandemic, Murcray—like many of…
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The Quarterly | Summer, 2022

FEATURING THE CFO THOUGHT LEADERS: Emily Villatte CFO, ACAST |  Jonathan Sides CFO, FLEETIO |  Sarah Blanchard CFO, UDEMY |  Kent Kelley CFO, UNANET |  Chris Roling CFO, COINME | Adriana Carpenter CFO, EMBURSE |  Will Johnson CFO, ITERABLE | Anisha Sood CFO, FIRST CHOICE HEALTH |  Elaine Sun CFO, MAMMOTH BIOSCIENCES | Melinda Smith […]