CFO GUEST: Brian Gladden of Zelis EPISODE: #858 Machine Generated Transcript: CFOTL: When you look back on your career, can you share with our audience a moment of insight you experienced as a finance leader? Gladden: I’ll talk in general and then maybe offer a couple examples. I mean, I find as I’ve done this […]
857: The Other Tech Stack | Razzak Jallow, CFO, FloQast
Back in 2009, as businesses navigated the repercussions of Wall Street’s collapse, Razzak Jallow found himself standing at a departure gate with a boarding pass that read simply "SaaS." To be clear, Jallow had just nabbed a spot on Adobe Inc.’s Creative Suite finance team, and the journey on which he and his colleagues were…
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856: Understanding What’s in Your Control and What’s Not | Céline Dufétel, CFO, Checkout.com
When Checkout.com CFO Céline Dufétel tells us that her career decision-making has been driven not so much by titles or status but by an inner push to acquire the next level of skills or types of skills, we can’t help but note a mysterious coincidence. It seems that a former McKinsey & Company partner had…
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854: Expecting the Unexpected | Shana Veale, CFO, PharmChem
Shana Veale had been working in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, office of Arthur Andersen for only about 8 months when the 88-year-old stalwart accounting house collapsed. Being a recent college graduate at the time, Veale tells us, she really didn’t grasp all of what the news headlines attempted to convey as the turn of…
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Why Recruiting Remains Top of Mind | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
CFO GUEST: Evan Goldstein of Seismic EPISODE: #848 The People, the Mission & the Innovation
How Growth and Transformation Prepared a Future CFO | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
CFO GUEST: Chip Zint of Deluxe EPISODE: #853: When the Fire Burns Brightest
853: When the Fire Burns Brightest | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
After Chip Zint jumped two levels in NCR Corp.’s retail division finance hierarchy, he couldn’t help but savor the moment while reflecting on the fact that his career years thus far—including nights and weekends studying for an MBA—had all been put to good use. Still, while altitude matters when it comes to career leaps, where…
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852: Thriving in the Deep End | Jonathan Carr, CFO, Armis
When Jonathan Carr first walked through the doors of the Stryker plant in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, the boyish newbie accountant no doubt turned the heads of a few managers. Having finished college only about 18 months earlier, Carr was now the accounting and finance “lead” for a major software implementation under way at the…
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851: The Day After Your Transaction | Tony Tiscornia, CFO, Coupa
Few finance leaders have better revealed to us the career-transforming powers of IPOs than CFO Tony Tiscornia. Turn back the clock to 2015, and Tiscornia is the accounting-minded VP of finance for spend management software company Coupa. “I was really a controller—a business controller, but still a controller,” explains Tiscornia, who notes that his world…
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850: A CFO’s Ultimate COVID Test | Anat Ashkenazi, CFO, Eli Lilly
In March 2020, when Eli Lilly announced that it would begin providing drive-through COVID testing services to the state of Indiana’s healthcare workers, more than a few hospital administrators likely scratched their heads. After all, the giant pharma company was not in the business of providing healthcare services, any more than it was a medical…
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Experiencing a Planning Inflection Point at Salesforce | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
CFO GUEST: Evan Goldstein of Seismic EPISODE: #848 The People, the Mission, and the Innovation
849: Adding Value to an Academic City | Brett Powell, CFO, Baylor University
When Brett Powell is asked what distinguishes his day-to-day role as a finance leader inside the world of academia from that of his CFO peers residing within industry, Powell without hesitation says, “Complexity.” Aware that such a one-word answer would likely summon only more questions, Powell continues: “Essentially, when you think about it, we’re running…
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