Brett & Jack discuss how finance leaders of high growth firm’s are becoming increasingly focused on the ebb and flow of their firm’s talent pipelines. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CFO Gina Mastantuono of ServiceNow, CFO Josh Siegel of CyberArk and CFO Sarah Spoja of Tipalti.
780: Punching Above Your Weight Class with ESG | Gina Mastantuono, ServiceNow
Back in early 2020, Gina Mastantuono had only recently stepped into the CFO role at ServiceNow when the subject of intangible assets surfaced during a company board meeting. For months, growing numbers of the company’s investors had been signaling their advocacy for the company to amplify its collective conscientiousness when it came to social and…
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777: A CFO’s Unfinished Business | Isaac Ro, CFO, Sema4
After spending 16 years as an equity analyst (the last nine of which at Goldman Sachs), Isaac Ro could not escape the fact that he was busy and bored. The same work that had once challenged his every faculty had become more or less an exercise in pattern recognition. “Good management teams are good, and…
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775: Back to the Future | Joan Hilson, CFO, Signet Jewelers Limited
Of all the CFO career routes that our finance leader guests have shared with us, very few have rendered a path as circuitous as the one blazed by Joan Hilson, CFO of Signet Jewelers Limited, the world’s largest specialty jewelry company. When Hilson assumed the CFO role at gem giant Signet in 2019, she was…
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774: How You Tell It Matters | Heather Dixon, CFO, Everside Health
It was a moment of insight that Heather Dixon remembers having not once but twice during the untold number of hours she has spent in examining how divisional numbers were being “rolled up” to be reported. In the process of rolling up certain numbers, Dixon noted that parts of a division’s business would be exhibiting…
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763: Of All the Nerve | Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen
"Develop a small network of trusted informal advisors and mentors to be an independent sounding board as you address the challenges of this new role." –Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen Like many of his finance leader peers, Pete Mariani credits a senior operational role with helping him to plant both feet on the path to the…
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760: Transitioning from Platform-Led to Product-Driven | David Brolsma, CFO, WP Engine
"Be a customer-inspired leader who values and fosters positive relationships. A key to success is devoting time and effort to influencing all stakeholders—peers, employees, board members, investors, customers—through building trust, as well as by being an empathetic and humble leader." –David Brolsma, CFO, WP Engine When it comes to FP&A data, WP Engine CFO David…
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756: Start-Ups, SPACs, and Street Fights | Michael Levine, CFO, Payoneer
"The key to success is to build your team with people who have equal amounts of experience, intelligence, and passion, and the rest will take care of itself." –Michael Levine, CFO, Payoneer Start early, stay late, be prepared, and don’t shy away from the street-fight environments surrounding start-up companies. These methods have helped Michael Levine…
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755: Serving the Creators | Craig Foster, CFO, Picsart
During 2018, the very year Craig Foster joined Bright Machines, the San Francisco–based company had already been spun out from contract manufacturing firm Flex, raised a headline-grabbing $179 million in Series A funding, and shed its original moniker, AutoLab AI. By all accounts, the manufacturing start-up, which promised to use a combination of robots and…
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Ep 5: Planning’s Longest Yard
Steve and Jack discuss FP&A’s 100-year march. Featuring commentary and FP&A insights from Planning Aces: CFO Kurt Shintaffer of Apptio, CFO Jim Morgan of CallRail & CFO Daniel O’Shaughnessy of FormLabs.
752: Making Your Company More Valuable | Howard Wilson, CFO, PagerDuty
Among today’s career building finance pros who view the CFO office as their ultimate destination, Howard Wilson might be labeled an off-road commuter. Whereas most finance leaders have shared a common view as accounting and finance milestones fell away in their rearview mirror, Wilson entered the finance realm from the merge lane – where his…
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744: Democratizing Phone Services | Evan Fein, CFO, TextNow
"The CFO role is about leading the entire business—not just finance—and it is about relationships." –Evan Fein, CFO, TextNow According to Evan Fein, when he accepted his first CFO position more than a decade ago, his focus as a finance leader was too narrow. Today, in a moment of self-reflection, he can’t conceal his exacerbation.…
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