“I’ve had the good fortune to work at places like Genentech and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where we were able to implement both financial constraints and head count constraints to force ourselves to make the appropriate trade-offs between portfolio decisions and investment decisions by the organization. I believe that this actually forced higher-quality hiring […]
436: Making “Try It and Track It” Your Finance Mind-set | Bob Cruickshank, CFO, ezCater
Lessons Learned: Always Expect the Unexpected "Kiva Systems was a robotics company that helped to revolutionize robotics inside e-commerce distribution centers. It was a very cool company with a very cool product. In early 2011, I joined them to start to put controls in place to get the company ready to go public. I thought…
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434: The Courage to Challenge Without Bias | Rick Young, CFO, Tangoe
"I have a personal mantra that is 'progress over perfection.' There's no such thing as perfection. To me, perfection means that the world is static, and the world isn't static. You always have to constantly change and do better and always look to do better. I believe that our company's most important value is courage.…
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431: Arriving at Your S-Curve’s Inflection Point | Sian Wang, CFO, FastSpring
Regarding Growth: "We've done very well historically in terms of year-on-year revenue growth. But as we climb the inflection point of that curve, I think that we're trying to figure out how high our growth can be. This might involve greater international expansion or maybe improving or expanding our product offering. So there are a…
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416: A CFO’s Doorway to Independence | Patrick Shannon, CFO, Allegion
Over a period of 12 years, Patrick Shannon served in seven different finance and business development roles inside the sprawling operations of industrial manufacturer Ingersoll Rand, Inc. He found the work both challenging and satisfying, and outside CFO opportunities generated little interest—until one day when an outside opportunity came from inside Ingersoll Rand, where management…
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409: Tapping 2nd-Century Growth | Brian Lantier, CFO, EHE
Like many health wellness start-ups, EHE has an edgy website that splashes visuals of people participating in activities that promise healthy, long lives. However, EHE isn't a startup. In fact, entire industries have risen and fallen within EHE's 105-year lifespan. Still, the company's timing has never appeared better, at least inside the health and wellness…
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407: Three CFOs Make Office Transactions Transformative
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406: Building a Better Firm | Chris Andersen, CFO, Hoefer Wysocki
Having received degrees in both architecture and business (MBA), Chris Andersen is perhaps a rare breed inside the architecture realm, where finance executives frequently parachute in from other industries. As CFO of Hoefer Wysocki, Andersen has a unique kinship with the firm's professionals, and his insight into their priorities and architectural aspirations is allowing him…
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405: Finding Purpose to Fuel Your Finance Ambitions | Jennifer Templeman, COO, Jumpstart for Young Children
How does having a greater purpose influence your decision-making as a finance leader? Join us when Jennifer Templeman, COO of Jumpstart for Young Children, reveals her CFO mind-set and explains how building a career inside the not-for-profit sector has helped her to unlock the motivational secrets of organizational culture. Over the next 12 months, what…
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404: A Great Finance Career Adventure | Juan Figuereo, CFO & EVP (emeritus), Revlon Corp., Newell Brands, Cott Beverages
Looking back at his years with Arthur Andersen—the launching pad for a finance and accounting career that would span three decades and three continents—Juan Figuereo suspects that his eight-year stretch at AA may have been two or three years longer than what may have been required. Still, there was no second-guessing when he departed AA…
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403: CEO to CFO: Why Talent Matters
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393: Origins of a Finance Leader | Joseph Falcao, CFO, JSI Store Fixtures
Unlike many, Joseph Falcao's finance career routinely jumped industries, revealing a stubborn reluctance to be tied to any one industry or business model. Today, as CFO of JSI Store Fixtures, Falcao reflects back on a career track that supplied a wealth of varied experiences not found inside in any one industry. Advice to Your Younger Self:…
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