Hi, it’s Jack Sweeney and we’re attending Perform 2019 Host Analytics Annual Conference. We’re speaking with Glenn Snyder, vice president of corporate FP&A, for Digital Realty. QUESTION: Glenn, what are your priorities as an FP&A leader over the next 12 months? SNYDER: Well, Digital Realty is an S&P 500 company that’s in 12 different countries, […]
486: Counting Your Customer Success Milestones | Matthew Fahy, CFO, FinFit
When Matt Fahy identifies the opportunities that have punctuated his finance career, he credits subscription revenue models as having played a recurring role along the trajectory that has led to multiple CFO tours of duty. For Fahy, it all began with a move to New York City, where he was soon serving one of the…
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477: A Blueprint for Corporate Finance Success | Ching Jaw, CFO, Cytokinetics
Trained as an engineer, Cytokinetics CFO Ching Jaw methodically designed a blueprint for an early-career transition to corporate finance to fulfill his desire to more broadly help businesses. The plan, and his execution of it, worked exceedingly well. A former platoon commander in the Taiwanese Army, Jaw earned an MBA in finance and general management…
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473: Guidance for Your C-Suite Ascent | Emma Reeve, CFO, Constellation Pharmaceuticals
A global finance executive with a passion for healthcare, Constellation Pharmaceuticals CFO Emma Reeve offers straightforward advice to aspiring finance chiefs: Continually add new experiences to your backpack and take them with you to your next role. She’s certainly demonstrated that her approach works. Reeve’s 20-plus years of industry experiences extends across pharmaceutical, medical device,…
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471: When a Megatrend Came Knocking | William Acheson, CFO, GWG Holdings
From a career development standpoint, one of the best things that William Acheson did to reach the CFO office was stepping away from corporate finance and accounting for 15 years. After coming up on the public accounting track, the GWG Holdings finance chief immersed himself in investment banking, the residential mortgage industry, capital markets, risk…
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464: Shortening Your Customer’s Time to Value | Gordy Brooks, CFO, FinancialForce
Problem-Solving Strengthens the CEO–CFO Partnership One of FinancialForce CFO Gordy Brooks’s most valuable early career-building experiences began by butting heads with his CEO. The chief executive insisted on issuing sales commissions on a weekly basis—an ask that would have most finance chiefs pulling their hair out. After the CEO stuck to his guns in the…
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462: Understanding What Drives the Numbers | Justin Crotty, CFO & COO, Anaqua
Props to Anaqua CFO and COO Justin Crotty for allowing us to first zero-in on his early career chapters when the economy showed no mercy. Crotty, who joined the leading provider of intellectual property management software and services about three years ago, launched his career with a tech consultancy at the height of the dot.com…
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461: Authoring Your Finance Career Adventure | Andrew Jackson, CFO, Ra Medical Systems
High-Risk, High-Reward Career-Building At first glance, Ra Medical Systems CFO Andrew Jackson’s 20 years as a finance executive in life sciences and technology companies seem to have progressed in a traditional, orderly manner. A closer inspection of Jackson’s experience reveals that taking early-career risks can pay off handsomely. Jackson joined the manufacturer of laser-based solutions…
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459: Savoring Your Risk Mitigation Opportunities | Rejji Hayes, CFO, CMS Energy
In a sector known for advancing leading-edge risk mitigation strategies, CFO Rejji Hayes offers a risk-minded response to those who ask why he steered his career into the power and energy sector. “I had this epiphany where I said, ‘It would be nice to find a sector that was a little less cyclical and a…
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458: Championing a Vision of What Change Looks Like | Tony Tripeny, CFO & EVP, Corning, Inc.
Mastering the Public Aspect of the CFO Tony Tripeny’s remarkable career at Corning can be defined by some impressive numbers: 33 years of service in every aspect of corporate finance at the 167-year-old company whose cutting-edge materials reside in nearly every cell phone and flat screen, among so many other products. Yet the veteran EVP…
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445: How Finance, “The Connector,” Is Wiring Organizations | Michael Bayer, CFO, Wasabi Technologies, Inc.
Wasabi CFO Michael Bayer’s career "Ah-ha!" moment struck early. He was a college math whiz in the early days of PCs when a professor enlisted him to move all of his paper-based finance and accounting records to a computerized system. “He took me under his wing and taught me a lot,” recalls Bayer, whose professional…
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441: Identifying Your Pivotal Career Experiences | Kevin Durkin, CFO, Threat Stack
Guest: Kevin Durkin, CFO Company: Threat Stack Headquartered: Boston Connect: www.threatstack.com Subscribe to CFO Thought Leader Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart | Android App
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