What do you wish someone had told you at the start of your CFO career? “For me, there has never been a time when I wished that someone had told me this or that, because I’ve always looked at every opportunity as sort of a blank canvas. As soon as I get started in a […]
286: Mastering the On Demand Talent Model | Nick Vandergrift, CFO, MS Companies
MS Companies has created a way for more than 600 manufacturers, including 20 Fortune 500 companies, to instantly fill open jobs and reduce workforce costs by calculating exactly how many on-demand workers are needed to meet their demands. Join us when Nick Vandergrift, CFO, MS Companies explains how he first joined the firm as a financial…
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284: The Leadership Talent Continuum: Four CFOs Ponder The Roots of Leadership
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283: From Finance Leader to Chief Executive | Ken Østreng, CFO, Confirmit
As a CFO, Ken Østreng has been highly visible across his Nordic-based firm’s multinational operations. Whether he was identifying international acquisition targets or new incentives to help drive sales, he became one of Confirmit's "go-to" leaders, and in the minds of management the natural successor to Confirmit's CEO Henning Hansen. And, so when Henning recently…
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281: The Expat Life | Six CFOs Share Tales of Innocents Abroad
Very often the opportunity to work abroad arrives early in a finance professional's career, but not all executives are prepared to take the leap. Still, overseas assignments populate the resumes of many finance leaders, who often look back on their days abroad and ponder the sizeable influence they have had on their view on business…
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275: Building a Biotech Wonder | Sara Bonstein, CFO, Advaxis
While Sara Bonstein's finance career roots run deep inside a number of New Jersey's healthcare behemoths (Eli Lilly & Company, Johnson & Johnson), her goal was to someday build and lead a finance team inside one of the much smaller and more entrepreneurial biotech firms that today populate New Jersey's business topography. Join us when,…
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274: Adopting Finance’s New Talent Mind-set
It’s no secret that the mix of skills and experience demanded by successful finance teams is quickly evolving, and at no time has the need to attract, grow, and retain talent competencies inside the finance function been more critical to finance leaders. As all too many CFOs have learned, the quickest way to lose…
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272: In Search of Data | CFOs Discuss Their Data Ambitions
Other Related Discussions Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products, Inc. Join us when Ron explains how adding an analytics unit to his finance team has extended the company’s lines of sight not only across the organization, but also into Lawson’s customer relationship David Morris, CFO, Guardian Pharmacy Join us when David explains how Guardian’s continued rapid…
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270: Stocking a More Profitable Aisle | Rick Phegley, CFO, Smart & Final
The world of grocery chains has been weathering an industry-wide downturn in recent years. However for Smart & Final, 2016 was another year of expansion. The grocery chain added 39 new stores bringing its total to 305 in seven Western States. Join us when Rick Phegley, CFO, Smart & Final explains his CFO mind-set and explains how…
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How Finance Talent Reenergized a Market Leader
When a CFO is tasked with transforming a finance team, it’s the type of opportunity that may come along only once or twice in a finance leader’s career. For Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air Corp., it was a lot of hard work and “a tremendous amount of fun” because, as she explains, “There’s nothing like […]
268: Down the Pharma Funding Path | Kathleen Bloch, CFO, CytoSorbents
Join us when Kathleen Bloch, CFO, CytoSorbents shares her CFO mind-set and reveals her finance leader priorities inside the quickly evolving realm of blood purification technologies.
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264: Performing Due Diligence on Your Next CFO Role | Samuel Dergel, Dergel Executive Search
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