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254: Energizing a Market Leader | Carol Lowe, CFO, Sealed Air Corporation

Join us when CFO Carol Lowe steps back in time to 2012 and explains her priorities upon arriving inside the CFO office of market leader Sealed Air Corporation.  Four years later, Carol is busy building a finance team determined to set a new standard for agility and responsiveness. Before Sealed Air, Carol worked for Carlisle Companies…
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253: Adopting Zero-Based Budgeting at Kraft Heinz | Jesse Yao, CFO, Sauces and Frozen Business Unit, Kraft Heinz

Join us when Jesse Yao, former CFO of Kraft Heinz's Sauces and Frozen Business Unit, steps back in time and recalls how he spearheaded the adoption of zero-based budgeting as part of a historic merger that would enable Kraft Heinz to realize its transformational ambitions.  
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251: When Growth is the Priority | Dave Pomeroy, CFO, BDNA, Inc.

Few finance leaders are more loyal to their industry than IT CFOs - who frequently appear more willing to forfeit comfortable perks than trade in their high-tech cachet.   Join us when Dave Pomeroy, CFO, BDNA allows us to explore his finance career roots from Yahoo to Apple and on to the CFO office.
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249: The Private-to-Public Journey

Exclusive case study: A little over a year ago, when publicly held Perion advanced with a deal to acquire digital agency Undertone, Michael Waxman-Lenz began preparing to exit his post as Perion’s chief strategy officer to spearhead Undertone’s private-to-public journey as its CFO. Now, for the first time, CFO Waxman-Lenz charts the action steps and milestones that allowed his team to rapidly transform Undertone’s internal controls,…
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247: Prepared for What’s Next | Pete Childs, CFO, Workfront

When considering a new job a finance leader must proceed with caution, allowing for time to execute background checks and to gain a familiarity with the company's culture, according to Pete Childs, CFO of Workfront, a software developer specializing in cloud-based enterprise work management solutions. Join us when Pete shares his CFO mindset and explains how SaaS…
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246: Growing Your Customer Orientation | Carol Wood, CFO, Dizzion

When career CFO Carol Wood joined Denver, Colorado, tech company Dizzion back in 2015, she already had an established track record of keeping a firm grasp on the systems and controls required to transition a company from one growth plateau to the next. Join us when Carol traces her steps down the finance leadership path and reveals the origins…
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245: Achieving Greater Visibility Into the Business | Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products, Inc.

Having served as finance leader for a variety of firms, Ron Knutson arrived at Lawson Products, Inc., with more than a few ideas about how to help finance partner with the business. Join us when Ron explains how adding an analytics unit to his finance team has extended the company's lines of sight not only…
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244: Widening Your Finance Lens | Gary Bender, CFO, SISD, Inc.

Not all finance leaders are highly skilled when it comes to knowledge sharing. In fact, very often senior finance executives struggle to make new knowledge connections as their responsibilties seem to routinely widen.  Join us when career CFO Gary Bender explains how the special challenges finance leaders face led him to help establish not one,…
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242: The ERP Milestone | Del Clark, CFO, Inspirage

While software upgrades are a daily routine for business enterprises of every weightclass - the leap to an ERP solution remains a unique rite of passage for most organizations - one that requires deep industry knowledge as well as insight into the enterprise's future growth trajectory. Join us when career finance leader Del Clark explains…
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241: Empowering Finance to Say “Yes” | Theresa McGlothlen, cfo, Calabrio

The path to greater collaboration begins with finance leaders supplying questions rather than answers, according to Theresa McGlothlen, CFO, Calabrio. Join us when Theresa shares her finance leader mind-set, and explains how she views fostering collaboration as a central mission for finance leadership. Theresa's Site
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