What are your priorities as a finance leader over the next 12 months? Dave Cone: It really is managing through the integration of the new companies we acquired. Digesting those businesses, bringing them into the fold, trying to drive the synergies that we expect, and then really helping to refine our processes in finance, as […]
My 2016 Priorities: Dave Cone, CFO, Taylor Morrison
My 2016 Priorities: Tom Stewart, CFO, SecureAuth
Over the next 12 months, what are your top priorities as a finance leader? Tom Stewart: My top priority is always to keep the company funded so that we can continue to grow. And I believe I have that well in hand, so what I really need to focus on is making sure that […]
218: Nitin Gupta, CFO, Molecular Imaging, Siemens Healthcare
The buying patterns of few businesses have experienced greater disruption in recent years than those inside the healthcare industry, where large providers are now hurrying to respond to the changing insurance requirements of their customers as dictated by the Affordable Care Act. And few companies are as determined to decipher the newly emerging patterns as Siemens Healthcare…
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Why Customer Success is Requiring CFOs to Take a Leadership Leap
As data mining around customer interaction becomes the new nectar of the metric-minded number-crunching set – it’s time for CFOs to influence C-suite decision making . What if an emerging class of new data mining tools and metrics promised to unlock untold revenues for your organization—but, members of the C-suite determined that the team of […]
217: Using Talent Assets to Blaze a Credit Union’s Growth Path, David Tuyo, CFO, Power Financial Credit Union
Join us when David Tuyo, CFO, Power Financial Credit Union, shares his finance leadership mind-set and explains how talent and technology are advancing the credit union into the future. Over the next 12 months, what are your priorities as a finance leader? David: Profit really is about efficiency. We're embarking on this, as we upgrade…
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216: Mastering the Application of Scale and Systems, Jim Stewart, CFO, True Ventures
When it comes to applying scale and systems to growing businesses, few professionals wield greater insight than those who reside inside the venture industry, and few finance leaders are more experienced with the application of "S&S" than those counted within the ranks of venture management. Join us when finance leader Jim Stewart shares the career milestones…
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215: Nourishing the Roots of Sustainable Growth, Eric Johnson, CFO, Nintex
New bookings and customer success data are the go-to metrics these days for Eric Johnson, CFO, Nintex, a workflow applications firm that boasts of connecting on-premises, cloud workflows and mobile users. Join us when Eric reveals his finance mind-set and exposes the path he believes will lead Nintex to achieve sustainable growth. Over the next 12…
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214: Milestones for Building a Finance Function, Marianne Caserta, CFO, Atrion
What are your priorities as a finance leader over the next 12 months? Marianne: I would say that our priorities will be—given that we’re in a new budget year—to take on a couple of new initiatives. And I think working with the department leaders who are responsible for heading those up and helping them chart…
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213: Building Your Team’s Talent Competencies, Ash Noah, CGMA, AICPA
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 measure the competencies inside the finance function been more necessary for finance leaders tasked with anticipating their organization's future talent requirements. Join us when Ash Noah, vice president of…
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212: Helping to Energize a Homebuilder’s Ambitions, Dave Cone, CFO, Taylor Morrison
Join us when Dave Cone, CFO of national homebuilder Taylor Morrison, reveals his finance mind-set and shares how the finance priorities of an ambitious homebuilder and a giant pet retailer are not so very different. What are your priorities as a finance leader over the next 12 months? Dave: It really is managing through the…
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The Growth Ultimatum and the Rise of the SaaS CFO
The tribe of finance leaders commonly identified as “SaaS CFOs” are today busily developing the tools and management practices destined to reshape the finance function. It was not quite 100 years ago that Donaldson Brown arrived inside the offices of General Motors Corp.’s finance department. The future GM CFO had distinguished himself years earlier by […]