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731: When It’s All Systems Go | Vicki Dudley, CFO, TTX Company

Having previously held a succession of finance leadership roles inside Chicago’s ever vibrant financial services sector, Vicki Dudley was perhaps more surprised than anyone to find herself accepting a CFO position with Yancey Bros. Co. of Atlanta, the oldest Caterpillar dealer in the country.   Nevertheless, the job hop drew Dudley into a world of opportunity…
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715: Advancing Down a New Strategic Path | Todd McElhatton, CFO, Zuora

"Take risks and fail. The best learning experiences come from plans that didn’t turn out the way you thought, but force you to put them back on track." - CFO Todd McElhatton of Zuora Among the growing number of finance leaders who can be classified as cloud computing CFOs, few have arguably stayed in step…
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652: Exposing Gross Margin’s Hidden Levers | Jeff Nichols, CFO, UJET

In 2016, when Jeff Nichols had been a senior member of Glassdoor’s FP&A team for 2 years, he and other members of the finance team were confronting the nagging truth that the firm’s path to going public wasn’t getting any shorter. The online job recruitment firm’s efforts to grow its profit margins had met only…
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537: When Every Megawatt Matters | Sharif Metwalli, CFO, Vantage Data Centers

When Sharif Metwalli decided that the time was right to accept a CFO position with Vantage Data Centers, he was confident that he had found a company that allowed him to check all of the boxes when it came to his finance leader search criteria. Box #1: Know and respect the management team. Box #2:…
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380: Achieving a Long-Term View | Naren Goel, CFO, Ephesoft

For Naren Goel, CFO of Ephesoft, strategy execution begins with discussions involving functional business leaders from across the company. Only from conversational engagement (or dialogues) can finance identify the many critical strategic inputs that must inform the company's business model. Join us as Naren explains how he plans to prioritize the many aspects of finance…
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310: Mind Your Data | Barry Zwarenstein, CFO, Five9

Join us when Barry Zwarenstein, CFO, Five9, explains why the SaaS model’s unyielding data engine is empowering finance professionals to advance beyond their traditional realm.   Quick Hits: 60-Sec CFO Insights Guest: Barry Zwarenstein, CFO Company: Five9 Headquarters: Pleasanton, CA Contact: www.five9.com @Five9  (twitter)  
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Five Myths That May Be Preventing the CFO From Benefiting From the Cloud

By Michael Fullwood Nearly every corporation has deployed cloud and as-a-service technology to some extent as part of its digital strategy, although not all of them have adopted it as part of an enterprise strategy. We have seen continued maturation of cloud offerings, and today several of these offerings are as secure, or more secure, […]

248: Anatomy of a SaaS Finance Function

Step inside the SaaS world of Karen Gift, Vice President/Finance, BlackLine, and Chuck Best, Vice President/Accounting Operations, BlackLine. Learn how their team is helping to advance not just new metrics, but also a SaaS frame of mind that influences decision-making across the company as it helps to determine the priorities, skill sets, and career development inside a modern finance organization. Chuck & Karen's Site…
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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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046: Championing Change with the Cloud: Darrell Powell, CFO, Treehouse

What’s the most effective way to drive change inside a nonprofit organization? Join us as Darrell shares the entrepreneurial mind-set that he’s used to help his organization embrace cloud technologies and replace wasteful dated processes. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo today visit  www.CFOthoughtleaderdemo.com…
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011: Charles Best, CFO, BlackLine Systems, on Adopting a Cloud CFO Mindset

Are cloud-based applications challenging your organization’s time-tested processes? Join us as Chuck explains how he adopted a new mind-set to fully embrace cloud computing applications and create a more collaborative finance team. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo today visit  www.CFOthoughtleaderdemo.com Midmarket Change…
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