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794: The Customer’s Many Experiences | Will Johnson, CFO, Iterable

Will Johnson can still hear the question that momentarily muted a management dinner and prodded the gathering’s executive diners to thoughtfully dispatch an answer.    “'If you weren’t in your current role, which one—held by a peer at this table—would you assume?,'” recalls Johnson, echoing the inquisitor’s words. “There were some really surprising answers,” he…
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717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies

Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare’s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career—a high-calorie leadership stint that would ultimately propel him into the CFO office at Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a publicly traded provider of digital workflow and tracking solutions. Says Winters: “It…
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711: Building Your Network | Nicole Anasenes, CFO, Ansys

Asked to recall the experience of stepping into a CFO role for the first time, Nicole Anasenes doesn’t mince words. “It’s a very lonely, scary moment,” comments Anasenes, as she considers her early days at technology company Infor—a CFO appointment that preceded more recent CFO engagements at Squarespace and now technology firm Ansys. “If only…
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709: Investor, Advisor, Operator | Mark Shifke, CFO, Billtrust

Billtrust CFO Mark Shifke likes to label himself an “accidental CFO”—a tag that a number of our guests have appropriated from time to time when faced with explaining a past filled with less-than-traditional career experience. However, in the case of Shifke, the term arguably has little to do with career experience, for Billtrust’s CFO spent…
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655: Awaiting the Return to Travel | Tom Tuchscherer, CFO, TripActions

Twenty-five to 30 years ago, senior executives seeking CFO roles did not think like Tom Tuchscherer. Many still don’t, which is why CFO positions have increasingly come to executives like Tuchscherer, a data-driven gate-crasher from the world of corporate development. Such was the case back in 2012 at Talend, a fast-growing developer of data integration…
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