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443: Trials by Fire and Fortune: Tales of a CFO Change Agent | Tim Saunders, CFO, Canopy Growth Corporation

Tim Saunders seems like the kind of leader you’d follow into battle. He thrives in high-pressure situations, remains cool under pressure, and truly values his troops’ expertise. Saunders also commits to taking on new—and seemingly overwhelming—challenges, like the one that greeted him in his first finance executive role following his time in public accounting. During…
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441: Identifying Your Pivotal Career Experiences | Kevin Durkin, CFO, Threat Stack

Guest:  Kevin Durkin, CFO Company: Threat Stack Headquartered:  Boston Connect:  www.threatstack.com Subscribe to CFO Thought Leader Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart | Android App
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437: The Big World of Microfinance | Pamela Yanchik Connealy, CFO, Kiva

“I’ve had the good fortune to work at places like Genentech and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where we were able to implement both financial constraints and head count constraints to force ourselves to make the appropriate trade-offs between portfolio decisions and investment decisions by the organization. I believe that this actually forced higher-quality hiring […]

384: When It’s Time to Book New Business | Ed Jordan, CFO, Billtrust

Join us when Ed Jordan retraces the steps of his finance career and explains how the intersection of finance and entrepreneurship became his career-building realm of opportunity. “Our focus over the next 12 months is to improve profitability. We will be taking a new look at all of our existing activities and figuring out which…
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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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376: Making Social Media Your Organization’s Collaboration Catalyst | Jody Padar, The Radical CPA

The Social Mandate "At the end of the day, people do business with people. And if you don't show them who you are and if you don't show them authentically who you are using social—and by "them," I mean your external and internal stakeholders—you will miss opportunities. We used to only have to network or…
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The Afterpod | Steve Love, CFO, Dialpad

CFOTL: What piece of advice do you wish someone had given you when you entered the CFO office for the first time? Love: I'd say that it's don't let the urgent overtake the important. I'm a to-do list guy like I think a lot of finance people are. You've got stuff at the top of…
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333: Office of the Chief Problem-Solver | Ian Charles, CFO, Host Analytics

Understanding the unique challenges faced by a growing company and mobilizing a company's workforce, management, and even board members to address and remedy those challenges are often dependent on a finance leader's ability to problem-solve—an acquired skill set that draws on a CFO's ability to communicate across the organization, according to Ian Charles, CFO, Host…
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331: Unlocking Working Capital to Fund Growth | Ananth Avva, CFO, Wrike

Few venture-backed companies have grown in as capital-efficient a manner as privately held Wrike, according to Ananth Avva, the enterprise software firm's finance leader, who says that Wrike has reached its current scale of 500 employees worldwide by using roughly only $26 million in equity financing. Join us when Ananth shares his finance leader priorities…
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329: Building Your Finance Network | Robert Bendetti, CFO, Life Cycle Engineering

Join us when Robert Bendetti, CFO, Life Cycle Engineering, recounts what led him to establish a CFO Council for the greater Charleston, South Carolina, region and why he feels that advice and insights from peer leaders are a precious resource that no finance leader should do without. CFO Guest: Robert Bendetti Company: Life Cycle Engineering Headquarters:…
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328: Entering the CFO Office | Four Finance Leaders Recall Their Door of Entry

Join Jeanne Prayther, CFO, e-Builder, Marty Moore, CFO, C2 Education, Carol Wood, CFO, Dizzion, Alan Haughey, CFO, ServiceMaster as they share their different experiences about entering the CFO suite. 
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326: The Road Less Taken: CFO to CEO | Roger Varin, CEO, Stäubli N.A.

Being fluent in French may not rank high among the desired qualifications for most industry CFOs, but for Stäubli of Switzerland, few proficiencies could add more luster to a finance leader's resume than the words "French-speaking."  Or so recalls Roger Varin, whose fluency in French helped to swing open the door to Stäubli North America's…
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