CFO GUEST: Jim Morgan of CallRail EPISODE: #786 When Minding the Business Is a Cultural Mandate Machine Generated Transcript (unedited) CFOTL: Any moments of strategic moments of insight that you can share with us along the way that our listeners might enjoy? MORGAN: Yes, I’ll share one that’s got a corollary to it, but in […]
847: When Minding the Business Is a Cultural Mandate | Jim Morgan, CFO, CallRail
We can’t help but cringe when a finance leader tells us that they don’t want to be known as “the CFO of 'No'”—that shopworn characterization of CFOs who seem to enjoy giving thumbs down verdicts. So, we were pleased when CFO Jim Morgan of CallRail steered clear of the trite trope when he recently…
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846: Influencing Your Operating Inputs | Ambereen Toubassy, CFO, Airtable
When Ambereen Toubassy decided that it was time to start up her own hedge fund, it's likely that no one cast doubt on the experienced investor’s grand plan. That is, no one except Toubassy herself. After 7years as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and a dozen running hedge funds, Toubassy says, she told…
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845: Levers of Growth, Doors of Opportunity | Darren Cooper, CFO, Reveal Group
When Darren Cooper was named CFO of Reveal Group of Melbourne, Australia, in 2019, there was no friendly board member or executive recruiter seeking kudos for having completed a successful a CFO search. Instead, Cooper says, his twist of fate was due to a personal relationship that he had established with Reveal management after his…
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844: The Virtues of Work, Sleep, and Success | Gillian Sheeran, CFO, Pricefx
Gillian Sheeran’s was perhaps 17 years into an illustrious finance career and on her second CFO tour of duty when she finally met the limits of her CFO superpowers. These powers had first guided her into a CFO role at the tender age of 32, where during her tenure she would help to turn a…
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Chris Craig, Chief Accounting Officer, S&P Global, Discussing S&P’s Mega Merger at CloudWorld
Optimizing How R&D Dollars are Spent | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics
GUEST CFO: Ross Muken of Sophia Genetics EPISODE: #842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale
842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics
It was after Ross Muken had been gainfully roaming the corridors of equity research for more than a dozen years that the acquisition of his firm administered a dose of operations insight that began to feed his aspirations to become a CFO. At the time, Muken was a top research analyst for ISI Group,…
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841: When Every Member Counts | Ilana Esterrich, CFO, American Coatings Association
Inside the world of trade associations, the 135-year-old American Coatings Association’s has never wavered in its dedication to answering the needs of professionals inside the paints and coatings industry. However, ACA members—like those of many associations these days—are becoming increasingly demanding when it comes to the value that they receive in exchange for their dues.…
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840: Putting a Spin on Your Talent Pinwheel | Bryan Morris, CFO, Demandbase
Among the recruitment milestones that populate Bryan Morris’s CFO resume, few can match the 6-month talent acquisition binge that he launched during the first quarter of 2015. “In terms of key hires, I never hired faster than I did then,” comments Morris, as he begins to lay out the circumstances that led to his need…
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Let’s Put an End to “Dumb Spend” | David Bedell, CFO, Lendio
CFO GUEST: David Bedell of Lendio EPISODE: #818: Breaking Finance’s “Glass Wall”
Why Data-Driven CFOs Lead Differently | Mike Taylor, CFO, Gusto
CFO Guest: Mike Taylor of Gusto Episode: #838 The Unseen Levers of Customer Impact