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683: When It’s Time to Sit in the Driver’s Seat | Stéphane Berthier, CFO, Uniphore

When Stéphane Berthier joined Uniphore of Palo Alto, CA, as CFO this past January, the move no doubt raised more than a few Silicon Valley eyebrows. For more than two decades, Berthier had served a list of prestigious Bay Area tech companies as a top audit partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where his impressive tenure had originally…

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683: When It’s Time to Sit in the Driver’s Seat | Stéphane Berthier, CFO, Uniphore

682: How the Flywheel Effect Creates Long-Term Value | John Collins, CFO, LivePerson

When CFO John Collins is asked how his background in data modeling and strategy is influencing the role that finance plays inside LivePerson, the artificial intelligence (AI) software firm that he first joined 2 years ago, he draws our attention to the mountains of data accumulating alongside most businesses today. “Given the volume of data…

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682: How the Flywheel Effect Creates Long-Term Value | John Collins, CFO, LivePerson

680: Making Sales Success a Must-See Metric | Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products

As the newly appointed CFO of Lawson Products a little more than a decade ago, Ron Knutson realized the significant infrastructure and technology investments that would be required to meet the productivity goals that he was expected to help drive. In anticipation of the investments that would need to be made, Knutson recalls, he first…

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680: Making Sales Success a Must-See Metric | Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products

643: The Rise of People-Centric Finance | Katie Rooney, CFO, Alight Solutions

Back in 2015, Katie Rooney was only 7 months into her first industry CFO role at Aon when her boss asked her to exit the office. “He came into my office on November 1 and said, ‘I’m retiring, and I want you to take on my role. I’m leaving in 8 weeks,’” recalls Rooney, who…

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643: The Rise of People-Centric Finance | Katie Rooney, CFO, Alight Solutions

442: The Context Shifter | Naeem Ishaq, CFO & EVP, Circle

Circle CFO Naeem Ishaq’s Forrest Gumpian career trajectory has given him extraordinary exposure to most of Silicon Valley’s touchstone technologies—the semiconductor, cloud computing, mobile payments, and, most recently, cryptocurrency. After a stint as a dot.com-era entrepreneur with a venture he launched as an undergraduate, Ishaq has invested the past 18 years in accumulating a trove…

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442: The Context Shifter | Naeem Ishaq, CFO & EVP, Circle

320: When Your Customers Are Also Your Investors | Roop Lakkaraju, CFO, MAANA

Join us when Roop Lakkaraju, CFO of MAANA, explains how the opportunity to help an early-stage private company maneuver down an ambitious growth path led him to open a new CFO career chapter. Learn how Roop is busy connecting MAANA's broadening finance function with the different aspects of the innovative data firm's business. Quick Hits:…

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320: When Your Customers Are Also Your Investors | Roop Lakkaraju, CFO, MAANA

283: From Finance Leader to Chief Executive | Ken Østreng, CFO, Confirmit

As a CFO, Ken Østreng has been highly visible across his Nordic-based firm’s multinational operations. Whether he was identifying international acquisition targets or new incentives to help drive sales, he became one of Confirmit's "go-to" leaders, and in the minds of management the natural successor to Confirmit's CEO Henning Hansen. And, so when Henning recently…

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283: From Finance Leader to Chief Executive | Ken Østreng, CFO, Confirmit