This article originally appeared on Forbes.com CFOs often build their careers within a specific industry, leveraging their accumulated expertise to navigate complexities and add value over time. This steady climb enables finance leaders to deepen their understanding of industry-specific regulations, operations, and customer behavior. However, a daring segment of CFOs seeks opportunities beyond familiar territory, […]
1,040: Partners in Leadership: How the CFO, CEO, and CIO Shape a Successful Future | Mark Partin, CFO, BlackLine
Twenty-seven years ago, while in his late twenties, Mark Partin arrived inside the C-suite largely unprepared for the flood of challenges that would quickly breach his desk. Or so Partin tells us as he recounts the circumstances surrounding the first of five CFO appointments that have thus far punctuated his finance leadership career. “I can…
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The Mentoring Round | Dan Murphy, CFO, Commercetools
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Dan Murphy emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying factors behind key metrics such as net dollar retention. This involves analyzing why certain customers are buying more and why others aren’t, which can reveal insights into product or service improvements.Looking ahead, his priorities include maintaining rigorous execution, structuring the organization […]
Dropping the Hammer on Digital Transformation | Derrek Gafford, CFO, TrueBlue
Gafford: Well, back in 2019, we did a major implementation of Oracle. I can talk about that in a moment. But back to your question that why that was really defining for us was, I can remember for two or three, actually more years, we would get together and there was just so much complaints […]
859: The Everyday, Conscious Effort to Add Value | Rajat Bahri, CFO, Icertis
It was nearly 18 years ago that Icertis CFO Rajat Bahri stepped into the CFO office for the first time. Thus began a stretch of time that Bahri, not unlike many of his CFO peers, has populated with various distinguished CFO career chapters ranging from 3 to 5 to 8 years in duration. …
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767: On the Path to Being a $1 Billion Company | Bill Zerella, CFO, ACV Auctions
Bill Zerella’s path to the CFO office began at a company whose customers largely belonged to a bygone era. At the time, Simplicity Patterns was the largest pattern company in the world, and its most devout customers were sewing machine owners across the United States and Canada who enjoyed making clothes for themselves and their…
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762: In Step with the Digital Beat | Tania Secor, CFO, R/GA
When CFO Tania Secor looks back at the early years of her finance career, she can’t help but revisit her decision to accept a position with the McGraw-Hill Companies. For a half-dozen years, Secor had been entrenched in the private equity world, advising portfolio companies on different growth strategies and helping to complete the acquisition…
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