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851: The Day After Your Transaction | Tony Tiscornia, CFO, Coupa

Few finance leaders have better revealed to us the career-transforming powers of IPOs than CFO Tony Tiscornia. Turn back the clock to 2015, and Tiscornia is the accounting-minded VP of finance for spend management software company Coupa. “I was really a controller—a business controller, but still a controller,” explains Tiscornia, who notes that his world…
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736: Inside the Growth Cauldron | Pramod lyengar, CFO, Veem

When Pramod Iyengar returned to school after working for several years as a manufacturing engineer with United Technologies, he was ready to change careers. The young engineer headed back to the University of Michigan, where as an undergraduate he had earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering. However, this time he had a business degree in…
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662: A Thirst for Innovation | Dynshaw Italia, CFO, Soldo

When innovation is a topic for discussion, Dynshaw Italia can’t resist mentioning Cobra Beer—or, to be more specific, “the big bottle.” It was Cobra, of course, that first opted to forgo the UK’s standard 500–550 ml beer bottles and introduce an ever more generously proportioned 650 ml vessel. “Cobra was all about doing things differently…
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500: The Push to Drive Profitability | Katherine Edenbach, CFO, Certify

Years from now, when Katherine Edenbach looks back on her CFO career, 2019 might be remembered as a pendulum year--or a year when her priorities as a finance leader swung from growth to profitability. "Smaller companies are much more focused on revenue and revenue growth, which is very important, but we need to drive a…
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434: The Courage to Challenge Without Bias | Rick Young, CFO, Tangoe

"I have a personal mantra that is 'progress over perfection.' There's no such thing as perfection. To me, perfection means that the world is static, and the world isn't static. You always have to constantly change and do better and always look to do better. I believe that our company's most important value is courage.…
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