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940: All the Moving Parts | Michael Linford, CFO, Affirm
For those executives residing inside the private equity and investment banking realms who aspire to someday occupy the CFO office, it’s not uncommon to seek out an “operator’s role”—one that allows recruiters “to check the box” and confidently present a leadership candidate (operations credentials intact) to a company’s management team or board members. “Inspect your…
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The Virtues of “Payback” | Ralph Leung, CFO, Achieve
939: Creating a Narrative for Growth | Ralph Leung, CFO, Achieve
When Ralph Leung relocated to Hong Kong from Morgan Stanley’s New York offices, he was a newlywed eager to energize the financial world as one of the bank’s senior deal makers for the Asia Pacific region. Four years later, when he accepted a call from a U. S. recruiter, he had been credited with having…
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How Salesforce Instilled a Culture of Continuous Improvement | Jason Leet, CFO, Zylo
938: The Art of the Possible | Jason Leet, CFO, Zylo
Of the different acquisitions with which Jason Leet became involved at ExactTarget of Indianapolis, Indiana, there’s little question that the seventh was the most impactful on his finance career. As it turned out, this would also be his last acquisition—or perhaps we should say his last ExactTarget acquisition, given that this time it was ExactTarget…
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The Effort to Optimize a Runway | Neha Krishnamohan, CFO, Kinnate Biopharma
937: Driving Decisions That Have Conviction | Neha Krishnamohan, CFO, Kinnate Biopharma
Roughly 20 years ago, Neha Krishnamohan arrived as a college freshman on Duke University’s Durham, N.C., campus, intent on pursuing a career that would someday grant her the agency to develop a product or therapy capable of solving a healthcare problem. Having grown up among family members with different careers in the medical field, Krishnamohan…
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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 […]
936: Where the Puck Is Headed | Michelle Hook, CFO, Portillo’s
It was late 2020 when Michelle Hook ended 17 years of fruitful career-building at Domino's to accept a CFO appointment at fast casual restaurant chain Portillo’s. “The two things that I was looking for were to be passionate about a new brand and to feel a culture fit,” recalls Hook, who adds that she…
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935: Why People Are Finance’s X Factor | Derrek Gafford, CFO, TrueBlue
Not unlike that of many of his CFO peers, Derrek Gafford’s career path has been shaped in part by geography—specifically, by having its origins in a city that was at once home to a state college, the corporate headquarters of a marquee company, and a Big Four accounting office populated with new college grads. In…
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