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819: Set Your Data Free! | Glenn Hopper, CFO, Sandline Global
Just where and how Glenn Hopper came to acquire his finance skillset exposes an organizational dysfunction to which no small number of finance leaders have likely contributed. As a product manager for a small telecommunications firm, Hopper was asked by the vice president of marketing to begin giving presentations at a recurring management meeting regarding…
FP&A and the Food Chain of Finance Learning | eBook
Seven CFOs reveal how people development and collaboration top their list of planning priorities. Download the eBook
818: Breaking Finance’s “Glass Wall” | David Bedell, CFO, Lendio
Looking back at the early years of his finance career, David Bedell recalls being frustrated when a business unit leader remained leery about the merits of a potential deal. “I had done all of the analysis and was convinced that it would make a lot of money for the company, but I just couldn’t figure…
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Finance & the Roots of Leadership | Kabir Ahmed Shakir, CFO, Tata Communications
Episode #: 817: Fit to Compete, Fit to Grow Guest CFO: Kabir Ahmed Shakir Company: Tata Communications
Five Ways Middle Market CFOs Can Make Sound Financial Decisions | Bill Fink, EVP & Head U.S. Middle Market Banking, TD Bank
This transcript has been machine generated CFOTL:Hello, we’re pleased to catch up with Bill Fink, Executive Vice President and Head of Middle Market Banking for TD Bank. Bill, welcome. Bill Fink:Jack, it’s a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to chat. CFOTL:Yeah, Bill. So it was only last month really that I […]
815: Out Front Inside the Aftermarket | Jeff Shepherd, CFO, Advance Auto Parts
Last winter, when China ordered tens of millions of people back into a pandemic lockdown, executives inside the $170 billion automotive aftermarket parts industry took a deep breath. Jeff Shepherd, CFO of aftermarket giant Advance Auto Parts, says that the possibility of another China shutdown had just not been part of Advance’s procurement calculus. Still,…
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814: Why Swim Lanes No Longer Matter | Manish Sarin, CFO, Sprinklr
Even after serving in multiple CFO roles and spending 10 years on Wall Street, Manish Sarin still marvels at the plus-size experience that he acquired in the mid-1990s when he worked for Price Waterhouse as a financial advisor in its Nairobi office in Kenya, East Africa. At the time, Sarin recalls, an abundance of available…
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812: When Leadership Came Calling | Angela Pierce, CFO, Anaconda
Looking back on her career as a corporate finance executive, Angela Pierce says that the call of leadership arrived at a moment of unvarnished frustration. Sixteen years ago, when the management of Level 3 Communications was expressing a keen interest in acquiring Pierce’s then-company, Broadwing Corporation, it was not the first time that Pierce found…
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The Great Reassessment | eBook
As the rate of worker resignations continues to grab headlines, seven CFOs explain why they view the movement as more of an employee self-reassessment than a Great Resignation. Plus, they share a few workforce reassessments of their own. Download the eBook
809: Leading Inside a Remote World | Danielle Murcray, CFO, AttackIQ
Among the many strategic changes that finance leader Danielle Murcray has helped to put in motion during her multi-chapter CFO career, perhaps none better reveals her mantle as a strategic leader than the move by cybersecurity firm AttackIQ to adopt a 100 percent–remote U.S. workforce. With the arrival of the pandemic, Murcray—like many of…
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The Quarterly | Summer, 2022
FEATURING THE CFO THOUGHT LEADERS: Emily Villatte CFO, ACAST | Jonathan Sides CFO, FLEETIO | Sarah Blanchard CFO, UDEMY | Kent Kelley CFO, UNANET | Chris Roling CFO, COINME | Adriana Carpenter CFO, EMBURSE | Will Johnson CFO, ITERABLE | Anisha Sood CFO, FIRST CHOICE HEALTH | Elaine Sun CFO, MAMMOTH BIOSCIENCES | Melinda Smith […]