Steve and Jack discuss how successful financial planning teams are always looking to “get in deeper” and help their organization’s extend their lines of sight. Featuring commentary and FP&A insights from Planning Aces: CFO Adriana Carpenter of Emburse, CFO Kent Kelley of Unanet and CFO Brandon Maultasch of Moloco. Kent Kelley—a 15-year Oracle veteran whose […]
796: Gene Editing’s Next Frontier | Elaine Sun, CFO, Mammoth Biosciences
Having grown accustomed to charting the careers of our finance leader guests from their early professional days up through their entry into the CFO office, we did not change course for Elaine Sun, an accomplished investment banker turned finance leader who last month stepped into her third successive finance chief position at Mammoth Biosciences of…
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795: The Canary in the Coal Mine | Anisha Sood, CFO, First Choice Health
Back in 2001, as the dotcom bubble imploded and the U.S. economy took a downward spiral, Anisha Sood, a recently hired consultant for Accenture, felt fortunate. “There were rounds of layoffs happening and Accenture was trying to manage it well, but I got lucky because I was in healthcare,” explains Sood, who reports that other…
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793: When Timing Matters | Adriana Carpenter, CFO, Emburse
As we seek to highlight the milestones that mark the path to the CFO office, one of our favorite queries is to ask finance leaders to recall from their career-building years the first time they presented to their company’s board. For Adriana Carpenter, memories of that board gathering will forever call to mind ASC…
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791: Collaborating With Parts Unknown | Kent Kelley, CFO, Unanet
We have spent many hours in discussion with finance leaders about the intersection of finance and sales as we try to better understand the professional collaboration required to achieve successful outcomes in these domains. Still, few of our talks have pushed us to ponder the human elements and relationships that point to such success more…
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790: The Correct Order of Things | Sarah Blanchard, CFO, Udemy
Back in 2014, when Sarah Blanchard became committed to landing her first CFO position, she kept a key criterion in mind: Her future company had to be mission-driven. “I ended up in digital health before anyone really knew what digital health was,” explains Blanchard, who received her first CFO appointment from Omada Health, an early-stage…
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788: When the Road Rises to Meet You | Emily Villatte, CFO, Acast
Emily Villatte’s finance career first got rolling along dusty country roads in the Australian bush. With a dual-track master's degree in engineering and finance, she had been hired by British multinational JLT Group to provide risk management and insurance services to a cluster of accounts residing in Australia’s outback. Along the way, Villatte says, she…
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787: Listening to Your Inner Self | Steve Vintz, CFO, Tenable
Looking back on his first CFO role, Steve Vintz recalls waking up one morning and thinking that he might not have a job. The night before, Vintz had told his company’s CEO that he was having second thoughts about a deck of slides highlighting the virtues of a proposed acquisition. “It just hit me:…
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Ep 9: Expecting the Unexpected
Steve and Jack discuss how finance professionals must give more thought to how they communicate “the news” inside their organizations in order to avoid being cast by other functional teams as “the bearer of bad news.” Featuring commentary and FP&A insights from Planning Aces: CFO Russ Porter, CFO, IMA, CFO Nipun Soni of BillionToOne and […]
786: The Purpose-Driven CFO | Hilary Maxson, CFO, Schneider Electric
Hilary Maxson’s path to the CFO office of French multinational and energy automation behemoth Schneider Electric began at a kitchen table in upstate New York. Or at least that’s what comes to mind for us when she tells us about her “purpose-driven” parents, including a father who is a professor of agronomy at Cornell University.…
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784: The Levers of Long-Term Value | Brandon Maultasch, CFO, Moloco
Last October, shortly after being named CFO of machine learning start-up Moloco, Brandon Maultasch decided to forgo yet another welcome coffee to instead engage with a wide flock of Moloco employees on the virtues of discounted cash analysis. “The last thing you want a new people leader talking to the entire company about,” confesses Maultasch,…
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Ep 16: Hiring for Hypergrowth
Brett & Jack discuss how finance leaders of high growth firm’s are becoming increasingly focused on the ebb and flow of their firm’s talent pipelines. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CFO Gina Mastantuono of ServiceNow, CFO Josh Siegel of CyberArk and CFO Sarah Spoja of Tipalti.