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756: Start-Ups, SPACs, and Street Fights | Michael Levine, CFO, Payoneer

"The key to success is to build your team with people who have equal amounts of experience, intelligence, and passion, and the rest will take care of itself." –Michael Levine, CFO, Payoneer Start early, stay late, be prepared, and don’t shy away from the street-fight environments surrounding start-up companies. These methods have helped Michael Levine…
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752: Making Your Company More Valuable | Howard Wilson, CFO, PagerDuty

Among today’s career building finance pros who view the CFO office as their ultimate destination, Howard Wilson might be labeled an off-road commuter. Whereas most finance leaders have shared a common view as accounting and finance milestones fell away in their rearview mirror, Wilson entered the finance realm from the merge lane – where his…
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Ep 4: When FP&A Becomes a Business Function

Steve & Jack discuss planning’s crunch time in the 4th quarter and the operationalization of FP&A inside different business functions. Featuring FP&A Insights & Commentary from Planning Aces: Sameer Ralhan, CFO, The Chemours Company, Chris Kuehn, CFO, Trane Technologies,  Laurence Capone, CFO, Pipedrive. Akash Palkhiwala, CFO Qualcomm. Steve’s Upcoming Webinar: Drive results with agile corporate planning

744: Democratizing Phone Services | Evan Fein, CFO, TextNow

"The CFO role is about leading the entire business—not just finance—and it is about relationships." –Evan Fein, CFO, TextNow According to Evan Fein, when he accepted his first CFO position more than a decade ago, his focus as a finance leader was too narrow. Today, in a moment of self-reflection, he can’t conceal his exacerbation.…
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738: Using Digital Insight to Unlock Business Value | Sameer Ralhan, CFO, The Chemours Company

Unlike many of the up-and-comers who populate the corridors of The Chemours Company, CFO Sameer Ralhan spent the balance of his career-building years with the company inside its manufacturing plants. It was there where Ralhan says that he observed everyday executives making decisions that routinely impacted the business, and it was there where his M&A…
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ON LOCATION with Planful CEO Grant Halloran and Trintech President Darren Heffernan

Eighteen months after COVID microbes first began marching across the 50 states, business planning software developers have no shortage of business case examples to better expose the relevancy of their offerings.  Still, not every customer door that swings open leads to an avenue for success, according to Grant Halloran, CEO of FP&A developer Planful of…
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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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735: Recognizing Windows of Opportunity | Akash Palkhiwala, CFO, Qualcomm

Back in 2014, when Akash Palkhiwala was first approached to serve as treasurer of wireless technology company Qualcomm, the company’s future CFO was uncertain as to what the role of a treasurer might actually entail. “I’m not making this up: I did a Google search on what a treasurer does,” explains Palkhiwala, who recalls that…
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734: The X Factor: Being Approachable | Geoff Brannon, CFO, Oversight Systems

"Your experiences over the past 20 years have prepared you well for this role. But this doesn't mean that you'll have previously encountered all of the issues that you'll face as a CFO. Relying on your network to provide their thoughts and perspectives on certain issues will serve you well and help you to make…
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726: The Opportunity Beyond Arbitrage | Manish Dugar, CFO, Mphasis

Back in the early 2000s, the use of videoconferencing to conduct job interviews remained rather rare in most parts of the world—and India was no different. What made Manish Dugar’s interview experience still rarer was the fact that he had participated in 18 different video calls over a period of 3 months for a single…
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The Reporting Revolution | eBook

7 CFOs at midsize orgs share their real-time data priorities. When it comes to data, how do you cut through the clutter? For CFO Glynis Bryan, it means boiling things down to a “daily stat” so she can focus on the metrics that matter most. That’s just one of the many insights you’ll find in […]