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544: Tales of a Finance Journeyman | John Pokorney, CFO, LeTip World Franchise

Few finance leaders have boiled down the take-aways from their career journeys into as many palatable, bite-size portions as John Pokorney, CFO of LeTip International. Having found his original finance door of entry at Intel Corp. in the early 1990s, Pokorney credits the chipmaker’s collaborative culture for prodding him to speak the language of others…
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542: Now See This: One CFO’s Data Visualization Mantra | Tim Zue, CFO, Boston Red Sox

­­­When it comes to guessing a person’s email address, most of us would agree that the best way to optimize your odds of success is to first assume that the person was using their actual name as part of the address. From there, your next decision arguably is whether to spell out the individual’s first…
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541: Energizing Your Stakeholder Network | Smital Shah, CFO, ProQR Therapeutics

As an Indian citizen living in the United States and working for a Dutch company, CFO Smital Shah frequently spends her days on conference calls with investors from Asia, Israel, or Europe. On every investor call, at every board meeting, and at every employee gathering, the same question gets asked: “How far is ProQR from…
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540: When the Whole is Greater | Lucy Rutishauser, CFO, Sinclair Broadcast Group

Like a savvy investor, Lucy Rutishauser built her early career by carefully tracking the activities of different companies. Sometimes, to glean better insights, she would actually cold-call a company and ask for the finance department. But Rutishauser wasn’t looking to invest money—instead, she was looking to invest that all-so-valuable commodity known as career-building years. “The…
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530: Embracing the Age of Mobile Finance | John Orton, CFO, Amplify Credit Union

For most of us, the act of “throwing the book” at someone is just an expression meant to conjure up the image of a judge throwing a book of laws at a criminal as punishment. However, the visual that CFO John Orton summons in the opening minutes of our talk is the act of having…
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504: Understanding Your Customers | Steve Coughran, CFO, EMJ Corporation

Inside the middle market today, it's not uncommon to find a seasoned private equity executive serving as CFO of one of his or her firm's portfolio companies. Such an arrangement provides the business leader with a coveted split-screen view that buffers the investor's demands with real-world operational insights. CFO Steve Coughran, who last year entered…
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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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“It’s About Scale and Keeping our Metrics Dialed In” – Mike Rich, CFO, OnShift | Perform 2019

Hello, we’re attending Perform 2019 Host Analytics Annual Conference. And we’re speaking with Mike Rich, CFO of OnShift. QUESTION: Mike, over the next 12 months, what are your priorities as a finance leader? RICH: Well, OnShift is a SaaS platform and a human capital management platform, servicing mostly post-acute health care. We had just raised […]

“Putting the ‘A’ Back in FP&A” – Steve Barrios, SVP FP&A, Prologis | Perform 2019

Hello, we’re speaking with Steve Barrios, senior vice president, global FP&A for Prologis. QUESTION: Steve, over the next 12 months, what are your priorities as an FP&A leader? BARRIOS: So to give some context: Prologis is the world’s leading global industrial owner, operator, developer, and acquirer of warehouses. Our biggest tenant is Amazon. So you […]

493: A CFO for All Seasons | Vijay Kumar, CFO, Sify Technologies

At times, it must seem to Vijay Kumar that his 12-year tenure as a CFO has been spent not at one company but three. This must be a sense that most C-suite members at Sify Technologies likely experience in light of the company's appetite for continuous reinvention. Back in 2007, when Kumar arrived at the…
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475: Advancing Product to Enter the Next Stage of Development | Barclay Phillips, CFO, G1 Therapeutics

G1 Therapeutics CFO Barclay “Buck” Phillips set his sights on the CFO position on day one of his very first job back in high school. After he hustled home to share the great news about landing the part-time gig, Phillips’s father, a stock broker, shared some prescient advice: "Son, always make sure you’re the guy…
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471: When a Megatrend Came Knocking | William Acheson, CFO, GWG Holdings

From a career development standpoint, one of the best things that William Acheson did to reach the CFO office was stepping away from corporate finance and accounting for 15 years. After coming up on the public accounting track, the GWG Holdings finance chief immersed himself in investment banking, the residential mortgage industry, capital markets, risk…
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