“I’ve had the good fortune to work at places like Genentech and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where we were able to implement both financial constraints and head count constraints to force ourselves to make the appropriate trade-offs between portfolio decisions and investment decisions by the organization. I believe that this actually forced higher-quality hiring […]
436: Making “Try It and Track It” Your Finance Mind-set | Bob Cruickshank, CFO, ezCater
Lessons Learned: Always Expect the Unexpected "Kiva Systems was a robotics company that helped to revolutionize robotics inside e-commerce distribution centers. It was a very cool company with a very cool product. In early 2011, I joined them to start to put controls in place to get the company ready to go public. I thought…
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431: Arriving at Your S-Curve’s Inflection Point | Sian Wang, CFO, FastSpring
Regarding Growth: "We've done very well historically in terms of year-on-year revenue growth. But as we climb the inflection point of that curve, I think that we're trying to figure out how high our growth can be. This might involve greater international expansion or maybe improving or expanding our product offering. So there are a…
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409: Tapping 2nd-Century Growth | Brian Lantier, CFO, EHE
Like many health wellness start-ups, EHE has an edgy website that splashes visuals of people participating in activities that promise healthy, long lives. However, EHE isn't a startup. In fact, entire industries have risen and fallen within EHE's 105-year lifespan. Still, the company's timing has never appeared better, at least inside the health and wellness…
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407: Three CFOs Make Office Transactions Transformative
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406: Building a Better Firm | Chris Andersen, CFO, Hoefer Wysocki
Having received degrees in both architecture and business (MBA), Chris Andersen is perhaps a rare breed inside the architecture realm, where finance executives frequently parachute in from other industries. As CFO of Hoefer Wysocki, Andersen has a unique kinship with the firm's professionals, and his insight into their priorities and architectural aspirations is allowing him…
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403: CEO to CFO: Why Talent Matters
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399: The Culture-Building CFO | CFO Jeanne Prayther, CFO Robert Bendetti, & Brett Knowles
For many small to midsize firms, the hiring of a finance leader signals a coming of age for an organization, a time when business growth becomes more reliant on company culture and business process than on entrepreneurial passions and instincts. Join us when Jeanne Prayther, CFO of e-Builder, and Robert Bendetti, CFO of Life Cycle Engineering,…
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396: The Green Fields of Finance | Dave Kellogg, CEO, Host Analytics, Inc.
"Right now, we're focused on organic growth. We're pursuing that in North America. We're trying to do it in our core EPM market, which is financial planning, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting. We're not trying to move into adjacent markets. We're not trying to do international. We're trying to do self-funded organic growth, and our intent…
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393: Origins of a Finance Leader | Joseph Falcao, CFO, JSI Store Fixtures
Unlike many, Joseph Falcao's finance career routinely jumped industries, revealing a stubborn reluctance to be tied to any one industry or business model. Today, as CFO of JSI Store Fixtures, Falcao reflects back on a career track that supplied a wealth of varied experiences not found inside in any one industry. Advice to Your Younger Self:…
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389: Right Tools, Right Growth | Teri McEvily, CFO, Riskonnect
Join us when Teri McEvily explains how the M&A activities of different companies routinely opened the door to new opportunities to learn and expand her operational view as she advanced firsthand the practices and approaches that would allow companies to achieve postmerger growth. Different Opportunities to Grow, One Career "At Sage, for example, I started…
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388: A Transformative Career | Jeanette Wade, CFO, Massachusetts Executive Office of Technology Services & Security
"My priorities over the next 12 months are to support the IT consolidation of activities for the Commonwealth to reduce complexity, enhance the way that constituents interact with our government, and also improve the way the 40,000 people on the Commonwealth payroll are working. That's achieved by enhancing our digital presence. By upgrading tools and…
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