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340: Private Equity’s Software Crush | Vic Chynoweth, CFO, Planview

Inside the high tech realm, private equity players have long been known for buying underperforming companies and quickly flipping them for a quick profit. However, a growing number of PE firms have begun to increasingly view the sector as an opportunity for deeper, more strategic partnering relationships. Or so Vic Chynoweth, CFO, Planview, explains as…
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338: Building Your FP&A Muscle | Sydney Carey, CFO, Apttus

Join us as Sydney Carey recalls the experiences that prepared her for a finance leadership career that has spanned multiple Silicon Valley firms, including her latest CFO tour of duty at Apttus. Learn how Sydney advanced up the FP&A ladder and along the way learned the ebb and flow of relationship-building inside the venture community.…
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337: Achieving Profitability Milestones | John Kinzer, CFO, HubSpot

Join us when John Kinzer, CFO, HubSpot, outlines his post-IPO timeline, when profitability goals were set and met by the innovative online marketing firm. Listen to John as he recalls some of the career decisions that ultimately led him to HubSpot's CFO office. Prior to HubSpot, John served as CFO for Blackboard, Inc., a leading SaaS…
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The Afterpod | Steve Love, CFO, Dialpad

CFOTL: What piece of advice do you wish someone had given you when you entered the CFO office for the first time? Love: I'd say that it's don't let the urgent overtake the important. I'm a to-do list guy like I think a lot of finance people are. You've got stuff at the top of…
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335: Garnering Investor Recognition: Josh Blacher, CFO, Therapix Biosciences

Join us when Josh Blacher, CFO of Therapix Biosciences Ltd., shares his career-building journey that spans 10 years inside biotech and 14 years inside the capital markets realm. Josh is the former CFO for Galmed Pharmaceuticals and earlier served as Director of Business Development at Teva Innovative Ventures, an early- and midstage investment and in-licensing arm. He also…
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334: Kissing Frogs: The Dynamics Behind Courting Investors | Brian Day, CFO, Fuze

Join us as Brian Day charts a finance career journey that has included multiple CFO tours of duty as well as one CEO career chapter. Now, as CFO of Fuze, Day is helping the firm to advance into the expansive world of cloud-based communication and collaboration services. On Systems: "What I envisioned was exactly what I…
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333: Office of the Chief Problem-Solver | Ian Charles, CFO, Host Analytics

Understanding the unique challenges faced by a growing company and mobilizing a company's workforce, management, and even board members to address and remedy those challenges are often dependent on a finance leader's ability to problem-solve—an acquired skill set that draws on a CFO's ability to communicate across the organization, according to Ian Charles, CFO, Host…
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331: Unlocking Working Capital to Fund Growth | Ananth Avva, CFO, Wrike

Few venture-backed companies have grown in as capital-efficient a manner as privately held Wrike, according to Ananth Avva, the enterprise software firm's finance leader, who says that Wrike has reached its current scale of 500 employees worldwide by using roughly only $26 million in equity financing. Join us when Ananth shares his finance leader priorities…
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330: A CFO’s Appetite for Disruption | Duston Williams, CFO, Nutanix

Join us when we ask Duston Williams to revisit his CFO career's opening chapter at Western Digital and expose the singular finance leadership journey that followed. To date Duston has served 18 years in a variety of CFO roles and raised more than $3 billion in financing. Learn how "Bigness of Vision" is what led…
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329: Building Your Finance Network | Robert Bendetti, CFO, Life Cycle Engineering

Join us when Robert Bendetti, CFO, Life Cycle Engineering, recounts what led him to establish a CFO Council for the greater Charleston, South Carolina, region and why he feels that advice and insights from peer leaders are a precious resource that no finance leader should do without. CFO Guest: Robert Bendetti Company: Life Cycle Engineering Headquarters:…
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328: Entering the CFO Office | Four Finance Leaders Recall Their Door of Entry

Join Jeanne Prayther, CFO, e-Builder, Marty Moore, CFO, C2 Education, Carol Wood, CFO, Dizzion, Alan Haughey, CFO, ServiceMaster as they share their different experiences about entering the CFO suite. 
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