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605: When Finance Sings a New Tune | John Cappadona, CFO, School of Rock

Unlike the music artists and instructors recruited by School of Rock to provide music lessons at its 270 locations around the globe, John Cappadona was first hired by the firm to provide a crash course in accounting. “The day I joined, my controller and I walked through the door together not knowing anything,” explains Cappadona,…
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582: Fortifying Your FP&A Footing | Robert Richards, CFO, Centauri

Recalling a meeting that took place years ago at an industry conference, CFO Robert Richards remembers that the East Coast sales executive’s face suddenly dropped. At the time, Richards was more or less his company’s de facto CFO after the company’s finance leader had departed in the wake of the firm defaulting on certain loans.…
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543: Whetting Your Firm’s FP&A Appetite | Paul Willson, CFO, Compeat

After years of careful finance career–building within the healthcare sector, Paul Willson came upon an opportunity inside Austin’s energetic technology start-up community that he found hard to resist. Becoming employee number 23, he was immediately dubbed “the finance guy”—a label that he would wear for only 5 days before the ambitious start-up announced that it…
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“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 […]

“Being There – When the Decisions Are Being Made” – Glenn Synder, VP, Corporate FP&A, Digital Realty | Perform 2019

Hi, it’s Jack Sweeney and we’re attending Perform 2019 Host Analytics Annual Conference. We’re speaking with Glenn Snyder, vice president of corporate FP&A, for Digital Realty. QUESTION: Glenn, what are your priorities as an FP&A leader over the next 12 months? SNYDER: Well, Digital Realty is an S&P 500 company that’s in 12 different countries, […]

“Exposing the Process so Others Can Follow” – Israel Askew, CFO, Emission Monitoring | 2019 Perform

Hello, we’re attending Perform 2019 Host Analytics Annual Conference and we’re speaking with Israel Askew, CFO of Emissions Monitoring. QUESTION: Israel as Emissions Monitoring climbs the ranks of middle market companies, we’d be interested in discovering how your role is changing and how your priorities are changing and let’s just look into the future, maybe […]

483: Making FP&A a Road Map for the Business | Glynis Bryan, CFO, Insight Enterprises, Inc.

There was a time when Glynis Bryan imagined herself someday retiring from Ryder System, Inc.—a company she entered as an intern and would later exit as a senior vice president. Along the way, she credits the transportation logistics giant with having exposed her to complex M&A transactions and innovative capital structures—two areas that she believes…
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357: Establishing Your Data Culture | Phong Le, CFO, MicroStrategy

As a one-time IT systems engineer, Phong Le has a finance career whose early roots run deep inside the technology realm, where today he serves as CFO of MicroStrategy—one of the data world's pioneering innovators. Join us to hear Phong explain how burgeoning data insights are summoning finance leaders to become the organizational catalyst for…
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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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035: Joe Consul, CFO, Xactly Corp., on Building Up Your FP&A Function

What’s it like to be CFO of a high-growth firm? Join us as Joe explains how he sought to quickly grasp the fundamentals of Xactly’s business and gain control of its cash flows to establish his organizational footing and play a strategic role in the firm’s future growth. Key Metrics “As a SaaS company with…
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