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874: Completing Your Visibility to Predictability Framework | Wailun Chan, CFO, Grafana Labs

No matter how many chapters Wailun Chan’s finance career ultimately spans, the decade that he spent at LinkedIn will always stand out. It perhaps goes without saying that as a finance career investment, a 10-year resume stint is increasingly rare today, and it’s not uncommon for a “decade investor” looking back on his or her…
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Ep 17: Legibility & Levers 

To grow efficiently businesses must have legibility across the organization, explains Airtable CFO Ambereen Toubassy, who tells us legibility can only be achieved by having everyone throughout the business using the same metrics. Along the way, Toubassy says finance leaders must ensure their organization’s data capture is being conducted correctly and consistently.   It may sound easy, but […]

811: Satisfying a Cultural Itch With Smart Growth | Jason Keen, CFO, Mills & Nebraska

Among the career milestones that CFOs prefer to highlight for us during our discussions, there’s little question that examples of driving business growth are an ongoing favorite. However, for Jason Keen, who built his finance career inside midsize construction firms, management’s growth goals have always needed to be mindful of a company’s organizational culture. Inside…
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808: Trading Up to a Macro-Driven Career | Komal Misra, CFO, Starry, Inc.

When Komal Misra, a software engineer turned asset manager, decided that it was time once again to make a career change, she found herself staring at a computer screen filled with stocks from various portfolios that were being traded based not on business fundamentals but larger macro-driven trends. “It got me to thinking: Here I…
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807: All Things in Common | Ryan Gwillim, CFO, Brunswick Corporation

A dozen years ago, if you had told Ryan Gwillim that within the next decade he would be named CFO of the Brunswick Corporation, he may have laughed. At the time, he was an associate with law firm Baker & McKenzie who was spending his days traveling the globe to advise legal clients as an…
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759: The Making of a Milestone Year | Dave Bernhardt, CFO, SentinelOne

"Success is certain if you surround yourself with great leaders, operators, and teammates … and work harder than them." –Dave Bernhardt, CFO, SentinelOne How should a textbook rental company respond when it discovers that Amazon has just introduced offerings that will make the giant retailer its newest and biggest competitor?   If it’s 2013 and…
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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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667: Where Growth and Trust Meet | Brad Kinnish, CFO, Aryaka

The mid-December conference call was 45 minutes old, CFO Brad Kinnish says, when he began to feel edgy. One of the company’s biggest deals of the year had yet to close, and the specifics behind its commission structure (or lack thereof) had led a number of the call’s participants to begin to flag potential snags.…
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651: Remedying Your Metrics Disconnect | Ross Tennenbaum, CFO, Avalara

Ross Tennenbaum remembers that back in 2018, when he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, he had conversations with a number of senior executives from Slack Technologies, Inc. At the time, the fast-growing workplace messaging and communication platform was preparing to go public, and the company was making a special effort to educate bankers…
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649: Entering the Auction Room | Martin Nolan, CFO, Julien’s Auctions

Had Martin Nolan studied engineering instead of accounting, his career path would likely never have entered the worlds of Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, and Michael Jackson. Still, Irish-born Nolan is quick to point out that it was a Green Card lottery, not his accounting degree, that facilitated his relocation to New York City, where he…
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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 […]