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465: Catching the Next Wave, Again and Again | Steve Cakebread, CFO, Yext

A Humble Take on a Hall-of-Fame Career Yext CFO Steve Cakebread’s resume is extraordinary, given the preeminent companies he’s worked for (HP, Silicon Graphics, Autodesk, Salesforce.com, Pandora, and Yext), the new technology categories that he’s helped to bring to market, and the staggering growth that those organizations posted under his corporate-finance leadership. Cakebread joined Salesforce…
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461: Authoring Your Finance Career Adventure | Andrew Jackson, CFO, Ra Medical Systems

High-Risk, High-Reward Career-Building At first glance, Ra Medical Systems CFO Andrew Jackson’s 20 years as a finance executive in life sciences and technology companies seem to have progressed in a traditional, orderly manner. A closer inspection of Jackson’s experience reveals that taking early-career risks can pay off handsomely. Jackson joined the manufacturer of laser-based solutions…
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460: Advancing Down Your Growth Path | Chris Menard, CFO, BlueSnap

Leading with Analytics, but Accounting Comes First Of the three traditional paths to the finance chief’s seat, BlueSnap CFO Chris Menard took the approach less traveled, and it’s made quite a difference. While most fledgling finance executives begin their journey in public accounting or investment banking, Menard parlayed an undergraduate experience rich with entrepreneurial grooming…
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451: Advancing When the Time Is Right—But Not Before | Guy Melamed, CFO, Varonis

Whenever he’s faced a difficult crossroads in life or business, Varonis CFO Guy Melamed has focused squarely on goals—sticking to them and scoring them. Despite playing for Israel’s under-21 national soccer team and fielding alluring offers to continue his playing career there, Melamed chose to leave his home country. He attended Boston College, where he…
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432: Sizing Up Streaming with Steve Louden, CFO, Roku

While the viewing public watches TV, Roku CFO Steve Louden and his finance team are watching Roku's data—a treasure trove of viewing tastes, habits, and streaming developments that are being derived from the billions of hours of content that Roku streams quarterly. Join us when Steve explains how a data science and analytics platform—originally incubated…
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394: Being Prepared When Markets Swing | Pete Childs, CFO, Workfront

Reprise Episode: When considering a new job, a finance leader must proceed with caution, allowing for time to execute background checks and gain a familiarity with the company’s culture, according to Pete Childs, CFO of Workfront, a software developer specializing in cloud-based enterprise work management solutions. Join us when Pete shares his CFO mind-set and explains how…
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387: Have Your Team Tell the Story | Jennifer Lew, CFO, Aduro Biotech

Join us when Jennifer Lew explains how the finance team's data insights must not only support executive decision-making, but also help employees across the company "tell the story" and educate customers and key stakeholders about the company's quest to deliver value. "We're constantly thinking about our portfolio of assets and the larger business context for which we're…
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358: One Year After the IPO | Kim Drapkin, CFO, Jounce Therapeutics

Join us when CFO Kim Drapkin explains how she prioritizes the different aspects of her finance leadership role inside the biotech sector and reveals the different experiences that helped to prepare her to lead inside the entrepreneurial world of a mission-driven company. 2018 Milestones “We have our first clinical data coming out this year. So our…
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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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249: The Private-to-Public Journey

Exclusive case study: A little over a year ago, when publicly held Perion advanced with a deal to acquire digital agency Undertone, Michael Waxman-Lenz began preparing to exit his post as Perion’s chief strategy officer to spearhead Undertone’s private-to-public journey as its CFO. Now, for the first time, CFO Waxman-Lenz charts the action steps and milestones that allowed his team to rapidly transform Undertone’s internal controls,…
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247: Prepared for What’s Next | Pete Childs, CFO, Workfront

When considering a new job a finance leader must proceed with caution, allowing for time to execute background checks and to gain a familiarity with the company's culture, according to Pete Childs, CFO of Workfront, a software developer specializing in cloud-based enterprise work management solutions. Join us when Pete shares his CFO mindset and explains how SaaS…
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229: Identifying Your Cost and Revenue Drivers, Joe Consul, CFO, Xactly

Join us when Joe Consul, CFO, Xactly explains how employees are the firm's greatest drivers of both cost and growth and why culture is essential for achieving the correct balance between the two.   Joe's Site
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