In late 2022, as funding markets collapsed, Roy Hefer reframed Perk’s choices: accept punitive, dilutive capital or pivot to profitability. By trading growth for faster profitability, finance preserved control, avoided a down round, and made the company “default alive”—showing how framing options can shape strategy without forcing decisions. Now Watch our Episode Featuring CFO Roy […]
1151: Trust Is the Real Currency of Cross-Functional Finance | Roy Hefer, CFO, Perk
Roy Hefer expected a quick coffee. Instead, a “30 minutes” introduction with a newly appointed Lumenis CEO stretched “more than three hours,” he tells us, as they talked through her plan to transform a flat-growth, cash-bleeding medical device company and “ultimately take it public,” he tells us. That conversation marked a shift from theory to…
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