Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Daniel Welch emphasizes the dual nature of Kate Farms as both a healthcare and consumer packaged goods (CPG) company, with long-term customers who rely on its plant-based medical nutrition products. He highlights the importance of understanding customer lifetime value relative to acquisition costs, particularly in the company’s e-commerce expansion. Welch also […]
The Mentoring Round | Julien Lafouge, CFO, Spendesk
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Julien Lafouge emphasizes the importance of understanding others’ perspectives and fostering buy-in for effective decision-making. CFO Lafouge enjoys swimming and finds it liberating, setting KPIs and defining the right ones to monitor both swimming and work as a CFO.
The Mentoring Round | Jason Godley, CFO, Xactly
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Jason Godley emphasizes the importance of identifying and focusing on a few critical KPIs that can significantly influence the business’s trajectory. CFO Godley aims to transform CFO-speak into actionable insights that resonate with various stakeholders within the company, thereby making financial goals and achievements relevant and comprehensible across all levels […]
The Mentoring Round | Naresh Bansal, CFO, Menlo Security
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Naresh Bansal emphasizes the importance of flexibility and readiness to adapt to unforeseen changes in the business environment, illustrating this with his own experiences of sudden shifts in company strategy and market conditions. He discusses how his role shifted towards more strategic capital allocation, particularly in response to changing economic […]
The Mentoring Round | Sarah Alper, CFO, Pactum AI
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Sarah Alper emphasizes the necessity of a collaborative approach to growth, underscoring that “Finance can’t just tell you what you need to do. It’s a conversation with the business on how to do that, on how to get there.” She explains how experiences at GE and UiPath have endowed her […]
Top of Mind KPIs, ESG Investments & Marathons | Paolo Poma, CFO, Lamborghini
CFO GUEST: Paolo Poma of Lamborghini CFO Paolo Poma: [00:00] 80% of the time as to be dedicated to internal reporting Action Plan steering the company adjust 20% to external reporting. That is important because the added value comes from internal steering, which are the main KPIs, we check off course profitability, on p&l level […]
888: Accelerating in the Controlled-Growth Lane | Paolo Poma, CFO, Lamborghini
Paolo Poma is uncertain how many times he met with bankers and investors during the first 6 months of 2009. The steady string of phone calls and conference rooms that once demanded the management of Ducati Motors Holding’s rapt attention, Poma tells us, have now blurred into a single, heart-pumping conversation. “I had to go…
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Making Numbers Matter Across the Organization | Jeremy Klaperman, CFO, Rho
CFO GUEST: Jeremy Klaperman of Rho EPISODE: #866 Metrics for the Masses
866: Metrics for the Masses | Jeremy Klaperman, CFO, Rho
Not unlike many of his CFO peers, Jeremy Klaperman spent the early years of his finance career in trying to rectify the damage brought on by the irrational market behaviors of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Unlike most, though, he found that his repair duties frequently involved visits to a remote Japanese fishing village.…
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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 […]
848: The People, the Mission, and the Innovation | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
Evan Goldstein tells us that it was at the end of another long day—after a week of long days—as he was walking to the parking lot adjacent to Genentech's offices that he received a “gut punch.” Becoming more self-aware of others is something that many finance leaders have told us that they have needed to…
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Let’s Put an End to “Dumb Spend” | David Bedell, CFO, Lendio
CFO GUEST: David Bedell of Lendio EPISODE: #818: Breaking Finance’s “Glass Wall”