CFO GUEST: Russell Lester of Versapay
899: Democratizing Workforce Opportunities | Simone Nardi, CFO, Globalization Partners
Gray-haired late-night fans may remember when David Letterman sought to ingratiate himself with his network’s new owner, General Electric Corp., by hand-delivering a bowl of fruit to GE’s executive brass. Nearly 20 years later, Simone Nardi became a benefactor of GE’s media aspirations when he traded a senior manager position on GE’s audit team for…
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ON LOCATION Perform23 | Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful
GUEST: Grant Halloran, CEO, Planful Regarding Performance Management Being an Enabler Grant Halloran: Finance has often been seen as a gatekeeper or they have the keys to the kingdom. At the end of the day, they can restrict or unconstrained spending and all those sorts of things. The analogy I used or the comparison I…
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Rewiring FP&A to Better Serve Business Ops | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat
CFO GUEST: Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat
The Role of the CFO in the Age of AI | Mike Ettling, CEO, Unit4
GUEST: Mike Ettling, CEO, UNIT4 CEO Mike Ettling explains how CFOs must guide their peers on the leadership team to focus on areas where AI can improve their company’s “outputs”. Unit4’s CEO emphasizes that the CFO’s role must be about identifying opportunities for improvement and guiding other leaders in the company on how AI can […]
By Prioritizing “Business Strength” DraftKings Avoided Some Harsh Lessons | Jason Quinn, CFO, Vendr
CFO GUEST: Jason Quinn of Vendr
Understanding Your Customer From the Inside Out | Jason Quinn, CFO, Vendr
CFO GUEST: Jason Quinn of Vendr
Expanding Horizontally: The Key to Long-Term Business Growth | Alka Tandan, CFO, GainSight
CFO GUEST: Alka Tandan of Gainsight Tandan: I think, you know, one of the, the biggest one, um, you know, was essentially at Gainsight when we had to sort of make a decision where, you know, how were we gonna expand? Were we going to, you know, we’re mostly in the enterprise space and there […]
Using Compensation to Achieve Post Merger Sales Alignment | Teodora Gouneva, CFO Next Insurance
Gouneva: Through my career, I spend a lot of time supporting sales teams. And usually what is critical with the sales team is they respond really well to how you design compensation. And if you don’t design it the right way, you may get a different behavior that you don’t intend. So looking back at […]
Where FP&A Resides | Gary Zyla, CFO, AssetMark
Zyla: The Finance team I oversee, it’s fun and it’s broad. You have Business Intelligence, I have Investor Relations, Corporate Development, Communications, and PR are part of our Finance team, which is somewhat unusual. Sometimes, we have FP&A, of course, we have Controllership. But, the Business Intelligence is amazing. And, I think in many companies, […]
885: Landing Your Career’s “Pivot Position” | Robert Mitchell, CFO, Zepz
Robert Mitchell had been sizing up new venture opportunities for PayPal for roughly 3 years when the door to an operations role swung open. Impressed by his financial modeling know-how, Mitchell tells us, PayPal’s credit bosses “handpicked” him to create a framework for launching and monitoring new credit offerings. For Mitchell, there was no turning…
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884: Understanding Your Business Thesis | Betsy Ward, CFO, MassMutual
Finance leader Betsy Ward wants you to know that she doesn’t have an itchy trigger finger—but she does have an inner trigger and knows when it's been set off. There's no doubt that few professional colleagues would ever think to associate the time-tested gunslinger trope with the mild-mannered Ward, who has led insurance giant MassMutual…
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