CFO GUEST: John McCauley of Calendly EPISODE: #870: When Preparation Matters
870: When Preparation Matters | John McCauley, CFO, Calendly
John McCauley is the first finance leader to tell us that his path to the CFO office began in a pool. Back in high school, McCauley relates, he was a rebellious student with less than impressive grades when a stubborn and no-excuses-allowed water polo coach knocked him from his wayward track. According to McCauley, the…
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868: Armed and Sheltered From the Storm | Tom Fennimore, CFO, Luminar Technologies
The Goldman Sachs “anti-raid” team was between conference calls with an embattled client company when word came that a senior member of the target company’s management team had unexpectedly died. Looking back, Tom Fennimore says that the next few months of his early career years at Goldman then became a transition point—or period of accelerated…
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A Pioneering CFO Takes a Look Back at His Dot Com Days | Don Alvarez, CFO, Cyngn
CFO GUEST: Donald Alvarez of Cyngn EPISODE: 867: Energizing Your Data Relations
867: Energizing Your Data Relations | Donald Alvarez, CFO, Cyngn
Back in 1993, Don Alvarez was an auditor with Deloitte’s San Francisco office when specialty retailer and coveted client company West Marine went public. For Alvarez, the day began with WM’s management explicating the novel steps behind pricing its offering, which was followed by the requisite trip to a Bay Area printer. The long day…
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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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865: Achieving a Strategic Alignment | Anup Singh, CFO, Illumio
It’s perhaps no surprise that the late 1990s came to mind for Anup Singh when we asked him to share with us a finance career lesson or insight from his past. It seems that our CFO guests have become ever more reflective on the period of years preceding the dotcom implosion as they seek to…
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Beyond Your Comfort Zone | Steven Mitchell, CFO, Redgate Software
CFO GUEST: Steven Mitchell of Redgate Software EPISODE: #864: Excelling Beyond Your Comfort Zone
864: Excelling Beyond Your Comfort Zone | Steve Mitchell, CFO, Redgate Software
Steve Mitchell had not been working for Irish telecom giant Eircom for even half a year before he decided that it was time to explore other opportunities. For the previous 4 months, the seasoned operations executive had been commuting weekly to Dublin, Ireland, from his home in the United Kingdom as he sought to nurture…
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How a Short Term Scorecard Became an Early Warning System | Patrick McClymont, CFO, Hagerty
CFO GUEST: Patrick McClymont of Hagerty EPISODE: #862: The Numbers Don’t Lie Machine Generated Transcript CFOTL: Does anything comes to mind when we ask for a finance strategic moment of insight? McClymont: The thing about this one, I go back to my time at IMAX, and so when I was hired at IMAX, the company […]
862: The Numbers Don’t Lie | Patrick McClymont, CFO, Hagerty
August is very likely Patrick McClymont’s preferred month when it comes to entering the CFO office. “September is great, but you may want to show up a little before in order to get your feet wet,” comments McClymont, who last September became CFO of Hagerty, a once–stand-alone insurance agency for classic automobiles that has now…
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The Quarterly | Fall, 2022
FEATURING THE CFO THOUGHT LEADERS: Adam Swiecicki CFO, BREX | Michael Sumruld CFO, PARKER WELBORE | Peter Walker CFO, STERLING | Rajesh Gupta CFO, OAKNORTH BANK | Larry Angelilly CFO, MONEYGRAM | Mark George CFO, NORFOLK SOUTHERN | Manish Sarin CFO, SPRINKLR | Jeff Shepherd CFO, ADVANCE AUTO PARTs | Bona Allen | CFO, KPD […]