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818: Breaking Finance’s “Glass Wall” | David Bedell, CFO, Lendio

Looking back at the early years of his finance career, David Bedell recalls being frustrated when a business unit leader remained leery about the merits of a potential deal. “I had done all of the analysis and was convinced that it would make a lot of money for the company, but I just couldn’t figure…
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The Quarterly | Summer, 2022

FEATURING THE CFO THOUGHT LEADERS: Emily Villatte CFO, ACAST |  Jonathan Sides CFO, FLEETIO |  Sarah Blanchard CFO, UDEMY |  Kent Kelley CFO, UNANET |  Chris Roling CFO, COINME | Adriana Carpenter CFO, EMBURSE |  Will Johnson CFO, ITERABLE | Anisha Sood CFO, FIRST CHOICE HEALTH |  Elaine Sun CFO, MAMMOTH BIOSCIENCES | Melinda Smith […]

797: Achieving a More Perfect Exit | Melinda Smith, CFO, ChaosSearch

Back in early 2014, the management of Paydiant, a 4-year-old mobile payments start-up, believed that it was still several years away from engaging with acquisition-minded bankers. Nevertheless, when PayPal came calling, the Paydiant team decided that they were worth a listen.        “Even though it was still an early stage for us to be in…
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788: When the Road Rises to Meet You | Emily Villatte, CFO, Acast

Emily Villatte’s finance career first got rolling along dusty country roads in the Australian bush. With a dual-track master's degree in engineering and finance, she had been hired by British multinational JLT Group to provide risk management and insurance services to a cluster of accounts residing in Australia’s outback. Along the way, Villatte says, she…
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786: The Purpose-Driven CFO | Hilary Maxson, CFO, Schneider Electric

Hilary Maxson’s path to the CFO office of French multinational and energy automation behemoth Schneider Electric began at a kitchen table in upstate New York. Or at least that’s what comes to mind for us when she tells us about her “purpose-driven” parents, including a father who is a professor of agronomy at Cornell University.…
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781: The Frequent Flyer | Josh Siegel, CFO, CyberArk

If you were to casually meet CyberArk CFO Josh Siegel for the first time at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), you might quickly assume that he has spent the balance of his career-building years in nearby Silicon Valley. Certainly, on paper his resume lists the requisite number of finance job titles and entrepreneurial milestones that you…
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The Quarterly | Winter, 2022

Featuring the CFO THOUGHT LEADERs: Greg Saunders CFO, YGRENE ENERGY FUND Joe Wolk CFO, JOHNSON & JOHNSON Jill Klindt CFO, WORKIVA |  Charles Freund CFO, FLEETCOR |Vicki Dudley CFO, TXX COMPANY | Matthias Tillman CFO, TRIVAGO | Laurence Capone CFO, PIPEDRIVE Geoff Brannon CFO, OVERSIGHT SYSTEMS Akash Palkhiwala, CFO, QUALCOMM | Pramod Inyengar CFO, VEEM | Chris Kuehn CFO, TRANE TECHNOLOGIES   Sameer Ralhan CFO, THE CHEMOURS COMPANY Craig Abrahams CFO, PLAYTIKA |  Roy Simmons CFO, GE LIGHTING |  Kurt Shintaffer CFO, APPTIO | Thomas Kramer CFO […]

777: A CFO’s Unfinished Business | Isaac Ro, CFO, Sema4

After spending 16 years as an equity analyst (the last nine of which at Goldman Sachs), Isaac Ro could not escape the fact that he was busy and bored. The same work that had once challenged his every faculty had become more or less an exercise in pattern recognition. “Good management teams are good, and…
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774: How You Tell It Matters | Heather Dixon, CFO, Everside Health

It was a moment of insight that Heather Dixon remembers having not once but twice during the untold number of hours she has spent in examining how divisional numbers were being “rolled up” to be reported. In the process of rolling up certain numbers, Dixon noted that parts of a division’s business would be exhibiting…
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763: Of All the Nerve | Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen

"Develop a small network of trusted informal advisors and mentors to be an independent sounding board as you address the challenges of this new role." –Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen Like many of his finance leader peers, Pete Mariani credits a senior operational role with helping him to plant both feet on the path to the…
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