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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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738: Using Digital Insight to Unlock Business Value | Sameer Ralhan, CFO, The Chemours Company
Unlike many of the up-and-comers who populate the corridors of The Chemours Company, CFO Sameer Ralhan spent the balance of his career-building years with the company inside its manufacturing plants. It was there where Ralhan says that he observed everyday executives making decisions that routinely impacted the business, and it was there where his M&A…
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735: Recognizing Windows of Opportunity | Akash Palkhiwala, CFO, Qualcomm
Back in 2014, when Akash Palkhiwala was first approached to serve as treasurer of wireless technology company Qualcomm, the company’s future CFO was uncertain as to what the role of a treasurer might actually entail. “I’m not making this up: I did a Google search on what a treasurer does,” explains Palkhiwala, who recalls that…
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728: The Courage of Your Convictions | Joe Wolk, CFO, Johnson & Johnson
Joe Wolk was about 5 years into his 23-year career with Johnson & Johnson when he was encouraged to take a manufacturing operations position at a newly acquired J&J company in Vacaville, California. One hot July day, Wolk recalls, he and his wife drove up to Vacaville to visit the plant, where he ended up…
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719: Achieving New Finance IT Synergies | Madhu Ranganathan, CFO, OpenText
“The aspiration to become a CFO was always there,” says Madhu Ranganathan, executive vice president and chief financial officer of OpenText, a leader in information management based in Waterloo, Ontario. “I just didn't know what the journey would look like." Along the way, Ranganathan says, she learned that while technical acumen remains critical to a successful career, collaboration…
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716: Building Your Operational Model | Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft
Back in 2008, Chad Gold was working for Home Depot as an FP&A professional when the economic downturn upended the home building market and summoned him to the retailer’s forecasting front lines. “Finance had to be ahead of the business as far as thinking through all the different scenarios went because the housing markets were…
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684: Completing the Job at Hand | Paul Ottolini, CFO, Russell Reynolds Associates
When Paul Ottolini is asked to share a personal trait—one that a family member might divulge to us— the seasoned finance leader tells us that he likes to cut his own lawn and that he is known for being “cheap.” Still, Ottolini makes clear to us that it’s more the satisfaction of completing a job…
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