Gafford: Well, back in 2019, we did a major implementation of Oracle. I can talk about that in a moment. But back to your question that why that was really defining for us was, I can remember for two or three, actually more years, we would get together and there was just so much complaints […]
935: Why People Are Finance’s X Factor | Derrek Gafford, CFO, TrueBlue
Not unlike that of many of his CFO peers, Derrek Gafford’s career path has been shaped in part by geography—specifically, by having its origins in a city that was at once home to a state college, the corporate headquarters of a marquee company, and a Big Four accounting office populated with new college grads. In…
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When Self Reliance Matters in Finance | Svai Sanford, CFO, Rani Therapeutics
934: You’ll Figure It Out | Svai Sanford, CFO, Rani Therapeutics
We are near the end of our discussion with CFO Svai Sanford when he permits us to unlock one last door to his past. Unbeknownst to us, 20 minutes earlier, Sanford had handed us the key to its lock in the form of a short story. The story had begun with Sanford receiving a job…
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The Case for Transparency | Charly Kevers, CFO, Carta
The Climb to Profitability | Jeff Coulter, CFO, Cognite
932: Finance’s Leadership Paradox | Jeff Coulter, CFO, Cognite
Looking back, Jeff Coulter is not exactly certain how he landed a spot on a team tasked with designing and implementing the first-ever budgeting and reporting processes responsible for tracking Procter & Gamble’s marketing dollars on a single worldwide system. “P&G had hundreds of disparate setups that we had to bring into one system globally,”…
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Creating an A.I. Framework | Jeff Laborde, CFO, JAGGAER
931: Changing Swim Lanes | Jeff Laborde, CFO, JAGGAER
The year was 2015, but for Jeff Laborde, a seasoned finance leader kicking off his second C-suite tour of duty, it seemed as though the conference room that he had just entered had transported him back to 2005—or was it 1995? Across the way, an executive who had noticed Laborde’s presence stopped the meeting and…
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Recounting Transformation Milestones | Tony Boor, CFO, Blackbaud
929: Charting the Journeys of Others | Marco Torrente, CFO, WebBeds
Marco Torrente kicked off his finance career inside the Milan, Italy, offices of SC Johnson, the household cleaning products giant headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin. All told, he would end up spending 7 years in various finance roles at Johnson—including that of controller—while relocating first to London and then eventually to Geneva. Looking back, Torrente tells us…
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