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722: Forming the CEO–CFO Nucleus | Joe Euteneuer, CFO Emeritus, Mattel, Sprint, Qwest, Comcast
"You must own the numbers and be the source of truth about the details. You must work with operations on execution, in addition to strategic direction, to ensure success. Last, you must be a voice of reason when communicating both internally and externally." –Joe Euteneuer Lovers of tortilla chips will swear that the only true…
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717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies
Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare’s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career—a high-calorie leadership stint that would ultimately propel him into the CFO office at Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a publicly traded provider of digital workflow and tracking solutions. Says Winters: “It…
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655: Awaiting the Return to Travel | Tom Tuchscherer, CFO, TripActions
Twenty-five to 30 years ago, senior executives seeking CFO roles did not think like Tom Tuchscherer. Many still don’t, which is why CFO positions have increasingly come to executives like Tuchscherer, a data-driven gate-crasher from the world of corporate development. Such was the case back in 2012 at Talend, a fast-growing developer of data integration…
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614: In Pursuit of Data’s Deep Impact | Matt Borowiecki, CFO, Biofourmis
When asked what led him to open his latest career chapter as CFO of Biofourmis, Matt Borowiecki quickly mentions the 2018 sale of MassMutual Asia Ltd. to Yunfeng FG. After helping to piece together a string of strategic plays for MassMutual, Borowiecki was instrumental in effecting the Yunfeng FG deal, which was a standout for…
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611: An Acquisitive State of Mind | Jon Nguyen, CFO, Kyriba
Jon Nguyen got his first taste of M&A-related work in the early to mid-2000s when he served as the vice president of finance partner for the auto lending unit of HSBC. “In consumer lending, you end up doing a lot of portfolio purchases rather than equity ones, but I have become more involved in the…
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543: Whetting Your Firm’s FP&A Appetite | Paul Willson, CFO, Compeat
After years of careful finance career–building within the healthcare sector, Paul Willson came upon an opportunity inside Austin’s energetic technology start-up community that he found hard to resist. Becoming employee number 23, he was immediately dubbed “the finance guy”—a label that he would wear for only 5 days before the ambitious start-up announced that it…
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483: Making FP&A a Road Map for the Business | Glynis Bryan, CFO, Insight Enterprises, Inc.
There was a time when Glynis Bryan imagined herself someday retiring from Ryder System, Inc.—a company she entered as an intern and would later exit as a senior vice president. Along the way, she credits the transportation logistics giant with having exposed her to complex M&A transactions and innovative capital structures—two areas that she believes…
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469: A Strategic Leader Gets His Bearings | Jim Peters, CFO, Whirlpool Corporation
Schooled in M&A When Whirlpool CFO Jim Peters joined the company at the director level 15 years ago, he was thrust into the thick of a pivotal M&A deal that also wound up generating extraordinary value from a career development standpoint. Originally assigned to help manage the accounting facets of the proposed Maytag acquisition, Peters…
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448: A Truly Transformative Chapter | Mike Hug, CFO, Wyndham Destinations
After starting his career in a Big 4 accounting firm and then steadily ascending through numerous (and varied) corporate finance roles over nearly two decades, Michael Hug possessed a clear vision for his CFO tenure at the world’s largest publicly traded timeshare company. “I didn’t want my team to just be the people who come…
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429: Three Dealmakers, Inside and Out
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408: The CFO Dealmaker | Mark Biersmith, Jack Walsh, David Mahmood
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