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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863: A Career’s Continental Span | Keith Stauffer, CFO, TerrAscend
When Keith Stauffer’s youngest son learned in grade school that his family would be moving to Singapore, he likely breathed a sigh of relief. After all, his older brothers had already lived in Spain and the United Kingdom, and it would have been only natural for the youngest Stauffer to feel that he had…
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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 […]
Finance Team Spends 20 Percent of Its Time Customer Facing | Kevin Rubin, CFO, Alteryx
CFO GUEST: Kevin Rubin of Alteryx EPISODE: 860: Opportunities From Life’s Cauldron
860: Opportunities From Life’s Cauldron | Kevin Rubin, CFO, Alteryx
Back in the year 2000, as Arthur Andersen saw a stream of young accountants exit the firm to join dotcom start-ups, Kevin Rubin’s workload continued to escalate as the public accounting firm felt the pinch of a constricting workforce. Nevertheless, Rubin’s career ambitions remained in lockstep with the public accounting house. In fact, even today…
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Why CFOs Must Find the Middle Ground | Brian Gladden, CFO, Zelis
CFO GUEST: Brian Gladden of Zelis EPISODE: #858 Machine Generated Transcript: CFOTL: When you look back on your career, can you share with our audience a moment of insight you experienced as a finance leader? Gladden: I’ll talk in general and then maybe offer a couple examples. I mean, I find as I’ve done this […]
856: Understanding What’s in Your Control and What’s Not | Céline Dufétel, CFO, Checkout.com
When Checkout.com CFO Céline Dufétel tells us that her career decision-making has been driven not so much by titles or status but by an inner push to acquire the next level of skills or types of skills, we can’t help but note a mysterious coincidence. It seems that a former McKinsey & Company partner had…
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855: Your Company’s Value Proposition | James Moylan, CFO, Ciena
Jim Moylan is perhaps our first CFO guest to list the leasing of oil rigs as one of the experiences that best prepared him for a CFO role. Of course, he makes it clear that the experience is worthy of mention not so much because of what he was selling but because he was selling…
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854: Expecting the Unexpected | Shana Veale, CFO, PharmChem
Shana Veale had been working in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, office of Arthur Andersen for only about 8 months when the 88-year-old stalwart accounting house collapsed. Being a recent college graduate at the time, Veale tells us, she really didn’t grasp all of what the news headlines attempted to convey as the turn of…
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