CFO GUEST: Chip Zint of Deluxe EPISODE: #853: When the Fire Burns Brightest
853: When the Fire Burns Brightest | Chip Zint, CFO, Deluxe
After Chip Zint jumped two levels in NCR Corp.’s retail division finance hierarchy, he couldn’t help but savor the moment while reflecting on the fact that his career years thus far—including nights and weekends studying for an MBA—had all been put to good use. Still, while altitude matters when it comes to career leaps, where…
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851: The Day After Your Transaction | Tony Tiscornia, CFO, Coupa
Few finance leaders have better revealed to us the career-transforming powers of IPOs than CFO Tony Tiscornia. Turn back the clock to 2015, and Tiscornia is the accounting-minded VP of finance for spend management software company Coupa. “I was really a controller—a business controller, but still a controller,” explains Tiscornia, who notes that his world…
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850: A CFO’s Ultimate COVID Test | Anat Ashkenazi, CFO, Eli Lilly
In March 2020, when Eli Lilly announced that it would begin providing drive-through COVID testing services to the state of Indiana’s healthcare workers, more than a few hospital administrators likely scratched their heads. After all, the giant pharma company was not in the business of providing healthcare services, any more than it was a medical…
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849: Adding Value to an Academic City | Brett Powell, CFO, Baylor University
When Brett Powell is asked what distinguishes his day-to-day role as a finance leader inside the world of academia from that of his CFO peers residing within industry, Powell without hesitation says, “Complexity.” Aware that such a one-word answer would likely summon only more questions, Powell continues: “Essentially, when you think about it, we’re running…
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846: Influencing Your Operating Inputs | Ambereen Toubassy, CFO, Airtable
When Ambereen Toubassy decided that it was time to start up her own hedge fund, it's likely that no one cast doubt on the experienced investor’s grand plan. That is, no one except Toubassy herself. After 7years as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and a dozen running hedge funds, Toubassy says, she told…
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845: Levers of Growth, Doors of Opportunity | Darren Cooper, CFO, Reveal Group
When Darren Cooper was named CFO of Reveal Group of Melbourne, Australia, in 2019, there was no friendly board member or executive recruiter seeking kudos for having completed a successful a CFO search. Instead, Cooper says, his twist of fate was due to a personal relationship that he had established with Reveal management after his…
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Chris Craig, Chief Accounting Officer, S&P Global, Discussing S&P’s Mega Merger at CloudWorld
843: Making Finance Part of the Business’s Operating Fabric | Adil Syed, CFO, Rippling
If, as the old maxim suggests, "life" is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans, Adil Syed’s other plans most likely did not include Snap Inc—or at least they didn’t when he first headed east to attend business school. Having spent the previous 3 years at Redpoint Ventures helping to raise…
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Ep 22: Hires, Fires and a Stable Economy
Brett & Jack discuss how hiring challenges have led certain organizations to be more tolerant of poor employee behaviors – a development that could be putting growing numbers of businesses at risk. Meanwhile, Brett points out that new hires continue to fetch bigger salaries creating an imbalance with existing employee salaries. Also, performance is not […]
842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics
It was after Ross Muken had been gainfully roaming the corridors of equity research for more than a dozen years that the acquisition of his firm administered a dose of operations insight that began to feed his aspirations to become a CFO. At the time, Muken was a top research analyst for ISI Group,…
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832: Achieving a Holistic View | Kate Bueker, CFO, HubSpot
When Kate Bueker first left the world of investment banking for a corporate finance role, she was ready to savor the fabled congruity that a business finance career often offers. “I felt that what would be more interesting and motivating to me would be more consistent,” recalls Bueker, who shortly after joining Akamai Technologies in…
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