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160: Why Women Watch the Bottom Line More Closely Than Men, Meredith Jones, Author, Women of the Street
How does women's behavior tend to differ from that of men in the realm of money managers? Join us as author and alternative investment guru Meredith Jones reveals the behavioral characteristics that give women the edge over men when it comes to investing. ¤
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159: Three Start-Up CFOs Discuss Their Business Models
What role does finance play when it comes to architecting a new business model? Join us as CFO Thought Leaders Dan Atler, Barry Zwarenstein, and Tim Raybould explore the role of finance inside three hard-charging start-ups. ¤
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158: Riding the Mobile Tiger, Xavier Sanso, CFO, UppTalk
How does a European startup inside the hypercompetitive arena of mobile telecom navigate the not-so-placid waters of mobile messaging? Join us when Xavier Sanso, former CFO of UppTalk, shares his journey as CFO of a venture-backed startup that was sold last year to a Spanish telecom operator. ¤
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157: Three Manufacturing CFOs Explain How They Built Their Finance Teams
What does it take to embed a finance team across a manufacturing organization? Join us as three seasoned manufacturing CFOs explain the inner workings of their enterprises and expose the broadening roles that their finance teams play inside increasingly collaborative organizations. ¤
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156: How Finance Became a Customer Services Department, Susheel Mantha, CFO, LRES
What role can finance play inside the client-facing realm known as customer service? Join us when Susheel shares her CFO mind-set and explains how finance now plays a more central role in LRES's client offerings. ¤
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155: When the CFO Is Your Customer, Bill Price, CFO, MineralTree
What is it like to be CFO of a firm that views finance leaders as a primary target customer? Join us when Bill shares his CFO mind-set and explains why he likes to view his business through the lens of the customer. ¤
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154: The Sweet Smell of Growth, Shiwali Varshney, CFO, Vosges Chocolate
What happens when an artisan chocolatier decides that it's time to enhance its finance function? Join us as Shiwali Varshney, CFO, Vosges Chocolate, reveals her CFO mind-set and explains her priorities when it comes to driving growth inside one of the premium chocolate world's most innovative chocolatiers. ¤
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153: Creating Your Big-Data CFO Resume, Samuel Dergel, Stanton Chase International
Does your resume include a big-data initiative that actually drives revenue? Join us as Samuel Dergel explains what sets one big-data initiative apart from the rest and how career-minded finance leaders are modifying their career narratives to include their big-data feats of distinction. ¤
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152: Getting Wired to Your Customers, David Cathcart, CFO, North Highland
What role does finance play inside a professional services firm where the customer serves as a cultural cornerstone? Join us when David Cathcart, CFO, North Highland, reveals his CFO mind-set and explains how an entire organization stays in step with its customers using Net Promoter Scores (NPS). ¤
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151: How IT Mojo Gave a Preschool Franchisor Its Operations Edge, Bob Scopinich, CFO, Goddard Systems, Inc.
Ever wonder how an organization's information systems would work differently if finance and IT together designed the data flows and functionality? Join Bob Scopinich, CFO, Goddard Systems, Inc., as he reveals his CFO mind-set and discusses the strategic collaboration that created the systems that help to run one of the largest preschool franchises in the country.…
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150: How to Stop Doing and Start Leading, Kelly Smith, CFO, Replacements, Ltd.
It takes more than hard work to lead an organization. Join us when Kelly Smith, CFO, Replacements, Ltd. reveals his CFO mind-set and shares how clarity of purpose as a finance leader led him to focus on empowering others to better complete the tasks at hand. ¤
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