How seven finance leaders approach financial risk and innovation. In this eBook, industry-leading CFOs give us insights into how they approach risk—exploring their unique perspectives and financial strategies. Download the eBook
The Next Twelve Months | eBook
Whatever happens in the year ahead, 2020 is sure to cast a long and stubborn shadow. How can finance leaders prepare for what’s next in a rapidly changing world? In this eBook, CFOs from Red Hat, Freshly, UiPath, and more share their biggest challenges and top priorities for the 12 months ahead. Download the eBook
The Mentoring Round
What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You at the Start of Your CFO Career? No one knows the industry and financial profession quite like the CFO thought leaders in this eBook. Get insight from 25 CFOs about what they think future thought leaders need to know to succeed in a changing marketplace. Download the […]
442: The Context Shifter | Naeem Ishaq, CFO & EVP, Circle
Circle CFO Naeem Ishaq’s Forrest Gumpian career trajectory has given him extraordinary exposure to most of Silicon Valley’s touchstone technologies—the semiconductor, cloud computing, mobile payments, and, most recently, cryptocurrency. After a stint as a dot.com-era entrepreneur with a venture he launched as an undergraduate, Ishaq has invested the past 18 years in accumulating a trove…
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348: It Takes More Than Hard Work—Part 2: Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), D. J. Powers Company
Join us for Part 2 of our interview with Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), of D. J. Powers Company and learn how Roy acquired new coaching skills as his interest in helping small businesses continued to grow. Great Expectations "When I got there, I discovered that the controller they had hired when they bought this plant had…
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Most Business Problems Wear Shoes | Larry Begley, CFO, CloudHealth Technologies
What do you wish someone had told you at the start of your CFO career? “One of my colleagues had a great expression. She used to always say ‘most business problems wear shoes.’ And what she meant by that is that most of the problems that you need to solve in business are people-related, so when […]
218: Nitin Gupta, CFO, Molecular Imaging, Siemens Healthcare
The buying patterns of few businesses have experienced greater disruption in recent years than those inside the healthcare industry, where large providers are now hurrying to respond to the changing insurance requirements of their customers as dictated by the Affordable Care Act. And few companies are as determined to decipher the newly emerging patterns as Siemens Healthcare…
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As More Midmarket CFOs Sharpen Their Customer Focus, More Are Smitten with the Cloud
A business realm long populated by headstrong entrepreneurs and family-owned businesses, the middle market is experiencing a wave of technology adoption that seems intent on further upending the traditional laws of business competition as it diminishes the size advantage that large enterprise companies have long enjoyed. When it comes to the middle market’s growing appetite […]
When a Lack of Trust in Your Numbers Becomes A Strategic Obstacle, Kathy Crusco, CFO, Epicor Software
195: Building a Tactical & Strategic Finance Team, Kathy Crusco, CFO, Epicor Software
When Activant and Epicor were acquired by Apax Partners and later merged into a new $800 million software company Kathy Crusco was named CFO of the newly merged firm that retained the name Epicor. Join us when Kathy reveals her CFO mindset and revisits the appointment that brought opportunities as well as challenges to a seasoned finance leader.
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192: Gauging Your Firm’s Pace of Recruitment, Rich Pirrotta, CFO, Logicalis
When it comes to hiring new employees, variances within payroll costs are not always visible to the executive team. Join us when Rich Pirrotta, CFO, Logicalis, explains how creating greater visibility into the ebb & flow of payroll costs led Logicalis to better align the pace of its recruiting and hiring and ultimately adjust the…
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191: Unlocking the Secrets to Customer Loyalty, Lois Martin, CFO, Ceridian
It's no secret that more companies are seeking to apply their finance team's analytical rigor to growing pools of customer data. Join us when Lois Martin, CFO, Ceridian, reflects on what a growing customer focus means for the finance function and the professionals building their careers within it. ¤
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