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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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828: When Finance Talks to the Business | Claire Bramley, CFO, Teradata

From the very start of our talk with CFO Claire Bramley, she let us know that she has long been part of the bigger conversation represented by the everyday back-and-forth discourse that punctuates decision-making inside a business. “I’m always saying that If you can’t explain it to the business, if you can’t explain it to…
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826: Along the CFO Continuum | Pat Dillon, CFO, Flock Freight

When Flock Freight CFO Pat Dillon thinks back to his investment banking days at Morgan Stanley and considers the variety of CFOs from whom he once sat across, the banking veteran is struck by how at times the CFOs seem to have had little in common with one another. “What I saw was that their…
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820: Establishing Milestones for the Stakeholder Ecosystem | Adam Swiecicki, CFO, Brex

As the 32-year-old CFO of Brex, Adam Swiecicki has a professional narrative unpopulated by the tales of economic and business hijinks that many of our CFO guests share. Instead, Swiecicki’s forward-looking delivery seems intent on making a clean break from the CFOs of the past, whose career lessons frequently have involved the same one or…
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Ep 15: Employee Engagement & the Less Social World

Brett & Jack discuss how learning and development is one of five key elements of employee engagement – and explore reasons why L&D too often gets overlooked. Featuring the commentary and insights of workplace champions CFO Dave Bernhardt of SentinelOne, CFO Joan Hilson of Signet Jewelers and CFO Herald Chen of Applovin. The following is a machine-generated transcript produced […]

763: Of All the Nerve | Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen

"Develop a small network of trusted informal advisors and mentors to be an independent sounding board as you address the challenges of this new role." –Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen Like many of his finance leader peers, Pete Mariani credits a senior operational role with helping him to plant both feet on the path to the…
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