Machine Generated Transcript Taylor: And so one of the things for me, and it’s, in some ways, it’s a criticism from the from the outside markets. And that’s why, again, being a CFO, you have to realize you have different constituents who have different points of view, but you have to do what you think […]
881: The Firm of Many Lives | Keith Taylor, CFO, Equinix
As our finance leader guests well know, we seldom hesitate to ask where they spent their career-building years. Moreover, if we learn that a CFO spent more than 5 years with any one company, we’re apt to ask, “Why? What kept you there?” On the other hand—and somewhat oddly—finance career investments spanning a decade or…
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Achieving a Strategic Alignment | Teodora Gouneva, CFO, NEXT Insurance
Machine generated transcript Gouneva: I would probably say until a few months after I joined, we were very focused on top line growth, and majority of what we report and how we will report is premium, which for us is indication of top line growth. And we had to make a shift given everything else […]
880: When Success Begets Risk | Teodora Gouneva, CFO, NEXT Insurance
Teodora Gouneva was enjoying one of the more satisfying chapters of a 25-year finance career when she began hearing voices again. She tells us that although for most of her work trajectory she had been able to ignore them, on this occasion the contentment that she had so carefully guarded began to give way. The…
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878: When the Path Rises to Meet You | Don Bassell, CFO, ARKO Corp.
As we have been interviewing CFOs from different industries, many finance leaders have told us that they had bracketed the CFO office as their preferred career destination beginning from Day One of their professional lives. Still others have reported that it was only due to the intervention of a determined mentor that they were able…
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Here’s Where We Drive Value | Jim Young, CFO, Coalition
CFO GUEST: Jim Young of Coalition, Inc. EPISODE: 876: Exposing Where Business Value Resides
876: Exposing Where Business Value Resides | Jim Young, CFO, Coalition
Looking back on their career-building years, few finance leaders ever forget the first time that they presented to a board of directors. For many, the stares of the individual directors around the table remain locked in time, forever evergreen. For Jim Young, the gazes that stay ever-present are some that were cast not from across…
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873: Pages from a Silver Lining Playbook | Michael Kopelman, CFO, Meow Wolf
Back in 2022, only three years after its acquisition of Warner Media, AT&T decided to leave the entertainment business and announced plans to relinquish its ownership of the giant media company. Just like many of his peers, Michael Kopelman has found that the business headlines of the past have everything and nothing to do with…
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Gearing Up with Predictive Analytics | Dan Fletcher, CFO, Planful
CFO GUEST: Dan Fletcher of Planful EPISODE: 872: Opportunities Along the xP&A Frontier
Gleaning Insights Along Calendly’s Up Market Climb | John McCauley, CFO Calendly
CFO GUEST: John McCauley of Calendly EPISODE: #870: When Preparation Matters
868: Armed and Sheltered From the Storm | Tom Fennimore, CFO, Luminar Technologies
The Goldman Sachs “anti-raid” team was between conference calls with an embattled client company when word came that a senior member of the target company’s management team had unexpectedly died. Looking back, Tom Fennimore says that the next few months of his early career years at Goldman then became a transition point—or period of accelerated…
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867: Energizing Your Data Relations | Donald Alvarez, CFO, Cyngn
Back in 1993, Don Alvarez was an auditor with Deloitte’s San Francisco office when specialty retailer and coveted client company West Marine went public. For Alvarez, the day began with WM’s management explicating the novel steps behind pricing its offering, which was followed by the requisite trip to a Bay Area printer. The long day…
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