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1,037: Optimizing Growth and Margins: A CFO’s Strategic Playbook | Regi Vengalil, CFO, Trax Retail

When the opportunity to help lead Expedia's corporate travel business arose, Regi Vengalil knew that this was exactly the role that he had been seeking in order to put his CFO career on a new and better track. Stepping into this CFO position meant overseeing a business unit with $600 million in revenue and $120…
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The Mentoring Round | CFO Dayton Kellenberger

Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Dayton Kellenberger shared a key moment from his time at Coleman Company that reshaped his view of finance. Tasked with addressing declining gross margins, Kellenberger used a detailed price-volume mix analysis to uncover that low-margin products were unintentionally replacing higher-margin ones. His findings led to a transformation in how Coleman priced […]

966: The Billionaire’s Apprentice | Michael Perica, CFO, Rimini Street

CFO Michael Perica's career journey began with an opportunity to work as a junior analyst for a national capital markets firm, where he would find a billionaire mentor. According to Perica, his association with the billionaire would ultimately offer him access to influential networks and unique opportunities. From his early days onward, Perica tells us,…
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904: Becoming a Catalyst for Growth | Dayton Kellenberger, CFO, Vendavo

Even today, Dayton Kellenberger marvels at his good fortune in having landed inside the corporate finance department of Coleman Company. Of course, like a lot of career success stories, this tale had timing as a large contributor, especially inasmuch as a little more than 10 years ago, Coleman was experiencing declining gross margins across its…
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483: Making FP&A a Road Map for the Business | Glynis Bryan, CFO, Insight Enterprises, Inc.

There was a time when Glynis Bryan imagined herself someday retiring from Ryder System, Inc.—a company she entered as an intern and would later exit as a senior vice president. Along the way, she credits the transportation logistics giant with having exposed her to complex M&A transactions and innovative capital structures—two areas that she believes…
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