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933: When Transparency Drives Profits | Charly Kevers, CFO, Carta
When Charly Kevers took his mentor’s advice and swapped a corporate development role at Hewlett-Packard for a tour of duty as a director of HP’s investor relations arm, he looked forward to tackling a variety of IR requisites, including crafting the messaging that follows a change at the top. Two years and four HP CEOs…
921: The Work Comes First | Niki Heim, CFO, LogicSource
It’s perhaps no secret that this podcast can be rather rigid when it comes to our policy for welcoming guests: Invitations are reserved for CFOs and CFOs alone. In fact, we regularly turn away book authors, consultants, and even CEOs. Such was the case for David Pennino, CEO of LogicSource, who recently was “pitched” to…
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Growth & Efficiency | Joel Campbell, CFO, TreviPay
CFO GUEST: Joe Campbell of TreviPay CFO Campbell explains the importance of not just growing quickly, but also converting that growth into earnings efficiently. As he explains: It’s a delicate balancing act, and we shares his strategies for achieving it. Strategy Communication: Campbell emphasizes the need to articulate and demonstrate the company’s strategy to his […]
917: Build Your Own Personal Balance Sheet | Joel Campbell, CFO, TreviPay
While the 2008 financial crash turned out to be a reliable source of career lessons for many of our finance leader guests, Joel Campbell may be the first CFO to share with us a customer support lesson learned from the crisis. Back in 2006, Campbell, a seasoned treasury executive, had been recruited to help to…
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915: Where Finance Always Comes First | David Parsons, CFO, Zuto
When David Parsons tells us that he remains concerned about the whereabouts of his 20-something-year-old self, we realize that our talk with Zuto’s CFO is going to be different from most of those that we undertake with today's finance leaders. According to Parsons, “Thirty-nine-year-old Dave is looking at mid-20s Dave and asking, 'What are you…
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914: My Side of the Valley | Michael Bannon, President and CFO, Typeform
When OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, recently announced that it would be opening its first office outside the U.S., few who were roaming the tech corridors of Silicon Valley likely were surprised that the generative AI company chose London for its new outpost. As a backdrop to the decision, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has…
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913: The Rewards of “Ruthless Transparency” | Jeff Noto, CFO, Zayo
When Jeff Noto is asked to reflect back on his 35 years with Verizon, he tells us that his earliest years with the company were spent scoring quick returns on investments that Verizon had made inside its fledgling wireless business. “I always have to chuckle when I think back to how certain people thought that…
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910: Getting in Close | Alex Triplett, CFO, Appfire
When Alex Triplett is asked to explain where and how he began acquiring his operations knowledge, he tells us that his ops focus began to sharpen as more and more roles demanded greater "specificity" of him. Back in 2006, Triplett had just completed a stint as an investment banker with Citigroup when he was hired…
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How a Price Volume Analysis Reversed a Margin Decline at Coleman | Dayton Kellenberger, CFO, Vendavo
CFO GUEST: Dayton Kellenberger of Vendavo
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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The Path to Unlocking Gross Margin Points | Dayton Kellenberger, CFO, Vendavo
CFO GUEST: Dayton Kellenberger, CFO, Vendavo Kellenberger: I think there’s a couple that that come to mind. I mean, I think the first piece is overarchingly. We want to make sure that we’re focusing the business on the key metrics that matter. And so we shifted how we do our monthly business unit reviews. So […]