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Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Agosto shares insights on the importance of being patient and understanding the full scope of the CFO role before pushing forward aggressively. Agosto discusses initial strategic plans for property development and business outcomes, showing foresight and structured planning. 1,004: Beyond the Casino Floor: A CFO’s Ascent | Efraín Pérez Agosto, […]
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Lawrence Herman reflects on his experience during the “Bitcoin winter” when he advised against the popular opinion to sell off assets. He advocated for buying more Bitcoin as a strategy to preserve and potentially increase the company’s financial health during a market downturn. At Dwolla, Herman’s priorities include optimizing cash […]
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Dan Murphy emphasizes the importance of understanding the underlying factors behind key metrics such as net dollar retention. This involves analyzing why certain customers are buying more and why others aren’t, which can reveal insights into product or service improvements.Looking ahead, his priorities include maintaining rigorous execution, structuring the organization […]
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Naresh Bansal emphasizes the importance of flexibility and readiness to adapt to unforeseen changes in the business environment, illustrating this with his own experiences of sudden shifts in company strategy and market conditions. He discusses how his role shifted towards more strategic capital allocation, particularly in response to changing economic […]
Inside The Mentoring Round, Semperis CFO Jeff Bray emphasizes the importance of concentrating investments on the best ideas rather than spreading resources too thinly. In his transition from an analyst to a portfolio manager, he shifted the strategy to focus on the top three to five investment ideas from each analyst, significantly enhancing portfolio performance. […]
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Bob Houghton’s first investor relations role at General Mills highlights the importance of external representation and engagement with investors in shaping a finance leader’s career. Houghton’s observation that well-rounded experiences attract proactive recruitment efforts for CFO and other finance leadership roles illustrates the market value of a broad and diverse […]
Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Sarah Alper emphasizes the necessity of a collaborative approach to growth, underscoring that “Finance can’t just tell you what you need to do. It’s a conversation with the business on how to do that, on how to get there.” She explains how experiences at GE and UiPath have endowed her […]
