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971: Navigating Growth and Transformation | Sam Kemp, CFO, Built Technologies

Looking back on his days with GoDaddy, Sam Kemp recalls a pivotal page in the domain registry giant's strategic M&A playbook. As he prepared to present to the executive team his analysis of a recent acquisition, he included a simple slide to convey data that would challenge the company's conventional thinking around acquisitions and how—free…
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The Mentoring Round | Emma Brown, CFO, Medius

CFO Emma Brown’s pivotal career theme is simplification. In a high-pressure turnaround, she realized that complexity hindered understanding. Stripping back to basics, she rebuilt a cash flow, cutting through complexities to identify and solve underlying business problems. This approach, simplifying structures and focusing on essentials, transformed a $40 million loss into a $15 million profit. […]

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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944: Building Your Network | Ana M. Chadwick, CFO, Pitney Bowes

Back in 2020, the call that longtime General Electric veteran Ana Chadwick accepted from a recruiter would prove to be the one solicitation in a career’s worth of such outreaches that would ultimately result in an executive search fee. Still, while Chadwick would be a prize placement for any headhunter, it is clear that this…
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918: A Uniform Beginning | Ken Bowles, CFO, WilsonHCG

Back in 2001, the new finance recruits roaming the corridors of General Electric Company prodded themselves along as they confronted the everyday challenges of orienting themselves inside GE’s hard-shell corporate culture. This was perhaps especially true for financial analyst Ken Bowles, whose cultural trial was somewhat more daunting, considering whence he had come. Turn back…
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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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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 […]

How A Data Unlock Helped SEC To Identify At-Risk Issuers | Alison Staloch, CFO, Fundrise

CFO GUEST:: Alison Staloch of Fundrise Staloch: At the SEC, I remember, you know, we were we were starting to build out our data aggregation tools as an organization primarily as a way to streamline risk identification for our examinations or analytics teams, or, you know, for use in reporting metrics and our economic analyses […]