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919: Adopting a Broader View | Chris Kramer, CFO, Axonius

Among the different career highlights that Chris Kramer shares with us, perhaps none is as memorable as what might be called his "Indiana Jones moment." Having distinguished himself as a “technical accountant” during the first half of his career, Kramer was often dispatched to observe and scrutinize the accounting practices of prospective acquisition targets in…
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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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911: Moving the Needle | Chuck Fisher, CFO, Turo

The meeting that Chuck Fisher brings to our attention began not unlike hundreds, if not thousands, of other meetings that he has sat in on during his 25-year business career. However, it was at one particular gathering that he witnessed the thinking that would trigger one of the last decade’s greatest strategic bets. Back in…
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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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909: Get It Done | Rex Jackson, CFO, ChargePoint

We often like to ask our CFO guests if they remember the first time that they presented to a board of directors. For many, this happened earlier than you might expect—but few of our interviewees have exposed the benefits of “early access” for us better than Rex Jackson. “I grew up in boardrooms,” comments Jackson, who…
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899: Democratizing Workforce Opportunities | Simone Nardi, CFO, Globalization Partners

Gray-haired late-night fans may remember when David Letterman sought to ingratiate himself with his network’s new owner, General Electric Corp., by hand-delivering a bowl of fruit to GE’s executive brass. Nearly 20 years later, Simone Nardi became a benefactor of GE’s media aspirations when he traded a senior manager position on GE’s audit team for…
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898: Making Finance Proactively Persuasive | Russell Lester, CFO, Versapay

By the time Russell Lester landed inside Intuit’s department of analysis in 2009, the unremarkable career path on which he had first set out nearly 10 years earlier had become brimming with possibilities. Back in the early 2000s, Lester tells us, he was hired by the company Harland Clarke (now Vericast) as an analyst specializing…
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897: Satisfying a Growth Appetite | Bobby Leibrock, CFO, Red Hat Software

Last October, when it was announced that Bobby Leibrock would become the next CFO of IBM subsidiary Red Hat, finance team members no doubt understood that the open-source developer was coronating not just any IBM veteran but a strategic finance executive who for years had been entrenched along the front lines of IBM’s software acquisition…
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896: Why Context Trumps Playbooks | Aneal Vallurupalli, CFO, Airbase

Back in 2010, when the flow of hiring by investment banks had been reduced to a meager trickle of new faces in the wake of the economic downturn, Aneal Vallurupalli walked through the doors of San Francisco's Union Square Advisors.     For Vallurupalli—a recent graduate of a Bay Area college not necessarily known as a…
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895: Learning to Manage Upward | Paul Sheriff, CFO, NewDay

Back in 2006, when Paul Sheriff had only recently been named group financial director for a midsize banking business based in the United Kingdom, his team noticed that the profit margins of a certain banking product were experiencing a steady decline. What’s more, the customers being drawn to the product were deemed to be at…
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