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315: Making Pricing a Priority | Eric Johnson, CFO, Nintex

Eric Johnson, CFO, Nintex, accepts our invitation to update us on the workflow automation firm's adoption of a subscription business model and its recent addition of an inside sales organization. Johnson explains how finance played a central role in developing the pricing model behind a new joint selling model involving both inside sales and established partners.…
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Five Myths That May Be Preventing the CFO From Benefiting From the Cloud

By Michael Fullwood Nearly every corporation has deployed cloud and as-a-service technology to some extent as part of its digital strategy, although not all of them have adopted it as part of an enterprise strategy. We have seen continued maturation of cloud offerings, and today several of these offerings are as secure, or more secure, […]

292: Empowering the Business | Steve Love, CFO, Dialpad

As an operations-oriented CFO, Steve Love has rapidly scaled both public and privately held SaaS/software and cloud-based technology companies. Join us when Steve traces his career from Ernst & Young (providing assurance and SEC services) to the CFO office, where he has raised funds from top-tier VCs and institutions, launched subsidiaries, and helped to target, negotiate, and…
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248: Anatomy of a SaaS Finance Function

Step inside the SaaS world of Karen Gift, Vice President/Finance, BlackLine, and Chuck Best, Vice President/Accounting Operations, BlackLine. Learn how their team is helping to advance not just new metrics, but also a SaaS frame of mind that influences decision-making across the company as it helps to determine the priorities, skill sets, and career development inside a modern finance organization. Chuck & Karen's Site…
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247: Prepared for What’s Next | Pete Childs, CFO, Workfront

When considering a new job a finance leader must proceed with caution, allowing for time to execute background checks and to gain a familiarity with the company's culture, according to Pete Childs, CFO of Workfront, a software developer specializing in cloud-based enterprise work management solutions. Join us when Pete shares his CFO mindset and explains how SaaS…
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246: Growing Your Customer Orientation | Carol Wood, CFO, Dizzion

When career CFO Carol Wood joined Denver, Colorado, tech company Dizzion back in 2015, she already had an established track record of keeping a firm grasp on the systems and controls required to transition a company from one growth plateau to the next. Join us when Carol traces her steps down the finance leadership path and reveals the origins…
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237: Why Finance Leaders Must Always Eat Last, Kathy Moore, CFO, Thycotic

There's little question that aspiring finance leaders must have a hardy appetite when it comes to technical knowledge. Still, Kathy Moore, CFO Thycotic, encourages finance executives to make certain leadership training is also on the menu. Too often, Moore says, finance people keep their lens narrowed on the technical aspects of the job and fail…
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236: One Brick at a Time, Jeanne Prayther, CFO, e-Builder

For many small to midsized firms the hiring of a finance leader signals a coming of age for an organization, a time when business growth becomes more reliant on company culture and business process rather then entrepreneurial passions and instincts. Join us when Jeanne Prayther, CFO of e-Builder, reveals how finance leaders serve as the…
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233: How a Constant State of Discontentment Drives Change, Karen O’Byrne, CFO, Modernizing Medicine

Join us when Karen O'Byrne, CFO, Modernizing Medicine reveals the mind-set that fuels the finance function for a company that has grown to over 500 employees within six years and garnered five rounds of financing - approximately $87 million.   Karen's Site
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232: Roll Up Your Sleeves: A CFO’s Entrepreneurial Itch, Paul Auvil, CFO, Proofpoint

Join us when Paul Auvil explains why large enterprise finance lacks the luster of early enterprise as he peers through his finance lens and explores the milestones of his varied finance career. Paul's SITE
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The Growth Ultimatum and the Rise of the SaaS CFO

The tribe of finance leaders commonly identified as “SaaS CFOs”  are today busily developing the tools and management practices destined to reshape the finance function. It was not quite 100 years ago that Donaldson Brown arrived inside the offices of General Motors Corp.’s finance department. The future GM CFO had distinguished himself years earlier by […]

199: Calculating Lifetime Customer Value, Marty Ostermiller, CFO, Hirevue

As more CFOs become tasked with not just reporting growth but driving it, customer success metrics are becoming increasingly popular, and no one group of finance leaders is more customer success obsessed than that group which dwells inside the high tech hallways of software as a service (SaaS) software application companies.  Join us when SaaS CFO…
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