A Finance Strategic Moment Seeing poor collaboration with shared‑service finance teams, Steinberg realized relational capital drives strategic finance. He set up an office at the remote site, spent two days weekly with tax, accounting and compliance leads, listening and co‑solving issues. The strengthened partnerships lifted quality and helped to ready IONOS for a smooth IPO. Now […]
1103: Turning Anomalies into Advantage | Matthias Steinberg, CFO, MindBridge
When Matthias Steinberg entered the CFO office at MindBridge in 2022, the audit files displayed on his laptop were already being processed by the company’s own AI. KPMG, he adds, was using the same platform to automate journal‑entry testing—work “traditionally done manual.” That shift marked “a big step toward continuous audit,” Steinberg tells us. CFOTL: Tell us…
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905: The Future CFO Among Us | Sruthi Lanka, CFO, Public.com
Sruthi Lanka is clearly not the only CFO who began her professional career at blue chip investment house Goldman Sachs. However, she may be one of the only CFOs—if not the only one—who can trace her career roots to Goldman’s technology engineering team. Back in 2009, as the economic downturn dispatched a daily dose of…
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902: Finding Your Fire | Celeste Ackert, CFO, Fairmarkit
Of all of the places future CFOs could have been employed in the late 1990s, the printing division of RR Donnelley might seem to have been among the least likely. However, what's important to note is that this period predated the wide deployment of EDGAR, the database system that electronically automates the collection, validation, and…
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445: How Finance, “The Connector,” Is Wiring Organizations | Michael Bayer, CFO, Wasabi Technologies, Inc.
Wasabi CFO Michael Bayer’s career "Ah-ha!" moment struck early. He was a college math whiz in the early days of PCs when a professor enlisted him to move all of his paper-based finance and accounting records to a computerized system. “He took me under his wing and taught me a lot,” recalls Bayer, whose professional…
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431: Arriving at Your S-Curve’s Inflection Point | Sian Wang, CFO, FastSpring
Regarding Growth: "We've done very well historically in terms of year-on-year revenue growth. But as we climb the inflection point of that curve, I think that we're trying to figure out how high our growth can be. This might involve greater international expansion or maybe improving or expanding our product offering. So there are a…
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372: Building for Tomorrow | Karen Cambray, CFO, Tamr
Join us when career CFO Karen Cambray retraces the steps and career milestones that led her to the CFO office of Tamr, a technology developer specializing in software that unifies data that resides in silos across organizations. "Everyone in finance knows that it costs twice as much to replace a good employee, particularly in an…
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298: The Startup CFO: The Builder’s Journey
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260: Three CFOs Scratch Their Entrepreneurial Itch
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222: Charting the Entrepreneur’s Path, Robbie Sprechman, CFO, Fierce Brands
If you have only 10 listening minutes to spare, you won't feel cheated listening to Robbie Sprechman's opening anecdote about how he first entered the office of the CFO. There's little doubt that CFO Sprechman's unusual career path satisfied an entrepreneur itch, while at the same time steadily advancing his finance career. No small feat…
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216: Mastering the Application of Scale and Systems, Jim Stewart, CFO, True Ventures
When it comes to applying scale and systems to growing businesses, few professionals wield greater insight than those who reside inside the venture industry, and few finance leaders are more experienced with the application of "S&S" than those counted within the ranks of venture management. Join us when finance leader Jim Stewart shares the career milestones…
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196: How Financial Insight is Fueling the Rise of Flashgap, Mathias Richemond, CFO
Join us when Mathias Richemond reveals his start-up CFO mindset and illuminates the growing silicon ambitions of Paris, France.
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