Inside The Mentoring Round, CFO Brian Registe of Questek discusses the integration of SaaS with traditional project-based work, highlighting how Questek balances both business models. He explains the key SaaS metrics they focus on, such as sales pipeline and cycle length, to drive growth. Brian also shares insights on Questek’s partnerships with industry leaders like […]
879: Where SaaS Roots Run Deep | Bas Brukx, CFO, Allego
With regard to finance leaders who are counted among the ranks of today's SaaS CFOs, it goes without saying that 20 years ago, most were somewhere other than at SaaS companies. In fact, many of them have no doubt arrived inside the SaaS realm only within the past 10 years or so as part of…
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757: The Workforce Is Rising | Justin Judd, CFO, BambooHR
"Gain all of the experience that you can in different areas of business, across sales, marketing, product development, operations, finance, accounting, legal, and employee experience. And, most important, cultivate strong relationships and take care of and treat people well." –Justin Judd, CFO, BambooHR Ten years ago, when Adobe management finally made up its mind to…
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754: The Return to Earth | Tom Fitzgerald, CFO, Planet Fitness
Back in the mid-1990s, before email became widely used across corporate America, the executives of Frito-Lay’s northern California region suddenly found their mailboxes full. “We were getting all of these letters from people asking, 'What did you do? What's going on in northern California?,'” explains Tom Fitzgerald, who at the time was finance director for…
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350: How Travel Became One CFO’s Ticket to Ride | Dan Figenshu, CFO, Rocketrip
It was no coincidence that on the same day that Dan Figenshu agreed to join Rocketship as its CFO, the software developer lost one of its most loyal repeat customers—the reason being, of course, that Figenshu and the customer were one and the same. Having built a finance career inside New York's margin-minded media industry, Figenshu…
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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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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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