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982: Blending Alcohol and E-commerce | Matt Wolf, CFO, DRINKS

Twelve years ago, when Matt Wolf was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, he likely would have been alarmed to learn that his future finance career would be largely impacted by drinking and driving. Such was his destiny, though, as after a 5-year stint with the investment bank in London and New York he began…
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967: Leading With a Customer Mind-Set | Karen Walker, CFO, Sysdig

Like many of her CFO peers, Karen Walker had an early career that was guided by abundant opportunities surrounding finance-driven decision-making within organizations. It was a path that often led Walker to engage more closely with sales and operations, as was the case at CNET Networks, where she tells us that she recognized the limitations…
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903: Making the Data Matter | Ryan Lockwood, CFO, CarParts.com

While April 2020 may forever bring to mind corporate corridors newly silenced by COVID 19’s arrival in the United States, CarParts.com CFO Ryan Lockwood will likely always remember it as the month when opportunity knocked. Having spent the previous 10 years in investment management, Lockwood, a portfolio manager for a Southern California investment house, was…
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889: Whetting Wall Street’s Tech Appetite | Ben Chrnelich, CFO, Symphony

When Ben Chrnelich tells us that the banking sector’s recent unrest is the third period of disruption that he’s “cycled through” during his finance career, we can’t help but wonder about the other two. Of course, they are hardly a secret. As did that of many of his CFO peers, Chrnelich’s early career appears to…
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769: Beyond the Boardroom | Herald Chen, CFO, AppLovin

When Herald Chen was growing up in a small town not far from Pittsburgh, he dreamed of someday running the town’s steel mill. Years later, when he was graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, the steel mill no longer occupied Chen’s maturing career aspirations. “My two job offers were to either go make soap for…
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658: The Technology-Driven Turnaround | Sandra Harris, CFO, Tupperware Brands

When Tupperware Brands CFO Sandra Harris is asked what set her apart from the other CFO candidates who aspired to fill the finance leadership role at the iconic maker of food storage products, she doesn’t hesitate to mention that her previous leadership turn was not as a CFO, but as chief information officer for outdoor…
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493: A CFO for All Seasons | Vijay Kumar, CFO, Sify Technologies

At times, it must seem to Vijay Kumar that his 12-year tenure as a CFO has been spent not at one company but three. This must be a sense that most C-suite members at Sify Technologies likely experience in light of the company's appetite for continuous reinvention. Back in 2007, when Kumar arrived at the…
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382: When IT Is Top-of-Mind | Finance Leaders Discuss Their Favorite Applications

How is IT reshaping the role that finance plays within organizations? Join us when four finance leaders share their views on information technology and how new tools and applications are opening new doors to strategy-minded finance professionals.
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323: Empowering Finance to Optimize Strategy | Olivier Leonetti, CFO, Zebra Technologies

Join us when Olivier Leonetti retraces his steps up the CFO career ladder from Gillette to Dell Computer to Western Digital and Zebra Technologies. Learn how Olivier believes that his multinational experience has broadened his strategic view of the role of finance and how enabling talent remains his top leadership imperative.   Quick Hits: 60-Second…
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092: Expanding the Application of CFO Influence, Logicalis, CFO, Rich Pirrotta

How can CFO influence be grown and applied more widely? Join us as Rich shares his CFO mind-set and explains why strategy execution and driving results is central to the CFO role. Sponsors BlackLine Systems Financial Close Suite helps finance executives rapidly reconcile millions of transactions per minute. View a free demo today visit  www.CFOthoughtleaderdemo.com Midmarket Change…
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