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714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, Transfix

In March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an independent company. “As we spun off, we paid a massive dividend to the parent of $18 billion, and our central thought became: ‘How do we survive? How…
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713: Banker, Builder, Finance Leader | Stuart Henrickson, CFO, Bold Commerce

In the late 1990s, when Stuart Henrickson was CFO for Koch Industries’ Canadian operations, Chase Manhattan made him a job offer unlike any that he had received before. “It was a fork in the road for me. Koch had been consolidating and bringing many of its operations back to their head office in the U.S.,…
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712: Making an Impact One Employee at a Time | Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media

When Maria Manrique stepped into her first role as a CFO, she did so knowing that her finance leader mentor was still in the building—in fact, he was occupying the CEO office. “It would be unfair of me to not say that this was critical—being able to step into the role and have someone there…
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711: Building Your Network | Nicole Anasenes, CFO, Ansys

Asked to recall the experience of stepping into a CFO role for the first time, Nicole Anasenes doesn’t mince words. “It’s a very lonely, scary moment,” comments Anasenes, as she considers her early days at technology company Infor—a CFO appointment that preceded more recent CFO engagements at Squarespace and now technology firm Ansys. “If only…
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710: Supply, Demand, and Oil in the Gears | Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah, CFO, Analog Devices, Inc.

It was nightly business conversations at his parents' dinner table that first led Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah to consider alternatives to business when it came to building a career. "As most small business owners do, my parents worked all the time—and as with most small businesses, things could at times be financially challenging," explains Mahendra-Rajah, who vividly…
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