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684: Completing the Job at Hand | Paul Ottolini, CFO, Russell Reynolds Associates

When Paul Ottolini is asked to share a personal trait—one that a family member might divulge to us— the seasoned finance leader tells us that he likes to cut his own lawn and that he is known for being “cheap.” Still, Ottolini makes clear to us that it’s more the satisfaction of completing a job…
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683: When It’s Time to Sit in the Driver’s Seat | Stéphane Berthier, CFO, Uniphore

When Stéphane Berthier joined Uniphore of Palo Alto, CA, as CFO this past January, the move no doubt raised more than a few Silicon Valley eyebrows. For more than two decades, Berthier had served a list of prestigious Bay Area tech companies as a top audit partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where his impressive tenure had originally…
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682: How the Flywheel Effect Creates Long-Term Value | John Collins, CFO, LivePerson

When CFO John Collins is asked how his background in data modeling and strategy is influencing the role that finance plays inside LivePerson, the artificial intelligence (AI) software firm that he first joined 2 years ago, he draws our attention to the mountains of data accumulating alongside most businesses today. “Given the volume of data…
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681: Not Settling for Business as Usual | Christian Geyer, CFO, ActiveNav

As Christian Geyer sees it, the path to the CFO office can begin just about anywhere. For him, anywhere happened to be the accounts payable department of a DC-area construction company. Having built numerous government facilities across the region, the company hired Geyer—along with three other “payables specialists”—to manage the process of paying for the…
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680: Making Sales Success a Must-See Metric | Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products

As the newly appointed CFO of Lawson Products a little more than a decade ago, Ron Knutson realized the significant infrastructure and technology investments that would be required to meet the productivity goals that he was expected to help drive.  In anticipation of the investments that would need to be made, Knutson recalls, he first…
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679: Making a Business Ripe for Investors | Graham Miao, CFO, AgroFresh

Looking back, AgroFresh CFO Graham Miao says that the decision to change careers early in his professional life was triggered more or less by resource allocation. Originally, Miao had trained as a biologist, and after having earned a doctoral degree in biology from Columbia University, he quickly found gainful employment as a scientist at a…
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