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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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709: Investor, Advisor, Operator | Mark Shifke, CFO, Billtrust

Billtrust CFO Mark Shifke likes to label himself an “accidental CFO”—a tag that a number of our guests have appropriated from time to time when faced with explaining a past filled with less-than-traditional career experience. However, in the case of Shifke, the term arguably has little to do with career experience, for Billtrust’s CFO spent…
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708: Making FP&A Your Cross-Functional Glue | Waifa Chau, CFO, Nylas

Several actions proved key as Waifa Chau advanced from financial planning and analysis (FP&A) roles to chief financial officer positions. Collaborating with other functions, gaining an in-depth understanding of the overall business, and helping his colleagues to understand how FP&A benefits an organization have driven his success, says Chau, currently CFO with Nylas, Inc., a…
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707: Light from a Distant Star | Ian Charles, CFO, Flexe

Of course, every finance leader needs to understand the mechanics of accounting and know how to identify the financial implications of management’s decisions. Their preparation should also include learning from their experiences—and this includes mistakes, says Ian Charles, chief financial officer with Flexe, an on-demand warehousing solution. In particular, identifying the optimal candidate for a…
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706: A Career of Build-and-Scale Moments | Trent York, CFO, Restore Hyper Wellness

Nearly 20 years later, CFO Trent York tells us that he can still hear the finance executive’s exact words. “Trent, I don’t need you tell me how not to do something—I need you to help me to figure out how to work through the issue and what needs to be addressed in order for us…
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