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846: Influencing Your Operating Inputs | Ambereen Toubassy, CFO, Airtable
When Ambereen Toubassy decided that it was time to start up her own hedge fund, it's likely that no one cast doubt on the experienced investor’s grand plan. That is, no one except Toubassy herself. …
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845: Levers of Growth, Doors of Opportunity | Darren Cooper, CFO, Reveal Group
When Darren Cooper was named CFO of Reveal Group of Melbourne, Australia, in 2019, there was no friendly board member or executive recruiter seeking kudos for having completed a successful a CFO …
844: The Virtues of Work, Sleep, and Success | Gillian Sheeran, CFO, Pricefx
Gillian Sheeran’s was perhaps 17 years into an illustrious finance career and on her second CFO tour of duty when she finally met the limits of her CFO superpowers. These powers had first guided …
843: Making Finance Part of the Business’s Operating Fabric | Adil Syed, CFO, Rippling
If, as the old maxim suggests, "life" is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans, Adil Syed’s other plans most likely did not include Snap Inc—or at least they didn’t when he first …
842: Realizing the Potential of Data at Scale | Ross Muken, CFO, Sophia Genetics
It was after Ross Muken had been gainfully roaming the corridors of equity research for more than a dozen years that the acquisition of his firm administered a dose of operations insight that began to …