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Members of Siemens USA’s finance team would probably not be surprised to learn that when their CFO, Marsha Smith, is asked to reveal the experiences that prepared her for a finance leadership role, …
Continue Reading about 636: Being Part of the Team | Marsha Smith, CFO, Siemens USA →
The Berlin headquarters of software developer Contentful occupies an old brick warehouse with heavy metal doors, broad functional corridors and spaces native to its industrial past.Standing six …
It was a little over 40 years ago when Steve Young first joined what would become Duke Energy, the giant electric power holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.“Not only has it been …
Continue Reading about 634: Milestones for M&A Success | Steve Young, CFO, Duke Energy →
Among the more transformative chapters of Matt Briers’s finance career was his 3-year stint monitoring and forecasting margin performance inside Google’s UK operations.“The core role was really to …
Continue Reading about 633: Marching to Fintech’s New Beat | Matt Briers, CFO, TransferWise →
Jacqueline Purcell’s path to the CFO office began inside an Australian law firm where as a young attorney she was advising corporate clients and their bankers on how to best address some of the legal …
Back in the early 1990s, Steven Springsteel nabbed an interview for a CFO role with a high-flying tech start-up. At the time, he was controller for Apple’s worldwide manufacturing operations, but the …
