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When veteran CFO Ivor Macleod first contemplated joining an early-stage pharma company, the condition known as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was not appearing in nightly news …
Continue Reading about 621: The CFO as Enabler of Science | Ivor Macleod, CFO, Athersys →
It was October 2019. Red Hat, Inc., was preparing to submit its latest quarterly results to its new parent, IBM Corp., and Laurie Krebs had just been named Red Hat software’s new CFO.As a senior vice …
Continue Reading about 620: When People Matter Most | Laurie Krebs, CFO, Red Hat →
When Ray Carpenter retraces his steps to the CFO office at Xandr—an analytics and advertising company formed by AT&T's WarnerMedia—he singles out two earlier roles as having been outside …
Continue Reading about 619: Finding Finance’s Center of Gravity | Ray Carpenter, CFO, Xandr →
Not unlike the careers of his finance leader peers, the finance career of Dave Jones, CFO of online car seller Vroom, has been shaped and influenced by economic crises of the past two decades. Last …
Continue Reading about 618: From COVID’s Initial Shock to IPO in 60 Days | Dave Jones, CFO, Vroom →
Dennis McGrath was only recently married and a new home owner when he was invited to a Phillies game by the CFO of AC Manufacturing.At the time, McGrath was working for Andersen as an auditor of a …
Continue Reading about 617: Finding Your Seat at the M&A Table | Dennis McGrath, CFO, PAVmed →
When asked to share a few of the experiences that he feels prepared him for a CFO role, Ashim Gupta recalls what he characterizes as a significant accounting problem. However, it was not the nature of …
Continue Reading about 616: Predictability and the Pipeline | Ashim Gupta, CFO, UiPath →
