890: Driving the Internet Sharetaker | Christopher Halpin, CFO, IAC

CFO THOUGHT LEADER · Apr 16, 2023 · 58m

In 2011, after Chris Halpin had rejoined his colleagues back at Providence Equity Partners’ New York offices at the completion of a 3-year stint in Hong Kong, he found himself being confronted by something he had rarely experienced before: boredom.

“I had this kind of existential angst—that I didn’t want to die and have my obituary say that I had worked 40 years at Providence Equity,” recalls Halpin, who notes that it was at this point that he began to think about different operating roles in business and the possibility of landing a CFO position.

Still, Halpin tells us that he reviewed and…