1120: Navigating Growth, Crisis, and the AI Revolution | Eric Brown, CFO, Cohesity
Eric Brown vividly recalls his trial by fire at MicroStrategy. Joining a subsidiary, he expected to help deploy hundreds of millions from a planned secondary raise. Instead, “the parent company had a restatement…raised zero,” he tells us. Elevated to CFO, he faced layoffs of two-thirds of staff and operating margins at -40%. Over three years, Brown led a turnaround to +30% margins and a market cap recovery from $55 million to more than $1 billion. “Nothing really phases me,” he says of the experience.
That resilience shaped how he later embraced growth. At Tanium, he oversaw hyperbolic…
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