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1,040: Leadership Partnership: How the CFO, CEO, and CIO Shape the Future | Mark Partin, CFO, Blackline

Twenty-seven years ago, while in his late twenties, Mark Partin arrived inside the C-suite largely unprepared for the flood of challenges that would quickly breach his desk. Or so Partin tells us as he recounts the circumstances surrounding the first of five CFO appointments that have thus far punctuated his finance leadership career.

“I can and do love to suffer,” Partin comments, describing the experience as being “over my head” and demanding him to “level up,” or constantly “reach to the next level” to succeed.

For Partin, who had been named CFO of a publicly traded company despite his…

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