716: Building Your Operational Model | Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft
Back in 2008, Chad Gold was working for Home Depot as an FP&A professional when the economic downturn upended the home building market and summoned him to the retailer’s forecasting front lines.
“Finance had to be ahead of the business as far as thinking through all the different scenarios went because the housing markets were changing literally day to day,” comments Gold, who observes that the crisis revealed to him how the finance team must always be out in front “looking around corners.”
After several years with the giant retailer and multiple promotions, Gold says, he began to grow…
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