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CFO THOUGHT LEADER
CFO THOUGHT LEADER is a podcast featuring firsthand accounts of finance leaders who are driving change within their organizations. We share the career journey of our spotlighted CFO guest: What do they struggle with? How do they persevere? What makes them successful CFOs? CFO THOUGHT LEADER is all about inspiring finance professionals to take a leadership leap. We know that by hearing about the successes — (and yes, also the failures) — of others, today’s CFOs can more confidently chart their…
Episodes
CFO THOUGHT LEADER758: Leveraging Momentum to Drive Growth | Amol Chaubal, CFO, Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation CFO Amol Chaubal has cracked the code on the strategic CFO role, and he’s willing to share a snapshot of his formula for success. “A lot of…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER757: The Workforce is Rising | Justin Judd, CFO, BambooHR
Ten years ago, when Adobe management finally made up its mind to enter the software-as-a-service (SaaS) realm and become part of the mass migration from…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER756: Start-Ups, SPACs, and Street Fights | Michael Levine, CFO, Payoneer
Start early, stay late, be prepared, and don’t shy away from the street-fight environments surrounding start-up companies. These methods have helped Michael…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER755: Serving the Creators | Craig Foster, CFO, Picsart
During 2018, the very year Craig Foster joined Bright Machines, the San Francisco–based company was spun out from contract manufacturing firm Flex, raised a…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERPlanning's Longest Yard | A Planning Aces Episode
Steve and Jack discuss FP&A's 100-year march. Featuring commentary and FP&A insights from Planning Aces: CFO Kurt Shintaffer of Apptio CFO Jim Morgan of…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERBonus Replay: Allocating Resources to Achieve the Right Outcomes | Inder Singh, CFO, Arm
Inder Singh started off his professional life as an engineer, only to learn that the large engineering projects that he aspired to someday lead often faced as…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER754: The Return to Earth | Tom Fitzgerald, CFO, Planet Fitness
Back in the mid-1990s, before email became widely used across corporate America, the executives of Frito-Lay’s northern California region suddenly found their…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER753: Time to Make the Coffee | Jim Calabrese, CFO, Finalsite
Jim Calabrese recalls that when he began to climb the corporate ladder early in his finance career, an executive mentor told him, “Never be afraid to make the…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER752: Making Your Company More Valuable | Howard Wilson, CFO, PagerDuty
Among today’s career building finance pros who view the CFO office as their ultimate destination, Howard Wilson might be labeled an off-road commuter. Whereas…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER751: The March Goes On | Dave Damond, CFO, March of Dimes
When does a mission-driven CFO initiate a crucial turnaround of an erstwhile nonprofit that’s been losing money for years and has a legacy pension plan…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER750: Fielding Your Insight Team | Chitra Balasubramanian, CFO, CircleCI
Talk to, or about, CircleCI CFO Chitra Balasubramanian and you’ll hear the word “team” early and often. The phrase describes her leadership approach and to how…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER749: Scouting the Perimeter of Predictability | Daniel O'Shaughnessy, CFO, Formlabs
Dan O’Shaughnessy may be the only finance leader with whom we’ve ever spoken who credits hard work and financial acumen with having helped to keep him out of…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERMaking Salary a Competitive Advantage | A Workplace Champions Episode
Brett and Jack discuss the move by Amazon and other companies to pay employees daily are likely to trigger new approaches in salary administration. Plus, more…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER748: Keeping the Bees Busy | Shana Rowlette, CFO, Mann Lake
Minnesota-based Mann Lake Ltd. is a leader in the beekeeping industry, serving commercial beekeeping businesses and backyard hobbyists alike. The company…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER747: Exposing Your Growth Drivers | Jim Morgan, CFO, CallRail
It sounds counterintuitive, but the best big men in basketball succeed less on size than they do on finesse and footwork. NBA Hall of Famer Tim Duncan’s…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERWhen FP&A Becomes a Business Function | A Planning Aces Episode
Steve & Jack discuss planning’s crunch time in the 4th quarter and the operationalization of FP&A inside different business functions. Featuring FP&A Insights…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER746: Growing With People & Purpose | Robert Alvarez, CFO, BigCommerce
When Robert Alvarez first joined the finance team of one venture-backed start-up, he was thinking that one day he might like to be a CFO. However, upon further…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER745: Origins of a Come Back Therapy | Troy Ignelzi, CFO, Karuna Therapeutics
Troy Ignelzi’s CFO career is rooted in an unlikely place. In fact, some might describe it as the least likely of all places, for the environs of his early…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER744: Democratizing Phone Services | Evan Fein, CFO, TextNow
When Evan Fein accepted his first CFO position more than a decade ago - his focus as a finance leader was too narrow according to the CFO, who in a moment of…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER743: Winning With Employee Success | Michael Rosen, CFO, Power Digital Marketing
Michael Rosen’s finance career began inside the loan department of middle market lender Union Bank (now MUFG Union), when—after completing an 18-month training…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERHR by the Numbers | A Workplace Champions episode
Brett and Jack discuss the marriage of fintech and human capital management, and the of the growing mandate for employee success. Featuring the commentary and…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER742: When a SPAC Unlocks Quantum Possibilities | Thomas Kramer, CFO, IonQ
When Thomas Kramer recalls his decision to leave his job with a prestigious consulting firm to start up a tech firm in the final hours of the dotcom boom, he…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER741: One Step Ahead | Kurt Shintaffer, CFO, Apptio
In the wake of an economic downturn, a company’s door of opportunity swings open to a finance up-and-comer. This is a familiar early career chapter for many…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER740: Illuminating the Home of the Future with a Brand from the Past | Roy Simmons, CFO, GE Lighting, a Savant company
Twenty years ago, when Roy Simmons first joined General Electric Company as a rookie financial analyst, it likely would have been difficult to imagine that he…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER739: The Rules of Play | Craig Abrahams, CFO, Playtika
It was after he had worked 3 years as an investment analyst with Bear Stearns and spent more than 2 years inside the corporate strategy bullpen of The Walt…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER738: Using Digital Insight to Unlock Business Value | Sameer Ralhan, CFO, The Chemours Company
Unlike many of the up-and-comers who populate the corridors of The Chemours Company, CFO Sameer Ralhan spent the balance of his career building years with the…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER737: The Future Before Us | Chris Kuehn, CFO, Trane Technologies
It was a complicated transaction that Ingersoll Rand’s then-CEO Mike Lamach challenged his finance and operations people to address by “turning over every rock…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER736: Inside the Growth Cauldron | Pramod Iyengar, CFO, Veem
When Pramod Iyengar returned to school after working for several years as a manufacturing engineer with United Technologies, he was ready to change careers…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER735: Recognizing Windows of Opportunity | Akash Palkhiwala, CFO, Qualcomm
Back in 2014, when Akash Palkhiwala was first approached to serve as treasurer of wireless technology company Qualcomm, the company’s future CFO was uncertain…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERMaking Your Next FP&A Hire | A Planning Aces Episode
Featuring FP&A Insights & Commentary from Planning Aces: Ian Charles, CFO, Flexe, Beth Clymer, CFO, Job Case, Mark Shifke, CFO, Billtrust, Mike Rasic, CFO…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER734: The X Factor: Being Approachable | Geoff Brannon, CFO, Oversight Systems
Back in 2011, when Radiant Systems was acquired by NCR Corporation, a door swung open for Radiant Systems controller Geoff Brannon, who received an invitation…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER733: Eyes Wide Open | Laurence Capone, CFO, Pipedrive
Back in the early 1990s, Laurence Capone was a Paris-based public accountant serving a distinguished list of oil and gas industry clients when she heard about…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER732: A Walk on the Creative Side | Matthias Tillmann, CFO, Trivago
It was little more than 6 months after Matthias Tillmann first joined Trivago—and shortly after the travel booking company’s December 2016 IPO—when the…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERBONUS Replay: The Rewards of Taking Inspired Action | Brice Hill, CFO, Xilinx
In front of the restaurant’s dozen or more cash registers, customers were standing six or seven deep when Brice Hill raised his voice and began instructing the…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERWhere Corporate Culture Trumps Exec Comp - A Workplace Champions Episode
Brett and Jack discuss the highs and lows of executive compensation, and why corporate culture may trump all. Featuring the commentary and insights of…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER731: When It's All Systems Go | Vicki Dudley, CFO, TTX Company
Having previously held a succession of finance leadership roles inside Chicago’s ever vibrant financial services sector, Vicki Dudley was perhaps more…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER730: Facing Your Transformation Year | Charles Freund, CFO, FLEETCOR
When Charles Freund was named CFO of FLEETCOR in 2020 – his arrival in the c-suite became the latest chapter of a varied and lengthy career journey that…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER729: The Pivot Toward Growth | Jill Klindt, CFO, Workiva
Jill Klindt recalls that back in 2008, when she joined Workiva, the software start-up was somewhat removed from the career path that she had envisioned for…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER728: The Courage of Your Convictions | Joe Wolk, CFO, Johnson & Johnson
Joe Wolk was about 5 years into his 23-year career with Johnson & Johnson when he was encouraged to take a manufacturing operations position at a newly…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER727: The Power of Patience | Greg Saunders, CFO, Ygrene Energy Fund
When Greg Saunders tells us that “having patience” was perhaps the quality that most contributed to his first appointment as a CFO back in the early 1990s, we…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER726: The Opportunity Beyond Arbitrage | Manish Dugar, CFO, Mphasis
Back in the early 2000s, the use of videoconferencing to conduct job interviews remained rather rare in most parts of the world—and India was no different…
CFO THOUGHT LEADEREvolving Your Metrics, Wall Street's Point of View - A Planning Aces Episode
This Episode Features FP&A Insights & Commentary from: Ross Tennenbaum, CFO Avalara Waifa Chau, CFO, Nylas Brad Kinnish, CFO, Aryaka
CFO THOUGHT LEADER725: Pivot Toward the Future | Mike Dodson, CFO, Quantum
“Fire the auditor!” Three words that Quantum CFO Mike Dodson vowed would never cross his lips were now being spoken aloud by Quantum’s board. “Fire these…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER724: A Taste for Disruption | Scott Dussault, CFO, Workhuman
Back in 2001, after Scott Dussault had been named CFO of StorageNetworks, it’s unlikely that the 30-year-old finance leader was popping any champagne corks…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER723: When a Crisis Becomes a Catalyst | Gregg Clevenger, CFO, LiveVox
The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s is as good a place in time as any for Gregg Clevenger to use to begin explaining the mix of professional and…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER722: Establishing the CEO-CFO Nucleus | Joe Euteneuer, CFO- Emeritus, Mattel, Sprint, Qwest, Comcast
Lovers of tortilla chips will swear that the only true ones are made with corn (and never wheat) and that when it comes to sourcing them, the highest-yielding…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERWhen the Mission Matters - A Workplace Champions Episode
Brett and Jack discuss the power of the mission, the CEO return-to-work agenda and covid’s delta variant backlash. Featuring the commentary and insights of…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER721: Every Transformation Begins with Listening | Melissa Ballenger, CFO, Mosaic
When Melissa Ballenger stepped into a deputy CFO role for TD Bank’s U.S. subsidiary back in 2011, she did so knowing that she had been recruited to be a change…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER720: Build a Function That Drives | Beth Clymer, CFO, Jobcase
It was one of the last pieces of advice that CFO Beth Clymer left us with—an item that we snagged with one of our favorite questions: What advice do you have…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER719: Achieving New Finance IT Synergies | Madhu Ranganathan, CFO, OpenText
The aspiration to become a CFO was always there,” says Madhu Ranganathan, executive vice president and chief financial officer of OpenText, a leader in…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER718: An Appetite for Impact | Sean Mulloy, CFO, Level Ex
When asked when he knew that he wanted to become a chief financial officer, Sean Mulloy tells us that he knew from the time he first became “siloed” within an…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERA Cut Above FP&A | A Planning Ace's Episode
This Episode Features FP&A Insights & Commentary from: Chad Gold, CFO, SalesLoft Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media Harmit Singh, CFO, Levi Strauss & Co…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies
Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare’s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career—a high-calorie…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER716: 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…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER715: Blazing a New Strategic Path | Todd McElhatton, CFO, Zuora
Among the growing number of finance leaders who can be classified as cloud computing CFOs, few have arguably stayed in step with the parade of cloud…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, Transfix
In March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER713: Banker, Builder, Finance Leader | Stuart Henrickson, CFO, Bold Commerce
In the late 1990s, when Stuart Henrickson was CFO for Koch Industries’ Canadian operations, Chase Manhattan made him a job offer unlike any that he had…
CFO THOUGHT LEADER712: Making an Impact One Employee at a Time | Maria Manrique, CFO, O’Reilly Media
When Maria Manrique stepped into her first role as a CFO, she did so knowing that her finance leader mentor was still in the building—in fact, he was occupying…
CFO THOUGHT LEADERBuilding a More Inclusive Culture - A Workplace Champions Episode
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CFO THOUGHT LEADER711: Building Your Network | Nicole Anasenes, CFO, Ansys
Asked to recall the experience of stepping into a CFO role for the first time, Nicole Anasenes doesn’t mince words. "It’s a very lonely, scary moment,”…