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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…
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542: Now See This: One CFO's Data Visualization Mantra | Tim Zue, CFO, Boston Red Sox
When it comes to guessing a person’s email address, most of us would agree that the best way to optimize your odds of success is to first assume that the…
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541: Energizing Your Stakeholder Network | Smital Shah, CFO, ProQR
As an Indian citizen living in the United States and working for a Dutch company, CFO Smital Shah frequently spends her days on conference calls with investors…
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540: When the Whole is Greater | Lucy Rutishauser, CFO, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Like a savvy investor, Lucy Rutishauser built her early career by carefully tracking the activities of different companies. Sometimes, to glean better…
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539: Own Your Next Challenge and Your Career | Jason Lin, CFO, Centage
While tours of duty at struggling companies are seldom viewed as enviable career chapters for most professionals, finance leaders are often apt to savor the…
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538: When Saying "No" is a Strategic Imperative | William Edmondson, CFO, 1E
The mass migration of software developers from perpetual licensing to subscription licensing models has allowed quite a few CFOs to enrich their strategy…
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537: When Every Megawatt Matters | Sharif Metwalli, CFO. Vantage Data Centers
When Sharif Metwalli decided that the time was right to accept a CFO position with Vantage Data Centers, he was confident that he had found a company that…
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536: Finance & the Big Shift | Brian Swartz, CFO, Cornerstone OnDemand
When asked about the experiences that prepared him for a finance leadership role, Brian Swartz, CFO of Cornerstone OnDemand, doesn’t hesitate to mention his…
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535: Wiring Your Customer Centric Organization | Sarah Murphy, CFO, BSI Americas
As she approaches her 20th year with BSI Group, Sarah Murphy repeats the word “variety” when asked why she turned a blind eye to other opportunities outside…
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534: Finding Your Operational Footing | Constance Minc, CFO, IFS
When a company opts to recruit a finance leader from the “outside world,” it’s not uncommon these days for the future CFO to first serve in a provisional…
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533: Grasping the Levers for Growth | Jeff Friedman, CFO, Savi Technology
CFOTL: What comes to mind when we ask for a finance strategic moment? Friedman: MCI itself, during the ’90s, was a great place. I was there for just a little…
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532: How the CFO Office Cured an Operations Itch | Erik Ostrowski, CFO, AVROBIO
“A CFO role was something that I had not yet really envisioned for myself,” explains CFO Erik Ostrowski when asked about the investment banking chapter of his…
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531: An Appetite for Opportunity | Jamie Cohen, CFO, ANGI Homeservices
The recent opening of a Chicago office of ANGI Homeservices is one that the firm would like to replicate, but not in terms of size (the site has a capacity for…
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530: Embracing the Age of Mobile Finance | John Orton, CFO, Amplify Credit Union
For most of us, the act of “throwing the book” at someone is just an expression meant to conjure up the image of a judge throwing a book of laws at a criminal…
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529: Once Upon A Time Inside the World of Hospitality | Ashish Parikh, CFO, Hersha Hospitality Trust
CFOTL: What comes to mind when we ask for a finance strategic moment? Parikh: I think that I'd have to go back to the great financial crisis for a finance…
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528: Opening the Enterprise Growth Chapter | Horacio Yenaropulos, CFO Belatrix Software
CFOTL: When we ask for a finance strategic moment what comes to mind? Yenaropulos: Maybe we can look at one of my experiences when I was living in Chile and I…
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527: A Career In Step with the World | Andreas Schulmeyer, CFO, Better Choice Company
Among all of what is remarkable about Andreas Schulmeyer’s finance career, the timing with which he enters and exits different career chapters is most worthy…
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Bonus Episode: CFOs, Metrics & the Board | Dave Kellogg, Board Member, Angel Investor
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526: The Inside Out World of a Carve-Out CFO | Graham Ballbach, CFO, Riverside Insights
Ballbach: We found something really interesting on the go-to-market side that I believe will have a major impact on our top-line growth, and it came through…
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525: Rule Number One: Follow the Science | Kimi Iguchi, CFO, Sage Therapeutics
CFOTL: Help us to understand what sets Sage and its offerings apart? Iguchi: In eight years we’ve developed a company that’s at about nine and a half billion…
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524: The Transformative Power of Data | Ben Luety, CFO, Seattle Indian Health Board
When Ben Luety first arrived inside the CFO office at the Seattle Indian Health Board, he would frequently rely on his smartphone’s roaming service to search…
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523: When Your Customer is Fortune One | Judy Bjornaas, CFO, ManTech International Corp.
When Judy Bjornaas first arrived at ManTech International eight years ago, the company relied on a variety of processes and policies that were widely accepted…
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522: Advancing Your Operational View | Marty Meyer, CFO, GAN Integrity
iTunes DownloadSpotify There are finance leaders that boast of having always been entrepreneurs in their hearts, who can quickly serve up a story or two about…
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521: Resolve & Realization: A CFO's Life Sciences Journey | Marc Schegerin, CFO, ArQule
Marc Schegerin’s arrival inside the CFO office at ArQule is either a fortunate accident or a feat of singular career building precision. For there is little…
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520: Inside the Arena Makeover | Kevin Lind, CFO, Arena Pharmaceuticals
Up until about three years ago Kevin Lind would likely have been identified as yet another gifted private equity executive – capable of issuing business…
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519: Understanding Your Talent Investment | Bernard Huger, CFO, OneLogin
“You want to be a CFO.” The second the words reached his ears, Bernard Huger experienced a moment of clarity that ultimately lifted a stubborn fog from the…
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518: Illuminating the Product Development Path | Pete Tantillo, CFO, RapidRatings
Pete Tantillo recalls being somewhat surprised when he discovered that his career path could be leading to the CFO office. “I’m sort of an accidental CFO,”…
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517: Empowering Your Team to Teach Others | Pete D'Arrigo, CFO, Envestnet
When Pete D’Arrigo is asked to identify the business growth milestones that punctuate his 13-year CFO tenure at Envestnet, he pays passing homage to the…
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516: Illuminating the Science for All to See | Usama Malik, CFO, Immunomedics
“It’s the economics, the finance,” says CFO Usama Malik, who quickly adds the words “and the accounting” to his short list of finance leader action items…
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515: Owning Your Firm's Destiny | Nathan Feather, CFO, Prime Revenue
A little more than 13 years ago, when Nathan Feather joined PrimeRevenue–an upstart supplier of supply chain financial services–the 20-member enterprise was…
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514: Building a Better Dashboard | Perry Wiggins, CFO APQC
As CFO Perry Wiggins recounts the different door-opening opportunities that allowed him to advance to the CFO office, APQC’s finance leader doesn’t hesitate to…
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513: Achieving Your IPO Milestone | Kelly Steckelberg, CFO, Zoom Video Communications
A little more than 18 months ago, when CFO Kelly Steckelberg joined Zoom Video Communications, there were a number of key hires that needed to be made if the…
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512: Delivering on Solar's Promise | Ronen Faier, CFO, SolarEdge Technologies
As Ronen Faier recalls the career-building ups-and-downs of being entrepreneurial CFO, few memories appear to be more vivid than a meeting with Guy Sella, a…
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511: Getting Your Data Groove On | Elizabeth Salomon, CFO, Xactly Corp.
Back in the early 1990s, while a senior manager at Ernst & Young, Elizabeth Salomon was selected to be an “Accounting Fellow” at the OCC – the nation’s primary…
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510: One Last Thing | Six CFOs Share Insights from Transformation Chapters
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509: Removing the Friction Between Sales & Finance | Joe Aho, CFO, Compuware
If CFO Joe Aho’s career DNA were uploaded to Ancestry.com, he would likely discover a family tree populated with no less than five financial planning analysts…
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508: Behold the Productization of the Office | Michael Knott, CFO, EQ Office
It was the type of introduction that finance executives will invest decades of thoughtful career-building to receive. After dwelling nearly 20 years inside the…
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507: All Eyes On Cloud Spend| James Denena, CFO, Snow Software
Like many CFOs, one company more than others dominates James Denena’s finance career building years. Denena spent more than ten years at Applied Materials of…
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506: Boarding the Moving Train | Sean Sobers, CFO, Quantenna Communications
Asked to supply us with a finance Strategic moment, CFO Sean Sobers recalls an acquisition completed during an earlier chapter of his career. Convinced the the…
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505: Making a Difference | Michelle Naus, CFO, Tri-County Mental Health Services, Inc.
The young man’s smile is broad and welcoming. It’s the type of photo that colleges and universities frequently use to attract young applicants. However, when…
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504: Understanding Your Customers | Steve Coughran, CFO, EMJ Corporation
Inside the middle market today, it’s not uncommon to find a seasoned private equity executive serving as CFO of one his or her firm’s portfolio companies. Such…
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503: Reaching More Ears with the Universal Language of Finance | Ryan Hymel, CFO, Playa Hotels & Resorts
A number of years after he first joined the lodging and hospitality industry, Ryan Hymel recalls being confronted by a fork in the road. Having labored deep…
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502: Keeping Your Plan in Hand | Mark Guerin, CFO, Onconova Therapeutics, Inc.
Twenty four months ago CFO Mark Guerin had a pretty clear notion of what he wanted Onconova’s financial footing to look like during the second half of 2019…
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501: Why the Message Matters | Steven Gaven, CFO, Boston Private
Many CFOs have told us that storytelling is a big part of being a successful CFO today. However, quite a few finance leaders have told us that this did not…
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500: The Push to Drive Profitability | Katherine Edenbach, CFO, Certify
Years from now when Katherine Edenbach looks back on her CFO career, 2019 might be remembered as a pendulum year – or a year when her priorities as finance…
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499: When Leveraging Footprint Economics | Nadeem Moiz, CFO, Select Interior Concepts
When asked what his priorities are as a finance leader over the next 12 months, CFO Nadeem Moiz supplies an answer that uses the phrase “shareholder value” not…
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498: Invest, Execute & Perform | Dan Fletcher, CFO, Host Analytics
Asked to reflect on his path to the CFO office, Dan Fletcher characterizes his years in private equity as being more operationally focused than transaction…
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497: Rites of Passage Along the Commercialization Path | Tim Adams, CFO, ObsEva
Three years ago, Tim Adams probably never imagined that today he would be taking spin classes in Geneva, Switzerland. At the time, the seasoned finance leader…
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496: Making Finance Your Company's Information Hub| Adam Meister, CFO, Talend
A career stint inside the corporate development realm at Visa – quickly came to mind for CFO Adam Meister when asked about those experiences he believed shaped…
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495: Putting Three Wheelers in Gear | Bal Bhullar, CFO, Electra Meccanica Vehicles Corp.
Thanks to an entrepreneurial itch, Bal Bhullar will never be a conventional CFO. In fact, her CFO resume may be the only one ever to include three-wheel…
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494: The Fruitful Mix of Mindbody & Data | Brett White, CFO, Mindbody, Inc.
One of Brett White’s first assignments as a CFO was also one of his toughest. Back in 2001, with 10 years of career-building at Oracle Corp. behind him, White…
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493: A CFO for All Seasons | Vijay Kumar, CFO, Sify Technologies
At times, it must seem to Vijay Kumar that his 12-year tenure as a CFO has been spent not at one company but three. This must be a sense that most C-suite…
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492: Moving Finance to the Center | David Evans, CFO, Cardlytics
It wasn’t long after David Evans arrived inside the CFO office at Cardlytics that finance team members learned that their office surroundings were about to…
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491: When the Virtues of Organic Growth Trump M&A | Arthur Levine, CFO, Sensus Healthcare
Back in 2014, shortly after Arthur Levine first stepped into the CFO office at Sensus Healthcare, the fast-growing medical device company hit a sizable speed…
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490: Telling Your Story in Real Time | Craig Nickerson, CFO, insightsoftware
When it comes to newbie accountants, few clients are more coveted within the realm of public accounting than those preparing for an IPO. So it was back in the…
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489: The Elements of Transformation | Ted Myles, CFO, AMAG Pharmaceuticals
When Ted Myles is asked to reflect back on his early efforts to land a CFO role – he arguably sounds a little bit like a safe cracker: “Breaking into the…
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488: When Shareholder Dividends Equal Fewer Going Hungry | Chris Whitfield, CFO, MANA Nutrition
From the moment Chris Whitfield stepped into the CFO office at Mana Nutrition, it was clear to him that various snags in the organization’s information flows…
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487: Putting Your Organization on an Even Keel | Robin Gantt, CFO, Northwest Pipe
It’s unlikely that this is the first sentence ever to include the phrase “even-keeled” alongside the name Robin Gantt, but this is a pairing that bears…
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486: Counting Your Customer Success Milestones | Matthew Fahy, CFO, FinFit
When Matt Fahy identifies the opportunities that have punctuated his finance career, he credits subscription revenue models as having played a recurring role…
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485: Finding a Cure for the IPO Blues | Mark Lee, CFO, Forge
Before joining Goldman Sachs back in the late 1980s, Mark Lee was a finance manager at Hewlett-Packard Co. Today, Lee fondly recalls being mentored by a senior…
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484: Milestones for a CFO Barn Raiser | Andrew Guggenhime, CFO, Dermira
When asked about his arrival at Dermira, CFO Andrew Guggenhime explains: "I was the 22nd employee, and today we have over 300." Along the way, the company…