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871: Keeping in Stride in a High-Pressure Economy | Jared Poff, CFO, Designer Brands
One of the unspoken truths about interim CFO roles is that they sometimes don’t lead to an actual CFO role—a fact that has turned more than a few sea…
2 years, 11 months ago
870: Amped Up at the Deep End | John McCauley, CFO, Calendly
John McCauley is the first finance leader to tell us that his path to the CFO office began in a pool.
Back in high school, McCauley relates, he was a …
2 years, 11 months ago
869: Sharpening the Customer Focus | Ravi Narula, CFO, FinancialForce
Looking back, CFO Ravi Narula tells us that he wishes that he had become a “servant leader” sooner, as he references the familiar leadership tag sign…
2 years, 11 months ago
868: Armed and Sheltered From the Storm | Tom Fennimore, CFO, Luminar Technologies
The Goldman Sachs “anti-raid” team was between conference calls with an embattled client company when word came that a senior member of the target co…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why FP&A Designs the Questions - A Planning Aces Episode
It’s no secret, professionals from various departments must work together to correctly calculate Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), Customer acquisition…
2 years, 11 months ago
867: Energizing Your Data Relations | Donald Alvarez, CFO, Cyngn
Back in 1993, Don Alvarez was an auditor with Deloitte’s San Francisco office when specialty retailer and coveted client company West Marine went pub…
2 years, 11 months ago
866: Metrics for the Masses | Jeremy Klaperman, CFO, Rho
Not unlike many of his CFO peers, Jeremy Klaperman spent the early years of his finance career in trying to rectify the damage brought on by the irra…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Chatbot Chill: Why Business Will Be Anything But Usual - A Workplace Champions Episode
Our resident thought leader Brett Knowles explains how artificial intelligence is already being used to predict employee turnover, job satisfaction, …
2 years, 11 months ago
865: Achieving a Strategic Alignment | Anup Singh, CFO, Illumio
It’s perhaps no surprise that the late 1990s came to mind for Anup Singh when we recently asked him to share with us a finance career lesson or insig…
2 years, 11 months ago
864: Advancing Beyond Your Comfort Zone | Steven Mitchell, CFO, Redgate Software
Steve Mitchell had not been working for Irish telecom giant Eircom for even half a year before he decided that it was time to explore other opportuni…
3 years ago