Podcast Episodes

772: Inside the M&A Quarry | Andy Watts, CFO, Brown & Brown

Asked to highlight his experience in mergers and acquisitions, Andy Watts doesn’t need to weigh and measure the many deals that he has helped to exec…

4 years, 8 months ago

771: Embracing Change | Brian Kinion, CFO, MX

Twenty-four hours after Brian Kinion’s first earnings call as a CFO of a publicly-traded frim, his aspirations as a finance chief quickly became defl…

4 years, 8 months ago

When HR Becomes a Borderless Function - A Workplace Champions Episode

Brett and Jack discuss how the leadership narrative benefits hiring, and why department hiring budgets may someday soon be replaced. Featuring the co…

4 years, 8 months ago

770: When Founders Make a Difference | Nitesh Sharan, CFO, SoundHound, Inc.

When Nitesh Sharan exited Hewlett-Packard after 15 years of diligent career-building, he assumed—like many seasoned finance executives have done—that…

4 years, 8 months ago

769: Beyond the Boardroom | Herald Chen, CFO, AppLovin

When Herald Chen was growing up in a town not far from Pittsburg, he dreamed of someday running the small town’s steel mill. Years later when he was …

4 years, 8 months ago

Increasing the Velocity of Your Flywheel - A Planning Aces Episode

Steve and Jack are joined by friend of Planning Aces Bryan Lapidus, who is today director of FP&A for the Association for Financial Professionals. Br…

4 years, 8 months ago

768: How Real-Time Data Is Changing the Performance Conversation | Michael High, CFO, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico, Shell

Back in 2012, when Michael High was heading up corporate planning across 30 countries for Shell, the energy company’s CFO made it known that it was t…

4 years, 8 months ago

767: On the Path to Being a $1 Billion Company | Bill Zerella, CFO, ACV Auctions

Bill Zerella’s path to the CFO office began at a company whose customers largely belonged to a bygone era. At the time, Simplicity Patterns was the l…

4 years, 8 months ago

766: Making Decisions with the Customer in Mind | Cassandra Hudson, CFO, EngageSmart

Back in 2008, Cassandra Hudson was interviewing for a senior accounting role at a small tech firm in Boston when the CFO casually shared some “insigh…

4 years, 9 months ago

765: Never Waste a Crisis | Jean Laviqueur, CFO, Coveo

Unlike many of his finance leader peers, Jean Lavigueur has little difficulty in identifying where and when his path to the CFO office began.  

It wa…

4 years, 9 months ago