Podcast Episodes

688: Ready for Takeoff | Kevin Ingram, CFO, FM Global

Back in 2014, when FM Global wanted to entice finance executive Kevin Ingram to move back to the US from England, the UK finance director was offered…

5 years ago

687: The Room Where It Happened | Ken Kaufman, CFO, Community Dental Partners

Each Wednesday morning, as the CEO prodded his team for business projections and troubleshooting ideas, the midsize company’s top managers would hudd…

5 years ago

686: Making “Why Not?” Your Career Door Opener | Hamza Benamar, CFO, Kyriba

Long before growing numbers of digital nomads freely roamed the planet, Hamza Benamar had achieved a borderless professional life inside the world of…

5 years ago

Greetings From the Post-Covid World - A Workplace Champions Episode

Featuring the CFOs: Tom Berquist, CFO, TIBCO, Terry Coelho,CFO BioDelivery Sciences , Kevin Ingram,CFO, FM Global, Robert Linder, CFO, Lazy Dog Resta…

5 years ago

685: When Opportunity Knocks | Rebecca Mahadeva, CFO, Greater Than One

For Rebecca Mahadeva, the late 1990s audit of a minor league baseball team was the type of rare career assignment that never failed to intrigue both …

5 years ago

684: Completing the Job at Hand | Paul Ottolini, CFO, Russell Reynolds

When Paul Ottolini is asked to share a personal trait—one that a family member might divulge to us— the seasoned finance leader tells us that he like…

5 years ago

683: When It’s Time to Sit in the Driver’s Seat | Stéphane Berthier, CFO, Uniphore

When Stéphane Berthier joined Uniphore of Palo Alto, CA, as CFO this past January, the move no doubt raised more than a few Silicon Valley eyebrows.

5 years ago

682: Achieving a Flywheel to Create Long Term Value | John Collins, CFO, LivePerson

When CFO John Collins is asked how his background in data modeling and strategy is influencing the role that finance plays inside LivePerson, the art…

5 years ago

681: Not Settling for Business as Usual | Christian Geyer, CFO, ActiveNav

As Christian Geyer sees it, the path to the CFO office can begin just about anywhere.

For him, anywhere happened to be the accounts payable departmen…

5 years, 1 month ago

680: Making Sales Success a Must-See Metric | Ron Knutson, CFO, Lawson Products

A little more than a decade ago, Ron Knutson remembers, when he first stepped into the CFO role at Lawson Products, he quickly realized that the prod…

5 years, 1 month ago