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648: A Life Sciences Angler Casts a Sturdy Line | Bill Adams, CFO, NervGen Pharma
It’s a familiar sequence: A strong-minded investor musters the will to lead and steps into the CEO office determined to revitalize a struggling techn…
5 years, 11 months ago
647: Accruing Your Global Acumen | Adrian Talbot, CFO, Hotwire
When Adrian Talbot tells us that he parachuted into Thames Television in the early 1990s, the image of the London skyline—once used to brand the popu…
5 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Episode: The Networking Imperative | Robert Bendetti, CFO, Life Cycle Engineering
Bendetti: I'm trying to steal that great quote from Warren Buffet, "I'm trying to be greedy while others are fearful." And I'm trying to grow. And if…
5 years, 11 months ago
646: Making Finance a Workforce Whetstone | Michelle McComb, CFO, Bluecore
Just as Michelle McComb was imagining that she would shortly be joining another Silicon Valley start-up as a finance leader, the CFO of Lucent Techno…
5 years, 11 months ago
645: The Investor Came Knocking | Glenn Schiffman, CFO, IAC/InterActive
There’s little question that 2020 will long be remembered as a year of crisis for the casino industry.
Commercial gaming revenues in the U.S. were do…
5 years, 11 months ago
COVID Keeps People Top of Mind Among Business Leaders - A Workplace Champions Episode
More keenly aware of the competitive price of employee burnout and workforce attrition — many midsize companies are today busy rethinking how they at…
5 years, 11 months ago
644: Thwarting COVID By Rethinking Opportunities | Mike Brower, CFO, Office Evolution
Back in the late 1980s, Mike Brower’s list of audit clients included a roster of oil and gas companies as well a local university and a number of dif…
5 years, 11 months ago
643: The Rise of People-Centric Finance | Katie Rooney, CFO, Alight Solutions
Back in 2015, Katie Rooney was only 7 months into her first industry CFO role at Aon when her boss asked her to exit the office.
“He came into my off…
5 years, 11 months ago
642: The Virtues of Top Line Growth | Sachin Patel, CFO, Apixio
It’s not uncommon for career-building executives inside the finance realm to obtain an MBA in order to pivot their careers in a new direction. Such w…
5 years, 11 months ago
641: The IPO Playbook & Creating Opportunity for Others | Steve Cakebread, CFO, Yext
“It’s not cheap to go public,” concedes CFO Steve Cakebread, echoing the oft-repeated refrain that founders and CFOs confront when considering the pr…
6 years ago