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639: Thriving at the Deep End | Catherine Birkett, CFO, GoCardless
Back in the early 2000s, Catherine Birkett found herself being pulled into confidential meetings where her company’s senior management was discussing…
6 years ago
638: The Path to Being Cost Smart | Jim Gray, CFO, Ingredion
It's the type of business restructuring capable of striking envy in the hearts of many a company board member—and particularly those known to favor o…
6 years ago
637: Experiencing the Market Economy Spirit | Tom Fencl, CFO, Pricefx
The son of two doctors, Tom Fencl recalls that while growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, to him a free market economy was more “an intellectual c…
6 years ago
636: Being Part of the Team | Marsha Smith, CFO, Siemens, USA
Members of Siemens USA’s finance team would probably not be surprised to learn that when their CFO, Marsha Smith, is asked to reveal the experiences …
6 years ago
635: Finding Your Finance Team's North Star | Markus Harder, CFO, Contentful
The Berlin headquarters of software developer Contentful occupies an old brick warehouse with heavy metal doors and broad functional corridors and sp…
6 years ago
634: Milestones for M&A Success | Steve Young, CFO, Duke Energy
It was a little over 40 years ago when Steve Young first joined what would become Duke Energy, the giant electric power holding company headquartered…
6 years ago
633: Marching to Fintech's New Beat | Matt Briers, CFO, TransferWise
Among the more transformative chapters of Matt Briers’s finance career was his 3-year stint monitoring and forecasting margin performance inside Goog…
6 years ago
632: Exposing the Connection Between Financial and Operational Data | Jacqueline Purcell, CFO, Deputy
Jacqueline Purcell’s path to the CFO office began inside an Australian law firm where as a young attorney she was advising corporate clients and thei…
6 years ago
631: Explaining the Business Reason Behind the Number | Steven Springsteel, CFO, betterworks
Back in the early 1990s, Steven Springsteel nabbed an interview for a CFO role with a high-flying tech start-up. At the time, he was controller for A…
6 years, 1 month ago
630: Building the Business Case | Bennett Thiemann, CFO, Applicaster
It was the type of role that any recent business school graduate could envy—not because of the position’s title (Chief of Staff) or how much it paid,…
6 years, 1 month ago