Podcast Episodes

490: Telling Your Story in Real Time | Craig Nickerson, CFO, insightsoftware

When it comes to newbie accountants, few clients are more coveted within the realm of public accounting than those preparing for an IPO. So it was ba…

6 years, 11 months ago

489: The Elements of Transformation | Ted Myles, CFO, AMAG Pharmaceuticals

When Ted Myles is asked to reflect back on his early efforts to land a CFO role – he arguably sounds a little bit like a safe cracker: “Breaking into…

6 years, 11 months ago

488: When Shareholder Dividends Equal Fewer Going Hungry | Chris Whitfield, CFO, MANA Nutrition

From the moment Chris Whitfield stepped into the CFO office at Mana Nutrition, it was clear to him that various snags in the organization’s informati…

6 years, 11 months ago

487: Putting Your Organization on an Even Keel | Robin Gantt, CFO, Northwest Pipe

It’s unlikely that this is the first sentence ever to include the phrase “even-keeled” alongside the name Robin Gantt, but this is a pairing that bea…

6 years, 11 months ago

486: Counting Your Customer Success Milestones | Matthew Fahy, CFO, FinFit

When Matt Fahy identifies the opportunities that have punctuated his finance career, he credits subscription revenue models as having played a recurr…

6 years, 11 months ago

485: Finding a Cure for the IPO Blues | Mark Lee, CFO, Forge

Before joining Goldman Sachs back in the late 1980s, Mark Lee was a finance manager at Hewlett-Packard Co. Today, Lee fondly recalls being mentored b…

6 years, 11 months ago

484: Milestones for a CFO Barn Raiser | Andrew Guggenhime, CFO, Dermira

When asked about his arrival at Dermira, CFO Andrew Guggenhime explains: "I was the 22nd employee, and today we have over 300."

Along the way, the co…

7 years ago

483: Making FP&A a Road Map for the Business | Glynis Bryan, CFO, Insight Enterprises, Inc.

There was a time when Glynis Bryan imagined herself someday retiring from Ryder System, Inc.—a company she entered as an intern and would later exit …

7 years ago

482: When Opportunities Reveal Themselves | Wilco Groenhuysen, CFO, Novocure

Near the end of our discussion with CFO Wilco Groenhuysen, he recommends a book while confiding:  "It's not a great book—but it has a big lesson."

"O…

7 years ago

481: Achieving a Milestone Transaction | Mike Myshrall, CFO, Cyren

Of all the finance milestones that CFO Mike Myshrall uses to illustrate Cyren's appetite for success, perhaps few are more enlightening than the one …

7 years ago