Portraits

Lightspeed Commerce’s Aamir Zargham joins Pigment’s Stephen MacFarlane to talk about rebuilding long-range planning in 60 days, after two years of running it in a single Excel model that only he could operate. Amir shares why scenario planning comes down to the three options you bring into the room, how lowering the cost of curiosity changed the way leaders engage with finance, and the principles...

Chime's Sofia Fatakhova joins Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo to discuss building a finance function capable of keeping pace with one of the more demanding growth stories in recent memory. She started with a broken forecasting process, ran straight into an IPO, and came out the other side leading a team now deep into figuring out what AI can do for a public company's finance function. Sofia shares...

Coca-Cola North America's Sara Park joins Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo to talk about building a demand-driven supply chain across one of the most complex distribution networks in the world – starting with Excel, running straight into COVID, and coming out the other side with a planning model built for volatility. Sara shares what the pandemic clarified about the relationship between supply and d...

Docker's Pooja Agrawal joins Pigment co-CEO Eléonore Crespo to talk about building an AI-first finance function at a company that operates with a startup mentality, even as it scales. Pooja shares why variance commentary was the right first process to automate, what the months of iteration to get there actually looked like, and the principle that now shapes every workflow her team builds: the qual...