The Future of Finance is Listening

CFO THOUGHT LEADER

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CFO THOUGHT LEADER is a podcast featuring firsthand accounts of finance leaders who are driving change within their organizations. We share the career journey of our spotlighted CFO guest: What do they struggle with? How do they persevere? What makes them successful CFOs? CFO THOUGHT LEADER is all about inspiring finance professionals to take a leadership leap. We know that by hearing about the successes — (and yes, also the failures) — of others, today’s CFOs can more confidently chart their own leadership paths across the enterprise and take inspired action.

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449: How Data is Fueling a Not -For-Profit's Greater Mission | Kote Lomidze, CFO, World Learning 06.12.2018 46:50

Cloud ERP + Time = Strategic Influence When Kote Lomidze became World Learning’s CFO four years ago, he immediately began enhancing the functionality of a cloud-based ERP platform the global educational non-profit had implemented six months earlier. The work, which Lomidze oversaw in a very hands-on way, generated valuable returns as measured in dollars, time and influence. Thanks to his technolog...

448: A Truly Transformative Chapter | Michael Hug, CFO, Wyndham Destinations 03.12.2018 27:32

After starting his career in a Big 4 accounting firm and then steadily ascending through numerous (and varied) corporate finance roles over nearly two decades, Michael Hug possessed a clear vision for his CFO tenure at the world’s largest publicly traded timeshare company. “I didn’t want my team to just be the people who come in, count the money and deposit it in the bank,” he notes. “Rather, I wa...

447: Making Shareholders Top of Mind | Alex Garini, CFO, Sysmex America 29.11.2018 36:46

Prior to joining Sysmex, a medical diagnostic testing equipment and information systems technology company, five years ago, spent his formative years in Siemens where his varied experience covered every aspect of corporate finance in addition to stints as the head of strategic projects for one of the conglomerate’s companies. One Garini’s guiding principles as a finance executive is to get as far...

446: The Pulse of Success | V. Suryanarayanan (Surya), CFO, Mphasis 26.11.2018 46:32

Eagle-eyed vision may be Mphasis Executive Vice President and CFO V. Suryanarayanan’s most valuable leadership skill. His ability to zero in on crucial but obscured factors – market conditions affecting the timing of an IPO or the surprisingly high cost of indirect materials used in the motorcycle manufacturing process, for example – has helped him add substantial value to the companies he’s worke...

445: How Finance "The Connector" is Wiring Organizations | Michael Bayer, CFO, Wasabi 21.11.2018 50:58

Wasabi CFO Michael Bayer’s career ah-ha moment struck early. He was a college math whiz in the early days of PCs when a professor enlisted Bayer to move all of his paper-based finance and accounting records to a computerized system. “He took me under his wing and taught me a lot,” recalls Bayer, whose 25-plus year professional career includes various finance, operations, technology and business de...

444: Blueprint for a Strategic Finance Chief | Raj Agrawal, CFO, Western Union 19.11.2018 34:08

When he started his career, Western Union CFO Raj Argawal never expected to wind up leading a global finance function. That seems appropriate today considering he defines his role – first and foremost – as “driving and executing the strategy of the company.” Trained as an electrical engineer at General Motors, Argawal also earned an MBA and then set out in pursuit of a variety of job roles (in the...

443: Trials by Fire & Fortune: Tales of a Transformational CFO | Tim Saunders, CFO, Canopy Growth Corporation 15.11.2018 36:52

Tim Saunders seems like the kind of leader you’d absolutely follow into battle. He thrives in high-pressure situations, remains cool under pressure and truly values his troops’ expertise. Saunders also fully commits to taking on new -- and seemingly overwhelming – challenges, like the one that greeted him in his first finance executive role following his time in public accounting. During his first...

442: The Context Shifter| Naeem Ishaq, CFO, Circle 12.11.2018 50:52

Circle CFO Naeem Ishaq’s Forrest Gumpian career trajectory has given him extraordinary exposure to most of Silicon Valley’s touchstone technologies – the semiconductor, cloud computing, mobile payments and, most recently, cryptocurrency. After a stint as a dot.com-era entrepreneur he launched as an undergraduate, Ishaq has invested the past 18 years accumulating a trove of experience within some o...

441: Identifying Your Pivotal Career Experiences | Kevin Durkin, CFO, Threat Stack 08.11.2018 48:06

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440: The Serial Disrupter | Glenn Schiffman, CFO, IAC 05.11.2018 33:22

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439: Keeping CROCI Top of Mind | Amit Singhi, CFO/COO, The Piston Group 01.11.2018 36:32