GrowCFO Show

Dan Perez, Head of Finance at EdgeDelta joins Kevin Appleby on The GrowCFO Show to discuss observability. EdgeDelta supply observability solutions. Dan explains that observability allows teams to monitor an application’s health based on the data it generates, helping them quickly identify issues and their root causes. This is important for meeting service level agreements and avoiding costly...

Carrie Gallant is a dynamic speaker, author, coach and facilitator; she is a licensed associate of the Impostor Syndrome Institute. In this episode, Carrie discusses imposter syndrome and how it affects finance leaders with Kevin Appleby. Carrie shares how she got into studying imposter syndrome and how it can impact people differently based on gender and culture. Common feelings associated with i...

Prudence Muchinouta, CFO of Community Markets for Conservation in Zambia, discusses her journey from her roots in Zimbabwe to becoming a CFO focused on sustainability and ESG. She talks about the challenges of registering smallholder farmers and implementing mobile payment systems in rural areas with limited infrastructure and identification. Prudence is passionate about gender equality and discus...

Kevin Appleby is in conversation with Roi Ben Daniel. Roi is the founder and CEO of Received, a billing and accounts receivable solution focused on the specialised needs of B2B sales organisations. They discuss the challenges facing mid-market SaaS companies and the pressures CFOs face around software costs, pricing models, and customer unit economics. Roi also shares insights into opportunities l...

Blake Wetzel, CEO of AuctionIQ, discusses how companies can save money on technology expenses through a reverse auction process. Blake has experience as both a CFO and CEO and explains how his financial background helps him as a CEO. He outlines how AIQ evaluates a company’s entire technology spend, identifies areas for savings, and runs a competitive bidding process to get the best price wh...

This episode features Tom Schultz, author of the book “So You Want to be a Fractional CFO?”. Tom shares his story of how he accidentally got into fractional CFO work in 2006 after helping sell the company he worked for. He discusses building his business through referrals from his network and eventually forming a firm called Next Gen CFO with 18 fractional CFOs. Tom provides advice on...

This week on The GrowCFO Show, Kevin Appleby sits down with Charles Fisher, CFO of Turo, the world’s largest peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace. Chuck shares the story of how Turo is disrupting the traditional car rental industry by allowing people to list, discover and book cars anywhere without owning a large fleet. He discusses his role overseeing finance and operations as Turo scales r...

Kevin Appleby introduces the 150th episode of The GrowCFO Show and looks back over the last three years of podcasting. The show has covered many topics and featured well over 100 guests. In this episode, Kevin reveals which ones have attracted the most interest from you—the listener. You might be a CFO with many years of experience or still be trying to land your first CFO role. Whichever it is, t...

Andrew Waters is co-founder of recruitment consultants Zanda based in the UK and New York. He recruits finance leaders across Europe and the USA and understands the marketplace for finance staff. Andrew joins Kevin Appleby to discuss the state of the job market, what happened in the wake of COVID-19, the great resignation and the current economic slowdown. Summary Andrew’s key message is tha...

Catherine Marks, Is a finance professional with 20 years of experience. Most recently she was VP of Finance at Depop and Head of Group FP&A with Virgin Media O2. Catherine has joined GrowCFO as Finance Team Training Lead and is about to launch the inaugural GrowCFO FP&A boot camp. The FP&A boot camp provides practical training that enables finance teams to take immediate action and imm...

Alex Triplett, CFO/COO at Appfire, joins the GrowCFO Show to discuss hybrid working and how to make it successful. Alex shares the culture and ways of working at Appfire and how the organisation embraces hybrid working as a core value. Hybrid working for a finance function refers to a work arrangement that combines remote and in-office work for employees within the finance department of an organiz...

Oliver Deacon is a member of the GrowCFO Mentoring team. He runs the GrowCFO Business Partnering and Finance Transformation Boot Camps and is a former FD at Microsoft. Oil joins Kevin Appleby on the GrowCFO Show to talk about why these boot camps deliver results for the people attending them. Boot camps don’t focus on providing training on the theory, they provide pragmatic and useful traini...

At some point in the next year, the interest rate hikes will likely end. After months in near-constant rate-hike-anticipation mode, CFOs will need to shift their mindset to the new rate environment and the opportunities that will open up. Bill Fink is an expert on this. A commercial banking and credit-risk executive with 30 years of experience, Bill is a frequent commentator on the economy, lookin...

Ryan Englin is based in Nashville and is the CEO at Core Matters. He also hosts the Talent Tackle Box Podcast. Ryan joins Kevin Appleby on the GrowCFO Show to discuss how to recruit great people by using tools and techniques that normally sit with your marketing team. Kevin and Ryan discussed the importance of having an exemplary process for recruiting and retaining staff. They emphasized the need...

Francesco Zappala was Kevin Appleby’s guest on episode 136. Previously he spoke about his journey to CFO and how an Italian ended up setting up a company from scratch in Chile, South America. Francesco is the CFO of a major construction company. He returns to talk about dealing with a construction project that is in distress. Summary Kevin and Francesco discussed the challenges of managing p...

Catherine Clark is head of mentoring at GrowCFO. She frequently supports her mentees when they need to have a difficult conversation. Difficult conversations can take place for a variety of reasons, In this episode Kevin and Catherine discuss the challenges of a difficult conversation and why you shouldn’t avoid such conversations. They highlighted that a difficult conversation can cause anx...

Edmund Zagorin joins Kevin Appleby on the GrowCFO Show. Edmund is CSO of Arkestro. Arkestro helps your team make buying decisions, faster, and at scale using Predictive Procurement Orchestration Kevin and Edmund explore anchor bias and consider how CFOs can help their procurement teams avoid anchor bias and use predictive modelling to make better buying decisions. https://youtu.be/5kV-IWd3fAU Anch...

Dr Shan Nair is an entrepreneur and consultant on international expansion. He was the first to spot and develop the niche market of International Expansion Services (IES) which was previously fragmented. In the process, he has worked with many early-stage companies that have since become household names such as Tesla Motors, FaceTime and Sonus Networks. His role is to promote the services offered...

Dan DeGolier joins Kevin Appleby on the GrowCFO Show to discuss the provision of fractional CFO Services. Dan is the founder at Ascent CFO Solutions. He discussed his background and career journey, including his experience in public accounting and working with venture-backed companies. He describes how his firm, Ascent CFO Solutions, has grown to include a team of 38 professionals who provide vari...

GrowCFO mentor Susana Serrano-Davey joins Kevin Appleby to discuss fear. Fear often holds you back from achieving your potential and can limit your career development. Fear is almost entirely self-generated and is therefore completely within your control. But how do you face your fears and take that control? In this episode, Susana and Kevin discuss facing fears, including common workplace fears s...

Wolter Rebergen, Commercial Director at Younium joins Kevin Appleby on this week’s GrowCFO Show. Together they take a look at the latest developments in subscription pricing for a SAAS business and what this means for the finance leader. They discuss subscription models, including pricing and packaging. They also talked about challenges such as revenue recognition and the potential benefits...

Francesco Zappala is CFO Chile for Italian construction giant Impresa Pizzarotti. His c.v. includes KPMG and Harvard Business School and an impressive career in corporate finance. He joins Kevin Appleby in this episode of the GrowCFO show to discuss his journey and how he became the finance lead and helped Impresa Pizzarotti build a brand new business in South America. Francesco talked about his j...

Peter Mckenzie is The C-Suite Coach. He helps busy senior leaders regain energy and focus, increase impact and reach peak performance. Peter is the latest member of the GrowCFO mentoring team. Based in Barcelona Spain, Peter is the general manager of Anticipa Real Estate. He joins Kevin Appleby on the GrowCFO show. Peter discussed his background in finance and how he transitioned to general manage...

https://youtu.be/ZqK7OdaLnE8 Isaac Strulowitz is the CFO of CoVenture. Isaac joins Kevin Appleby on this episode of the GrowCFO Show to talk about how Isaac and his team at CoVenture were affected by the recent banking crisis and the things they put in place to manage the financial risks they were presented with. Their approach to risk management in general has changed as a result, and Isaac provi...

Kevin Appleby chats with GrowCFO mentor Susana Serrano-Davey and finds out how to win your next finance job. Susana provides 5 great strategies to help you win at your next finance job interview. Finance job interviews can be difficult for a number of reasons. Here are some factors that can make a finance job interview challenging: Technical Knowledge: Finance is a complex and technical field, and...