936: Where the Puck Is Headed | Michelle Hook, CFO, Portillo’s
It was late 2020 when Michelle Hook ended 17 years of fruitful career-building at Domino’s to accept a CFO appointment at fast casual restaurant chain Portillo’s. “The two things that I was looking f...
24 Sep 202359min
935: How People Became Finance's X-Factor | Derrek Gafford, CFO, TrueBlue
Not unlike that of many of his CFO peers, Derrek Gafford’s career path has been shaped in part by geography—specifically, by having its origins in a city that was at once home to a state college, the ...
22 Sep 202339min
934: You’ll Figure It Out | Svai Sanford, CFO, Rani Therapeutics
We are near the end of our discussion with CFO Svai Sanford when he permits us to unlock one last door to his past.Unbeknownst to us, 20 minutes earlier, Sanford had handed us the key to its lock in t...
20 Sep 202356min
933: When Transparency Drives Profits | Charly Kevers, CFO, Carta
When Charly Kevers took his mentor’s advice and swapped a corporate development role at Hewlett-Packard for a tour of duty as a director of HP’s investor relations arm, he looked forward to tackling a...
17 Sep 202352min
932: The Finance Leadership Paradox | Jeff Coulter, CFO, Cognite
Looking back, Jeff Coulter is not exactly certain how he landed a spot on a team tasked with designing and implementing the first-ever budgeting and reporting processes responsible for tracking Procte...
13 Sep 202352min
931: Changing Swim Lanes | Jeff Laborde, CFO, JAGGAER
The year was 2015, but for Jeff Laborde, a seasoned finance leader kicking off his second C-suite tour of duty, it seemed as though the conference room that he had just entered had transported him bac...
10 Sep 20231h 1min
930: Where Leaders Are Made | Tony Boor, CFO, Blackbaud
While the leadership journeys of many of our CFO guests began on an upper floor of a glass-and-steel skyscraper affording a wide-angle view of a cosmopolitan metropolis, that of Blackbaud CFO Tony Boo...
6 Sep 20231h
Holiday Replay: The People, the Mission & the Innovation | Evan Goldstein, CFO, Seismic
Evan Goldstein tells us that it was at the end of another long day—after a week of long days—as he was walking to the parking lot adjacent to Genentech’s offices that he received a “gut punch.” Becomi...
3 Sep 202359min
