
729: The Pivot Toward Growth | Jill Klindt, CFO, Workiva
Jill Klindt recalls that back in 2008, when she joined Workiva, the software start-up was somewhat removed from the career path that she had envisioned for herself. “It wasn’t that obvious to me at fi...
25 Aug 202140min

728: The Courage of Your Convictions | Joe Wolk, CFO, Johnson & Johnson
Joe Wolk was about 5 years into his 23-year career with Johnson & Johnson when he was encouraged to take a manufacturing operations position at a newly acquired J&J company in Vacaville, California. O...
22 Aug 202145min

727: The Power of Patience | Greg Saunders, CFO, Ygrene Energy Fund
When Greg Saunders tells us that “having patience” was perhaps the quality that most contributed to his first appointment as a CFO back in the early 1990s, we wonder how many additional years a more i...
18 Aug 202145min

726: The Opportunity Beyond Arbitrage | Manish Dugar, CFO, Mphasis
Back in the early 2000s, the use of videoconferencing to conduct job interviews remained rather rare in most parts of the world—and India was no different. What made Manish Dugar’s interview experienc...
15 Aug 202156min

Evolving Your Metrics, Wall Street's Point of View - A Planning Aces Episode
This Episode Features FP&A Insights & Commentary from: Ross Tennenbaum, CFO Avalara Waifa Chau, CFO, Nylas Brad Kinnish, CFO, Aryaka
13 Aug 202143min

725: Pivot Toward the Future | Mike Dodson, CFO, Quantum
“Fire the auditor!” Three words that Quantum CFO Mike Dodson vowed would never cross his lips were now being spoken aloud by Quantum’s board. “Fire these guys!” was the message that Dodson received af...
11 Aug 202154min

724: A Taste for Disruption | Scott Dussault, CFO, Workhuman
Back in 2001, after Scott Dussault had been named CFO of StorageNetworks, it’s unlikely that the 30-year-old finance leader was popping any champagne corks. The company’s management had offered him th...
8 Aug 202145min

723: When a Crisis Becomes a Catalyst | Gregg Clevenger, CFO, LiveVox
The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s is as good a place in time as any for Gregg Clevenger to use to begin explaining the mix of professional and personal circumstances that made Rochester, Ne...
4 Aug 202148min



















