694: Specific and Time-bound, Aggressive yet Realistic | Ana Sirbu, CFO, Nitro
Not unlike other finance leaders, Nitro CFO Ana Sirbu wants you to know that she’s a “prioritizer.” Both personally and professionally, Sirbu has created a list of objectives that never strays far fro...
25 Apr 202145min
693: Building Individual Trust | Mike Rasic, CFO, Synapse
Looking back, Mike Rasic says that his entry into the world of tech start-ups got kicked off with a phone call that he almost didn’t answer. “I have a strict policy that if I see a phone number poppin...
21 Apr 202146min
692: Betting on Your Future | Tim Murphy, CFO, REPAY
In 2008, as the subprime mortgage crisis began turning the Street’s brash dealmakers into a squeamish clan of risk-averse bankers, Tim Murphy, an associate at Credit Suisse, decided that it was time t...
18 Apr 202140min
691: Get Out of the Weeds | Rob Krolik, Partner, Burst Capital (CFO emeritus)
When Rob Krolik agreed to join us for a CFO (emeritus) episode, we expected to hear about the successful business turnaround chapter that he added to his finance resume while CFO at Move.com. We also ...
14 Apr 202144min
690: The Next 100 Years | Arleen Paladino, CFO, Crum & Forster
In the early 1980s, when Arleen Paladino joined Crum & Forster as a 21-year-old internal audit trainee, she was frequently sent to remote office locations to complete audits of financial statements th...
11 Apr 20211h
689: Be the Bridge | Terry Coelho, CFO, BioDelivery Sciences International (BDSI)
Within 4 months of her 2019 arrival inside BDSI’s CFO office, Terry Coelho had spearheaded a product acquisition and managed a successful equity raise—two finance milestones that would produce generou...
7 Apr 202149min
688: Ready for Takeoff | Kevin Ingram, CFO, FM Global
Back in 2014, when FM Global wanted to entice finance executive Kevin Ingram to move back to the US from England, the UK finance director was offered a position no one at the company had ever heard of...
4 Apr 202145min
687: The Room Where It Happened | Ken Kaufman, CFO, Community Dental Partners
Each Wednesday morning, as the CEO prodded his team for business projections and troubleshooting ideas, the midsize company’s top managers would huddle around a white board inside a glass-enclosed off...
31 Mar 202144min
