672: Finance From the Top Down | Tom Berquist, CFO, TIBCO Software
When an inquisitive software analyst takes a seat across the table from TIBCO Software CFO Tom Berquist, the inquisitor may not know that TIBCO’s finance leader once sat on their side of the table and...
7 Feb 202146min
671: Why the Best Laid Plans Are Continuous | Shane Hansen, CFO, Planful
It was a meeting that Planful CFO Shane Hansen tells us that he was not looking forward to. The SaaS developer’s FP&A team had discovered a “fairly large” forecasting error, and Hansen deemed it neces...
3 Feb 202138min
670: Judgment: At the Heart of Every Decision | Gary Golden, CFO, Cherwell Software
If we were asked to boil down our discussion with CFO Gary Golden to a single word, our answer would be: “judgment.” It perhaps goes without saying that having good judgment is a prerequisite for ever...
31 Jan 202145min
669: Transactions, Trades, and Treatments | Ozan Pamir, CFO, 180 Life Sciences
We seldom hear a finance leader tell us that they took a pass on a promotion early in their careers, so when CFO Ozan Pamir told us that as a 25-year-old associate he had turned down a vice president ...
27 Jan 202139min
668: Investors Make Room for a Streaming SPAC | Jason Eustace, CFO, CuriosityStream
It was roughly 12 months ago that Jason Eustace was named CFO of CuriosityStream, an upstart streaming media company launched in 2015 by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks. For Eustace, Curiosit...
24 Jan 202133min
667: Where Growth & Trust Meet | Brad Kinnish, CFO, Aryaka
The mid-December conference call was 45 minutes old, CFO Brad Kinnish says, when he began to feel edgy. One of the company’s biggest deals of the year had yet to close, and the specifics behind its co...
20 Jan 202143min
666: When Vision is the Plus Multiplier | Manmeet Soni, CFO, Reata Pharmaceuticals
It’s a phrase that has historically never roamed far beyond the corridors of pharmaceutical companies, but now—thanks to COVID 19—the term “clinical trials” has entered the vocabulary of the public at...
17 Jan 202143min
665: A Data-Driven CFO Grabs the Wheel | Rob Barnhart, CFO, SimpleTire
Among the experiences that Rob Barnhart credits with having prepared him for a CFO role was an executive training program in which he participated when he served as director of FP&A for defense contra...
13 Jan 202131min
