620: When People Matter Most | Laurie Krebs, CFO, Red Hat
It was October 2019. Red Hat, Inc., was preparing to submit its latest quarterly results to its new parent, IBM Corp., and Laurie Krebs had just been named Red Hat software’s new CFO. As a senior vice...
29 Jul 202052min
619: Using Data to Power Up Ad Inventory| Ray Carpenter, CFO, Xandr
When Ray Carpenter retraces his steps to the CFO office at Xandr—an analytics and advertising company formed by AT&T’s WarnerMedia—he singles out two earlier roles as having been outside AT&T’s tradit...
26 Jul 202046min
618: From COVID's Initial Shock to IPO in 60 Days | Dave Jones, CFO, Vroom
Not unlike the careers of his finance leader peers, the finance career of Dave Jones, CFO of online car seller Vroom, has been shaped and influenced by economic crises of the past two decades. Last mo...
22 Jul 202036min
617: Finding Your Seat at the M&A Table | Dennis McGrath, CFO, PAVmed
Dennis McGrath was only recently married and a new home owner when he was invited to a Phillies game by the CFO of AC Manufacturing. At the time, McGrath was working for Andersen as an auditor of a ro...
19 Jul 202039min
616: Predictability and the Pipeline | Ashim Gupta, CFO, UiPath
When asked to share a few of the experiences that he feels prepared him for a CFO role, Ashim Gupta recalls what he characterizes as a significant accounting problem. However, it was not the nature of...
15 Jul 202053min
615: Validating Your Proof Points for Investors | Jeff Epstein, (CFO Emeritus) Oracle, DoubleClick, King World
In the mid-1990s, when Jeff Epstein was busy satisfying the M&A appetites of media clients for First Boston, one of his smaller, but more boisterous clients asked him to join the firm as its CFO. “I...
12 Jul 202045min
614: In Pursuit of Data's Deep Impact | Matt Borowiecki, CFO, Biofourmis
When asked what led him to open his latest career chapter as CFO of Biofourmis, Matt Borowiecki quickly mentions the 2018 sale of MassMutual Asia Ltd. to Yunfeng FG. After helping to piece together a ...
8 Jul 202051min
613: Helping Others Get the Big Picture | Anders Fohlin, CFO, Medius
Early in his finance career, Anders Fohlin discovered that he could ratchet up his capacity to consume information and problem-solve simply by drawing pictures. However, what had originated more as a ...
5 Jul 202055min
