How This CFO Sold LoveFilm to Amazon
Jim Buckle has spent 25 years building a CFO career that defies the obvious path. He started at KPMG, moved to the BBC, then Dell, ran a startup that collapsed in six months, turned around Property Fi...
18 Juni 47min
3 Things No One Tells You About a PE Exit as CFO
Exit readiness is not a six-week project. Dominic Wilkinson, CFO of Team Sport, the UK's largest indoor go-karting brand, shares what it actually takes to be PE-backed and exit-ready at the same time,...
4 Juni 38min
What Makes a Great PE-Backed CFO? 2 Veterans Answer
Everybody wants to be a CFO. Almost nobody is prepared for what the job actually demands. Alex Gersh has led a Nasdaq IPO at Sportradar, the merger of Betfair and Paddy Power, and the £2.7 billion sa...
5 Maj 1h 2min
What Private Equity Actually Expects From Its CFO
Victoria Bell has led finance functions through growth, turnaround, and exit across some of Europe's most demanding private equity environments. She is direct about the role in a way that most people ...
21 Apr 55min
How to Exit Without A Playbook | Stephen Loftus, CEO of Wattbike
If there is no playbook, how confident are you in running the business while preparing to sell it at the same time? Trade sales are often described as a process. In reality, they are a test of judgem...
12 Mars 1h 2min
AI born beats AI retrofitted
What does it take to build a business where AI enhances human expertise? In this episode, Pippa Dussuyer and Dean Farthing of Unity Advisory discuss how they helped build a firm designed to grow with ...
3 Mars 29min
Is ERP Dead? | with Gareth Bennett & John Ashworth
Why do ERP programmes feel so painful, even when they are meant to make things better? In this episode of Chat CFO, we sit down with Gareth Bennett, Finance Transformation Lead at News UK, and John As...
12 Feb 53min
CFO of a national sport. What's it really like? | Nimesh Kataria, CFO at the ECB
What does it really mean to be the CFO of a national sport, where decisions are public and trade offs are unavoidable? In this episode of Chat CFO, we sit down with Nimesh Kataria, CFO at the England...
4 Feb 46min
