Seeding Organizational Ownership - A Planning Aces Episode
Planning Aces Hosts Brett Knowles and Jack Sweeney discuss how AI's integration into FP&A is still in early stages, with many teams 'dabbling' in AI rather than regularly employing it. However, its us...
31 Dec 202337min
Bonus Replay: Your Company’s Value Proposition | James Moylan, CFO, Ciena
Jim Moylan is perhaps our first CFO guest to list the leasing of oil rigs as one of the experiences that best prepared him for a CFO role. Of course, he makes it clear that the experience is worthy of...
27 Dec 202345min
Bonus Replay: Understanding Your Customer From the Inside Out | Jason Quinn, CFO, Vendr
When Jason Quinn landed in Europe back in 2008, he was the youngest of five American expats being deployed by digital disrupter SMB printer Vistaprint of Boston, Mass. For the next 5 years, Quinn woul...
24 Dec 202352min
961: Finding Healthier Alternatives and Profits | Greg Robbins, CFO, Odyssey Wellness
Greg Robbins began his career inside the realm of Big Six accounting houses, an experience that he tells us laid the foundation for a career in financial operations and strategy. However, he credits m...
20 Dec 202337min
960: Understanding What Opportunity Looks Like | Christine Chambers, CFO, PetMeds
Our discussion with Christine Chambers has been going on for only a little more than 5 minutes when she tells us that she remembers sitting on the steps of a London flat years ago while contemplating ...
17 Dec 202344min
959: A CFO Role as Broad as Space Is Wide | Mark Seidel, CFO, True Anomaly
If Mark Seidel had told us that he had spent many of his high school evenings peering through a telescope at the stars, we would have likely believed him. However, Seidel—CFO of space security start-u...
13 Dec 202337min
958: Entering the Home Fitness Connection Lane | Aina Konold, CFO, BowFlex
Among the industries on which the pandemic was most known to have afflicted an extra helping of earnings chaos, most business analysts agree that the home fitness market is perhaps most deserving of s...
10 Dec 20231h 8min
957: Mission-Centric Finance: MDA's Transformation Story | Michael Kennedy, CFO, Muscular Dystrophy Association
When Michael Kennedy first stepped into the CFO office at the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) in 2018, he was surprised to learn that the association was spending $8 million annually on office sp...
6 Dec 202355min
