657: From the Ground Up | Yevgenia Fink, CFO, HOVER
It was near the end of her 9 years with Intel Corp. that Yevgenia Fink received a bit of advice that today she credits with having helped her to blaze a path that would ultimately lead to the CFO offi...
9 Dec 202054min
656: A Taste for Disruption | Russell Burke, CFO, Life360
When Russell Burke tells us that his days at Sony Music Entertainment included “huge peaks” such as the release of the hit sound track for the motion picture Titanic as well as huge challenges such as...
6 Dec 202037min
655: Awaiting the Return to Travel | Tom Tuchscherer, CFO, TripActions
Twenty-five to 30 years ago, senior executives seeking CFO roles did not think like Tom Tuchscherer. Many still don’t, which is why CFO roles have increasingly come to executives like Tuchscherer, a g...
2 Dec 202046min
654: The Path to Being IPO-Ready | Drew Vollero, CFO, Allied Universal
When Drew Vollero arrived in the CFO office of Snap (formerly Snapchat) in 2015, the executives occupying the tech world’s traditional IPO talent bench no doubt raised a few eyebrows. Having spent the...
29 Nov 202053min
In Search of a Culture Metric | A Workplace Champions Episode
"Talent has become really important, and you have to remain constantly focused on it—today, I spend around 20% of my time on it." - Ross Tennenbaum, CFO, Avalara CFOTL: What are your priorities for th...
25 Nov 202039min
653: From Real Estate to the Immune System | Chad Cohen, CFO, Adaptive Biotechnologies
Of all of the business discussions that Chad Cohen has had over the years, few are likely as memorable as the 20-second conversation he had with Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff about midway into his 9-year...
22 Nov 202046min
652: Exposing Gross Margin’s Hidden Levers | Jeff Nichols, CFO, UJET
In 2016, when Jeff Nichols had been a senior member of Glassdoor’s FP&A team for 2 years, he and other members of the finance team were confronting the nagging truth that the firm’s path to going publ...
18 Nov 202041min
651: Remedying Your Metrics Disconnect | Ross Tennenbaum, CFO, Avalara
Ross Tennenbaum remembers that back in 2018, when he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, he had conversations with a number of senior executives from Slack Technologies, Inc. At the time, the fa...
15 Nov 202049min
