636: Being Part of the Team | Marsha Smith, CFO, Siemens, USA
Members of Siemens USA’s finance team would probably not be surprised to learn that when their CFO, Marsha Smith, is asked to reveal the experiences that prepared her for a finance leadership role, th...
23 Sep 202052min
635: Finding Your Finance Team's North Star | Markus Harder, CFO, Contentful
The Berlin headquarters of software developer Contentful occupies an old brick warehouse with heavy metal doors and broad functional corridors and spaces native to its industrial past. Standing six st...
20 Sep 202049min
634: Milestones for M&A Success | Steve Young, CFO, Duke Energy
It was a little over 40 years ago when Steve Young first joined what would become Duke Energy, the giant electric power holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Not only has it bee...
16 Sep 202050min
633: Marching to Fintech's New Beat | Matt Briers, CFO, TransferWise
Among the more transformative chapters of Matt Briers’s finance career was his 3-year stint monitoring and forecasting margin performance inside Google’s UK operations. “The core role was really to un...
13 Sep 202055min
632: Exposing the Connection Between Financial and Operational Data | Jacqueline Purcell, CFO, Deputy
Jacqueline Purcell’s path to the CFO office began inside an Australian law firm where as a young attorney she was advising corporate clients and their bankers on how to best address some of the legal ...
9 Sep 202036min
631: Explaining the Business Reason Behind the Number | Steven Springsteel, CFO, betterworks
Back in the early 1990s, Steven Springsteel nabbed an interview for a CFO role with a high-flying tech start-up. At the time, he was controller for Apple’s worldwide manufacturing operations, but the ...
6 Sep 202051min
630: Building the Business Case | Bennett Thiemann, CFO, Applicaster
It was the type of role that any recent business school graduate could envy—not because of the position’s title (Chief of Staff) or how much it paid, but because of its proximity to management decisio...
2 Sep 202057min
629: Freshly Ripens On The Vine | Matt Hagel, CFO, Freshly
It’s a story that Matt Hagel likes to share as he networks with fellow finance executives and accounting types. Back in 2017—only days after stepping into a finance leadership role at the online prepa...
30 Aug 202037min
