CFO THOUGHT LEADER

1226: Anaplan's Growth Equation: AI, Profitability, and Scale | Hemant Kapadia, CFO, Anaplan

For Anaplan CFO Hemant Kapadia, one of the more revealing measures of the company’s transformation isn’t revenue growth alone. It’s the fact that Anaplan has nearly the s

Evan Goldberg on the End of ERP as We Know It

At SuiteWorld 2026, NetSuite’s founder outlines how AI is transforming business software—and what the shift means for CFOs. When Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vic

1225: Nix the Clicks: Building a Finance Function That Manages by Exception | Steve Fox, CFO, Every Man Jack

When Steve Fox joined Every Man Jack in 2021, the men’s personal care brand had a new private equity owner and an ambitious growth agenda. Carlyle Group saw an opportunit

1224: Building a Cybersecurity Leader for the AI Era | Joe Iantosca, CFO, Cyera

When Joe Iantosca arrived at Cyera as CFO, his first hire wasn't an accountant or an FP&A professional. It was a data engineer. For Iantosca, the decision reflected a co

1223: Scaling Sokin: Beyond the First $100 Million | Tom Steer, CFO, Sokin

When Tom Steer joined Sokin as CFO, he already knew the international payments company unusually well. As an investment banker at FT Partners, he had advised Sokin throug

1222: Scaling Through Acquisitions, Integration, and AI | Kara Childress, CFO, Vensure Employment Solutions

At Vensure Employer Solutions, completing an acquisition is only the beginning. The company has acquired roughly 120 businesses in eight years, and each new addition ente

1221: Rebuilding Bread Financial’s Capital Foundation—And What It Made Possible | Perry Beberman, CFO, Bread Financial

When Perry Beberman arrived at what is now Bread Financial, the company had a balance sheet problem. It was carrying too much leverage, had insufficient capital, and need

1220: At Hippo, Growth and Risk Work Together | Guy Zeltser, CFO, Hippo Insurance

In 2023, Hippo faced what CFO Guy Zeltser describes as perhaps the worst quarter in the insurance company’s history. The response was not to chase growth harder. Instead,

The New Economics of Revenue | Sam Chung, Chief Customer Officer, Salesforce

How consumption models, AI, and rising complexity are reshaping the CFO mandateRevenue models are becoming more complex—and for finance leaders, the consequences extend w

1219: Building a Health Plan Around What People Actually Do | Tami Wilson-Ciranna. CFO, Curative

When Tami Wilson-Ciranna joined Curative in April 2020, the assignment came with what now looks like a spectacularly optimistic assumption: three months. “I met with Fre

1218: Why Pegasystems Is Betting on Work, Not Tokens | Ken Stillwell, CFO, Pegasystems

When Pegasystems began building its cloud business, the economics were hardly what investors would expect from a mature software company. Cloud gross margin was below 30%

1217: A Sharper Portfolio, A Clearer Capital Story | Brittany Cerwin, CFO, Middleby Corporation

For years, Middleby executives arriving at investor conferences faced a storytelling problem: 30 minutes wasn’t much time to explain three different businesses, each with

People and Places: The Geography of a CFO Career

CFO careers are often described through titles, companies, and accomplishments. But another force can quietly shape the journey: place. In this themed episode of CFO Tho

2016: Building the Operating System for Agentic Automation | Ryan Roccon, CFO, Zapier

At Zapier, the rise of AI is changing more than the automation products customers build. It is reshaping how the company organizes, invests, prices its offerings, and thi

When AI Changes the EPM Decision | David Den Boer, CEO, Column5 Consulting

AI is rapidly changing not only what finance technology can do, but how CFOs should think about the technology stack itself. In this bonus episode of CFO Thought Leader,

1215: Building Finance for the Long Game | Jessica Somers, CFO, Aledade

At Aledade, CFO Jessica Somers is helping finance navigate a business where investment decisions can take years to fully reveal their value. The technology-driven, physi

1214: The CFO Checklist Keeps Growing | Jack Gordon, CFO, Harri

For Jack Gordon, the CFO role at Harri increasingly extends beyond finance—and into the mechanics of how an AI-powered business scales. Harri, a workforce operating syst

1213: When Constructive Tension Yields Sharper Decisions | Martin Uhrik, CFO, Third Bridge

When Martin Uhrik compared the margins of two visual-effects brands at Technicolor, one appeared far more profitable than the other. Uhrik tells us the reported differenc

1212: When Working Capital Rewrites the CFO Agenda | Dan Barzily, CFO, Tipalti

Shortly after Dan Barzily became CFO of Tipalti, a go-to-market transformation altered the company’s working-capital profile. One quarter later, Barzily tells us, the com

1211: Mission, Means, and the Will to Grow | Jonathan Ma, CFO, Sutter Health

Jonathan Ma recalls being at his parents’ home in Nebraska one Saturday when his Morgan Stanley boss called with advice: pursue an opportunity at Sutter Health. After nea