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Leadership in Finance: ICAEW’s Carolyn Bresh

After helping struggling companies to turn their fortunes around, Carolyn Bresh hopes to teach other finance chiefs some of the lessons she's already learned.

June 1, 2009

"I was young and didn't know any better. I said, 'I'll go and do it.'" Thus, in 1993, a 26-year-old Carolyn Bresh boarded a plane from London to New York with five days' notice to become acting US CFO of Blenheim Exhibitions, an events company where she had been group accountant. Read more...

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