Leading Through Education and Hard Work: TS Imagine’s Kate Peachway

Life experience combined with a wealth of knowledge and a desire to learn always tends to be great stepping stones to the sound development of leadership skills. As a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities amid a 15-year career in financial services and technology, Kate Peachway of TS Imag...

By Adam Zaki • April 20, 2023

Pushing Mindset and Culture Change: Kyndryl’s David Wyshner

Managed infrastructure services is not a bad business when a U.S. recession and weak global economic growth in the next five years are on the horizon. Companies like IBM spinoff Kyndryl provide IT infrastructure services for large organizations, a product offering that “tends to be inherently sti...

By Vincent Ryan • April 6, 2023

How CFO Ryan Tyler Built Molekule Through Stock Acquisitions

When Ryan Tyler, not yet 40 years old, landed his first CFO job in 2020, he’d already been a key player in more than 20 M&A transactions for previous employers. It’s not very surprising, then, that much of his time since joining AeroClean — a maker of air sanitation devic...

By David McCann • March 30, 2023

From CF-GO to CF-NO: The CFO Decision-Making Journey

The chief financial officer position has changed dramatically over time, particularly in light of how technology has affected business.  CFOs are simple folk and we simplify our focus down to two things: activities that will increase revenue and activities which will reduce costs. Sometimes an un...

By Michael Bayer • March 24, 2023

Lamborghini CFO Paolo Poma: Luxury Auto Growth, Finance, and Competency to Execute

The luxury sports car business is booming. Automakers are now globally incentivized to produce the electric and hybrid luxury vehicles the younger demographic demands. Automakers built the first electric cars alongside combustion engines in the early 1800s, but the 21st century has brought a resu...

By Adam Zaki • March 23, 2023

Customers Need Real Returns: Cybersecurity CFO Andrew Casey

A term being uttered in enterprises as they instill more discipline into technology spending is “vendor consolidation.” But cutting back any resources devoted to the protection of systems and data might seem ill-advised. At the current rate of growth of data breaches and other digital crimes, dam...

By Vincent Ryan • March 17, 2023

Real Estate Finance Pro: Masha Sherman

A native of Belarus, Masha Sherman, CFO of industrial real estate firm Greek Development, moved to the U.S. when she was 19 years old to study accounting. After college, she joined Ernst & Young’s real estate group as an auditor. During her five years there, Sherman worked with high-profile c...

By Sandra Beckwith • March 9, 2023

From Hedge Fund Founder to CFO: Mint House’s Samantha Greenberg

Few CFOs have the investor pedigree of Samantha Greenberg: early associate at private equity firm Francisco Partners; partner at Paulson & Co; portfolio manager at Citadel; and a vice president in the special situations group at Goldman Sachs. She also founded Margate Capital Management and g...

By Vincent Ryan • March 2, 2023

KPIs and the Power of Measurement: Bernie Smith

"I passionately believe in the power of measurement and understand how it can drive improvement. There is a structured, repeatable, and logical way of coming up with KPIs." Bernie Smith, the architect and founder of his company Made to Measure KPIs, has dedicated his professional mission to bring...

By Andy Burt • Feb. 21, 2023

The Non-Traditional CFO: Pairwise’s Lynsey Wenger

For Lynsey Wenger, CFO at Pairwise, a food tech that specializes in gene-editing capabilities and deep crop science expertise, work experience outside the traditional realm of CFO has played to her strengths. She has a combined 16 years of experience in equity derivatives and global natural resou...

By Adam Zaki • Feb. 16, 2023

Food and Finance Focused: CFO Kevin Benmoussa

Originally from France and now working in New York for an Israeli startup that grows steaks from non-genetically engineered animal cells, Kevin Benmoussa’s financial expertise was distilled at large corporations.  Named CFO and executive vice president of the startup, Aleph Farms, in the fall of ...

By Sandra Beckwith • Feb. 9, 2023

Growth Through Experience: Cyndx’s Mike Ballou

In order to be in the best position to make good decisions, a wide array of experience is favored for leaders who value perspective in their decision-making approach. Mike Ballou, CFO of Cyndx — a software as a service for artificial intelligence-driven corporate search for mergers and acquisitio...

By Adam Zaki • Feb. 2, 2023

The Continuous Improvement Mindset: RXO’s Jamie Harris

When driving on interstate highways in the U.S., XPO Logistics’ trucks are hard to miss. But you won’t see trucks stamped “RXO,” XPO’s recent spinoff that is the country’s fourth largest broker of truckload freight transportation. Shippers use RXO’s digital brokerage platform to match all-size fr...

By Vincent Ryan • Jan. 27, 2023

A CFO’s Closing Thoughts: ArcBest’s David Cobb

David Cobb, CFO of ArcBest, is retiring in October. After nearly two decades with the global supply chain logistics company, Cobb has climbed the executive ladder, earning well wishes from his fellow leaders, as he begins a new chapter in life. During Cobb's time as a financial leader, including ...

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 20, 2023

Immersed in Banking: Hope Dmuchowski

Hope Dmuchowski is a banking veteran, having spent 19 of her 20 years in finance within that industry.  Named CFO and a senior executive vice president of regional financial services company First Horizon in late 2021, Dmuchowski began her career on Wall Street at Deutsche Bank in the leadership ...

By Sandra Beckwith • Jan. 5, 2023

Communicate the Story Behind the Numbers: Q2’s David Mehok

David Mehok, CFO of Q2 Holdings, a provider of cloud-based banking solutions, has worn many hats throughout his career. In shuffling roles and duties through finance in technology, Mehok's career path has allowed him to experience corporate finance through a tech-inspired lens. Now with Q2 for ju...

By Adam Zaki • Dec. 16, 2022

President First: CFO Len Batcha

Len Batcha, president and CFO of Technical Transportation (Tech Trans), is a logistics professional who began his career at Abbott Laboratories working in materials and warehouse management. A move to the healthcare company’s diagnostics division presented an opportunity to make significant wareh...

By Sandra Beckwith • Dec. 8, 2022

First-Time CFO Aims to Influence Sustainable Future: Joshua Dickinson

Generally unknown to consumers, Schneider Electric is a mammoth supplier to organizations. The €30 billion, France-based company manufactures electrical components and provides software and other services that help clients electrify and digitize their physical infrastructure. Digitization and ele...

By David McCann • Dec. 1, 2022

From Regulator to Executive: CFO Alison Staloch

Alison Staloch, CFO of Fundrise, has operated in corporate finance as both a regulator and now an executive. A former chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission's division of investment management, Staloch left the public sector at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the f...

By Adam Zaki • Nov. 10, 2022

Trial by Fire: Niki Heim

In her mid-30s, Niki Heim’s youth and innate competitive nature drive her to continue to learn, grow, and excel.  The CFO and chief administrative officer (CAO) of LogicSource began her career with four years in public accounting before joining the largest community bank headquartered in the Paci...

By Sandra Beckwith • Nov. 3, 2022

Championing Data: CFO Jennifer Vanderveldt

“You cannot predict the future without having a very stable, validated, reliable view of what happened yesterday,” Jennifer Vanderveldt, CFO of Mammoth Holdings says in the first six minutes of our interview.  That statement sets the tone for our Zoom call. Vanderveldt is former head of strategy,...

By Vincent Ryan • Oct. 28, 2022

Value Drivers: A Q&A With Reed Phillips and Charles Slack

"CFOs are the people that should be the custodians of value in a company." This basic premise underscores the purpose and meaning behind Reed Phillips' and Charles Slack's hypothesis that finance chiefs, perhaps better than anyone in the organization, are equipped to both value the company and se...

By Andy Burt • Oct. 27, 2022

Aiming for Growth While Reducing Waste: CFO Bill Strong

As technology integrates itself into every fiber of the economy, food tends to be no different. Making its way into food tech is Apeel Sciences, a Santa Barbara-based company that has developed a peel-like product derived from the skins of fruits and vegetables. It is placed on produce to preserv...

By Adam Zaki • Oct. 20, 2022

Fine-Tuning Franchise Performance: CFO John Cappadona

School of Rock CFO John Cappadona is one of a burgeoning group of finance chiefs who traversed the financial planning and analysis route to the CFO seat. For Cappadona, interpreting key performance indicators and optimizing growth while maximizing cash flow and profitability is second nature. ...

By Vincent Ryan • Oct. 14, 2022

From CPA to CFO: Brian Fitzgerald

CFO of World Insurance Associates, Brian Fitzgerald, credits his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting and his first post-college job as a PwC auditor for career experiences that led to the CFO’s office. When he became an assistant controller for a small, entrepreneurial company, he disco...

By Sandra Beckwith • Oct. 6, 2022