This episode of the CFO Playbook features an interview with Christopher Yoshida, President & Chief Financial Officer at Northern Data AG, a company that combines intelligent and sustainable data centers, cutting-edge hardware, and self-developed software for various HPC applications such as bitcoin mining, blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, IoT, and graphics rendering. Christopher is an entrepreneurial executive with more than 20 years of experience as a global...

This episode of the CFO Playbook features an interview with Gemma Castle, CFO at Cult Wines, which blends heritage, expertise, and innovative technology to transform the fine wine industry for producers, wine enthusiasts, collectors, and investors alike. With over 20 years of experience, Gemma Castle is well versed in delivering nuanced and sophisticated financial strategies in the fast growth SME sector.

This episode of the CFO Playbook features an interview with Leigh Ramsden, CFO at Trulioo, a leading global identity and business verification provider specializing in anti-money laundering and ‘know your customer’ compliance. With over 15 years in senior level finance, Leigh is accomplished in the leadership of finance teams while implementing strategies and managing effective business processes to achieve corporate goals and maximize growth in high-volume environments.

This episode of the CFO Playbook features an interview with Kirstine Archer, CFO at Bam Boom Cloud, a company that simplifies technology and makes it cost effective, so small and medium businesses can take advantage of the latest Microsoft Cloud solutions to help their business quickly grow strong. Although having been in finance for over 20 years, Kirstine says she fell into accountancy rather than making it a deliberate career move. Even though she may have taken a non-traditional path to...

This episode of the CFO Playbook features an interview with Mariana Lazaro, CFO Latin America at SumUp. Mariana has extensive experience in driving continuous financial and operational improvement, designing and implementing accounting processes and systems, developing and implementing strategic plans, and evaluating and executing mergers and acquisitions. From early in life, Mariana knew that she wanted to work in finance because it was important to her as a woman from an immigrant family to...

This episode of the CFO Playbook features an interview with Ben Chrnelich, CFO at Symphony.com. Ben has a passion for Capital Markets Technology. He has spent his career focused on enabling trading organizations to utilize technology that drives efficiency and productivity. Always aspiring to become a CFO, Ben sees technology as a tool that can empower financial leaders to have an impact at organizations that previously was not possible because the volume of work was too much and too manual.

With 7 years of leadership experience, Navpreet Randhawa has a passion for Enterprise SaaS businesses with focus on the financial technology sector. He found himself on the path to being a self-described “accidental CFO” by having a drive to help build companies and be successful. Navpreet has leaned into prioritizing what is best for his business through the help of using technical tools and outsourcing many traditional aspects of a company’s finance department. As CFO at Minna, he strives...

Bijan Moallemi has nearly a decade of experience building and leading finance functions at companies like Qualcomm and Palantir. He knew CFOs deserved access to better tools, so he co-founded Mosaic Finance to build the next generation of finance software for CFOs and their teams. Born out of their own experiences in finance, Bijan and his co-founders have built the Mosaic platform as a tool that combines big data and machine learning to provide powerful predictive reporting capabilities.

Anthony Rawlinson has more than 12 years of experience working in finance. He joined Papier as CFO four years ago, after serving as a consultant for the brand beforehand. Previously, Anthony worked in investment banking with Greenhill & Co. and PwC, providing generalist corporate finance advice. Since he started as the finance leader at Papier, the team has grown to 20 people. Not only does Anthony lead the finance operations at Papier, but he also oversees data at the company,...

Huw Slater is hugely passionate about technology that facilitates innovation and enhances both people’s work and personal lives. Currently, he is COO at TravelPerk, a next-generation travel booking and management platform that is pioneering the future of corporate travel. Previously, Huw served as CFO at TravelPerk and Typeform, with a long career in finance, business, and technology. Huw has helped lead his company through the pandemic and into the new world of corporate collaboration and...

Tiziana Figliolia has more than 25 years experience in the technology industry leading a wide range of strategic, financial, and operational functions at billion-dollar global publicly traded companies. Currently, she is CFO at Hootsuite, the global leader in social media management. Having a passion for advancing diversity and inclusion initiatives in the workplace and in the community, she is also the co-founder of Full STEAM Forward, a non-profit whose mission is to tackle inequalities in...

Chris Roling has 35 years of commercial and private equity experience, having served in board, CEO, COO, and CFO positions with a number of global public and private companies. Currently he is CFO at Coinme, a crypto financial services and blockchain technology company that is dedicated to helping the world gain access to virtual currency. A self proclaimed, ‘global nomad,’ Chris has worked across the world for many different companies and verticals. His vast experience in nearly every...

Paul Sheriff, CFO at NewDay has over 25 years of experience in financial services organizations spanning banking, asset management and insurance. Paul is currently working as Chief Financial Officer for NewDay, a private equity backed consumer finance business providing branded and co-branded credit cards, including Amazon’s credit card in the UK. His specialities include, finance, operations, financial services, and change management. Paul’s vast experience with large corporations and...

Charly Kevers, CFO at Carta, has more than 20 years of experience holding various roles in finance and strategy, including investor relations and corporate development in multiple countries across North America, Europe, and Asia. While he didn’t take a straight path to his current role, his breadth of experience in consulting and across the financial world has given him great exposure to different businesses and executives to prepare him to be a leader at Carta.

Nitesh Sharan, CFO at SoundHound, is a strategic finance executive with experience fueling growth and profitability in firms across the consumer, technology, and industrial sectors. His diverse background working in many different verticals across multiple industries allows Nitesh to be a great fit for the evolving and expanding role of the CFO in today’s business world.

Dynshaw Italia, CFO at Soldo, is bringing 20 years of experience working and developing fast growing consumer brands to help Soldo in its efforts to light a brighter way for businesses to pay for advertising, software, travel expenses, online procurement, and more.

It’s a candidate’s market: top talent is on the lookout for opportunities that will be a launchpad for their careers. Over the last few months on The CFO Playbook, we’ve spoken with CFOs to gather their best advice on hiring and retention, and we’ve compiled them for you.

Nick Rose, CFO at Enable, is carrying forward his experiences with transformation to help steward big changes at the cloud-based rebate management platform as Enable triples its headcount and puts growth on hyper drive.

Ross Tennenbaum, CFO at Avalara, is applying what he learned from years in banking to understand the business and its strategic opportunities, invest in technology, and build an engaged finance team that doesn’t need to look outside the company for career fulfillment.

Craig Foster, CFO at Picsart, is a big believer in the kind of hands-on leadership that enables his finance team to take initiative and pursue growth opportunities. With over 25 years of management experience, Craig is paying all he’s learned forward to build and nurture a dynamic team that’s only made better with technology.

Steve Gallucci, Global & US National Managing Partner for the CFO Program at Deloitte, has his fingers on the pulse of pressing issues for CFOs. He shares key insights from the 4Q21 CFO Signals survey, his insights on transition planning for CFOs, and what it takes to be a top finance leader today.

Jared Poff, EVP & CFO at Designer Brands, shares his experience navigating a retail business during the ups and downs of the pandemic. He draws on lessons learned from adapting during other turbulent moments in his career in corporate finance and voices his confidence in coming out on the other side.

As we kick off a new year, we’re sharing wisdom from top CFOs to help all the aspiring CFOs out there plot their course for 2022 and beyond.

Francis Trudeau, CFO at BrainBox AI, shares his experience going from CFO at a mature company to taking on the first-ever CFO role at a tech scaleup working to fight the climate crisis. While it’s a mountain of work building a finance department from the ground up, Francis is up to the challenge.

David Harutian, VP of Finance at Qualified, brings his experiences as an adviser in investment banking and corporate development to building a finance team for a hypergrowth tech startup. While his time working on the advisory side was invaluable, David shares the satisfaction of working in-house, embracing an entrepreneurial mindset and building a foundation for success.