Jan 31, 2021

If we were asked to boil down our discussion with CFO Gary Golden to a single word, our answer would be: “judgment.”

It perhaps goes without saying that having good judgment is a prerequisite for every finance leader, and the quality frequently tops the list of reasons that CEOs give when asked to describe what sets...

Jan 27, 2021

We seldom hear a finance leader tell us that they took a pass on a promotion early in their careers, so when CFO Ozan Pamir told us that as a 25-year-old associate he had turned down a vice president position with Echelon Wealth Partners, a Canadian investment banking firm that he had been with for only 2 years, we...

Jan 24, 2021

It was roughly 12 months ago that Jason Eustace was named CFO of CuriosityStream, an upstart streaming media company launched in 2015 by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks.

For Eustace, CuriosityStream represents something of a flashback career chapter, arguably having more in common with the first 10 years of his...

Jan 20, 2021

The mid-December conference call was 45 minutes old, CFO Brad Kinnish says, when he began to feel edgy.

One of the company’s biggest deals of the year had yet to close, and the specifics behind its commission structure (or lack thereof) had led a number of the call’s participants to begin to flag potential snags.

As...

Jan 17, 2021

It’s a phrase that has historically never roamed far beyond the corridors of pharmaceutical companies, but now—thanks to COVID 19—the term “clinical trials” has entered the vocabulary of the public at large.

Perhaps at no time in history have the “trials” that pharma companies use to generate data on the...