Oct 30, 2022

When Ambereen Toubassy decided that it was time to start up her own hedge fund, it's likely that no one cast doubt on the experienced investor’s grand plan. That is, no one except Toubassy herself.  

After 7years as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and a dozen running hedge funds, Toubassy says, she told...

Oct 26, 2022

When Darren Cooper was named CFO of Reveal Group of Melbourne, Australia, in 2019, there was no friendly board member or executive recruiter seeking kudos for having completed a successful a CFO search.

Instead, Cooper says, his twist of fate was due to a personal relationship that he had established with Reveal...

Oct 23, 2022

Gillian Sheeran’s was perhaps 17 years into an illustrious finance career and on her second CFO tour of duty when she finally met the limits of her CFO superpowers.

These powers had first guided her into a CFO role at the tender age of 32, where during her tenure she would help to turn a 200-employee IT consulting...

Oct 19, 2022

If, as the old maxim suggests, “life” is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans, Adil Syed’s other plans most likely did not include Snap Inc—or at least they didn’t when he first headed east to attend business school.

Having spent the previous 3 years at Redpoint Ventures helping to raise...

Oct 16, 2022

It was after Ross Muken had been gainfully roaming the corridors of equity research for more than a dozen years that the acquisition of his firm administered a dose of operations insight that began to feed his aspirations to become a CFO.  

At the time, Muken was a top research analyst for ISI Group, an independent,...