Best Prolog Podcasts (2026)

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Atoms, Not Electrons: Why Warehouses Still Win | Tim Arndt, CFO, Prologis 48:10

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When it came time to pick our holiday bonus episodes, Tim Arndt quickly came to mind. Few companies sit at the crossroads of as many 2025 storylines—tariffs, data centers, and AI—as Prologis. In our February conversation, Tim walked us through a “merger of equals” that reset leadership, the capital-markets discipline that followed, and why logistic…

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Reframing Knowledge Work through AI with Houlihan Lokey CIO Allen Fazio 30:38

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On the 61st episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners) talk with Allen Fazio, CIO at Houlihan Lokey. Allen lays out how a global mid-cap M&A leader is rethinking investment banking as a professional service powered by AI. By putting a single orchestration layer at t…

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1155: Scaling Growth Without Sacrificing Outcomes | Bruce Schuman, CFO, Universal TechnicalInstitute 51:49

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At Intel, Bruce Schuman remembers walking into a meeting as a controller, proud of a product change his team had worked on “for months.” Then CFO Andy Bryant asked one question—one that reframed the proposal around customer impact. “Nobody had thought about (it),” Schuman tells us, and that question “completely changed the entire conversation,” lea…

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1154: When Finance Becomes the Company’s Storyteller | Drew Laxton, CFO, Outreach 41:35

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When Drew Laxton looks back on the past year at Outreach, one moment stands out—not a transaction, but a plan. The company set its annual targets, executed against them, and then exceeded expectations. “When you see green numbers at every quarterly all-hands,” Laxton tells us, “it’s amazing how that little bit of momentum just builds the company.” …

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California May Have Finally Crossed the Line for Investors - 222 28:03

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — markets opened 2026 with conflicting economic data, escalating political risk, mounting real estate distress, and renewed questions about whether California is pushing capital past the breaking point. Macro Reality Check — Jobs growth revised downward, unemployment jumped to 4.6%, CPI surprise…

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The New FP&A Feedback Loop - A Planning Aces Episode 42:00

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In this Planning Aces special episode, CFO Thought Leader brings together three finance executives operating in very different industries—but facing remarkably similar planning challenges. David Lee of WEBTOON, Cristina Kim of Octaura, and Zane Rowe of Workday share how FP&A has evolved from a periodic planning function into a continuous decision s…

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1153: From Big-Company Discipline to Private-Equity Speed | Jorge Pliego, CFO, Improving 46:03

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In his late 20s, Jorge Pliego found himself financing a major expansion in Mexico—not by calling corporate for cash, but by rethinking the entire structure. At Procter & Gamble, he was given the chance to fund a new paper products facility locally, navigating tax and financing incentives until the deal carried “zero” interest cost, Pliego tells us.…

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Rethinking Work in Humanity’s AI-Driven Future with Rishad Tobaccowala 47:49

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Are you prepared for the future of work? Off the Rak welcomes Rishad Tobaccowala, a global business advisor, author, and futurist, to explore what transformative leadership looks like in a fast-moving, AI-enabled world. Drawing on four decades of helping leaders reinvent themselves, Rishad shares insights from his book Rethinking Work on how leader…

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1152: Value Creation Starts with Portfolio and Capital Discipline | Manny Korakis, CFO, Presidio 38:20

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In his first “60 to 90 days” as CFO of Presidio, Manny Korakis learned that preparation doesn’t cancel pressure, he tells us. “Now the buck stops here,” he tells us, and he “didn’t really appreciate the pace” required until he was living it daily, he tells us. Korakis traces his move into enterprise thinking back to the McGraw Hill companies. Early…

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The Quiet Origins of Finance Leaders | A New Years Release 27:54

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As one year closes and another begins, most of us are wired to look forward—to new goals, fresh plans, and the next chapter. But this special episode of CFO Thought Leader invites you to do something slightly different: look back. Not to financial milestones or career titles, but to the moments that quietly shape who we become long before anyone ha…

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Inside the EPM Summit 2026: Asking Better Questions Before Choosing Technology 19:56

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David Den Boer traces the origins of the EPM Summit to a pattern he kept seeing across projects. “Sometimes the error is not necessarily beginning in the project,” he tells us, “but in the way they selected the product.” Too often, he observed, finance teams were locked into technology decisions before fully understanding their requirements—or thei…

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Before the Outcome Was Known | Jonathan Carr, CFO, Armis 34:52

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As the year comes to a close, we’re revisiting a conversation that feels newly relevant. This week, we’re re-releasing our CFO Thought Leader episode with Jonathan Carr, recorded three years ago—long before any exit was in view, but rich with insight into how he thinks about leadership, growth, and decision-making under uncertainty. That mindset wa…

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Lessons That Linger: Leadership Reflections From the CFO Seat | Karen Williams, CFO, American Express Global Business Travel 47:36

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As we re-release this conversation with CFO Karen Williams during the holiday week, we’re opening the episode with a short preface drawn from something she shared recently on LinkedIn. In a post about books that shaped her as a leader, Williams reflected on culture, bias, and the importance of staying open to different perspectives—ideas that echo …

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The Fed Cut Once — And Basically Told Markets to Stop Dreaming - 221 25:09

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Rohan and David break down the Fed’s final rate cut of the year, emerging real estate niches like childcare and life sciences, and why policy choices are reshaping where capital is (and isn’t) flowing. Federal Reserve Outlook: The Fed delivered a December rate cut, but the dot plot signals res…

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Rebuilding Enterprise IT for the AI Epoch with Former Avanade CIO Ronald White 27:36

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On the 60th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners) speak to Ronald White, the former CIO of Avanade. Ronald brings deep experience leading global enterprise IT at Avanade and shares actionable lessons from orchestrating large‑scale AI adoption across business fu…

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1151: Trust Is the Real Currency of Cross-Functional Finance | Roy Hefer, CFO, Perk 48:25

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Roy Hefer expected a quick coffee. Instead, a “30 minutes” introduction with a newly appointed Lumenis CEO stretched “more than three hours,” he tells us, as they talked through her plan to transform a flat-growth, cash-bleeding medical device company and “ultimately take it public,” he tells us. That conversation marked a shift from theory to owne…

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Rak Rewind: Turning Adversity into an Opportunity to Help Others with LPGA Pro Stacy Lewis 32:10

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Learn what it’s like being a professional female athlete from the recently retired LPGA golfer and two-time U.S. team captain. Lewis announced that she will be stepping away from full-time competitive golf at the end of the 2025 season — let's look back at her conversation. Can adversity help you find your greatest strengths? That’s just one of the…

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How Opportunity Zone 2.0 Quietly Became the Best Tax Tool in Real Estate - 220 35:47

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David Fong breaks down why Opportunity Zone 2.0 marks a major reset for OZ investing, following fresh insights from the OZ Insiders dinner and the Novogradac Opportunity Zones Conference What Changed in OZ 2.0: Permanent program, rolling timelines, and simpler rules — no more racing fixed dead…

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1150: Making AI Practical in Finance, Not Theoretical | Matt Novick, CFO, Triplelift 58:29

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Matthew Novick traces one of his earliest business lessons not to a boardroom, but to a furniture store in Portland, Maine. Growing up in his family’s business, he learned how to read credit reports, price products, and assess who was “credit worthy,” skills that showed him how decisions affect a business long before he ever closed a set of books, …

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1149: Predictable, Profitable Growth in an AI-Native Business | Ed Hagan, CFO, Satisfi Labs 56:13

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At 19, working part-time in a bank branch while attending college, Ed Hagan made a simple recommendation: expand the branch. The idea was taken seriously enough that he was transferred to the bank holding company’s finance and accounting department, where he suddenly found himself helping with acquisitions, preparing board materials, and contributi…

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Securing the Circular Economy and AI Attack Surface with Eastman CISO Adam Keown 28:16

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On the 35th episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser (co-founder and CEO, Abnormal AI) and Mike Britton (CIO, Abnormal AI) talk with Adam Keown, Chief Information Security Officer at Eastman Chemical Company. Adam draws on a career in law enforcement and global enterprise security to explain how Eastman is safeguarding life-critical ma…

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1148: How Early Data Lessons Shaped Workday’s CFO AI Playbook | Zane Rowe, CFO, Workday 45:37

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At first, we wondered why Zane Rowe was once again leading us back to Continental Airlines. With notable CFO tenures at VMware and EMC—chapters rich with transformation—surely there were fresh stories to surface. But as Rowe began tracing the logic behind flight profitability, route modeling, and data-rich decision making, the relevance snapped int…

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The $400B Tech Boom Keeping America Out of Recession - 219 37:30

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — Black Friday breaks spending records, the Fed edges toward a December rate cut, and data-center capital spending drives nearly all of America’s GDP growth. Holiday Spending Spike: U.S. shoppers spent $18B across Thanksgiving + Black Friday, yet economists warn it may mask weakening sentiment a…

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1147: From Investor Lens to Operator Seat | Cristina Kim, CFO, Octaura 51:46

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In her second week as CFO, Cristina Kim sat with Octaura’s leadership team reviewing a three-year strategy and ambitious 2026 targets, she tells us. As the numbers appeared on the screen, her instinct was to do what she had done for nearly two decades: probe what might go wrong, stress-test assumptions, and look for what could break, she tells us. …

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Turning Personal Crisis into a Drive for a Cure with Dr. David Fajgenbaum 27:43

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How do you make the journey from being given last rites in a hospital bed to founding an organization that has saved thousands of lives through medical innovation? Dr. David Fajgenbaum is a physician-scientist, Castleman disease survivor, and the co-founder of Every Cure. From medical student to patient to leader, David shares how he turned persona…

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1146: Building a Finance Org That Thinks Before It Counts | Aneal Vallurupalli, CFO, Drata 46:29

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The morning after Airbase’s sale closed, Aneal Vallurupalli woke up to a very different org chart. Before the deal, roughly a third to almost half of the company reported to him, including onboarding, professional services, account management, customer success, and financial services revenue, he tells us. The day after, those teams rolled into the …

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How LA’s Rent Freeze Risks Freezing the Entire Market - 218 29:33

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — the shutdown’s economic damage collides with a split Federal Reserve, LA clamps down harder on rent growth, and luxury hotels suddenly become one of the strongest signals of where capital is heading next. Shutdown Impact — A 43-day shutdown ends, Q4 economic growth takes a 1.5% hit, and the Fe…

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Encore Episode: From Black Box to Control Tower | Stuart Leung, CFO, Flexport 56:42

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Stuart Leung had occupied the CFO office at Flexport for only a few months when he realized the supply chain management company’s growing margin pressures stemmed not from a single root cause but from many. From pricing misalignment to invoice errors, Leung had compiled a lengthy list of snags. Along the way, he began empowering the people closest …

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Rak Rewind: Fostering More Human Connection and Empathy Through Leadership with Michael Lee Stallard 39:32

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Michael Lee Stallard is president of E Pluribus Partners, and a speaker, teacher, and consultant on leadership, employee engagement, productivity, and innovation. He is the primary author of "Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity and Productivity" and a contributor to The ASTD Management Development Handbook. He jo…

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Inside the Driver’s Seat: Finance Leadership in the Auto Sector 22:57

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In this special retrospective episode, we revisit three standout conversations from our archives to explore how automotive CFOs have long shaped strategy inside some of the industry’s most complex business models. From auctions to dealerships to early-stage EV manufacturing, these finance leaders reveal how they navigated scale, technology shifts, …

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Building Trustworthy AI Defenses with Georgetown CISO Micah Czigan 28:32

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On the 34th episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser (co-founder and CEO, Abnormal AI) and Mike Britton (CISO, Abnormal AI) talk with Micah Czigan, Chief Information Security Officer at Georgetown University. Micah shares how Georgetown is navigating AI adoption with security-first thinking, tailored governance, and a mindset rooted in…

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1145: Creative Capital, Tough Cuts, and the Power of “Why” | Jayme Brooks, CFO, Limbach 38:42

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The email with the term sheet arrived first, then the bottle of champagne from the CEO, Jayme Brooks tells us. The lender had agreed to a nontraditional structure that allowed Capstone to borrow against intangible assets, creating a lifeline at a moment when revenue had dropped about 40% and market cap had fallen from roughly 400 million to 25 mill…

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1144: Rewiring Finance for AI, Data, and Business Impact | Michael Bourque, CFO & EVP, , Convera 54:06

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Jack Welch’s binder hit the floor before Michael Bourque had time to react. At just 23, he sat in a Honeywell acquisition review meeting as the “keeper of the numbers,” rifling through a binder he knew didn’t contain the EPS detail Welch demanded. When the answer didn’t come, Welch “swept his binder off the table, threw it across the room, and got …

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Discipline at the Heart of Innovation - A Planning Aces Episode 35:21

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In this episode of Planning Aces, we spotlight FP&A insights from three CFOs leading innovation with discipline: Chris Sands (InvoiceCloud), Steve Sutter (Celigo), and Niels Boon (Cint). Each shares how finance is shaping AI, go-to-market models, and data-driven transformation without losing rigor. From building an “AI Ops” function and embedding f…

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The Shutdown Shockwave: Job Cuts, Tariffs & the Coming Real Estate Reset - 217 42:09

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan break down the record-setting government shutdown, the spike in job-cut announcements, and how shifting consumer behavior, tariffs, and robo-tech are reshaping the economic outlook. Real estate trends heat up in medical office, luxury development, and migration markets as inves…

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Scaling Human Connection with AI with Sprinklr CIO Sanjay Macwan 28:34

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On the 59th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners) welcome Sanjay Macwan, Chief Information Officer at Sprinklr. Sanjay explains how Sprinklr is using AI to enhance customer experience at scale by reducing friction, making engagement intuitive, and ensuring ever…

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1143: Building a Transformation-Ready Finance Function | Troy Anderson, CFO, Kelly Services 52:32

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When Troy Anderson accepted the CFO seat at Kelly Services in 2024, he stepped into an organization that, as he tells us, “had done a number of acquisitions … and really invested in the business.” The legacy staffing firm had spent nearly $1 billion to expand its reach but had yet to fully integrate those pieces. Anderson’s mission: align a global …

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1142: From Webcomics to Wall Street: Inside a Storytelling Powerhouse | David Lee, COO & CFO, WEBTOON 54:12

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When David Lee joined PG&E in San Francisco, the company was collapsing under the weight of California’s first energy crisis. “These utility veterans kind of got us into this,” the new CFO told him, handing him an unusual assignment: act as an “anti-CFO.” Lee spent his days testing every forecast and financing plan, proposing contrarian options lik…

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35 Days of Gridlock: Why Wall Street Is Quietly Pouring Billions Into U.S. Real Estate - 216 38:09

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This week on Investing with GoodLife Housing Partners — David and Rohan cover the record-long government shutdown, cooling inflation, and how major institutions are repositioning into U.S. real estate. From Fed signals to fresh billion-dollar bets, we outline where capital is heading next. Government Shutdown: Now 35 days in, the stalemate is halti…

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Secure AI in the Hands of 200,000 Users with Arizona State University CISO Lester Godsey 27:43

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On Episode 33 of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO and co-founder, Abnormal AI) and Mike Britton (CIO, Abnormal AI) sit down with Lester Godsey, Chief Information Security Officer at Arizona State University, to discuss how ASU is building an ambitious, campus-wide AI strategy. With more than 200,000 users, ASU has deployed an in-hous…

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1141: The Long Game of Resilient Finance Leadership | Erik Wissig, CFO, SureCo 44:11

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When Erik Wissig recalls his early years as a founder, one moment still stands out. The team had met its growth goals and earned their bonuses—but the company’s cash flow hadn’t caught up. “You need the cash to make those payments,” he tells us. That hard-won lesson reshaped how Wissig approached finance from that day forward: plan ahead, balance a…

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Coaching Leaders to Flourish in Life and Work with Steve Graves 48:40

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Ready to discover what separates truly effective CEOs from those who just look good on paper? Seasoned CEO advisor Steve Graves shares hard-won insights from three decades of coaching executive leaders. With 20 books on strategy and leadership under his belt, Steve has developed over 100 frameworks specifically designed for CEOs navigating the comp…

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1140: The EQ Playbook for Post-Merger Reality | Niels Boon, CFO, Cint 1:00:11

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The moment that stayed with him began at a marketplace where sales dashboards showed 40% gross margin—yet finance closed the books at 20%, Boon tells us. The gap, he discovered, lived in the shadows: rebates, discounts, and “free” services that never touched operational metrics. He manually traced economics to the client level and found margins man…

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Bridging Legal & Finance: Closing Contact Risk Gaps - A Suite Voices Miniseries Episode 26:48

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In this special episode of CFO Thought Leader—the first of three produced in collaboration with The Suite, Shaun Sethna (General Counsel and GM for the L Suite) maps where CFOs and GCs misjudge contract risk and how to collaborate effectively. He spotlights “locked-in” deals that still enable termination via vague clauses or missing notice-and-cure…

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1139: The Global Lens of Finance Leadership | Atsushi Kitamura, CFO, Astellas Pharma 25:19

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When Procter & Gamble asked Atsushi Kitamura to move from finance analysis into running a manufacturing plant, he didn’t hesitate. “They always give me next challenge to stretch me,” he tells us. Managing one of P&G’s large diaper plants in Japan forced him to apply finance in real-time operations—a proving ground that shaped his comfort with chang…

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The Oklahoma City Play: Why This 26-Unit Deal Targets a 3.27x Return 54:07

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Welcome to our webinar on Ayva Midtown Phase II—the development of a 26-unit apartment community in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Strategically located near major employment hubs with over 100,000 jobs, this $6.35 million project (with $1.85 million in total equity) targets a 29.4% project IRR and a 3.27x equity multiple. Tune in now for out Webinar Rec…

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From Clean Data to AI-Driven Advantage with General Mills Chief Digital & Technology Officer Jaime Montemayor 31:45

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On the 58th episode of Enterprise AI Innovators, hosts Evan Reiser (Abnormal AI) and Saam Motamedi (Greylock Partners) talk with Jaime Montemayor, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at General Mills. They’re reimagining what a food company can be by leveraging AI to reduce waste, tailor marketing, optimize supply chains, and accelerate product inno…

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1138: Stablecoins, Real Utility, and the Next Curve | Michael Levine, CFO, Fireblocks 55:29

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On a quiet afternoon in Punta Cana, Michael Levine sat alone on a stretch of white sand. The turquoise water and silence offered the perfect scene for rest—until he realized what was missing. “I didn’t have my phone and I didn’t have my laptop,” he tells us. “That’s what makes me happy… I love doing work from the beach.” It was there, after steppin…

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Operational Discipline and Agentic AI for Real Risk Reduction with Dolby CISO Yaron Levi 24:06

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On the 32nd episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser (CEO, co-founder at Abnormal AI) and Mike Britton (CIO, Abnormal AI) talk with Yaron Levi, CISO at Dolby. They unpack the enduring basics of cyber, how agentic AI can help teams move faster, and why excellent security starts with the business mission. Yaroni argues that most incident…

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1137: Scaling Finance Across Borders | Amy Foo, CFO, Ignition 56:42

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She starts with tape from the field, not the spreadsheet. Listening to enterprise sales calls, Amy Foo heard customers whose usage rose and fell with seasons. Fixed per-seat pricing “wasn’t quite hitting the mark,” she tells us, so she piloted a pooled-seat model that flexed monthly within an annual commitment—turning smaller clips into “one to fiv…