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Our signature monthly interview series features top CFOs, whose stories inspire and provide guidance on how to build a career in finance.
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In our latest podcast episode, Bessemer Venture Partner Jeff Epstein had a discussion with executive recruiters Rhoda Longhenry, Partner and Co-Founder of the Financial Officers Practice at True, and Jenna Fisher, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of the Financial Officers Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates.Rhoda and Jenna shared their best practices and advice for financial professionals looking to grow their careers in finance. Tune in to learn how to set yourself apart in the eyes ...
Join Bessemer Venture Partner Jeff Epstein for a discussion with executive recruiters Rhoda Longhenry, Partner and Co-Founder of the Financial Officers Practice at True, and Jenna Fisher, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of the Financial Officers Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates. Rhoda and Jenna shared their best practices and advice for financial professionals looking to grow their careers in finance. Learn how to set yourself apart from the pack in the eyes of an executive recrui...
In this departure from our regular interview of practicing CFOs, our host, Jeff Epstein, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, had invited a special guest whose job it is to train CFOs on the use of generative AI. Nicolas Boucher is a thought leader and highly sought-after advisor to finance teams. He has identified over 50 generative AI use cases in finance that every CFO or aspiring CFO needs to know about. ChatGPT is becoming a constant presence in our daily activity, and knowing ho...
Get the inside story on a fascinating finance career that runs the gamut from audit to IPO. Jim Kelliher’s broad range of finance leadership roles includes leading Drift to unicorn status in 2021 and taking remote-access software company LogMeIn public. Now, he draws on those experiences as an angel investor and advisor for tech startups Jim joins Bessemer Venture Partner and former Oracle CFO, Jeff Epstein, to talk about the lessons he’s learned on the way. Hear his thoughts on the cha...
At $70 billion in 2020, Snowflake was the largest software company IPO of all time. Michael Scarpelli was critical to the success of the data-storage provider up to their public offering and continues as the public company’s CFO. Join us to hear how Michael’s finance leadership experience in technology companies, including eight years at ServiceNow, prepared him for the role at Snowflake, and what he learned during and after the groundbreaking IPO. He’ll share his story with Jeff Epstein, f...
Gina has been a finance leader at various public companies since beginning her career as a CPA at Ernst & Young. In her current role, she has guided ServiceNow through several acquisitions while leading a global finance team. Gina is currently on the board of Gong and Roblox, and has held positions as International CFO at Revlon and CFO at Ingram Micro. Join us as Jeff Epstein interviews Gina to understand the moves she’s made throughout her career and to get an insider’s look at what it ...
In this conversation, Rachel will share how her experience at Yahoo! and Walt Disney prepared her to lead the successful sale of Leaf Group and take the helm at Etsy to scale financial operations globally. Rachel is Etsy’s CFO, bringing more than 30 years of senior financial experience to the company. She’s responsible for overseeing global financial operations. Rachel joined Etsy from Leaf Group, where she served as CFO since 2015. While at Leaf Group, she led efforts that strengthene...
In this Path To Becoming a CFO, our host Jeff Epstein will interview Dave Stephenson, CFO at Airbnb. Dave Stephenson oversees Airbnb’s global finance function and is responsible for financial management, planning and reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, corporate and business development, real estate, and procurement. Prior to joining Airbnb, Dave spent 17 years at Amazon, where he was most recently Vice President and CFO of their Worldwide Consumer Organization. D...
Rodrigo’s LinkedIn profile features a lineup of A-list modern company logos including Poshmark, OfferUp, Amazon, eBay, RetailMeNot, HP, and Palm. This diversity of companies provides an unconventional breadth of experience across sectors. We’ll hear about his experience as a public CFO and as the CFO of a VC-backed unicorn. We’ll ask him about serving in FP&A and divisional CFO roles in publicly traded companies, and how exposure to eCommerce, internet, digital media, software, ser...
Join us for this conversation between David Goulden, CFO at the world’s leading provider of online travel and related services Booking Holdings — which includes Booking.com, Priceline, OpenTable, Kayak, and others — and Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. David has operated in multiple international roles, both directly and indirectly involved in finance. His path to CFO is not the typical story of a CPA/accountant or investment banker that we normally see. Ha...
Howard’s path to CFO is unlike any other we have seen over the two years this series has been running. Until becoming CFO at PagerDuty, Howard had not held a traditional finance or accounting position. With a formal education in Information Systems and Computer Science, Howard began his career supporting the Sales operations at Oracle. His career moves included positions as Chief Commercial Officer and General Manager of Digital Experience Management until he stepped into the finance l...
Join us for this conversation between two top CFOs turned investors. Jeff Epstein, Partner at Bessemer Ventures and former CFO at Oracle, will interview Alan Black, who is the founder of Surfspray Capital. Alan served as the CFO at Zendesk in the years leading up to and following its IPO. Before Zendesk, he served as President and CEO at Intelliden, an IBM company, and as Managing Director and CFO at Openwave Systems. Alan sits on the Board of Directors at Looker and as an advisory boa...
Steve Sordello has spent nearly three decades working for some of the most iconic technology companies in Silicon Valley. Steve brings a diverse background in strategy, operational and financial management, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate leadership. Steve has served as the CFO of LinkedIn Corporation (LNKD), the online business networking service. During his tenure at LinkedIn, he oversaw LinkedIn’s successful IPO, scaled the company from $10M to over $8B in revenue, raised critical ...
Kelly Steckelberg brings extensive leadership and finance experience to her role as CFO at Zoom. Most recently, she was CEO at Zoosk, where she previously held positions of CFO and COO. Prior to Zoosk, Kelly was the Sr. Director of Consumer Segment Finance at Cisco. Kelly has also held various roles in finance at Cisco Webex, Epiphany, and PeopleSoft. She began her career in tax and audit at KPMG and has a MA in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin. Path to Becoming a CFO | Airba...
This episode features Jeff Epstein, Partner at Bessemer Ventures, and Twilio CFO, Khozema Shipchandler. Jeff Epstein brings his own unique perspective as a former CFO at Oracle and Nielsen to the conversation with Khozema Shipchandler about his career path. Most of that career was built in-house at GE Digital, the venerable U.S. corporation with a reputation for innovation and leading-edge management practices. We’ll hear about Khozema’s decision to make the jump from GE to modern communicati...
This episode features Matt Murphy, Partner at Menlo Ventures. Learn what investors and board members look for in a CFO, hear how Matt built companies and his career, Matt is a partner at Menlo Ventures and invests multi-stage across AI-first SaaS (apps, DevOps, API platforms) and robotics. Since joining Menlo in 2015, Matt has led investments in Alloy.AI, Benchling, 6 River Systems (acquired by Shopify), Canvas, Clarifai, Carta, Envoy, Firehydrant, Harness, Heap Analytics, Hover, Netlify, Sc...
1Ron Gill is the former CFO of NetSuite and currently an Operating Partner at Lead Edge Capital and a board member of HubSpot, Benchling, Amplitude, and others. Prior to joining NetSuite, Mr. Gill was vice president, finance, at Hyperion Solutions. Previously, he held a variety of financial positions with several of the world’s largest technology companies, including SAP, Dell, and Sony. Mr. Gill holds a Master of International Business Studies degree from the University of South...
John Bonney oversees the Harness company’s finance, IT, legal, and accounting functions. Prior to Harness, he oversaw rapid growth as the CFO at Mapbox as well as FinancialForce, the latter quadrupling revenues to over $100M during his tenure. Prior to that, he was the Division CFO of the Cloud Business Unit at SAP, where he oversaw over $1B of Cloud revenues across multiple business units, products, and geographies. Bonney joined SAP from Ariba as a senior finance executive, and helpe...
Jason Child brought his expertise in scaling high-growth organizations to Splunk as Senior Vice President and CFO in 2019 following ten years of CFO experience at Opendoor, Jawbone, and Groupon, Inc. Before his executive leadership roles, Jason spent more than 11 years leading various global finance teams at Amazon and learning the growth opportunity of cloud technology-centric organizations. Considering cloud-first a top priority for Splunk, its customers and the technology industry, ...
As Chime’s Chief Financial Officer, Matt Newcomb focuses on shaping Chime’s corporate and financial strategy, driving business model improvements, and scaling operational functions. Matt has played a key role in securing more than $2B in venture capital financing to fund Chime’s growth plans, solidifying the company’s role as the largest consumer fintech in the US. Matt started his career in financial services, serving as VP in BlackRock’s Financial Markets Advisory and Fintech practices wher...
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