482: When Opportunities Reveal Themselves | Wilco Groenhuysen, CFO, Novocure
Near the end of our discussion with CFO Wilco Groenhuysen, he recommends a book while confiding: "It's not a great book—but it has a big lesson."
"Opportunities exist for only for a short time. So when you see an opportunity, grab it and make the best of it," says Groenhuysen, revealing the big lesson and adding...
481: Achieving a Milestone Transaction | Mike Myshrall, CFO, Cyren
Of all the finance milestones that CFO Mike Myshrall uses to illustrate Cyren's appetite for success, perhaps few are more enlightening than the one involving private equity titan Warburg Pincus. Two years ago, Warburg Pincus offered to buy out Cyren shareholders at a 35 percent premium over the current price of their...
480: Bringing a Metric to Life | Mark Patrick, CFO, Syngenta
Sometime in the next three to six months, Syngenta AG, a Swiss-based agribusiness company, is expecting to welcome a clan of ambitious offspring. Months, even years in the making, these fruit from a forward-looking group are born from a cross-functional team—one tasked with helping the $13.5 billion...
479: Keeping the Customer Top-of-Mind | Stefan Schulz, CFO, PROS Holdings, Inc.
Among the many flights that CFO Stefan Schulz has taken between Minneapolis and Houston over the years, few are etched in his memory better than a certain return flight to Minneapolis—during which he created an ambitious list of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) action items. The list that Schultz created in the air that day was...
478: Numbers: CFO Leadership's Lightning in a Bottle | Sebastien Martel, CFO, BRP
It was late for a workday (perhaps after 9:00 p.m.) when Seb Martel shared his team's candid findings with a collection of top managers tasked with assessing the economic downturn's likely impact on BRP's business. As a manufacturer of popular vehicles for snow and water, BRP had a management that was...