Liquid: How CFOs Outperform
Today’s finance leaders are up against a major challenge: liquidity gridlock. They’ve got the skills and know-how to solve big problems, but disconnected, confusing systems keep their financial data siloed. What’s the impact?
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The Cash Void: When Growing Sales Puts a Company at Risk (opens the original)
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Tom is joined by Cruz Gamboa, founder of Ascend Growth Ventures and ScalingCFO.io, to explore why “just grow sales” stops being good advice once a company scales past a few million in revenue, how the “cash void” can hide serious liquidity problems behind a healthy-looking P&L, and why every management team must identify and remove the company’s single biggest constraint. Cruz also explains how the CFO role is evolving from reporting and analysis toward systems leadership, judgment, communicatio
Build vs. Buy in the Age of AI: BlackLine's Patrick Villanova on Valuations, Risk, and Trust (opens the original)
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Tom is joined by Patrick Villanova, CFO of BlackLine, to unpack why deciding whether to build or buy has gotten harder now that private valuations haven't caught up to a falling public market, how BlackLine is threading the needle on AI adoption by keeping humans in the loop rather than chasing full automation, and why leaning into new technology — without ever losing sight of the fundamentals — is the only way finance professionals stay ahead of the curve.
From 60 Days to Same Day: How RBC Clear Is Reinventing Corporate Banking (opens the original)
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Tom is joined by Kartik Kaushik, Managing Director and Head of RBC Clear, to discuss why corporate banking in the US remains decades behind consumer finance, how RBC Clear is reducing account onboarding from 60 days to the same day, and why a former consumer marketer at Unilever may be exactly the right person to reimagine the corporate treasury experience.
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