building the right compass - managing the ever changing landscape of finance and broader corporate...

CFO Panel:Building the Right Compass - Managing the Ever Changing Landscape of Finance and Broader Corporate Technology

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Moderator – Mary Driscoll, Senior Research Fellow, APQC

• Mary Driscoll is an author, editor, and lecturer with expertise in corporate finance, capital markets, and business management.

• She serves as senior research fellow at APQC, a benchmarking and best-practices research organization. Mary leads the financial management research initiative.

• Previously, Ms. Driscoll spent a decade as president of CFO Research, the research services arm of CFO magazine.

• Ms. Driscoll has written several business books, including the professional reference guide Cash Management: Corporate Strategies for Profit (John Wiley & Sons).

• She has won journalism awards for corporate finance, treasury operations, and personal financial planning topics.

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CFO Panel: Building the Right Compass - Managing the Ever Changing Landscape of Finance and Broader Corporate Technology

MODERATOR:Mary DriscollSenior Research

Fellow, APQC

Jack JuddCFO

Proto Labs, Inc

Janet PirusFormer CFO

Papa Murphy’s

Mike RasicCFO

Zest Finance

Kim WallinController

State of Nevada

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Thank You For Attending Today’s CFO Panel!Now onto our Awards Presentation

2014 ProformaTECH Awards for Excellence

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•Why Have Awards?

ProformaTECH Awards for Excellence

• To Celebrate!

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“Great example of a company adopting an integrated approach to planning its business and developing a budget using rapid cycles, focusing on business outcomes and enabling self-service to enable FP&A to focus on analysis and planning.”

Pioneering Finance Technology Leader of the Year

Ginger BleessFP&A Manager, Arron’s Inc.

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“Company replaced an overly complex, poor performing financial performance management system with one that has a more elegant structure allowing it to deliver more useful information to users faster.”

Most Effective Adoption of Technology by a Finance Organization

Jennifer MolineSr. Accountant – Internal Reporting, Windstream Corporation

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“CFO acted as a catalyst for the adoption of an easy to use technology that enables more effective performance management to drive deeper insight and better results.”

CFO Technology Leader of the Year

Tom WalkerCFO, Tableau Software

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Here to Present the MacBook Air:

And the Winner is….

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Thank You to All of Our Great Speakers!

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Thank You for Joining Us!

• It was fun and educational•We appreciate your time•We look forward to seeing you at www.proformative.com

Now I am Closing PROFORMATECH 2014!

Please Join Us for Cocktails and Networking In the Exhibit Hall!

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