CFO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE / +MIT SLOAN THREE-DAY PROGRAM
speakers
CFO Leadership conference 2020
Keynote panel - november 13, 2020
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MICHENER (MICH) CHANDLEE
CFO Fanatics As Chief Financial Officer, Michener (Mich) Chandlee oversees business and financial planning, accounting, investor relations, purchasing, tax, treasury and divisional finance for the company. Prior to coming to Fanatics, Mich was Vice President of Corporate Audit and Chief Risk Officer at Nike. Click here for his full bio. |
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TIM KELLY
CFO Foundation Medicine, Inc. Tim Kelly joined Foundation Medicine in January 2019 as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Team. He brings two decades of healthcare experience in finance, strategic planning, and employee engagement and team development. Click here for his full bio. |
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ROXI WEN
CFO Mozilla As Mozilla’s Chief Financial Officer, Roxi Wen is responsible for delivering on all aspects of the organization’s financial goals. She drives implementation of Mozilla’s strategic roadmap enabling the business to scale, and identify and capture revenue growth and new investment opportunities. Click here for her full bio. |
COURT CHILTON - MODERATOR
Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan & MIT Leadership Center
Court Chilton is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has worked internationally on a wide variety of business-building initiatives: creating “branded client experiences;” relationship management and service improvement; sales training and leadership development; executive education and coaching; implementing Six Sigma; professional practice management, and re-engineering the learning function. Prior to working for MIT’s Sloan School, Court was a senior vice president of The Forum Corporation, based in New York and Boston.
Click here for his full bio.
Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan & MIT Leadership Center
Court Chilton is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has worked internationally on a wide variety of business-building initiatives: creating “branded client experiences;” relationship management and service improvement; sales training and leadership development; executive education and coaching; implementing Six Sigma; professional practice management, and re-engineering the learning function. Prior to working for MIT’s Sloan School, Court was a senior vice president of The Forum Corporation, based in New York and Boston.
Click here for his full bio.
keynote speakers - november 13, 2020
BEN SHIELDS
Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan School of Management
Ben Shields is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies the multibillion-dollar sports industry to identify broadly transferable management lessons in areas such as leadership communication, data-driven decision making, and innovation. He is the author or coauthor of three books and teaches a number of courses in the graduate programs at MIT Sloan.
Click here for his full bio.
Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan School of Management
Ben Shields is a Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies the multibillion-dollar sports industry to identify broadly transferable management lessons in areas such as leadership communication, data-driven decision making, and innovation. He is the author or coauthor of three books and teaches a number of courses in the graduate programs at MIT Sloan.
Click here for his full bio.
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JOHN REX
Executive Coach Rex Executive Leadership As the former CFO of Microsoft North America, John Rex brings real-world perspective to his clients’ leadership challenges. He understands the intensity of leading complex businesses because he has done it himself. He’s known for approaching each coaching relationship with a sharp sense of executive insight — and with a mindset of compassion, curiosity, and courage. Click here for his full bio. |
Additional speakers and panelists include
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TRACIE AHERN
CFO PineBridge Investments Ms. Ahern has over 28 years in the investment management industry, including 10 years of CFO experience with alternative and long only funds. Most recently, she served as an Independent Trustee for the Advisor Inner Circle Trust, a $60 billion investment trust, as well as an independent director on various alternative funds. Click here for her full bio. |
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TERRY COELHO
CFO BioDelivery Sciences International Terry Coelho has been Chief Financial Officer since joining BioDelivery Sciences, International (BDSI) in January 2019 and she has extensive experience as a multinational finance leader and executive across various industries and for both private and public global companies. With a proven track record of success in fast paced, complex businesses, over the course of her career she has successfully led multiple major change initiatives, turn-arounds and start-ups, both financially and operationally. Click here for her full bio. |
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MELISSA CLARK
Corporate Controller Primera Engineers, Ltd. As Corporate Controller, Melissa Clark is responsible for the overall financial well being of Chicago-based Primera Engineers. She leads all aspects of the corporate accounting and finance functions with a primary focus on strategic planning, budgeting, financial analysis, process improvement, and cash management. Melissa’s expertise is the result of more than 20 years in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Click here for her full bio. |
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ANTHONY FOLGER
CFO & Treasurer Carbonite Anthony Folger brings nearly 20 years of finance and operations experience to the position of Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, where he is responsible for the company’s financial strategy and operations. Folger joined Carbonite from Acronis, where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Click here for his full bio. |
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AMY HOSFORD-SWAN, CPA, MS, MBA
CFO Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Amy Hosford-Swan has held progressively responsible finance and administration positions in a wide variety of environments, from fast growing not-for-profits to small and large company corporate environments, including the global accounting firm, KPMG Peat Marwick. Click here for her full bio. |
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MARY JEFTS
CFO Salsify As CFO of Salsify, Mary Jefts leads Salsify’s finance, business operations and administrative functions. She has over 25 years of financial and executive leadership experience at both public and private companies in the technology space. Prior to Salsify, Mary was CFO at Unidesk, Acquia and OpenPages. Click here for her full bio. |
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HEMANT KUMAR
CFO and SVP Finance SOL-MILLENNIUM Medical Group Hemant Kumar is Chief Financial Officer of Sol-Millennium Medical Group. He is also a member of Sol-M Board of Directors. Sol-Millennium is a global medical device company with sales in more than forty countries, manufacturing footprint in China and Poland, and R&D Centers in Switzerland and China. Click here for his full bio. |
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LUCY MCQUILKEN
CFO WHOOP CFO at WHOOP, which has developed next generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance.WHOOP works with professional athletes across every sports league, college athletes across every conference,Olympians and the U.S. military; the company more recently released its first consumer product. |
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TED MYLES
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer AMAG Pharmaceuticals Ted Myles serves as AMAG’s executive vice president, chief financial officer & chief operating officer. He joined AMAG in 2016 and brings more than 20 years of public and private corporate finance and operational experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Click here for his full bio. |
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BARRY PAYNE
Director, External Relations, Management Accounting CGMA Barry Payne is Director, External Relations at the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants. In this role, he serves as a liaison to CFOs and CEOs to understand how finance teams are evolving and explore the skills, competencies and mindsets that are emerging and important. Barry is responsible for building and strengthening relationships with employers and elevating awareness of the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation. Click here for his full bio. |
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Ken Stillwell
CFO, CAO, SVP Finance Pegasystems Ken Stillwell is Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Vice President, responsible for all Finance and Accounting functions, Legal, Facilities, Investor Relations, and Information Technology. Mr. Stillwell has more than 20 years of financial leadership experience in high growth organizations in the technology sector. He joined Pega from Dynatrace in 2016 where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Click here for his full bio. |
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JOEL WILHITE
CFO AvidXchange Joel’s diverse experience, which includes international senior financial leadership roles at private and public companies, includes long-range financial planning and forecasting, operational accounting, annual budgeting, mergers and acquisitions and building and developing top talent. Joel joined AvidXchange in 2017 as the Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Joel was the CFO at Quantros, a SaaS company, that offers an enterprise-wide suite of applications that helps hospitals better manage the quality and safety of patient care. Click here for his full bio. |
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