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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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How to Avoid the Next Equifax

N2Growth Blog

Well, the CFO John Gamble cashed in nearly $1 million of stock options, while division president’s Joseph Loughran and Rodolfo Ploder sold over $500,000 and $250,000 in company stock, respectively. So, what was the leadership team’s response to their catastrophic screw-up?

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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says

HR Digest

GlobalData , a data analytics and consultancy company, said in January that the number of job advertisements for CEO, CHRO, and CFO posts increased by 35% in 2021 compared to 2020. “But it is time for more shareholders to vote against the quantum of pay, not just particular bad practices.

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Keep Your Sarbanes-Oxley Off My CFO

Harvard Business Review

No, Minow is suggesting that CFO essentially work for the audit committee. As she puts it, when she's evaluating a company, "the most important thing I look for in a CFO is someone who reports directly to the audit committee, because what I want is a CFO who is absolutely clear that his or her job depends on telling the truth to the board.".

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To bid or not to bid? That is the question.

Strategy Driven

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. Make an appointment with the CFO. Make certain that third-party proof, in video, is a major part of your proposal. They just buy.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In January 2011, the grant proposal is submitted – all 12,000 words of it and, we learn that we are one of 73 in our biomedical “field” Soon after, we make the first cut and are part of the 36 required to make direct presentations to the State. Undeterred, we issue our Letter of Intent to the State; one of hundreds.

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When It Pays to Think Like a Finance Manager

Harvard Business Review

Most finance managers in both large and small businesses encounter numerous proposals for capital investments and many of the people proposing these investments don’t have a clear picture of what the return will be. But finance people like me are skeptical even when the proposals do project a return. Here’s why.