Path to Becoming a CFO presented by Airbase

In our latest podcast episode, Bessemer Venture Partner Jeff Epstein had a discussion with executive recruiters Rhoda Longhenry, Partner and Co-Founder of the Financial Officers Practice at True, and Jenna Fisher, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of the Financial Officers Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates.Rhoda and Jenna shared their best practices and advice for financial professionals looking to grow their careers in finance. Tune in to learn how to set yourself apart in the eyes ...

Join Bessemer Venture Partner Jeff Epstein for a discussion with executive recruiters Rhoda Longhenry, Partner and Co-Founder of the Financial Officers Practice at True, and Jenna Fisher, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of the Financial Officers Practice at Russell Reynolds Associates.Rhoda and Jenna shared their best practices and advice for financial professionals looking to grow their careers in finance. Learn how to set yourself apart from the pack in the eyes of an executive recruit...

In this departure from our regular interview of practicing CFOs, our host, Jeff Epstein, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, had invited a special guest whose job it is to train CFOs on the use of generative AI. Nicolas Boucher is a thought leader and highly sought-after advisor to finance teams. He has identified over 50 generative AI use cases in finance that every CFO or aspiring CFO needs to know about. ChatGPT is becoming a constant presence in our daily activity, and knowing how ...

Get the inside story on a fascinating finance career that runs the gamut from audit to IPO. Jim Kelliher’s broad range of finance leadership roles includes leading Drift to unicorn status in 2021 and taking remote-access software company LogMeIn public. Now, he draws on those experiences as an angel investor and advisor for tech startupsJim joins Bessemer Venture Partner and former Oracle CFO, Jeff Epstein, to talk about the lessons he’s learned on the way. Hear his thoughts on the chan...

At $70 billion in 2020, Snowflake was the largest software company IPO of all time. Michael Scarpelli was critical to the success of the data-storage provider up to their public offering and continues as the public company’s CFO. Join us to hear how Michael’s finance leadership experience in technology companies, including eight years at ServiceNow, prepared him for the role at Snowflake, and what he learned during and after the groundbreaking IPO. He’ll share his story with Jeff Epstein, for...

Gina has been a finance leader at various public companies since beginning her career as a CPA at Ernst & Young. In her current role, she has guided ServiceNow through several acquisitions while leading a global finance team. Gina is currently on the board of Gong and Roblox, and has held positions as International CFO at Revlon and CFO at Ingram Micro.Join us as Jeff Epstein interviews Gina to understand the moves she’s made throughout her career and to get an insider’s look at what it t...

In this conversation, Rachel will share how her experience at Yahoo! and Walt Disney prepared her to lead the successful sale of Leaf Group and take the helm at Etsy to scale financial operations globally. Rachel is Etsy’s CFO, bringing more than 30 years of senior financial experience to the company. She’s responsible for overseeing global financial operations.Rachel joined Etsy from Leaf Group, where she served as CFO since 2015. While at Leaf Group, she led efforts that strengthened o...

In this Path To Becoming a CFO, our host Jeff Epstein will interview Dave Stephenson, CFO at Airbnb. Dave Stephenson oversees Airbnb’s global finance function and is responsible for financial management, planning and reporting, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, corporate and business development, real estate, and procurement.Prior to joining Airbnb, Dave spent 17 years at Amazon, where he was most recently Vice President and CFO of their Worldwide Consumer Organization. Dave...

Rodrigo’s LinkedIn profile features a lineup of A-list modern company logos including Poshmark, OfferUp, Amazon, eBay, RetailMeNot, HP, and Palm. This diversity of companies provides an unconventional breadth of experience across sectors. We’ll hear about his experience as a public CFO and as the CFO of a VC-backed unicorn. We’ll ask him about serving in FP&A and divisional CFO roles in publicly traded companies, and how exposure to eCommerce, internet, digital media, software, servi...

Howard’s path to CFO is unlike any other we have seen over the two years this series has been running. Until becoming CFO at PagerDuty, Howard had not held a traditional finance or accounting position. With a formal education in Information Systems and Computer Science, Howard began his career supporting the Sales operations at Oracle. His career moves included positions as Chief Commercial Officer and General Manager of Digital Experience Management until he stepped into the finance lea...