Proactive C-Suite Planning: Who’s Your Successor?
By

An essential responsibility of C-suite officers and corporate board members is to anticipate and plan for a CFO, CEO or even a board member’s departure and succession well before it happens. CFOs, as a critical member of the C-suite, play an important role in this process. As a CFO, contemplating…Read More

Read More
How the Audit Committee Chair Helps a Company and Its Board Navigate Through A Crisis Such As COVID-19
By

In my almost 40 years of working as a management and financial executive and serving as an Audit Committee Chair to public companies, I thought I had seen every crisis in the playbook:  multiple economic downturns, the 1989 earthquake and its impact on the Bay Area, Y2K, 9/11, and the…Read More

Read More
Memo to the C-Suite: Do the Opposite of What your Gut is Telling You
By

This too shall pass……But don’t stick your head in the sand while you are waiting Thoughts for Corporate Officers (CEO, CFO) of publicly-traded companies from the perspective of an experienced Public Company Corporate Officer, Sell-Sider (Analyst, Banker, Institutional Salesman) and Buy-Sider (Hedge Fund Manager) Ancient Chinese Curse “May you live…Read More

Read More
CFO and CEO Relationships and Partnerships: The Secret Sauce
By

A conversation with Promise Phelon and Kenton Chow Promise Phelon, Founder of The Growth Warrior and former CEO at TapInfluence hired FLG partner Kenton Chow as interim CFO during a period of radical and dynamic change at the company as Tap pivoted from a service-agency model to a SaaS model over…Read More

Read More