Archive for July 2021
BizSpotlight: The Forsyth Institute
Oral health is an essential component of overall w Read More
Read MoreF. Gorham Brigham Lifetime Achievement Award Peter Rockett: ‘Cut from the same cloth’
Longtime financial executive and community leader Peter Rockett was a golf caddie growing up and majored in psychology — not your typical start for a CFO of the Year. He learned his craft with the help of F. Gorham Brigham, and now is the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year: Katie Mallett sees her role as high-growth business partner
Mallett is described by colleagues as an inspiring and patient leader, and someone who leads by example. Read More
Read MoreBBJ CFO of the Year 2021 Tom Nedell; ‘Understanding the bigger picture’
Tom Nedell, Treasurer and SVP, finance, at Northeastern University, the BBJ’s CFO of the Year in the education category: "People assume my job is to limit spending and say “no” to things. A successful CFO helps the organization aggressively pursue its strategy by making the right investments." Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year Andreana Santangelo: ‘My favorite job is my current job’
First joining Blue Cross Blue Shield in 2003, Santangelo has helped lead the insurer through a rocky period for any business, never mind a health insurance company through a global health crisis. Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year: Ed McGowan helped lead a full reorganization of Akamai
When Ed McGowan joined Akamai Technologies in 2000, the company was two years old, losing money and on the verge of being delisted from NASDAQ. Things have certainly changed. Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year Rich Bagge: A ‘calm anchor’
A family-run company can be daunting for an outsider to come in and try to institute change. For the Manning Personnel Group, that outsider was Rich Bagge, the CFO who, in 2021, was named a BBJ CFO of the Year. Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year: Susan Walker works hand-in-hand with sales operation
BBJ CFO of the Year Susan Walker has applied her finance acumen to helping the sales team at Digital Guardian, redesigning forecast models, helping with resource allocation and managing cash flow. Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year Kathy Yi: ‘I believe the CFO role should evolve’
It was not an easy year to go public in 2020. But Cerevel Therapeutics did it. Through it all, CFO Kathy Yi, who in 2021 was named a BBJ CFO of the Year, helped lead the way, Read More
Read MoreCFO of the Year Mike Coutu: Combining finance, IT and ‘bingo’
In three years on the job as CFO of Catania Oils, Mike Coutu has helped find financial efficiencies in a place where shaking things up may not always be so easy: a century-old, family-run company. Now he’s a BBJ CFO of the Year. Read More
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