At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CFO’ operating in the Business Intelligence space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Thomas Berquist
CFO of TIBCO
Tom Berquist is the Chief Financial Officer at Tibco Software Inc. since October 2015. Tom is responsible for worldwide financial operations and reporting, as well as investor relations. Tom was an Operating Partner at Vector Capital where he partners with Vector’s portfolio companies to create shareholder value. Tom is currently a Member of the Board of Directors at Saba and is a past Member of the Board of Directors of Corel. Previously Tom was Chief Executive Officer at Corel, a global consumer software and hardware company based in Ottawa, Canada, with major offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, China, and Japan. Tom joined the company as Chief Financial Officer in September 2009 and helped take the company private with the backing of Vector Capital. Prior to joining Corel, Tom was Chief Financial Officer at Ingres (now Actian), a private open source software company based in Redwood City, CA. Before entering the software industry in 2006, Tom spent ten years as a Managing Director of Software Equity Research for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Piper Jaffray where he covered most of the world’s top software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, Intuit, Nuance Communications, Symantec, and Autodesk. Previously, as a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting, Tom was responsible for selling and managing large enterprise software implementation projects for customers including Liberty Mutual Insurance, the City of Chicago, GMAC, Tyco International, US Bancorp, and Honeywell. Tom holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Bruce Felt
Chief Financial Officer of Domo
Bruce brings more than 25 years of financial operations and management excellence to Domo. For almost six years, he was CFO of SuccessFactors, guiding the company through a public offering, six acquisitions, and its $3.4 billion sale to SAP. Bruce has served as CFO for LANDesk Software, Auction.com, and Qualix Group. While at Qualix Group, he led its public offering and merger into Legato Systems, a company that was later acquired by EMC. An entrepreneur in his own right, Bruce founded Renaissance Software, serving as its CFO and head of sales. Being Domo CFO gives Bruce an added perk of getting to spend more time with his family at their Park City ski home. Bruce holds a BS in accounting from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
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About Domo, SuccessFactors: Domo designs and delivers an executive management platform as a service to help executives manage their business.
Wendy Rodriguez
CFO of Comfy
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About Comfy: Comfy connects people, places, and systems through one intuitive workplace app.
Jim Johnson
CFO of Workday Adaptive Planning
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About Workday Adaptive Planning: Workday Adaptive Planning is powering a new generation of business planning with the Business Planning Cloud.
Ed Salay
CFO of VoiceBase
Ed has over 20 years finance and operations experience, including Ford Motor, Polycom, and Applied Biosystems. He later served as CFO at several startups, and most recently at Jobscience which was acquired by Bullhorn in 2018.
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About VoiceBase: Speech Analytics for the Data-Driven Enterprise
John Neale
Chief Financial Officer of Retail Solutions
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About Retail Solutions: Retail Solutions is a software firm providing SaaS products for data management, business intelligence, and point of sale applications.
John Pitstick
Chief Financial Officer of Seven Lakes Technologies
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About Seven Lakes Technologies: Seven Lakes Technologies is an enterprise software company focused on the upstream oil and gas segment
Elizabeth Murray
Chief Financial Officer of Trax Technologies
Liz has more than 25 years of experience in financial management, strategic investment and M&A activity, with particular focus on technology and Internet companies and significant IPO experience. Before joining Oversee, she was Executive Vice President and CFO of Fluid Music Canada, Inc., the world’s largest private label music aggregation and distribution company. She also was CFO for RazorGator Interactive Group, Digital Insight Corp. and KornFerry International. Prior to that, Murray held key financial roles at Hughes Electronics which she joined after 4 years at Deloitte. She played significant roles in the public offerings for Fluid Music and KornFerry. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from Robert Gordon University in Scotland and is a Chartered Accountant and a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
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About Trax Technologies, Triangle Capital Corporation: Trax is the global leader in Transportation Spend Management.