Boardroom Media (CFO News)
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 New York based CFO’ operating in the Enterprise Software 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.
Steve Cakebread
CFO of Yext
Steve Cakebread served as the President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com, a customer relationship management service provider, from February 2008 to January 2009 and as Salesforce.com’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2002 to February 2008. From April 1997 until April 2002, Steve served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Autodesk, a software company. From April 1992 until April 1997, he was Vice President of Finance for Silicon Graphics World Trade. Previous to that, Steve held various roles at Hewlett Packard. Steve holds a B.S. in Business from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Indiana University.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Bart Hacking
CFO of BetterCloud
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About BetterCloud: The SaaS Operations leader: Transform employee experience, centralize data protection, and maximize operational efficiency.
Chris Pohl
CFO of Lead Edge Capital
Chris Pohl serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Lead Edge Capital, LLC. Chris Pohl has a tax background and specializes in private equity and hedge fund clients, as well as high net worth individuals. Chris Pohl has also worked at several large fund administrators. He has an M.B.A in accounting from Monmouth University and a Bachelors in fine arts from Rider University.
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About Lead Edge Capital: Lead Edge Capital is a growth equity and buyout firm focused on software and internet related companies.
Chris Lynch
Chief Financial Officer of Sprinklr
Chris is a financial executive with extensive knowledge in technology software and advertising businesses. In his current role, he is working to maximize Sprinklr’s opportunities for overall growth and international expansion. Chris is best known for his work at Bazaarvoice and his key role in its successful IPO. Through innovative thinking and diagnostic problem solving, Chris has led global finance organizations through periods of rapid growth. He brings passion for a high growth technology environment to his role at Sprinklr.
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About Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Pete Cumello
CFO of WorkFusion
As WorkFusion’s CFO, Pete is accountable for financial operations, planning, controls and overall translation of results against goals. He brings deep expertise in finance and enterprise tech, most recently as Global CFO of the mid-market digital agency Text100. Prior to that, Pete spent 20 years at Accenture and Avanade, leading Accenture’s North America Products Operating Unit as Managing Director. As CFO of North America and Asia-Pacific, Pete helped Avanade, an Accenture-Microsoft joint venture, grow from a startup to a $1 billion company.
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About WorkFusion: WorkFusion offers automation solutions to enterprises to help them reduce costs and up-skill workforces.
David Nanidzhanyan
CFO of RueOne Investments
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Dan Figenshu
Chief Operating Officer / Chief Financial Officer of Rocketrip
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About Rocketrip: Rocketrip helps businesses reduce travel spend by incentivizing employees to save when they travel for business.
Tim Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer of TrustArc
CFO at TRUSTe
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About TrustArc: TrustArc provides solutions to manage privacy compliance for the GDPR, CCPA, and other global privacy regulations.
Ethan Einwohner
Chief Financial Officer of Specified Testing Labs
I Ethan Einwohner formed Specified Testing Labs, LLC, a roll-up of environmental testing laboratories, in August 2013. Under Specified, Ethan led the acquisitions of the testing lab assets of: International Hydronics Corporation (Oct 2013); New Jersey Analytical Labs (Nov, 2013), CNA Environmental (Dec 2013); and Smith Environmental Labs (Apr 2014). At Specified, Ethan manages all financial aspects of the firm and has responsibilities for its acquisition and integration activities. With his laboratory operations team, Ethan forms and executes company strategy .
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About CNA Environmental, Recurrent Capital Bridge Fund, Specified Testing Labs: Specified Testing Laboratories, LLC is a holding company of testing laboratories and related operating companies. Formed in September .
William Wilson
Chief Financial Officer of Celframe Corporation
William Wilson is the chief financial officer of [Celframe](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/celframe), a software company that develops office and business management and administrative software.
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About Celframe Corporation: Cellframe is a software company developing office and business management and administrative software.
Kieran McGrath
Corporate Controller, Interim Chief Financial Officer of CA Technologies
As corporate controller and interim chief financial officer, Kieran is responsible for CA Technologies corporate and business unit financial functions worldwide, including the controller role, treasury, tax, investor relations and risk management. Kieran joined CA Technologies in 2014. With more than 30 years of finance experience, he most recently served as the company’s corporate controller. In this role, he was responsible for corporate accounting, financial planning and pricing, corporate business development, investor relations, business controls and enterprise risk management. Prior to joining CA, Kieran worked for the IBM Corporation®, where he held a variety of senior executive finance positions across the company. Most recently, he led finance for IBM’s Software Group ($26 billion of annual mainframe and distributed software revenue) from 2009 until 2014. Kieran earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from St. John’s University.
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About Avaya, CA Technologies: CA Technologies creates software that fuels transformation for companies.
Ed Grieb
CFO of Market76, Inc.
CFO at Market76, Inc.
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About Market76, Inc.: Market76 makes financial services work better by empowering businesses to operate with the best, highest-quality data available.
K. Christopher Farkas
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Curtiss-Wright
Mr. Farkas was named Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation in 2020.
Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he was named Vice President of Finance of Curtiss- Wright Corporation in December 2017, and previously held the
positions of Vice President and Corporate Controller since 2014, and also has served as Assistant Corporate Controller since May 2009
Prior to joining Curtiss-Wright, he spent more than 17 years in financial, technical and operational roles of increasing responsibility within Fortune 50/250
industrial companies including United Technologies Corporation and Parker Hannifin
Mr. Farkas possesses an MBA and an EMBA from two internationally ranked business schools. He holds an MBA from Purdue University. Krannert School of
Management and an EMBA from the ESCP Europe (European School of Management). In addition, he has a BS degree in Accounting from Central Connecticut
State University. He is a CPA and is a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
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About Curtiss-Wright: Curtiss-Wright delivers engineered, critical function products and services to the commercial, industrial, defense, and energy markets.
Oleg Demidov
CBDO and CFO of Navigine
Oleg Demidov is the CEO and Founder of CarbonSpace
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About CarbonSpaceTech, CrowdSpace, Navigine: Software platform for precise positioning and online-to-offline attribution.
Scott Gellman
COO/CFO of Kurtosys
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About Kurtosys: Real growth. Realized. Digital Experience Platform for Financial Services.
Beth Gaspich
CFO of NICE Systems
Beth Gaspich, Chief Financial Officer of NICE Actimize, leads the company’s financial and business operations. Ms. Gaspich has more than twenty years of combined experience in the software and financial services industry. Prior to joining Actimize, she was Chief Financial Officer for Archive Systems, Inc., a privately held document management software provider. She has also served as VP of Finance at RiskMetrics Group, Inc., a risk management software company. Ms. Gaspich was one of the founding members of RiskMetrics Group and assisted in taking the company through a successful public offering on the NYSE in January 2008. Previously, Ms. Gaspich has held several other senior positions throughout her career at large global financial institutions, including JP Morgan and Price Waterhouse. Ms. Gaspich holds a BA in Accounting from the University of Missouri.
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About NICE Systems: NICE Systems provides intent-based solutions that capture and analyze client interactions and transactions for businesses.
Dennis E. McVeigh
Co-Founder and CFO of LUPR
Dennis E. McVeigh is the co-founder and CFO of LUPR.
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About LUPR: LUPR provides a supplier relationship management platform that allows executives to capture, communicate, and analyze all supplier insights.
Daniel Daly
Chief Financial Officer of Scanbuy
Daniel Daly joined Scanbuy as Chief Financial Officer in September 2012, to oversee financial, investor and management reporting functions, with a focus on managing growth throughout Scanbuy. Prior to joining, he has worked with organizations, both large and small, driving accountability and improving the effectiveness of financial reporting to support leadership. Mr. Daly graduated from Fairfield University with a B.S. in accounting before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he spent almost ten years servicing audit clients in Manufacturing, Technology, Entertainment and Communications.
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About Scanbuy: Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.
Mark Finkel
CFO of Kapow Software
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About Kapow Software, OU Impact Accelerator, ServiceWare, Inc., SoftWorks: Kapow Software harnesses the power of legacy data and big data, making it actionable and accessible across organizations.
Allen Lane
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Solix
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About Solix: Solix is a privately held, full-service, leading provider of Qualification Process Outsourcing (QPO) services to government.
William Lauricella
CFO of Mediant
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About Mediant: Mediant is a provider of investor communications technology and technology-enabled solutions to banks, brokers, corporations, and funds.
Bill Smith
CFO and COO of Booker
As COO / CFO, Bill is primarily responsible for the financial and operational management of Booker. Bill is a seasoned financial executive with more than 20 years of broad financial experience including global finance, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions and investor relations. Bill brings a wealth of experience, having held senior financial positions at Novell, KAYAK, and most recently, Antenna Software. He joins Booker from Antenna Software, which helps enterprises build, manage, and publish mobile applications. As Chief Financial Officer, Bill was responsible for overseeing all financial operations of the company. Prior to that, Bill was CFO of KAYAK Software Corporation (Kayak.com), the well-known travel services provider. For the 13 years prior to this role, Bill was with Novell, Inc., a leading enterprise software provider, where he was VP of Global Finance and oversaw business, operations and international finance, and served as a member of Novell’s Executive Committee. In prior positions with Novell, he was responsible for corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, and investor relations. Prior to Novell, Bill was an investment banker, beginning his career with Merrill Lynch & Co. and going on to hold positions at Morgan Stanley, The Bridgeford Group and Cowen & Co. Bill has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Booker: Booker is a web-based platform enabling businesses to sell their services online, through their website, network of partner sites and apps.
Charles Albanese
CFO of ID Global Solutions
Charles Albanese has more than 25 years of financial and operations experience in both public and private companies. He cultivated his senior management experience as part of the business team at AT&T Wireless Services for over 16 years. Charles’ leadership skills coupled with his knowledge of finance, audit, tax, security and real estate helped enable this start-up to become the premier wireless telecommunications carrier in the nation. Among his most significant contributions was the development and implementation of “bucket plans” which changed the way the industry billed customers for talk-time across the nation. Charles also worked in other start-up ventures such as Opticality Corp. which developed and sold 3-D advertising displays, where he managed finance and created an account services team to support all domestic and international client relations. When Opticality transferred operations to North Carolina, he moved over to its sister company, Accoona Corp., a start-up internet company where he facilitated the acquisition and integration of three e-commerce companies valued at $87 million. At Cambridge Management Group LLC, one of the leading pre-settlement finance companies, Charles served as COO/CFO, securing a $30 million line of credit and in a two-year time period doubled the revenue of the company and re-built the entire infrastructure including IT, policies, procedures, staffing, facilities and telecommunications. When the company suffered a catastrophic fire, his disaster recovery experience enabled the company to be up and running within one week without loss of business or data.His key strengths include financial management, turnaround management, facilities administration, team / project leadership, security operations and systems implementation.
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About ID Global Solutions, Keiretsu Forum: ID Global Solutions desarrolla y simunistra soluciones de indetificación automática a los procesos de producción.
Dennis Serfilippi
CFO of Routehappy
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About : Routehappy is the product differentiation platform for air travel
