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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 United States 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.
Jim Pike
Chief Financial Officer of KBM Group
Jim Pike has been guiding KBM Group as Chief Financial Officer since 2002. Jim Pike oversees all finance and administrative functions across the group, including accounting, procurement, financial planning and analysis, strategic purchasing of information services and technology, contracts and facilities. Jim Pike has also been an integral contributor to supporting M&A activities and helping to manage acquisitions and leveraging synergies with the overall business .Jim Pike has over 25 years experience, working for global companies supporting both domestic and international operations. Jim Pike continues to help drive profitability to the business through process improvement as well as developing deep seated partnerships with key customers and vendors. Before joining KnowledgeBase Marketing, Jim Pike headed financial planning and analysis for SAS Institute, Inc., where Jim Pike supported senior management of the SAS Americas division by managing a wide range of financial functions. Prior to SAS, Jim Pike served as the director of financial planning and analysis for Experian, managing all financial planning and analytic support for multiple business units in the company.Jim Pike has a business degree as well as an MBA from Loyola Marymount University.
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About KBM Group, Wunderman Thompson: KBM Group is a data analysis group that helps identify trends and teaches how to engage customers.
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.
Stephen Scheppmann
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Teradata
Steve Scheppmann is executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) for Teradata, reporting to Vic Lund. In addition to leading the financial organization, Steve has responsibility for IT services and global operations. Prior to joining Teradata in September 2007, Steve had 20 years of experience as a CFO and more than 10 years in public accounting. He was executive vice president and CFO of Per-Se Technologies, Inc. Steve was executive vice president and CFO for NOVA Information Systems, Inc. from 2000 to 2006 and senior vice president and CFO for Larson-Juhl, Inc. from 1988 to 2000. He held senior auditing positions with Arthur Andersen & Company from 1978 through 1988. He was a member of the board of directors of eResearch Technology, Inc., a publicly-traded biotechnical services and technology company, where he also served as the chair of its audit committee from 2006 – 2012. Steve grew up in the Midwest and is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor’s degree in business administration – accounting.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
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.
Cameron Way
CFO of Onvia
Cameron Way joined Onvia in August, 1999, became Chief Accounting Officer in 2003 and was named Chief Financial Officer in 2008. At Onvia, Way provides financial and operational leadership in growth management, corporate development and strategic planning. Prior to Onvia, his early career was spent with the public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from September, 1994, to August, 1999. His professional focus was on companies in the high tech and investment services industries, and he was involved in a number of initial public offerings. Way holds a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
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About Onvia: Onvia is the leading provider of sales intelligence and acceleration technologies for the business-to-government (B2G) marketplace.
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
Paul E Blondin
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EDB
Paul Blondin is EDB’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Paul works closely with the senior executive team and board of directors to participate in strategic planning and forecasting. Paul oversees EDB’s financial controls and processes, which gives him unique insight into how and when EDB can penetrate new markets. Paul has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in enterprise software. Before joining EDB, Paul was Managing Partner of KickStart Partners, LLC, a business advisory group to private equity investors and CEOs. Paul was previously an entrepreneur, having co-founded and led Pactolus Communication Software, which was sold in 2010. He held executive posts at IPHighway Ltd; Open Development Corp; and was President and CEO of the network security company Netect Ltd. until he engineered its sale in 1999. Paul also served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Open Development Corporation, which was sold in 1997, and CFO of Cascade Communications Corp. Paul earned his MBA from Babson College and a BS in accounting from Boston College.
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About EDB: EDB is an open source-based data platform.
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.
Michael Stanton
Chief Financial Officer of Diligent
Michael serves as the CFO of Diligent Corporation. Michael Stanton joins Diligent with nearly 20 years of experience spanning business optimization, corporate finance, treasury and corporate development, most recently serving as Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at SaaS-based education technology provider Blackboard Inc. With more than a decade at Blackboard, Stanton helped lead the company’s successful IPO efforts, which catapulted Blackboard to the top of the education technology market. He also helped grow the company to more than $650 million in revenue, and during his tenure he led more than $4 billion in equity and debt financings and 32 M&A transactions. Prior to Blackboard, Stanton held leadership positions at the international financial and corporate communications consultancy, Dewe Rogerson, and CCA Companies Inc., where he was responsible for forecasting, budgeting and analysis of the company’s lodging and gaming business. He holds a BA in history from College of the Holy Cross.
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About Diligent: Diligent is the largest GRC SaaS provider, with 1M users, across 23,000 organizations, valued at $7B+ and $500 million+ in revenue.
Ken Rogich
Chief Financial Officer of Envysion
Ken is CFO and Executive VP of Petty Holdings, which owns and operates the Richard Petty Driving Experience. He is an experienced financial and operations executive with industry experience in consumer goods and services, real estate, and financial products.
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About Charlotte Angel Fund, Envysion: Envysion produces web-based video management software for video surveillance applications.
Robert Lane
Chief Financial Officer of CallMiner
Mr. Lane has spent more than 23 years as a finance and accounting professional within the software industry.His experience includes a mix of private and publicly traded companies and includes significant experience in financial reporting, software revenue recognition, systems design and implementations, contract negotiation, international accounting operations and SEC reporting. Mr. Lane has contributed to the success of a number of venture capital backed enterprises, working with companies as they grow from the early revenue stage through significant growth curves and in certain cases through their ultimate sale. Mr. Lane has contributed to the success of Banyan Systems/ePresence, Switchboard, Passkey, Camiant and Tekelec prior to joining CallMiner. Mr. Lane is a 1993 graduate with honors from Framingham State College.
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About CallMiner: CallMiner provides artificial intelligence-enabled speech and customer interaction analytics.
Jannetta Litzman
Co-Founder & CFO of Brandwise
Jannetta was Co-founder of Showroom Solutions in 1998 (which later merged with Brandwise). Jannetta is responsible for all financial activities including budget planning, financial reporting, strategic planning, human resources and legal. Prior to Brandwise, Jannetta founded Designer Accents, the catalyst behind Showroom Solutions. From 2001 until the sale of the business in 2009, Jannetta remained involved at a high level while taking a more active role in Brandwise, Inc. Prior to her entrepreneurial ventures, Jannetta was part of the sales team for Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T). Jannetta currently serves on the board of Gift For Life – A partnership between the Gift, Home and Stationary industries to raise funds in support of AIDS research and education. Jannetta holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business with an emphasis on Marketing/Management from Northern State University and an MBA from the University of Denver.
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About Brandwise: Brandwise is an Application Service Provider that delivers sales solutions to suppliers and their sales organizations.
Mark Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer of IDC
Mark Sullivan is the Chief Financial Officer at International Data Corporation.
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About IDC: IDC provides market intelligence solutions, advisory services, and events for the information technology and other related markets.
Pamela Pippin
Chief Financial Officer of IncrediTek
Pam Pippin, Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for developing and overseeing the corporation’s financial planning, tax planning, accounting processes and developing human resource initiatives. Ms. Pippin has more than 30 years of experience in a finance capacity, serving as Controller of a healthcare organization, Director of Finance for a non-profit organization and Vice President of Finance for an international manufacturing company. Ms. Pippin is a Certified Public Accountant and received her Bachelors of Science in Accounting from the University of Delaware. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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About IncrediTek: IncrediTek is a premier value added reseller and service and support company.
Kenneth Stone
CFO of Visibility
Mr. Stone has been with Visibility since August 1999. Over his 25-year career he has held executive positions responsible for financial, contract, human resources, purchasing, customer support center and business unit management. His assignments have included managing international business operations, strategic and business planning, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic partnering, capital financing including public stock offerings, venture capital funding and bank financings. Prior to joining Visibility, Mr. Stone held management positions with both large, public multi-national corporations and mid-market private companies including WSI Corporation, TASC Inc., and GTE Corporation. His industry experience includes software, aerospace/defense, communications, electronics and electrical devices manufacturing, and construction. He began his career with Coopers and Lybrand and is a CPA. Mr. Stone holds a MBA from Syracuse University, a MS in Taxation from Suffolk University and a BS in Accounting from LeMoyne College. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its Information Technology Division.
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About Visibility: Visibility is a software solutions company designing ERP systems for organizations.
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
Jim Christensen
Chief Financial Officer of PurePredictive
Jim Christensen is currently a Director and the CFO of PurePredictive. He has been involved with the Company since its inception. He has worked in the software and technology space since 1995. His career began as an Accounting Manager at Rocky Mountain Water Co. He joined Callware Technologies, a voicemail and unified messaging software company in 1995 and has served in various positions in the Finance and Operations, most recently as the Chief Operating and Financial Officer . He graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 1994 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
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About PurePredictive: A software platform using AI for advanced predictive modeling exponentially increasing the insights that businesses gain from their data.
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.
Mingfeng Shen
CFO of Context Matters
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About Context Matters: Context Matters is a global health economics technology company that has built a flexible platform linking drug development and market data.
Mingfeng Shen
CFO of Context Matters
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About Context Matters: Context Matters is a global health economics technology company that has built a flexible platform linking drug development and market data.
Ross Jones
CFO of Tethr
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About Tethr: Tethr operates as an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform.
Martyn Hindley
Chief Financial Officer of Evaluate
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About Evaluate: Evaluate provides trusted commercial intelligence for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.
John Fellin
CFO of XTech Staffing
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About XTech Staffing: At XTech Staffing we help companies build their dream team without the hassles. We on-board talent and connect business with premium talent.
