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 United States based CFO’ operating in the Collaboration 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.
Kelly Steckelberg
Chief Financial Officer of Zoom
Kelly Steckelberg is currently the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Zoom. Kelly Steckelberg brings to Zoom extensive leadership and finance experience. Most recently, she was CEO of Zoosk, where she previously held positions of CFO and COO. Prior to Zoosk, Kelly was the Sr. Director of Consumer Segment Finance of Cisco. Kelly has also held various roles in finance at Cisco Webex, Epiphany, PeopleSoft, and KPMG. She has a MA in accounting from The University of Texas at Austin. Kelly is a board member of the Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco and loves to travel, having been to over 60 countries.
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Allen Shim
Chief Financial Officer of Slack
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About Slack: Slack is an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.
Jason Kalira
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer of Parsable
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About Parsable: Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
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.
Charlie DiBona
CFO of Unify Square
Charlie leads the worldwide financial function at Unify Square. He is responsible for driving investor relations, funding opportunities, and global financial management and forecasting. Charlie also plays a critical role in Unify Square’s pricing and payment strategies and overall business strategy. Prior to joining Unify Square, Charlie held the position of Partner and Chief Investment Analyst at Tresoro Ventures, a Las Vegas-based venture firm. Charlie has over 25 years of experience in finance roles from multiple perspectives – as CFO of the Dutch-founded startup Inforay; as General Manager, Strategy & M&A for the Server & Tools Business at Microsoft, as Vice President at Hudson River Capital, and as Senior Equity Analyst for Enterprise Software at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York, where he covered Microsoft, Oracle, VMWare, Citrix, SAP, Salesforce and Netsuite. Charlie has a B.A. in Economics and an M.B.A., both from Harvard University.
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About Boyer Children’s Clinic, Unify Square: Unify Square provides software, cloud managed services, and consulting for global Microsoft Skype for Business enterprise deployments.
Thien Tran
CFO of Freedcamp
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About Freedcamp: We are building the first truly intelligent project management system.
Jillian Sheehan
EVP & CFO of Textura
Mrs. Sheehan has more than 10 years of accounting experience. Prior to joining Textura she held accounting positions at Andersen LLP and Pasquesi Sheppard. Mrs. Sheehan is a Certified Public Accountant and an MBA graduate of DePaul University. The accounting experience and leadership that she brings to Textura has enabled her to build an accounting team capable of supporting Textura’s rapid growth and market expansion.
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About ArrowStream, Textura: Textura is an online collaboration platform for the construction industry.
Jillian Sheehan
EVP & CFO of Textura
Mrs. Sheehan has more than 10 years of accounting experience. Prior to joining Textura she held accounting positions at Andersen LLP and Pasquesi Sheppard. Mrs. Sheehan is a Certified Public Accountant and an MBA graduate of DePaul University. The accounting experience and leadership that she brings to Textura has enabled her to build an accounting team capable of supporting Textura’s rapid growth and market expansion.
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About ArrowStream, Textura: Textura is an online collaboration platform for the construction industry.
Will Sendall
CFO of Librestream Technologies
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About Librestream Technologies: Librestream Technologies develops mobile video collaboration solutions for enterprises and provides onsight collaboration platform.
James Moylan
Chief Financial Officer of Ciena
James E. Moylan, Jr. is currently Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Ciena Corporation. Before assuming this role in December 2007, Mr. Moylan was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Swett & Crawford, a private equity-owned wholesale insurance broker. With more than 20 years of financial management experience across a variety of business sectors, Mr. Moylan previously served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at PRG-Schultz International; Executive Vice President, Composite Panels, Distribution and Administration at Georgia-Pacific Corporation; and, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at SCI Systems, Inc., where he played a key role in the Company’s merger with Sanmina. Prior to those positions, he held various senior management roles within Sonat, Inc. Mr. Moylan holds a M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Tech Institute of Technology.
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About Ciena: Ciena collaborates with customers to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and and change the way they perform and compete.
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.
Chris Lafond
Chief Financial Officer of Intralinks
Chris Lafond is the CFO at Intralinks.
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About Intralinks: Intralinks is a technology company that offers a range of firewall collaboration solutions.
Tom Pickett
Chief Financial Officer of Zapproved
Tom Pickett serves as chief financial officer at Zapproved.
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About Zapproved: Zapproved is a pioneering leader in cloud-based e-discovery software for corporate legal and compliance departments.
Jason Bobby
CFO & Co-Founder of Shibumi
Jason Bobby is the CFO & Co-Founder at Shibumi
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About Shibumi: Shibumi is a cloud-based enterprise app providing work management, collaboration and performance measurement services for businesses.
Paul Keblish
co-CEO and CFO of Likeminder, Inc.
Paul has over 20 years of financial services experience in investment banking, consulting and securities operations. Through approximately 15 years in investment banking, Paul completed over 50 equity, debt and M&A transactions across a variety of industries for a combined value of more than $15 billion. He has also participated in several venture investments and industrial buyouts as both principal and advisor, including C/G Electrodes LLC and Seadrift Coke LP. He has been a Managing Director in Investment Banking at Bear Stearns and Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC. Paul has a BA in Economics from Duke University and an MBA (with Distinction) in Finance and International Business from NYU.
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About CWR, Likeminder, Inc.: Likeminder is a social network that enables users to share and support private and emotional conversations with like-minded individuals.
John Yee
Chief Financial Officer of Aras
As the Chief Financial Officer, John Yee oversees financial strategy and global accounting at Aras. John brings over 20 years of experience in finance in the high-tech industry from both private industry and Big 4 public accounting firms. His experience includes pre-revenue start-up ventures as well as Fortune 500 companies. Previously, John held senior financial roles at a companies including Watchfire, Praecis Pharmaceuticals, Salary.com, Decision Resources, OneSource Information Services, Tenor Networks, and Deloitte & Touche.
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About Aras, Valore: Aras is a suite of open source product life cycle management (PLM) software solutions that run on a model-based SOA application framework.
Chirravuri Subrahmanya Leeladhar
Chief Financial Officer of Cambridge Technology Enterprises
Chirravuri Subrahmanya Leeladhar joining the team, as CFO. He is a qualified accountant with over 25 years of experience in logistics, petroleum, EPC, IT, ITES, manufacturing, and trading sectors. His Areas of expertise are corporate finance, IPO, Mergers & acquisitions, MIS, US GAAP, and taxation.
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About Cambridge Technology Enterprises: Cambridge Technology Enterprises is an IT services leader focused on the convergence of big data and cloud.
Nina Nancke-Krogh
Co-Founder/CFO of MOSAIQQ
Nina Nancke-Krogh serves as a Advisory Board Member at Datapath.
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About MOSAIQQ: Enterprise Collaboration Software
Charles Crew
CFO of Deven Software LLC
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About Deven Software LLC: Software for managing and streamlining mergers & acquisitions
Steve Blodgett
Chief Financial Officer of VBrick
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About VBrick: VBrick’s cloud-native platform allows enterprises to stream live and on-demand video on the corporate network to any device.
John Veney
CFO of Cureo
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About Cureo: Cureo helps non-profits and community organizations better manage boards, committees and community task forces.
Michael Smith
Co-Founder & CFO of Showpitch
Co-Founder & CFO of Showpitch.
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About Showpitch: Showpitch is a full-service digital media and technology company for creators, talent, industry pros, and global brands.
Jacob Burwell
CFO of Actify
Jacob Burwell is CFO at Actify.
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About Actify: Actify is the leading provider of visualization and program management solutions for the automotive supply chain
Irv Levy
CFO of Walkabout Workplace
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About : Online office platform that creates context and presence in a virtual world, helping remote teams collaborate, for real. Log in = Walk In.
David Levinson
CFO of Coolfire
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About Coolfire: Coolfire builds collaboration software for teams on the move. We organize tasks, communication, and workflow.
