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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 Knowledge Management 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.
Thomas Nedell
CFO of Northeastern University
Thomas E. Nedell is Senior Vice President & Treasurer at Northeastern University.
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About Northeastern University: Northeastern University is an experiential and research university that offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and graduate programs.
Shari Freedman
CFO of Room to Read
Shari has over 25 years of international financial, non-profit and administrative management experience with companies ranging in size from $35MM – $150B. Prior to joining Room to Read, she served as CFO at Niman Ranch, Wordwise, Inc. and most recently with One Medical Group – all for-profit companies but with important social missions as well. Prior to that, she provided international financial and administrative management to best in class global branded companies, including Gap, PepsiCo and GM. She was one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business in 2012. Shari’s non-profit experience includes chairing the boards of both JVS (Jewish Vocational Service) and the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, and actively supporting startups with a focus on increasing capital for women entrepreneurs. Her academic pedigree includes courses at Harvard, an MBA from Georgetown and a BA from American University.
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About Astia Angels, Room to Read: Focus on two areas where we believe we can have the greatest impact: literacy and gender equality in education.
Jeremy Rudel
Chief Financial Officer of Scaled Agile
Jeremy joined Valen in October of 2013 as its Chief Financial Officer, right off the heels of a great experience at Ping Identity in Denver, where he served as their Vice President of Finance for almost 10 years. As the head Accounting, HR and Legal executive, Jeremy learned firsthand how to grow a company the right way. It takes great talent and leadership (great product always helps), but it takes the right talent. Get the right people in. Keep them happy, healthy, interested, and informed. Build a culture that fosters innovation, belonging, growth and passion. Getting those things right drives individuals to Be Extraordinary. The reason Jeremy is at Valen is that he sees a place that is out to make a difference in the world, do it the right way with good profits, and foster the growth of its employees. This is a place for a person to work and thrive and look back on as one of the best times of their lives. That is what Jeremy likes to be a part of and build. In the past 20 years Jeremy has been able to garner a lot of great experience. He started off his career at Arthur Andersen in Denver in the audit group, which exposed him to a lot of different industries. Technology, manufacturing and real estate were where he focused. He spent 4 years at ColoradoMEDtech (CMED) in Boulder, CO as a Controller and Director of Finance. They were a publicly traded company that manufactured and developed high tech medical equipment and software. They sold CMED in 2003 to a privately held company. Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting that he received from the University of Wyoming. When not with his family or working, he loves to hit the ball around the golf course or take in sporting
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About Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile provides Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), an interactive knowledge base for implementing enterprise-scale agile practices.
Garfield Byrd
Chief Financial Officer of KIPP Foundation
Garfield Byrd is the Chief Financial Officer at KIPP Foundation.
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About KIPP Foundation: To create a respected, influential, and national network of public schools.
Scott Van Buskirk
Chief Financial Officer of Taia Global
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About Taia Global: A Knowledge Engine that can tell you who wants your IP and how they may steal it.
Wyatt A. Nordstrom
Chairman & CFO of Maven
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About Maven: Maven is the fastest way to learn almost anything. We help professionals to acquire the knowledge they need to become better at their jobs.
Ben Barton
Founder,CFO & Director of AmeriCann
Mr. Barton has been the managing director of a Colorado-based venture capital and private equity firm since 2006. He has extensive experience in the public and private capital markets, and has been instrumental in raising of over $800 million in equity and debt financing for emerging companies over the past decade. He earned an MBA in finance from UCLA.
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About AmeriCann: To serve medical cannabis patients.
