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Rowan Wilkie serves as CFO for a company on the cutting edge: Nutromics is a med-tech startup developing wearable devices, enabling continuous diagnostic monitoring for a wide variety of conditions. Being at the helm of an operation with the potential to shake up healthcare, and save lives, is no small task. Wilkie joins Jack McCullough to reflect on his wide-ranging career journey, the most valuable lessons he learned from his mentors, fundraising and financial strategies and why purpose and people were at the top of his list when it came to finding a dream leadership position. Listen by clicking below.…

Every company is constantly responding to change and working to develop appropriate strategies, as if responding to the call of the motto: “Disrupt or be disrupted.” Leaders come up with strategies that provide innovative solutions that beat the competition (until new competition emerges) or lead to creative breakthroughs that have the power to transform humanity and even save lives. I dream of coming up with strategies. And if you can get there, the reward is gold nuggets, the income and profits that help you survive in the hard times and thrive in the good times, year after year. But amid…

When Susan Lee joined Meta (then Facebook) in 2008, her first job was to develop early revenue projections for the company. Unlike her experience as an analyst at Morgan Stanley, no models or infrastructure existed for forecasting. “There was a real Wild West feel to it. To get the data, you had to go find the engineers who built the data warehouse and have them show you how to set up the data and how to query it. “I did,” Lee said. The social media company had 400 employees and was smaller than MySpace when Lee joined the finance team.…

“Survive until 2025'' is a phrase that originated in Hollywood and was later borrowed by financial leaders who hoped for monetary tightening as inflation rose in the United States. As 2025 approaches, it may be time to change our battle cry. With inflation approaching the Federal Reserve's target interest rate and the U.S. economy largely recovering, the StrategicCFO360 CFO Confidence Index shows CFOs are ready to take a more bullish stance. The CFO Confidence Index, measured after the election, found that around half of finance leaders plan to increase capital spending (the highest percentage since Q1 2022) and increase headcount…

Growth is no longer limited to the country. Cross-border e-commerce (selling goods and services internationally through online channels) is rapidly transforming the way businesses operate and compete. In fact, the global cross-border e-commerce market is expected to reach $7.9 trillion in 2024 and grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30.5% from now until 2030. For CEOs looking to stay ahead of the curve, the message is clear. : The opportunities for international expansion through online channels are enormous, and if you ignore this trend you risk losing significant market share. So why should CEOs focus on cross-border e-commerce…

A recent report shows that many publicly traded companies are increasing their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, even though the recent DEI backlash has caused some companies to cancel or significantly change such efforts. It is suggested that they continue to maintain and promote theAccording to the new “State of Sustainability 2024: DEI Will Survive” report from global consulting and advisory firm Teneo, which analyzed 250 sustainability reports from S&P 500 companies, “just under half of S&P 500 companies (43 percent) continue to include time-bound DEI goals in their quantitative, sustainability reports, and nearly 80 percent of these goals…

Employee medical costs continue to make up a large portion of labor costs. The average per-employee cost of employer-sponsored health insurance will increase by 5% this year to $16,500, and Mercer projects it will increase by 6% in 2025. Our 2025 CEO and Senior Executive Compensation Report shows even higher increases for the following companies: Top. ” Pharmacy benefits are the fastest growing part of health care benefits, but recent decisions by major employers to expand coverage to include GLP-1 drugs (including obesity) and infertility treatments This is leading to increased costs. The lack of talent in a tight labor…

Headlines this year have declared a new season of megamergers. Mars bought Kellanova for $36 billion to wake the food sector from its M&A slumber. Capital One bought Discover, another iconic financial services brand, for $35 billion. Conoco Phillips further consolidated the energy business by acquiring Marathon Oil for $23 billion. HP created a ripple in tech when it picked off Juniper Networks for $14 billion.However, other recent headlines have made CEOs take pause. The Federal Trade Commission sued to block the Kroger-Albertson’s supermarket megamerger. Union and political opposition has held up Nippon Steel’s proposed $15 billion takeover of U.S.…

For corporate directors, the current situation surrounding ESG feels like killing two birds with one stone. Meanwhile, a wave of regulation in the U.S. and European Union has required, or will soon require, increased disclosure by public companies about climate-related and other social and environmental risks, all of which will require boards to There is a high possibility that more in-depth information disclosure regarding risks will be required. Understand these issues and their impact on business risks and opportunities. Meanwhile, a growing ESG backlash has led U.S. investors to pull billions of dollars from sustainable funds, even as employees and…

Now that the vote count for the 2024 election is complete, new uncertainties cloud the outlook for business leaders. For example, important questions abound regarding the impact the new administration will have on the workplace. How will President Trump's new agency appointments impact the current regulatory landscape for employers? What will happen to the Biden administration's pro-labor policies? Do state and local measures have downstream effects? For now, much remains unknown. But what we do know is that even though Republicans control Congress, a narrow victory means the White House will be able to influence many policy changes through executive…