Getting from CFO to CEO
97% of CFOs want to become CEOs (see Datarails' CFO Sentiments survey). And in a special panel at this year's FP&A Con 2025, we hear from CFOs on how they have made the jump. Hear the stories and ask questions of Amy Spurling founder and CEO of COMPT, Arnaud CREPUT CEO at Quativ and Katherine Chan CEO of Juice. They reveal how they climbed the ladder to CEO, the best training you can get in finance to become CEO, and what they wish they had known sooner in their journey.
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Datarails Launches "FPandA" mascot
And now, the moment FP&A didn’t know it was waiting for.
Meet the first ever mascot for the CFO's Office.
Bob Sheetner (aka FPandA) is an FPandA.
The term “FPandA” is an acronym for Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A or FPandA) responsible for planning, forecasting, budgeting, and analytics within the CFO’s Office. They are the legends of the CFO's Office.
He is:
🐼-Director of FP&A at the legendary Packa Corporation
🎍Lives in Excel (8 hours a day!)
🎧Hosts "Know Your Sheet" podcast
🤖Takes a keen interest in AI in the CFO's Office
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Cycling in tariff territory – FP&A at top e-bike brand
Derek Paulson is Director of Finance and Performing Marketing at RadPower Bikes LLC , a Seattle-based e-bike company changing transportation. In this episode he talks about his approach to navigating tariffs (“There no, no word in the English language more scary to a finance professional than the word uncertainty” says Paulson on FP&A Today discussing required “efficiency” vs“flexibility” in their supply chains). He also reveals his approach to the finance transformation required to shift Rad Power from a direct-to-consumer to an e-commerce and retail focused model, that is “starting with a blank Excel sheet to do the modeling for Rad Power Bikes”. In conversation with Glenn Hopper
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