Podcast: Play in new window | Download What’s it like to be CFO of a firm that has grown from 50 employees to more than 1,000 in less than five years? Listen as DocuSign’s CFO Mike Dinsdale returns to CFO Thought Leader to update us on the firm’s ever-changing global dimensions.

Making Every Dollar Count: How Cash Flow Empowered KAR Auction Services
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Ever wonder about the power of free cash flow? Listen as CFO Eric Loughmiller explains how KAR Auction Services touches more than $25 billion in cash each year, while it captures close to $2 billion in revenue.

The Seven Growth Killers Every Middle-Market Firm Should Fear
Podcast: Play in new window | Download What kills growth inside middle-market firms? Listen as author and consultant Robert Sher reveals the seven silent growth killers unique to midsize firms and explores some of the approaches business leaders can use to detect and overcome the organizational shortcomings that routinely prove fatal for growth.

How Regulating Risk Became a Pathway to the Future: Dan Crumb, CFO, Kansas City Chiefs
Podcast: Play in new window | Download How can the regulation of organizational risk become a driver of change? Listen as Dan shares his “A-ha!” moment when he realized that the regulation of risk could become a powerful lever to drive change across the Kansas City Chiefs’ growing franchise.

Building Your Team, Brad Dickerson, CFO, Under Armour, Inc.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download How did finance help a $600 million sports apparel upstart grow into a $3 billion high-growth firm? Listen as Brad explores the steps he took to embed a finance team of more than 30 members across the firm’s varied business units to help the company look into the future and drive […]
What I Wish That Someone Told Me at the Start of My Career: Six Middle-Market CFOs Share Some Career Advice
Podcast: Play in new window | Download What piece of advice do you wish someone had shared with you earlier in your finance career? Listen as six of our CFO Thought leaders look back and share their individual career insights when it comes to building a CFO career.
The Agile Finance Leader, Sherry Buck, CFO of Libbey, Inc.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download What does it take to create an agile finance organization? Join us as Sherry explains the inner workings of global glassmaker and marketer Libbey, Inc., as she underscores the dictums that foster a more responsive and collaborative organization.
The Evolution of the Finance Function, Ash Noah, VP, Management Accounting, AICPA
Podcast: Play in new window | Download What will the CFO role be ten years from now? Listen as Ash helps us to peer inside the c-suite of the future, and uncover the scope of responsibilities being shouldered by industry’s future finance leaders.
Grain Craft Deal Revs M&A Engines of Flour-Making Faithful
In a year of tepid deal-making, the flour milling industry is providing the grist for one of the more notable 2014 middle-market transactions, as Milner Milling Inc. and Pendleton Flour Mills finalized their acquisition of Cereal Food Processors earlier this month and created Grain Craft, a new company with headquarters in Chattanooga, Tenn. Characterizing the deal […]

The Inner Workings of a Deal: Tips for a Successful Transaction
For those of us in the merger and acquisition or “deal” business, buying and selling companies is second nature. We live through transaction after transaction, buying and selling companies as routinely as middle market businesses provide their own products or services. But, in most cases, the people involved in the middle market companies we buy […]
Our Sponsors

Hottest Stories
total
Hedging Expert Says Middle-Market Firms Must Look Inward to Navigate Currency Fault Lines
186CFO Compares Small and Large Midmarket Finance Functions
132When It Comes to Projecting Growth, Recommind’s CFO Looks Back — But Mostly Ahead
117Functional Expertise Trumps Tech as More Middle-Market Firms View Cloud Not as IT, but as Growth Stimulus
108Customer Relationships: Where New Business Growth Begins, Kaiser Electric, St. Louis, MO
104
twitter
Hedging Expert Says Middle-Market Firms Must Look Inward to Navigate Currency Fault Lines
184CFO Compares Small and Large Midmarket Finance Functions
126When It Comes to Projecting Growth, Recommind’s CFO Looks Back — But Mostly Ahead
116Midmarket CFO Discussing How Finance Empowers the Frontlines
100CFO Discussing How Finance Empowers Sales
86
facebook
At Tel-Tron, Aging Boomers Open New Chapter of Growth
44As Ruby Fills its Ranks with Receptionists, A CEO Turns Drucker’s Managers Into Cultivators
40Michigan and the Big Mo: Why It’s Not Just About Detroit or Start-Ups
39For Merric, Hospitality Helps to Keep the Next $10 Million in Clear View
26For Wajam, Hiring Remains Growth’s Greatest Blessing and Burden
25
google +1
For Wajam, Hiring Remains Growth’s Greatest Blessing and Burden
8One Part Media, One Part Technology, RMG Networks Finds Growth in the Mix
7The Curious Case of Trintech: How a $40 Million Firm Grew into a Start-Up
5A Telecom Disrupter Masters the Discipline of Serial Innovation
5Digital Debris: Why What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You
4
linkedin
Functional Expertise Trumps Tech as More Middle-Market Firms View Cloud Not as IT, but as Growth Stimulus
75The Promise of Top-Line Growth Lures More Middle-Market Firms Offshore
55Digital Debris: Why What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You
55Ideas Become the Currency of Choice as Customers Demand More From Middle-Market Sales Reps
54As Growth in Mobile Apps Goes Exponential, DocuSign Emerges as Silicon Valley’s Sensible Shoes
47
Tweets
- Finance Goes Spinal: Fiona Lazarow, CFO, AccelSPINE http://t.co/rdBjByW2qQ via @CFOTL @accelspine 1 day ago
- Why Cash Flow Per Share Trumps EPS, Eric Loughmiller, CFO KAR Auction Services http://t.co/nfFOHYQ1Zh via @CFOTL @midmktexec 1 day ago
- Confessions of a Start-Up CFO, Andrew Eisele of JW Player http://t.co/FCYuxXTqAO via @CFOTL @midmktexec 1 day ago
- Is Texas Tea Turning Green? By One Measure, Maybe http://t.co/rWxlxFTNnw @midmktexec 2 days ago
- How should CFOs contribute at their firm’s board meetings?http://t.co/IcuryCHrVT @babson @CFOTL 3 days ago
Follow MidMktExec on Twitter
Our Sponsors


