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CFO Focus

We’re back in Austin checking in on the fast-growing unicorns and the surprising number of major companies who call Austin home.

Our Featured Guests

Darren Ma, CFO, Firefly (NASDAQ: FLY)

Jayne Rothman, CLO, Integrity LLC

Ken Smith, CFO, Cesium Astro

You know from past Focuses they will be Austin’s best and brightest CFOs and GCs.

Jane Wells brings her high octane interview style to the energy capital of the world when she takes on Houston Rocket’s General Counsel Clay Allen in April. It’ll be a 3 point panel of CFOs and GCs making the final cut, now including Clay and Sean Kelly, CEO at Amperon and Steve Shatto, CFO at Promethean Energy.

We’ll gather again in one of Houston’s finest homes for apps and drinks before the program. The dynamic playoff of Jane interviewing the finest financial and legal minds in Texas is amazing.

Seats are going fast so RSVP soon. Free to attend for CFOs and GCs.

CFO Focus lands in DFW for another evening of great food, drinks and off the record conversations with leading CFOs and GCs from the region.

And this time we’ll be at JSX, the Dallas based high flying “semi private” airline. The drinks and snacks will be business class’ finest as CNBC drops of out of the sky to talk to Alaina Johnson, VP Finance at JSX, Albert Lim, General Counsel, Colossal Biosciences, and Jayne Rothman, CLO, at Integrity, LLC. We land at 5:30, program at 6:30 with Jane Wells and her immutable interview style. Wheels up at 7:30 and you’ll be home by 8.

Reserve your first class seat now. These always sell out in Dallas.

CFO Focus returns to Phoenix on March 26, landing at CBRE’s beautiful facility.

Arrive at 5, then see your C-Suite friends for a networking reception and program led by CNBC alum Jane Wells. The spotlights will be on Kristine Newman, CFO, McCarthy Building Companies, Megan Faust,  CFO, Amkor Technology (NASDAQ: AMKR) and Susan Echard, CFO, Weedmaps (NASDAQ: MAPS).

Totally off the record, so you have to be there.  It’s like being in the studio at CNBC without the pesky lights and cameras.

CFO Focus lands in Phoenix just twice a year (Spring and Fall) so don’t miss this… or we’ll have to see you in November as the song says… Register now. Space limited to just 50 guests.

CFO Focus returns to Seattle March 18 for a roaring fireside with new Nordstrom Kelly Dilts. Kelly landed as Nordstrom’s new CFO in July, shortly after it completed its huge $6.25B go-private deal. Jane Wells of CNBC fame has questions.

REI CFO Shannon Damen (who joined REI in May of 2025) and Seattle Kraken’s new GC Hewan Teshome join Kelly on the panel.

Nordstrom turns 125 this year. REI 87. Kraken 5. How do they do it? Find out when Jane asks the tough questions in a totally off the record interview with Hewan, Kelly, and Shannon. You have to be in the room — and well dressed. See you there!

Join us on CFO Focus Live! when CNBC alum Aditi Roy takes on “Superhero Leadership” authors Peter Cuneo — who turned around Marvel Entertainment and sold it to Disney for $4.5B — and NYT bestselling author Joe Garner who wrote the book with Peter.

If you’re an MBA grad you read the Harvard Business Review on Marvel so you may only know the public part of this story. Peter is on several public co boards. He’ll tell us how it’s done. Turnaround and RSVP now at the link below.

We’re live on LinkedIn, YouTube and Substack Thur Feb 19. You can get the book and read it, and we’ll send copies to a few lucky winners who register in advance.

Get your cape on and tune in… and invite your colleagues!

Join us as CFO GC Focus lands in Phoenix with Jane Wells at the controls.

Featuring

Michael Kadous, COO, Bad Birdie

Maureen Musselman, CFO, Vitalant

Cristian Torres, Executive Attorney, Van Tuyl Companies.

Don’t mulligan. Register today before we sell out.

CFO Focus returns to Austin as CFO GC Focus Austin with a terrific panel moderated by CNBC alum Jane Wells.

Featured guests include:

Amanda Borichevsky, CLO, Tricentis

Brian Carolan, CFO, SailPoint (NASDAQ: SAIL)

Mayank Sharma, CFO, EnergyX

Adam Chibib, CFO, Raptor Technologies, hosts us at his house!

CFO focus lands in Austin twice per year, so join us if you can. Or you’ll have to wait until 2026.

Colorado’s finest CFOs and GCs gather again in November at another amazing private home to hear an off the record and unrecorded conversation with featured CFOs and GCs Jim Boswell, CFO, FullSpeed Automotive, Megan Szabo, General Counsel, AgentSync, and Steve Fether, CFO, Bobo’s. Free to attend thanks to our Co Producers. Register now so it’s on your busy Fall calendar. Jane Wells anchors.

Houston CFOs and GCs gather again at an amazing home for sale. After an elegant reception poolside Jane Wells of CNBC fame sits down with Travis Thomas, CFO, Ring Energy (NYSE: REI), Teddy Adams, EVP and General Counsel, Crown Castle (NYSE:CCI) and Frank Stokes, CFO, Castle Biosciences (NASDAQ: CSTL) Free to attend for CFOs and GCs thanks to our Co Producers. If this sounds too good to be true it may be. Attend and find out!

The DFW Metro has more Fortune 500 companies headquartered there than any other market. Or it may just seem like it. So many CFOs and GCs. So little time. Former CNBC’s Jane Wells interviews Amanda Coussens, CFO, P10, Inc. (NYSE:PX), the recently IPO’d company that helps investors access private equity and venture capital investment opportunties; Gerry McGrath, GC, Wingstop (NASDAQ: WING) and Atlantic Aviation’s CFO Bill White, a $2B KKR portfolio company that provides essential airport infrastructure services through a network of over 100 strategically located FBO’s across the U.S. and the Caribbean. Land your spot now. Click below to register.

We’re ripping news off the headlines — Sports Betting, Rare Earth Minerals and Health Care in Trump 2.0 — are on the docket with Las Vegas’ leading CFOs and GCs on Nov 5 when Scott Cohn of CNBC fame comes to town for a fireside chat with Stacie Brown, VP-Legal at DraftKings (NASDAQ:DKNG) Denielle deWynter, CFO & Executive in Residence, Hearst Lab; and Ryan Corbett, CFO, MP Materials (NYSE: MP). Secure your spot today by registering. Free to attend for CFOs and GCs.

San Diego features a wide range of A&D, consumer, lifescience and tech companies. Oct 28 we’re featuring Teigue Thomas, CLO, Vistage Worldwide, Inc.; Brian Scott, CFO, AMN Healthcare, (NYSE: AMN – $3 Billion revenue, 3000 employees), Joel Freedman, CFO, Argen Corporation. Scott Cohn of CNBC fame anchors! We’ll have another great evening of networking in a multimillion dollar home for sale, then sit down for a fireside chat with San Diego’s finest CFOs and GCs. Free to attend for CFOs and GCs thanks to our great San Diego Co Producers. Click below to register and we’ll send you the details!

Join us for our next CFO Focus gathering in Silicon Valley when Scott Cohn of CNBC fame sits down with Rodrigo Brumana CFO at Joby Aviation, Lisa Banks, CFO at Abnormal AI, Gaurav Agrawal, CFO at AppZen and Chithra Rajagopalan, Head of Finance at Obsidian Security. We’ll gather at a private home in the Palo Alto area. CFOs and GCs only please. Click below to register and we’ll reveal the location a day or two before we gather. See you there!

Why do more North American CFOs say Vancouver is their favorite North American city? Find out when we convene CFO CLO Focus Vancouver with some of British Columbia’s leading CFOs and CLOs, interviewed by the one & only Jane Wells, formerly of CNBC.

Featured Guests include Adrienne Uy, CFO & COO, SAXX; James Clarke, CFO, Seaspan Shipyards; Maninder Malli, General Counsel, GeoComply; and George Retsos, President and CFO, Organika Health Products. We’re off the record and unrecorded as always.

Pioneer Square Labs is on a mission to build the next generation of world-changing companies, bringing together exceptional founders, big ideas, and investment capital. We’ll ask PSL’s CFO Palvi Mehta how that’s going, and talk with Jamie Martin, CFO, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and Saema Somalya, CLO at Remitly. Join for an early evening with these women of power and influence.

CFO GC Focus returns to Portland in October at another stunning private home. We’ll feature the finest CFOs and GCs in the region during a great evening of food & drinks & lively storytelling off the record and unrecorded. Jane Wells anchors! Nicole Keen, GC at Oregon Tool, Chris Walton, CFO at Hampton Lumber, and Jenee Demski, CFO at Rogers Machinery Company are featured. Reserve your spot now before we sell out!

CFO GC Focus lands in Boston featuring some of the leading CFOs and GCs from the regions tech and life science industries. We’ll gather at Goodwin’s beautiful Seaport location with FormLabs CFO Dan O’Shaughnessy, and Tim Adams, CFO, Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) and Arthur Price, General Counsel at TA Associates. Aditi Roy of CNBC fame anchors. Register now before we sell out!

Philly always delivers. There’s a huge community of hot growth and well established companies in the Philadelphia metro. Comcast. Comcast CFO Jason Armstrong has confirmed, along with Kevin Barr, CFO at Amoroso, Jessica Cicalli, CLO at S&B USA and Keith Goldan, CFO at Syndax Pharmaceuticals. CNBC alum Aditi Roy hosts -she was on-air in Philly for years while earning her Wharton MBA. EY, Lockton, Korn Ferry, Truist and our other amazing Co Producers are making it all happen.

CFO GC Focus always covers CFOs and sometimes GCs with great stories to tell. And we’re off the record and not recorded. So it’s like confession. Only without the kneeling. WeWork’s CLO Pam Swidler was there through every minute of “WeCrashed” And she’s still there. Why? “WeHope” she will confess it all Oct 8 as she’s now confirmed to attend. And so is Boeing SVP and Treasurer David Whitehouse. Come for the drinks, stay for the hot dish.

Join us at CFO GC Focus Chicago as we return to hear war stories and up close and personal news from Chicago’s finest CFOs and GCs. Featured CFOs and GCs joining Jane Wells include Alessandro DiSanto, CFO and Co-Founder of Hallow, Dirk Locascio, CFO of US Foods (NYSE:USFD), Anna Gomez, longtime CFO at advertising giant Leo Burnett (now CFO at ITG Americas), and Rajeev Khurana, Chief Legal Officer at Apex Fintech Solutions. If you’ve ever wondered why over 1500 companies with $20 million or more in revenue call Chicago home you’ll find your answers on Oct 7. Join us!

We last met Liyuan Woo, (now CFO at TOCA Football) during Covid, online and as CFO of beauty company Hydrafacial. From beauty to soccer. Proof that CFOs are the most resilient c’s in the c-suite. Joing Liyuan will be PacSun GC Mark Harrington, Anna Ricardo, CFO at MeriCal, and CNBC alum Jane Wells. Free to attend for CFOs and GCs thanks to our Co Producers. And yes, we will gather for off the record storytelling at a secret, undisclosed but fabulous location.

Peers only. Just your fellow Cs gathering near the sea with Orange County’s best and brightest.

Watch the livestream – click on arrow above! Many CFOs, GCs and other C-Suite execs don’t think much about their LinkedIn. But having a good headshot, compelling profile and regular communication from your LinkedIn helps your team see you as a leader, builds your business’ category leadership and helps you build your personal brand — and maybe even land you your next role.

Join us for a free online workshop on Zoom — not a boring webinar — on Thursday, Sept 25

CNBC alum and Wharton MBA instructor Aditi Roy leads the discussion with LinkedIn/ executive comms expert Jess Jensen who has guided CSuite execs at ​Nestle, Adidas, Microsoft and Qualcomm; Gary Lu, CFO at ​​Biomerica (and frequent LinkedIn contributor); and Van Lai-DuMone, TEDx and Creative Leadership Keynote Speaker, CEO of Worksmart.

We’re kicking off CFO Focus’ Fall Season with CFO GC Focus Los Angeles featuring Jane Wells in interviews with Peter Bartle, GC at John Paul Mitchell Systems. Peter is a former US Marine, Brown University and UCLA Law grad, who went on to do great things at Latham & Watkins and Sony Pictures and other entertainment industry cos before landing his current role in 2022 – where he heads legal, regulatory and business affairs at John Paul Mitchell. Joining Peter are July July Bocabeille, CFO at DRMTLGY (previously at Algenist, Shiseido and LVMH), Amy Oswick, CFO, Valkyrie Clinical Trials, and Eric Bing Chin, CFO, Akido Labs (a leading healthcare AI co) Eric is also Audit Chair of the board of directors at Biomerica (NASDAQ: BMRA).

CNBC alum Aditi Roy takes a deep dive with CFOs and GCs from the sports and automotive industries on CFO Focus Live! Find out how these execs deal with huge upfront capital costs, long product development cycles, fan bases requiring constant attention ++ San Diego Padres’ GC Terezka (Peterka) Zabka joins Mike Bufano, former Panera Bread and Allbirds CFO now CFO and President at League One Volleyball (LOVB), the fast growing female volleyball league, and Cristian Torres from Visionary Automotive Group, one of the largest auto dealer networks. Cris also spent 17 years at Nissan, and in key roles at Volkswagen and Carvana.

The business of sports just keeps getting more interesting. – The Celtics, Lakers and Timberwolves have billionaires jumping through hoops to own them, and private equity is now trying to score.

If you were there in 2024 you know how good CFOs and GCs in Orange County are at pickleball. Not to mention how great they look in shorts. Join us for the 2nd Annual CFO Focus Charity Pickleball Tournament in Newport Beach. All proceeds benefit benefit Forge Optima, a nonprofit organization helping elementary through high school students build purpose, identity, connections, and career direction, including finance!

Niya Dragova, Founder and CEO of Candor, hosts us at her beautiful rooftop nest high above San Francisco. We all want to be there to see who’s there and what’s next. Niya is hosting CFO Focus Happy Hour to benefit Freedom Forward – Natasha Dolby, who chairs the charity will be in attendance to raise awareness and funding to end sex trafficking of teens in San Francisco. Daniel Lurie, the Mayor of San Francisco and a supporter of Freedom Forward, is also invited to attend. Free to attend for CFOs and GCs. Be there!

Join us online as Aditi Roy of CNBC fame interviews:

Jim Eschweiler, CEO, Top Pot Doughnuts, Seattle – former CFO, Aritzia & Starbucks Asia Pacific

Shane Green, CEO, Foley Entertainment Group, Las Vegas

Eric Hebel, CFO of Hebel & Co., Los Angeles – world’s leading maker of Halva

Alex Campbell, CFO and Co Founder, SavorWe, Chicago – leading provider of gourmet cuisine from top chefs served in unique, curated gatherings

CFO GC Focus Philadelphia returns with Anita Vogel anchoring a terrific panel of Philadelphia’s leading CFOs and GCs.  Featured Guest CFOs now include Meredith Carter, President and CEO, Edge Capital, Jeffrey DiGiovanni, CFO, Innovative Solutions & Support (NASDAQ: ISSC), Greg Doran, CFO, WorkWave and Aaron Strait, CFO, Silvi Materials. We’ll gather at a private home near CFOs and GCs homes so it’s an easy stop by after work for a private, off the record conversation with peers and partners. We always sell out in Philadelphia so register today!

CFO GC Focus Houston finds us back in the energy capital of the world with a broad swath of space tech, biotech and energy companies buzzing about the huge of amount of business energy in this dynamic city.  Jane Wells anchors a great panel of CFOs and GCs you’ll want to meet as we gather with leading CFOs and GCs like Vanessa Allen Sutherland, GC at Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX); Laura Fulton, CFO American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Chair of Audit Committee Targa Resources; ans Angel Sanches, CFO, HJ Baker. Don’t delay.  Register today!

We’re back in Dallas for CFO GC Focus Dallas, gathering at Kirkland & Ellis for an exclusive sit-down with some of the leading CFOs and GCs in the region.  Jenny Wu, partner at Kirkland & Ellis, hosts us at K&E’s amazing space.  Featured Guests inclue Jeff Novota, SVP and CLO, Southwest Airlines; Margot (Lebenberg) Carter, Board Member, Tyler Technologies and NYSE listed Installed Building Products  and Angela Parker, Former CFO, DuraServe, New CFO at TBA PE backed company.  Jane Wells anchors.  And there’s a ticket with your name on it.  Register today!