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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!

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!

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 ++ Cristopher Torres joins us from the Van Tuyl Companies in Phoenix, the largest privately held automotive dealer network in the US. Cris also spent 17 years at Nissan and at Volkswagen.

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.

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. Will billionaire founder of Paul Mitchell and Patron fame John Paul DeJoria be there? We’ve asked.  Will you be there? You’d be crazy to miss this one…

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), and Anna Gomez, longtime CFO at advertising giant Leo Burnett. 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!

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 confirm to attend Oct 8 (she was at our last one in NYC). Come for the drinks, stay for the hot dish.

Philly always delivers. There’s a huge community of hot growth and well established companies in the Philadelphia metro. Companies like Campbell Soup. And Comcast. Comcast CFO Jason Armstrong has confirmed he’ll be on the panel hosted by CNBC alum Aditi Roy. Aditi 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 lands in Boston featuring some of the leading CFOs and GCs from the regions tech and life science industries. We’ll gather atop Cushman & Wakefield’s stunning building (it’s real estate – isn’t it alway “stunning”?) with FormLabs CFO Dan O’Shaugnessy, and Tim Adams, CFO, Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD). Aditi Roy of CNBC fame anchors. Register now before we sell out!

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 and Chris Walton, CFO at Hampton Lumber are featured. Reserve your spot now before we sell out!

On its website Pioneer Square Labs mission statement says “[we] exist to build the next generation of world-changing companies, bringing together exceptional founders, big ideas, and investment capital.” Don’t you want to hear what THAT’s about? Jane Wells sure does. And she’ll be interviewing PSL’s CFO Palvi Mehta and other CFOs and GCs TBA. And we thought it was all about bunsen burners and beaker jars.

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 (that’s not Canadian NBC). Maninder Malli, General Counsel, GeoComply is featured along with TBA others. Deloitte Canada Vice Chair Jodi Evans Co Hosts. We’re off the record and unrecorded as always.

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!

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. Last time Jane Wells touched down with Southwest Airlines CLO and others for a fascinating discussion. This time on Veterans Day she’ll probably land on American. Why wait to see? Register now before all of the good seats are taken.

Houston CFOs and GCs gathered at an amazing 20,000 square foot home for sale for $20 million when we last gathered in May.  Who bought it? Find out that and who’s going to be featured next as we gather every 6 months again on Nov 12.  Jane Wells anchors. Sign up now so it’s on your calendar.  Free to attend for CFOs and GCs thanks to our Co Producers.

Colorado’s finest CFOs and GCs gather again in November at another amazing private location to hear an off the record and unrecorded conversation with featured CFOs and GCs. Free to attend thanks to our Co Producers. We are working on another amazing location. Register now so it’s on your busy Fall calendar. Jane Wells anchors.

UBS’ Josh Pottinger hosted us at his beautiful home in Austin last year. It gave all of Austin’s CFOs and GCs a chance to see how the other half lives. Is that where we’ll gather again in November? You’ll have to listen to Josh’s podcast and register here to find out. Jane Wells is back in town, the convos, drinks and food are flowing. What’s not to love? There will be boots. Join us!

Join us as CFO GC Focus lands in Phoenix with Jane Wells at the controls.  Jason Dymbort, GC, First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) is featured along with Michael Kadous, COO, Bad Birdie.  Don’t mulligan.  Register today before we sell out.