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CFO GC Focus San Francisco/ Silicon Valley March 19, 2025
CFO GC Focus San Francisco/Silicon Valley has featured some of the leading CFOs in tech, consumer and healthcare here in the epicenter of the tech and capital mashup. Join us we feature Jane Wells in off the record, unrecorded convos with Peter Daley, CFO, Contrast Security, Erica Gessert, CFO at Upwork, Sarah Spoja, CFO at Tipalti and Jenny Sohn, CFO at Mindvalley and Cercle. You don’t have to be a billionaire or millionaire to attend — free for CFOs and GCs who are on “b round or better” and looking for those m&a and IPO exits. On a peninsula surrounded by churning seas we’ll gather churning c’s — those GCs and CFOs who always seem to be making epic moves at the right time. Hear their stories at a secret, private location known only to those who RSVP.
CFO GC Focus Austin April 8, 2025
Jane Wells dives deep into the heart of Texas at CFO GC Focus Austin in a beautiful home, a great reception with leading CFOs and GCs and an off the record, unrecorded interview with our featured CFOs and GCs. Join us in the capitol to talk capital with Austin’s leading financial executives. Adam Chibib, CFO at Self (formerly Self Financial), Catherine Dawson, General Counsel at AffiniPay and Zac Fellabaum, SVP Financial Operations at GOODLES and former CFO at Nulo Pet Food are our Featured Guests!
CFO GC Focus Phoenix April 15, 2025
CFO GC Focus returns to Phoenix at UKG Dan Hobaica’s beautiful home, a great reception with leading CFOs and GCs Dale Gibbons, CFO, Western Alliance Bancorporation, and David Raddiford, Former CFO Current CEO & President, Apriva LLC, in an off the record, unrecorded interview with Jane Wells. If you’ve never been to a CFO GC Focus be sure to sign up now as we always sell out. Save yourself a spot by clicking to register today.
CFO GC Focus Boston April 16, 2025
CFO GC Focus kicks off its Boston series on April 16 as we gather at a private location with the best CFOs and GCs from the region. Network news anchor Anita Vogel anchors a panel of CFOs and GCs from “hot growth”, mid-cap and large companies including Troy Ignelzi, CFO at Rapport Therapeutics. We’ll start with great food and drinks at 5:30, then the program at 6:30, a little more reception at 7:30 and out by 8. You’ll be home early. RSVP now before we sell out! Click on link below to register.
CFO GC Focus Las Vegas April 22, 2025
There’s no other city quite like Las Vegas. And the CFOs and GCs reflect their city’s can-do attitude, its welcoming hospitality and extensive support network for homegrown companies and businesses relocating to the region. Join us for CFO GC Focus in one of our favorite towns!
CFO GC Focus Los Angeles April 23, 2025
No lawyer has done more IPOs than Latham & Watkins’ Steven Stokdyk — with over 100 to date. And with IPOs again slated to be “on trend” in 2025 we’ll gather at Steven’s home in LA with the region’s leading CFOs and GC’s. Featured Guests include Kevin McDonnell, JD, SVP & CEO, AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV), Teri Witteman, Chief Legal Officer (CLO), Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) and Eric Hebel CFO & Co-Founder Hebel & Co, world’s leading maker and marketer of Halva. This will sell out at 50 guests so please RSVP today!
CSuite Focus Orange County April 29, 2025
Join us at the sea to see all the C Suite leaders of Orange County as we gather in Laguna Beach at Rivian’s fabulous new showpalace featuring the latest in electric trucks and SUVs for CFOs and GCs on the move. Join us! This event — as most of our Orange County gatherings — will sell out so register early. FREE to attend for CFOs and GCs in the OC. C you there!
CFO GC Focus Atlanta May 1, 2025
Atlanta is the Capitol of the Business South. Join us to meet the leading CFOs and GCs from the region a our first-ever CFO CLO Focus Atlanta. If you miss us this time we won’t be back until the Fall…. so don’t miss us this May 1. RSVP today. Free to attend for CFOs and GCs.
CFO GC Focus Denver May 6, 2025
Colorado has a lot of great companies headquartered in Denver — Join some of our favorite CFOs and GCs in The West interviewed by what many consider The Best in business journalism — Jane Wells. John Fowle , CFO, Gloo; Nate Rodgers, Corporate Treasurer, Gates (NYSE:GTES); and Mark Smolenski, CFO, Air Methods and a beautiful home on a warm and sunny spring evening (or a May snowstorm — this is after all , Denver). Register today before we give all the good seats away.
CFO GC Focus Portland May 7, 2025
CFO Focus returns to Portland on May 7 as CFO GC Focus Portland — welcoming Oregon’s leading CFOs and General Counsels. Join us for great off the record conversations and networking with your colleagues. Peter Bragdon, GC at Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ: COLM); Michael Donfris CFO The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE: GBX); and Sarah Keane, CFO, Portland Timbers. Aditi Roy Former ABC, NBC and CNBC Business Correspondent anchors. Co Producers invite their CFO and GC guests and about 40-50 attend. RSVP soon so we can save you a spot!
CFO GC Focus Chicago May 13, 2025
As the chilly waters of Lake Michigan warm Jane Wells emerges again to anchor CFO GC Focus Chicago on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at a beautiful home not far from the shore in Winnetka, IL. Who’s the catch of the the day? Our panel of featured guests are always the most sought after CFOs and GCs on land and “c.” Jane’s net-work honed interview skills get CFOs and GCs to tell all kinds of stories, from landing the big one to the one that got away. Don’t miss the boat. RSVP now and get CFO GC Focus Chicago on your calendar now.
CFO GC Focus New York May 14, 2025
CFO GC Focus returns to New York on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. Join us as America’s most beloved business journalist Jane Wells (seen here before cell phones at NYSE) sits down with leading finance and legal minds including Elaine Paik, CFO at Impossible Foods. Register before we sell out!
CFO GC Focus Dallas May 20, 2025
We’re back in Dallas for CFO GC Focus Dallas, gathering in the Highland Park area 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. Jane Wells anchors. And there’s a ticket with your name on it. Register today!
CFO GC Focus Houston May 21, 2025
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!
CFO GC Focus Philadelphia May 21, 2025
CFO GC Focus Philadelphia returns with Anita Vogel anchoring a terrific panel of Philadelphia’s leading CFOs and GCs. We’ll gather at a private home or club 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 Seattle Oct 21, 2025
CFO GC Focus Seattle was a huge hit on March 12. We featured one of the world’s youngest CFOs — Charlie Wickers, CFO at Rover — who took Rover public then private again before the age of 40. Top Pot CFO now CEO Jim Eschweiler was featured – is it a coffee or a doughnut co? You decide. And Ross Tennenbaum, CFO & President at Avalara all sat down with Jane Wells to launch our 2025 series. Register now to save your spot for October — and please nominate any CFOs and GCs you’d like to see on the panel with Jane Wells!
CF-O’CANADA Vancouver Oct 22, 2025
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). We’re off the record and unrecorded as always and hope to net the Canucks CFO join us. That’s our goalie.
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CFO GC Focus Seattle March 12, 2025
CFO GC Focus returns to Seattle where we’ll gather the leading CFOs and GCs in what’s become a hotbed of business, innovation and capital. We’ll gather for another off the record convo with secrets told to Jane Wells by some of the Emerald City’s top CFOs and GCs, including Top Pot Doughnuts CFO now CEO Jim Eschweiler, Rover’s CFO Charlie Wickers and Avalara CFO and President Ross Tennenbaum. If you’re a Seattle CFO or GC please register now for what will surely be a sell out in Seattle.
CSUITE FOCUS ONLINE FEB 26, 2025
CSUITE Focus Online featured CSuite executives reconnecting online and forecasting the year ahead. Anita Vogel interviewed Jeremy Baumann, CEO, Corporate Security Advisors, LLC; Adrian Brown, CFO, A1 Garage Doors; Ann Buckingham, former SVP, Global Creative and Product Development, at Disney and 20 Century Fox; Doug Kooren, former CFO at Tillamook; Ravi Kumar, Connor Group; Rita Norton, CEO, Washington, DC based former lead lobbyist for Amgen, Roche, AmerisourceBergen; Robert Purcell, CFO, Billtrust, formerly public now PE backed; Shannon Nash, former CFO at Wing, the Alphabet drone delivery co, and public company board member, Netscout Systems and SoFi Bank; Elizabeth Pagliarini, former CFO now CEO, Summit Healthcare REIT; and Jenny West, Denver based CEO, expert on workplace design to engage and retain next-gen neurodivergent talent. Watch the 45 minute show here!
CFO GC Focus Phoenix November 20, 2024
CFO GC Focus Phoenix lands in Quarles & Brady Managing Partner Jason Wood’s backyard on November 20, 2024. Joining us will be Arizona’s finest CFOs and GCs for what promises to be an epic evening under the stars with Adrian Brown, CFO, A1 Garage Door Service and Maree Robertson, CFO, Freeport-McMoRan, (NYSE:FCX). Free to attend if you’re a CFO or GC. Be sure to RSVP now so it’s on your calendar!
CFO GC Focus Austin November 19, 2024
CNBC’s Jane Wells returns to Austin to anchor our CFO GC Focus — Fall Edition — featuring Matt Stark, Chief Legal Officer at Open Lending Corporation (NASDAQ:LPRO), Jennifer Parker-Snider, CFO, SpyCloud, and Dave Mehok, CFO, Q2 Holding (NYSE: QTWO). Space is limited. Please register soon!
CFO GC Focus Chicago November 14, 2024
CFO Focus returns to Chicago for the second time this year when CNBC’s Jane Wells anchors our CFO GC Focus Chicago. Space is limited to our first 50 CFOs and GCs who register. We have a terrific panel of featured CFOs lined up including Nick Smith, CFO of Alto Neuroscience (NYSE: ANRO), Jim Rogers CFO Tempus AI (NASDAQ:TEM) and Stephanie Solera, General Counsel, Numerator. We will sell out at 50 guests so please register soon!
CFO GC Focus Dallas November 13, 2024
We now have a terrific panel for CFO GC Focus Dallas on Wednesday, November 13, including Christopher Turner, CFO, Yum! Brands, (NYSE: YUM); Craig Storey, CFO, Vari; Bryan McCrory, General Counsel, Dave & Buster’s (NASDAQ: PLAY); and Tabitha Bailey, Chief Legal Officer, Multiple NASDAQ/NYSE listed public companies If you’re a Dallas CFO or General Counsel (GC) please join us! Free to attend thanks to our Hosts!
CFO GC Focus Houston November 12, 2024
CFO Focus is back in Houston on Nov 12 when Jane Wells sits down with leading CFOs and GC s from the region. Featured CFOs include Victoria Lazar, Board Member, Former GC, Technip FMC; Frank Parker, COO, Cart.com and Jennifer Whalen, SVP, CFO, Bristow Group Inc., (NYSE: VTOL) Register now so it’s on your busy calendar!
CSuite Focus October Surprise ONLINE Oct 29, 2024
Our friends at CSuite Focus are online– October Surprise — Managing Through Resiliency. Join on LinkedIn Live! and CFO Focus’ YouTube Channel with FOX News’ Anita Vogel anchoring a great convo with top corporate security leader Jeremy M. Baumann, CPP from Corporate Security Advisors (CSA), risk mitigation expert Rebekah Schaapveld from Lockton Insurance, People/HR expert Jenny West, and surprise guests from the CSuite! Register for free. We’ll take your questions… and you don’t have to leave your home or office.
CFO GC Focus Philadelphia October 24, 2024
Please join CFO GC Focus when we return to Philadelphia on October 24. Anita Vogel, national network news correspondent, anchors the show. Featured Guests include Dennis Johnson, CFO, Qlik; Michael F. Daly, Senior VP, CFO, RAF Industries, Inc. ; John Ryan, EVP, GC Temple University Health System; and Amy Trojanowski VP, CFO TW Metals
CFO GC Focus Salt Lake City October 22, 2024
CFO GC Focus lands in Salt Lake City October 22 featuring some of Utah’s leading CFOs and GCs. Join us at a private location to hear from the fast-growing and established companies in one our favorite cities. Featured CFOs and CAOs include Nichole Lengel, CPA, CFO, Harmons Grocery Company; Michelle Lewis, CPA, CAO, PACS, (NYSE:PACS) and Ryan King, CFO at Thread Wallets. Our moderator is Lori Prichard, Anchor & Correspondent, KSL-TV. Attendance is limited to just 40 guests so RSVP today!
CFO GC Focus Denver October 17, 2024
Join CFO GC Focus in Denver as we return with some of Colorado’s leading CFO and General Counsels (GCs) including Caleb Carr, CEO and CFO, Vita Inclinata Technologies, Heather French, Chief Legal Officer, GHX, and Ned Preston, CFO, Gaia (NASDAQ: GAIA). Free to attend, thanks to our Hosts! We’ll gather at a beautiful private home provided by Jewel Brown of LIV Sotheby’s with great tray passed appetizers and drinks before our fireside chat with Jane Wells and our CFOs and GCs. Register now so we can save you a spot!
CFO GC Focus Portland October 16, 2024
See Jane go at CFO GC Focus Portland! Featured CFOs and GCs include Elizabeth Fouts, CLO, The Standard, Nitesh Sharan, CFO, SoundHound AI, MardiLyn Saathoff, GC, NW Natural and Wayne Marschall, President & CFO, The Stoller Group. Register now so we can save you a spot – we sold out last May!
CFO GC Focus Las Vegas October 15, 2024
CFO GC Focus returns to Las Vegas for a discussion with CFOs and GCs in this fascinating city. It’s not all fun and games when CNBC’s Jane Wells sits down with Jackie Miller, CFO of Smart City Networks, John Rudy, Chief Corporate Counsel, Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ:WYNN) and CleanSpark CFO Gary Vecchiarelli. We’ll gather at a private home. Join us!
CFO GC Focus San Diego October 8, 2024
If you’ve missed CFO Focus San Diego in the past you won’t want to miss this one on Oct 8 as we feature some of America’s most remarkable CFOs in one of its most remarkable cities. Jane Wells moderates and Brittany Bradrick, CFO and COO, Neurelis, Inc.; Liam Kelly, CFO, General Atomics; Erik Nakamura, CFO, Orange Comet, Inc. and Jonathan Pong, CFO, Realty Income (NYSE: O) are featured! We’ll gather at a private home. Join us!
CSuite Focus Santa Barbara Ventura Oct 24, 2024
CFO Focus is CSuite Focus featuring CEOs, CFOs, CLOs on Tuesday, Sept 24, 2024 at Vallavanda, the mountaintop estate near Thousand Oaks, CA. NBC’s Lisa Breckenridge anchors, with Stephen Hatke from Takeda, Yasser Hazzaa from MannKind (NASDAQ:MNKD), Nikita M. Shah M.D., Oncologist at City of Hope & Adventist Health Simi Valley, Latha Vairavan from Arcutis Biotherapeutics (NASDAQ:ARQT), and Thomas Zindrick, CEO, Genelux Corporation (NASDAQ:GNLX) Space is limited – RSVP today!
CFO Focus New York Sept 17, 2024
CFO Focus returns to New York in September for a East Coast Tour with CNBC’s Jane Wells anchoring at NASDAQ in Times Square! Glen Leibowitz, CFO of Bitcoin Depot, Lisa Akhionbare, Chief Accounting Officer, AlphaSense, and Adam Townsend, CFO at VIZIO featured! CFOs from throughout the tri-state region are welcome to attend. We’ll gather at a great location, to be provided with your RSVP. Register so we can keep you updated. Other featured CFOs to be announced soon!
CNBC’s Jane Wells leads another great discussion with CFOs on Sand Hill Road in the heart of Silicon Valley when we gather at Lightspeed Venture Partners for SF Silicon Valley CFO Focus. Free to attend for CFOs but registration is a must. Register now. Headlining CFOs include Elias Murraymetzger, CFO, Botrista; Annie Mitchell, CFO, Allbirds (NASDAQ:BIRD); Saurabh Sinha, CFO, AEVA, (NYSE:AEVA); and Dan Zhang, CFO, ClickUp
CFO Focus Seattle Sept 5, 2024
Join CFO Focus Seattle on Sept 5 for what promises to be another great program with CNBC’s Jane Wells!
Featured CFOs and GC’s include Luke Fisher, CFO, Talking Rain Beverage Company; Christopher Kearns, CLO, Trupanion and Karl Moehring, CFO, Washington Shoe Company. Register Now! Free to attend for CFOs and GCs.
CFO Focus San Francisco Silicon Valley Sept 11, 2024
CFO Focus gathered at NASDAQ in San Francisco May 23. Join us we keep the conversation going with Ravi Kumar and Laura Moreno Lucas in a quick LinkedIn Live for 30 minutes 4-4:30 PT. Leading Bay Area CFOs including Jamie Cohen, CFO Alto Pharmacy & Board Member, Rover Shannon Nash, Esq, CPA, CFO Wing (an Alphabet Company) Board Member, NETSCOUT (NASDAQ:NTCT) and Mike Bufano President & CFO, League One Volleyball, Former CFO, Panera, Allbirds & Board Member, Rowan are featured!
CFO GC Focus Houston Nov 29, 2023
Houston’s leading CFOs and GCs gather at a private location for an elegant reception with tray passed apps and drinks. Featured
CFOs and GCs include:
Christopher Hough, CFO
IndiGO Auto Group
Braden Merrill, CFO
Sequitur Energy Resources
Jess Cole, CFO
Nacero, Inc.
Laura Tyson, COO and GC
The Energy & Minerals Group
Join us for what promises to be a memorable evening at a private club in Houston’s River Oaks area.