Office of the CFO: Suzy Taherian on Driving Performance Through KPIs

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Host Kendall Fisher and guest co-host Megan O’Brien, NetSuite business and finance editor, join the CFO of Xpansiv, Suzy Taherian. She kicks things off by explaining her initial career goals as an engineer in the renewable energy sector (4:54) and why she eventually ended up getting her MBA (6:07). She then dives into her career history as a controller at Chevron Argentina, which led to her taking on a Director of Planning and Forecasting role with Chevron (9:05). From that experience, Suzy shares advice for planning and forecasting today and how to navigate the changing economic environment (17:33). She then explains a bit more about Xpansiv, which provides global market infrastructure for data-driven environmental commodities (19:56) as well as the role technology–and, more specifically, NetSuite–plays within the company (22:31). Suzy says her diverse background across both private and public companies of all sizes helped her become the CFO she is today (26:24). Through her experiences, she‘s able to list the things that make for a successful IPO (30:51) as well as successful mergers and acquisitions (33:24). Finally, Suzy explains how she began leveraging key performance indicators to drive performance within Chevron (37:54), how she’s continued developing that strategy with Xpansiv (40:52), and how NetSuite makes it easier to deploy and track (43:35). Tune in for all of this and more!

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