Pinky Raina is a seasoned finance executive with CFO experience across manufacturing and sporting industries. On this episode of the Go To Masters Finance Fireside podcast, she shares insights from leading finance functions that prove the industry-agnostic nature of finance leadership—from Deloitte external auditing to CFO roles managing treasury and board relations.
Why R&D cuts are tempting but dangerous—the sporting industry lesson that changed her perspective
How to build depth and breadth of capability to make yourself "marketable" as a finance leader
The foundation-first approach: clean ERP systems and data before chasing AI buzz
Jane Akczinski is the Global Sales Compensation Manager at Rithum. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, she shares insights from a career spanning sales operations and finance, starting from writing mainframe code to extract data to now designing global compensation programs that balance fairness, transparency, and business growth.
Nabeel Ebeid is the VP of Revenue Operations at Wonderkind. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from a career combining finance and operations across ExactTarget (IPO'd and acquired by Salesforce), Active Campaign, Cheetah Digital's spinoff and merger to become Marigold, and multiple M&A transactions.
Sunil Kausik is the Director of Revenue Operations at Semrush. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from two decades in RevOps and incentive compensation, starting as India's #1 life insurance sales rep and evolving through banking, Accenture consulting, and now global sales operations.
Why scalability and repeatability trump custom solutions—you shouldn't reinvent the wheel with every pivot
The McDonald's principle: Keep processes so simple that innovation becomes possible
How AI should handle mundane tasks so humans can have "richer conversations" about helping reps buy houses
Preston Toone is the Director of Revenue Operations at Weave. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares his unconventional journey from SDR to leading post-sales operations, building the first dedicated post-sales ops function at Weave.
Saurabh Kapadia is the Director of Revenue Operations at Together AI. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from seven years in RevOps, including building at Fivetran during hypergrowth, scaling at public company Asana, and now architecting systems at an AI-native startup.
Vivek Vishal is the Senior Director of Sales Excellence at PIP Global Safety. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from leading sales strategy across Dell Technologies' $40 billion portfolio, Honeywell's PPE divestiture, and now driving 2.5 billion in PPE products that protect frontline workers.
Steph Allen is the CFO at Accela. On this episode of the Go To Masters Finance Fireside podcast, she shares insights from three years as CFO at fast-growth companies, focusing on sustainable scaling and transforming finance from a compliance function into a strategic business partner.
Colin Towner is the VP of Global Commercial Operations at Shockwave Medical. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from over 20 years across eight medical device companies, spanning vascular, orthopedics, GI, and urology.
Yassine Almiaadi is the Head of Revenue Operations and GTM Strategy at AirTies. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from leading the transition from a hardware company to a pure software business in the telco smart Wi-Fi space.
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Kapil Duggal is the Head of Finance, India at Transaction Network Services, a subsidiary of Coke Global Solutions. On this episode of the Go To Masters Finance Fireside podcast, he shares insights from 20 years leading finance operations across record-to-report, order-to-cash, and procure-to-pay functions.
Wayne Chiang is the Director of Sales Compensation at Cribble. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares insights from over 20 years navigating sales comp across insurance, legacy tech, and high-growth SaaS startups.
How compensation design evolves from hyper-growth ARR focus to consumption-based stickiness models
Why companies should adopt SPM solutions the moment they create a sales comp function
The six-month symphony required to roll out comp plans that actually drive behavior
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Jeremy Whiteman is the Senior Director, Sales Operations and Commercial Excellence at Resideo. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares how early experience carrying a bag shaped his approach to leading six distinct sales ops functions.
Building agility as a core competency to navigate uncontrollable market dynamics and leadership changes
Designing end-state visions that prevent reactive firefighting and enable proactive transformation
Treating tech stack evaluation like grocery shopping—never without a clear list and meal plan
Hope Blaythorne is the Chief of Staff, Revenue at Octopus Deploy. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, she shares insights from her journey across sales, channel management, customer success, and operations leadership.
Sara Terlecki is the Director of Sales Operations at Dialight. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, she shares her unconventional path from retail management to leading sales ops in complex manufacturing environments.
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Peter Van Lier is the Senior Sales Operations and Commercial Excellence Leader at Imperative Care. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares his journey from coding data warehouses at multinational medical device companies to building RevOps systems from dollar zero at a neurovascular startup.
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Juan Felipe Mejia is the Senior Director of Global Sales Compensation and Operations at UiPath. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares 20 years of sales compensation expertise across multiple industries, blending finance, strategy, and psychology to influence behavior through numbers.
Matthew Thompson is the Chief Revenue Officer at Socure, the global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares how 11 years in Army Special Operations shaped his approach to building high-performing GTM teams through trust, shared consciousness, and empowered execution.
The Team of Teams framework: building trust through common purpose and empowered execution
Why he audited existing RevOps tech stack for AI enhancements before chasing new tools
How leaders must be visible and deep in details without doing the work for their teams
Erik Hofstede is the VP Revenue and Customer Operations at GoGuardian. On this episode of the Go To Masters Show, he shares his unconventional journey from chemical engineering to RevOps leadership and how he tripled a business by challenging subscription models.
Yun Wong is the VP of Finance Systems Transformation and M&A Integration at Datavant and founder of Falcon Transformation LLC. On this episode of the Go To Masters Finance Fireside, she shares 23 years of finance transformation experience from stapling receipts to leading enterprise-wide integrations.