GURUS Cloud Connect
Each episode, our hosts welcome guests from across different industries and backgrounds to join us and speak about their success and some of the obstacles they’ve managed to overcome with strategy and technologies. We sit down with CFOs, CEOs, leaders and passionate voices in technology today, and more. By tuning in to the latest episode of GURUS Cloud Connect, you get to hear from professionals as they speak on hot topics in technology, finances and business.
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
In our latest episode, we sit down with Geri-Lynn Kushneryk and Matthew Jay, to discuss and answer the commonly asked questions around planning and budgeting. How are different businesses managing their budgets? Where do annual planning and budgeting processes become complicated for most companies? And what are the best contingencies a CFO will keep in their back pocket?
Our first guest, Geri-Lynn Kushneryk is a CFO with decades of valuable experience across all sizes of businesses, having worked at the second-largest pension fund in Canada before discovering a passion for tech startups. She has helped establish a vast portfolio of startup companies and brings what she’s discovered as best practices to the table during our interview. In our other chair, we’ve invited Matthew Jay, who works as a technical consultant in NetSuite’s Planning and Budgeting solutions. He’s joining us to provide you with an in-depth look at what the best tools are to help finance teams overcome some of the drag-and-pull of their planning and budgeting cycles.
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
In this episode, we dive deep into payment processes with Mark Paley, VP of Sales at Cardknox. Together, we address questions like: What is the detriment of being a cash-only bar or a cash-only cafe in an age where most customers make payments using their phones or cards? Is Amazon's hybrid e-commerce/ brick & mortar model the future for shopper experience?
What has changed in the merchant and customer experience from only 5-10 years ago? And how can you adapt your business processes to get ahead of the payment trends and meet evolving user expectations?