# William Washington

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The Rodman Paradox: Why Your Most Valuable Employee May Not Be Your Best One

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jack McCullough, Founder and President of the CFO Leadership Council, joins Megan Weis to unpack the Rodman Paradox: the idea that a company's most valuable employee may not be its best-performing one, but rather the person whose skill set is the most irreplaceable. J…

General-Purpose AI Agents Are Not Built for High-Stakes Finance

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer at BlackLine, joins Megan Weis to explore why general-purpose AI agents are not automatically safe enough for high-stakes financial operations. Jeremy brings more than two decades of software engineering, product management, and en…

The Skills That Separate CFOs from Finance Experts

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Wassia Kamon, Chief Financial Officer at ACE | Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Georgia's largest nonprofit community development financial institution, joins Megan Weis to explore the journey from controller or FP&A leader to modern CFO. Wassia is an award-winnin…

How to Keep Finance Teams Engaged During a Merger

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Rick Hasselman, Chief Financial Officer at Clari + Salesloft, joins Megan Weis to explore what it takes to lead a finance organization through a major merger, why collaboration between finance and go-to-market teams has become essential for scaling modern SaaS busines…

Why the Best CFOs Think Like CEOs

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Abir Syed, Co-Founder of UpCounting, joins Megan Weis to explore why the best finance leaders stop producing numbers and start driving decisions. A CPA by training, Abir built his career at the intersection of finance and marketing, helping direct-to-consumer brands b…

Building a Scalable Finance Function

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jessica Trimmer, Senior Director of Revenue and Transformation at Intapp, joins Megan Weis to explore what it really takes to build a finance organization that scales. Jessica is a finance transformation leader with more than 20 years of experience helping organizatio…

Why AI-Native Finance Beats Bolted-On AI Tools

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Bojan Belejkovski, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Voltava, joins Megan Weis to unpack what it actually takes to build an AI-native finance operating model, and why bolting AI tools onto broken processes is the fastest way to fail. Bojan brings a rare, non-…

How CFOs Use AI and Real-Time Data to Make Faster Decisions

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Mark Gaudiosi, Chief Financial Officer at Burro, joins Megan Weis to unpack why AI adoption in finance comes down to one deceptively simple question: what decision does this actually change? Mark brings more than twenty-five years of finance leadership across technolo…

Why CPAs Make Great CFOs

In this episode of CFO Weekly, John Wise, Director of Finance and Accounting at The Armstrong Company, joins Megan Weis to unpack how the CPA designation can become a launchpad for strategic business leadership rather than a lifelong ticket to the back office. John brings a career built across Fort…

The CFO as Decision Architect

In this episode of CFO Weekly, Shirley Shu-Hurley, Chief Financial Officer at Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART), joins Megan Weis to explore why the finance seat is evolving from scorekeeper and controller into what Shirley calls the “decision architect” of the organization. Shirley is a financ…