Breaking
the Paradox

Daniel Echeverri is a digital and finance transformation leader and Executive Director of FP&A for WBD. Daniel started his career in the automotive industry with Renault in 2011, where he held various roles in logistics, transports, and finance. After acting a the Chief of Staff for the Americas in Brazil before becoming the CFO of Renault's subsidiary in Mexico in January 2020.

Kristen, Head of Strategic Finance and FP&A at Grammarly laid the foundation for their high-performing finance organization. Prior, Kristen acted as the Senior Director at Pivotal Software and Corporate Development & Strategy Director at SurveyMonkey, Rakuten, Booking Holdings and J.P. Morgan. She holds a B.S. degree from Wharton and MBA from Harvard.

Senior Finance Manager at ClickUp, Jeremy, leads Go to Market strategy across teams to drive sales and growth marketing. With years in tech, he combined finance, strategy, and sales expertise with end-to-end Pigment implementation to push ClickUp's mission for workplace productivity. Outside of work, Jeremy unwinds on long runs and cooking concoctions in the kitchen.

AJ Liubich, CFA, is the Head of FP&A for Datadog, supporting the efficient and rapid scaling of Datadog's business. Previously, AJ was the head of FP&A at UiPath and the head of Investor Relations at Datadog, supporting both companies’ IPOs. Prior to his corporate finance roles, AJ spent 6+ years on Wall Street, including in equity research. AJ holds a B.S. in Finance with from Boston College.

Brad is the Vice President of Finance at Snowflake. Since 2017, Brad has built and led the FP&A functions that lead Snowflake to one of the most successful tech IPOs. Prior to Snowflake, Brad spent ten years in investment banking advising high-growth companies on raising capital and M&A. Brad holds a B.S. degree from the University of Michigan.

After 20+ years in the C-Suite, Ed founded Clinch Mountain Coaching and Consulting dedicated to develop the next generation of finance leaders. Passionate about the CFO role, Ed helps turbo-charge careers and drive business value through financial leadership and stewardship. Prior, acted as CFO in venture backed and public tech companies, like Sapient, Zipcar and Veracode.

Craig joined SCB in 2016 to lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge data solutions in the financial industry. As Head of SAP Design & Application Architecture, leading the development of analytics solutions defining how financial and non-financial data is transformed from source to insights. Prior to SCB, Craig worked for leading companies such as Accenture, IBM, and NAB.

José leads the finance transformation practice at PwC France and Maghreb. Over 20+ years, José has led numerous financial information system and EPM projects, IFRS implementation, delay reduction, post merger process optimization, consolidation process reengineering and Sarbanes-Oxley projects. Graduated from Audencia & Sciences-Po Paris.

Kashif Riaz, Deloitte's National Service Offering Leader for Technology Strategy and Transformation, is dedicated to guide clients achieve impactful digital transformations. He advises C-suite on technology innovation, CX, financial strength, and lasting organizational capabilities with experience in front/back office, including business model shifts, digitization, global expansion, M&A, and IPOs.

Lyes has been working in fast-growing fintech for 8+ years. In 2020, he joined Spendesk, an all-in-one spend management solution, as the first FP&A employee and built the function from scratch to support Spendesk growth (from 150 to 600+ employees). Prior to Spendesk, Lyes worked at PayinTech as Head of Finance - 50 FTEs - providing cashless payment solutions.

Anders, Medius' CFO since 2014, oversees the finances of the global Source-to-Pay SaaS company. With customers in 102 countries and offices in 10, the company handles over $180 billion annual spend. Anders guided Medius' transition from a Nordic On-Premise SW company to a global multi-tenant SaaS entity. His prior roles include senior finance positions at Klarna, NASDAQ, and Cision.

Pierre, Head of FP&A at BlaBlaCar has built a strong FP&A team focusing on business partnering and supporting decision-making. Prior +8 years experience at several corporate finance positions in the pharmaceutical industry, Pierre supported finance functions transition towards business partnering and managed implementation of new local & global group reporting tools.

Joy Durling has served as Chief Data Officer since April, 2022 and responsible for leading Procore’s data-as-a-product strategy. Most recently, Joy served as EVP, CIO and Digital Experience at Vivint. Prior to that, she held various leadership positions during her 11-year tenure at Adobe Systems Inc., including VP of Technology. Joy holds a BSBA in Business and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.