CFO, Hyatt
Joan Bottarini is Hyatt’s Chief Financial Officer and responsible for helping to develop and lead Hyatt’s transformation, uniquely positioning the organization for optimal long-term performance and stakeholder value creation. Since November 2018, she has led Hyatt’s global finance function, including financial reporting, planning, treasury, tax, investor relations, internal audit, asset management and procurement. Joan is also the Executive Sponsor of the Hyatt HyPride Diversity Business Resource Group. During Joan’s 24-year Hyatt tenure, she has served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance, Americas; Vice President, Hotel Finance, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong); and Vice President, Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to joining Hyatt, Joan served as an Assurance Manager at KPMG LLP. Joan is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and serves as Chair on the Dean’s Board of Executive Advisors. She also serves as a Co-Chair of the No Room for Trafficking Council of the American Hotel and Lodging Association Foundation and as a Board member of Salt and Light Coalition in Chicago.
Wednesday Keynote
11:10 am – 12:00 pm CT
CFO, Synopsys
Shelagh Glaser serves as Synopsys’ Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for Finance and other business operations. She brings an outstanding track record of financial and operational experience in both the software and semiconductor industries, including scaling large businesses while continually driving profitability.
Prior to joining Synopsys, Glaser was Chief Financial Officer of Zendesk, a software-as-a-service CRM company that was acquired by a consortium led by Hellman & Friedman and Permira in 2022.
Before Zendesk, she grew her career at Intel over 29 years, most recently as Corporate Vice President and CFO/COO of Intel’s two largest business units, the Data Platform and Client Computing Groups.
Glaser holds a BA in economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. She serves on the board of PubMatic, a leader in digital advertising supply chain.
Wednesday Keynote
9:05 – 9:55am CT
CFO, Weights & Biases
Coming Soon
Tuesday Keynote
4:00 – 5:00 pm CT
Retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
Coming Soon
Tuesday Keynote
9:10 – 10:00 am CT
CFO & Head of Strategy, SXSW
A top-performing executive with experience in finance, accounting, analytics, and operations. Before joining SXSW, Rossmann lead finance teams at Warner Music Group, The Walt Disney Company and Twentieth Century Fox. She thrives in solving ever changing needs to reach financial and operational goals in dynamic organizations.
Wednesday Keynote
1:00 – 2:30pm CT
Finance Senior Manager, Brex
Arthur Akhtenberg oversees Sales Finance for Brex, a leading financial services technology firm based in San Francisco. He is responsible for revenue forecasting, headcount planning, and strategic decision-making across the go-to-market organization. Arthur also oversees sales compensation and commissions, owning the end-to-end design, modeling, and execution of scalable incentive programs.
Before Brex, Arthur held finance roles at Chainalysis and Datadog, supporting go-to-market strategy and financial planning. He began his career in Investment Banking at Citi.
Arthur holds an undergraduate degree from the University at Albany.
TBD
Editor & Chief Content Officer, Chief Executive Group
Dan Bigman is Editor and Chief Content Officer of Chief Executive Group, publishers of Chief Executive and Corporate Board Member magazines, as well as ChiefExecutive.net, Boardmember.com, StrategicCFO360, StrategicCIO360 and StrategicCHRO360. CEG is the parent company of the CFO Leadership Council. Prior to joining CEG, Bigman was Managing Editor at Forbes for more than a decade. Earlier he served as the founding business editor of NYTimes.com, where he co-founded the popular DealBook franchise in 2001 and later led all hard-news coverage for The Times online.
TBA
Resiliency Expert & Peak Performance Author
Monday
Pre-Event Workshop
10:00 – 10:50 am CT
Senior Vice President of Health and Welfare Benefits Consulting Trion, a Marsh McLennan Agency
Tuesday
Visionary Session
10:00 – 10:50 am CT
President & Founder, CFO Leadership Council
Jack McCullough is a respected financial leadership expert and the founder of the CFO Leadership Council, a global community of over 2,500 senior financial executives.
He has served as CFO for multiple organizations, from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, and has been instrumental in broadening the CFO role beyond finance to a more strategic business function.
Jack is the author of Secrets of Rockstar CFOs and The Psychopathic CEO, an Executive Survival Guide, a senior contributor to the Forbes CFO Network, and host of the Secrets of Rockstar CFOs podcast. His insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Barron’s, and other significant publications, and he has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business Network, and Your World with Neil Cavuto.
A graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management, Jack is committed to developing the next generation of financial leaders and advocating for greater diversity amongst CFOs globally.
TBA
CFO, Zone & Co
Chad Wonderling is the Chief Financial Officer at Zone & Co and is responsible for all of the company’s financial functions including accounting, tax, treasury, financial planning, analysis, and operations. Before Zone, he spent nearly six years at Salesloft serving in multiple finance leadership roles, but most notably as the Chief Accounting Officer. At Salesloft he helped lead four acquisitions, raise over $300 million in debt and equity financing, and played an integral role in the sale of Salesloft to Vista Equity Partners for $2.3 billion. Chad began his career at KPMG before transitioning to high-growth startups where he’s spent the last 15 years of his career. He and his wife, along with their two young boys, reside in Atlanta, GA.
Wednesday
Visionary Panel
9:55 – 10:45 am CT
