With nearly 40 years of experience at consulting giant KPMG, Paul Knopp is proof that it pays to be a company lifer. He is also one of the main reasons why his company continues to be ranked as one of the top consulting firms in the world, with more than 40,000 people working in its U.S. division alone…
A veteran of the banking and investing world, Mike Santomassimo is the Chief Financial Officer at Wells Fargo, a financial services company that has more than $1.9 trillion in assets. Ranked No. 37 on Fortune’s 2021 list of America’s largest corporations, Wells Fargo serves one in three U.S. households and more than 10% of small businesses domestically…
By all measures, Bradley Preber has had an extraordinary career in the consulting business. With around 40 years of experience in forensic accounting, Preber is well-known for his work as an expert witness and litigation consultant, as well as a forensic accountant, neutral arbitrator, and fraud investigator…
If you’re one of the 100+ million people who currently use Credit Karma’s consumer finance services, then you can thank Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer Ryan Graciano. Graciano’s fingerprints are all over the multi-billion dollar company, which is best known for its pioneering free credit scores. Along with Ken Lin and Nichole Mustard, in 2007 Graciano launched Credit Karma with less than $1 million in funding…
Widely considered to be one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology, George Colony is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research. In 1983, Colony founded Forrester in his basement. At the time, he was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts…
Matthew Friend is a Berkeley varsity athlete-turned-financial head honcho for one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. With more than two decades of corporate finance and strategy experience, Friend serves as Chief Financial Officer for apparel giant Nike, helping to navigate the company through a significant business transformation as it seeks to emerge from the pandemic…
Horacio Rozanski is not only the boss of Booz Allen Hamilton, he’s also proof that the American dream is still alive. Born into a Jewish family in Buenos Aires, Rozanski grew up during a period of social, economic, and civil turmoil in Argentina…
As Chief Financial Officer for one of the world’s largest companies, Graeme Pitkethly doesn’t have the luxury of staring into the rear view mirror for very long. His company, Unilever, produces products that are used every day by 3.5 billion people. But for those wishing to follow in Pitkethly’s successful footsteps, a quick examination of his career is more than a little illuminating…
Since April 2022, Brandon Sink has served as Chief Financial Officer for Lowe’s Companies, the home improvement giant that operates more than 2,000 stores and employs over 300,000 associates. In fact, thanks to the pandemic-driven home improvement activity, the company has been thriving with fiscal year 2021 sales of over $96 billion…
Sharon Yeshaya has come a long way since her days as a summer intern at Morgan Stanley. The year was 2000, the dot-com bubble hadn’t yet burst, and Yeshaya’s double undergraduate degrees from Penn and Wharton set the stage for an internship in investment banking…
