Authors

Adrien Bro is a finance expert with over 15 years of experience in financial operations and enablement. Currently at Spendesk, he empowers sales and customer success teams with financial knowledge, while driving strategic initiatives and special projects.

Charlie Liu is the founder of Monte Carlos Consulting, a firm specializing in FP&A systems and fractional CFO services. With 15 years of deep experience in the Corporate Performance Management space, Charlie has built a reputation for helping FP&A leaders across industries and company sizes find the best tools to optimize financial planning and analysis.

Christian Wattig is an energetic FP&A leader with 12+ years of experience at multinational consumer goods companies and fast-growing tech start-ups. As an entrepreneur, he teaches FP&A skills to finance teams and business leaders via his live online course FP&A Bootcamp.

CJ Gustafson is the author of Mostly Metrics, a widely-read business newsletter with over 30,000 subscribers, where he demystifies metrics and financial concepts for professionals and enthusiasts alike. By day, he serves as the CFO of PartsTech, a cutting-edge platform revolutionizing automotive parts procurement.

With over 13 years of experience in finance and technology, Eduardo has built a career helping companies achieve high growth and navigate digital transformation. As part of the Finance team at Abacum, Eduardo is dedicated to empowering finance teams with cutting-edge tools for smarter decision-making. Prior to Abacum, he spent six years leading FP&A teams at an international bank.

Glenn Hopper, author of the Amazon best-selling book "Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Age" is a pioneering thought leader focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence and corporate finance. With over two decades of experience, Glenn has been instrumental in transforming finance operations through the integration of AI and machine learning technologies.

John is the CEO and founder of Altima, where he has spent the last fifteen years helping some of the most disruptive tech businesses hire the right CFO and pre-IPO Finance teams for their scale-up journey.

Jorge is the COO and co-founder at Abacum. Abacum’s mission is to empower finance teams to thrive through better decisions and faster execution – leveraging financial analysis, operational insights, sophisticated modeling, and intuitive collaboration to drive impact across the organization. Prior to Abacum, Jorge was a CFO and COO at some of Europe’s fastest growing startups such as Travelperk, Wallapop and Privalia.

Julie helps entrepreneurs, investors and finance teams make smarter, data-driven decisions. Her focus is on strategic planning and decision-making based on real-time facts and scenarios, ensuring businesses are prepared for both the present and the future. Whether it’s guiding financial transformations, identifying key hires, or solving immediate challenges, she thrives on creating clear paths forward.

Julio is the co-founder and CEO of Abacum, the Automated FP&A platform for leading Finance teams. He was previously the Co-Founder and CEO of Innocells, where he launched four fintech startups to market, and former investment banker at Citigroup in the US, Switzerland, and Brazil.

Finance Thought Leader with a specialization in AI, dedicated to empowering finance professionals worldwide. With a track record of training over 5,000 individuals, his mission is to impact the careers of over 1 million finance professionals through AI education. As a keynote speaker, he shares insights on the intersection of finance and technology.

Paul is a Finance Professional with 12+ years of finance and FP&A experience. He earned a bachelor's from BYU, an MBA specializing in finance, and a Master of Information Management from Arizona State University. He has worked in several industries, including the US government, travel services, finance, automotive, Cyber Security, Ecommerce, and more.

Wassia is a Finance Executive, Keynote Speaker, and Guest Contributor, who has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Accounting Today, CFO Brew, and Strategic Finance Magazine. For the past 15 years, she has worked in corporate accounting and financial planning & analysis (FP&A) across the manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, and nonprofit sectors.