
Beyond Boundaries: Virgin Atlantic’s Four-Decade Flight With Oliver Byers
CFO Oliver Byers shares how aviation giant Virgin Airlines approaches financial strategy, a partnership with Delta and navigating Covid-19.

CFO Oliver Byers shares how aviation giant Virgin Airlines approaches financial strategy, a partnership with Delta and navigating Covid-19.

“We need the right chemistry and diversity in teams to determine what will help the client grow their business the best and to have those teams work in a way that will ignite ideas,” says the ad agency’s global CFO.

As a CFO, you may have focused on risk management and cost control; as a CEO, you’ll have to balance those priorities with the demand for innovation and growth.

“We find that almost everybody wants to do the right thing when it comes to minimizing their impact on the environment,” says Francesco Malagisi, CFO of Waste Harmonics and Keter Environmental Services.

Private equity firms’ priorities have undergone a sea change. Here are the course adjustments portfolio company CFOs need to make.

“It is often easier for a business experiencing stagnant growth to cut costs and drive profitability,” says Steve Isom, CFO of Bloomerang.