Events

Being a Good Strategic Finance Partner: A Journey CxO Member-Led Event

Equity Compensation: A Journey CxO Member-Led Event

Journey CxO | Nik Dehejia, CEO of the Oakland Zoo (and Adi's brother)

Member Led Event: Discussion on M&A (strategy, process etc.)

Fireside Chat with Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP Product Marketing @ Meta

Journey CxO IRL Happy Hour

Fireside Chat: Carla Newmeyer Cooper, CFO @ Contentful

ESG: An Increasingly Important Topic for Companies At All Stages

Taking 'Calculated' Risks in Your Career: A Chat with Scott Bond, Country Manager for Property Finder in the UAE

Journey CxO: Seekers Session #2

Journey CxO: Seekers

Why Become a Fractional CFO with Journey CxO Member Sam Blum

Journey CxO Member-Led Event: How to Negotiation Your Compensation Package

Journey CxO: June Fractional Cohort Discussion

Journey CxO & Orrick: Cybersecurity and Why It Should Matter to You

A Chat with Curt Bailey, CEO of Bloodworks Northwest

Fireside Chat with Arlyn Davich, Serial Entrepreneur

May Cohort Group: Mid-Year Job & Career Trajectory Performance Review

Member Led Event: Financial Modeling for Start-Ups

Fireside Chat with Mike Baker, Lawyer specializing in stock options, RSUs, profit sharing plans etc.

The Reality of the COO Role: Benjamin Friedman and Chris Bruno

Fireside Chat with Alisa Cohn, Top Start-Up Coach

Market Volatility: Implications for Fundraising, Valuations, and Burn Rates (Discussion with Adi)

Fireside Chat with Serge Kassardjian on E-Commerce and Web3

Finance I Cohort Group: Topic - Managing Upwards

Journey CxO Cohort Group: Topic - Managing Upwards

Journey CxO: April Fractional Exec Cohort Meeting

Fireside Chat with Pascal Schaary on Scaling Companies and Improving Operations

Fireside Chat with Matt Sigelman, founder and Chairman of Burning Glass

Journey CxO | Lisa Maki, Entrepreneur & Life Sciences Executive @ MSFT

Journey CxO: Fireside Chat with WA State Senator T'wina Nobles

Fireside Chat with Jamie Hodari, CEO of Industrious Office

Journey CxO: March Fractional Exec Cohort Meeting

Journey CxO & Effective Presentations (March Topic)

George Allen had a conflict come up. We've rescheduled for Friday March 11, 2022. Look forward to seeing everyone there.

Fireside Chat with George Allen, Investor and Chairman Lowell Farms

Journey CxO: Virtual Happy Hour

Hi...Chris and Adi are hosting a "drop-in" virtual event for us to each connect with the group and chat about anything and everything on our minds. Bring a drink (wine, cocktail, beer, seltzer, tea or coffee) and hangout.....let's connect!

DISC: Understanding Yourself and Others

Fireside Chat with Bob Hinton, Managing Partner of Moss Adams

Fireside Chat with Todd McGee, Healthcare Services Entrepreneur and Executive

Journey CXO Monthly Cohort Meeting

Journey CxO: February Fractional Exec Cohort Meeting

Journey CxO: February Cohort Discussion 

Fireside Chat with Mike Weissman, CEO of SoundCloud

Fireside Chat with Luann Abrams, Founder of CEOX

Building a Hiring Strategy and Conducting Great Interviews with Suzanne Salzberg

A Journey CxO Member-Led Event: The Power of Networking

Journey CxO: January 2022 Fractional Exec Cohort Meeting

Journey CxO January 2022 Cohort Group: Goal Setting

Fireside Chat with Molly Graham,  Company Builder with extensive experience Scaling Start-Ups

Journey CRO: Roundtable #2

Fireside Chat with Maria Telleria, CTO @ Canvas, building robots for construction

Journey CxO Seattle Happy Hour

Mini MBA Class #5: Raising Capital

Georgie Nightingall, Founder of Trigger Conversations 

Design Your Life Winter Cohort

Chad Cohen, CFO of Adaptive Biotechnologies | long-time public company CFO

Journey CRO: Roundtable #1

Christine Uri, Chief Legal & Sustainability Officer at ENGIE Impact

Russell Benaroya, Co-Founder at Stride Accounting Services 

Samer is a two-time founder and active member of the NYC tech scene. He is currently CEO of 

 (Healthcare @ Home), father, angel investor, and advisor. See below for the tentative discussion topics in my chat with him. 

Of course, we welcome any questions from our members. If you have anything you'd like to hear about (personally or anonymously), send them over to Julie before 10am on Friday. 

Intro: 10 min (including Samer's career path)

Fireside Chat with Samer Hamadeh, Founder / CEO of Zeel and active angel investor in NYC tech scene.

Faced with the challenge on "how to find the right job for me" and "what is this company and its workplace really like", 

 to solve this problem faced by millions of other job seekers.

, led the Muse through YC and multiple rounds of VC funding as well as the evolution of its product over time.

Alex C. with be interviewed by her former colleague and close friend of Journey CxO, 

 (also an accomplished founder in her own right.)

Alexandra Cavoulacos, Founder of The Muse, author and expert in scaling product and operations.

We will focus on the leadership journey in Finance, HR, and as the CEO.  The panel will consists of the co-founders of 

, the platform that offers a new way to scale Executive Teams. 

, collaborated on a recently published  book called 

Start-Up CxO: A Field Guide to Scaling Your Company's Critical Functions and Team

Joining Matt will be two of his co-founders, the Bolster CFO, 

  and the Bolster Chief People Officer, 

The Start-Up Leadership Journey in Finance, HR and as the CEO

, the high growth start up using UV-C light devices with IoT to make all our spaces (where we work, learn, play and rest) safe from all types of infection.

Hear the origin story of how the challenges faced by his daughter and her school at the onset of COVID, motivated an experienced VC (Ben) to leave his role as founding partner of Tenaya Capital to make R-Zero his next full-time endeavor. 

R-Zero has a huge opportunity to revolutionize how we manage infection risk. Ben has now definitely seen "both sides of the table" as an operator (in the weeds) and an investor (dealing with the big strategic issues).

Fireside Chat with Ben Boyer of R-Zero

Evan Fein, CFO & COO of TextNow

Join us for an intimate 7-week workshop, led by 

, where we will work together as a group to walk through the application of design thinking to the most "wicked" problem - your life. Together we'll explore the appropriate balance of work, play, love and health for this next season of your life.

The cohort group class meets weekly every Tuesday from 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET beginning on September 28, 2021 and running through November 16, 2021.

Designing Your Life: An Interactive Cohort Workshop

 (HR Leader) will lead a panel discussion on the increased challenges remote work is creating for finance and HR leaders. Withum team members 

 will share their perspective from working with many firm clients on new issues that have arisen at a result of employees relocating to many different locations and working fully or mostly remotely.

The Many Challenges Created by "Remote Work" for Finance and HR Leaders

Fireside Chats are back after a brief summer hiatus.

, a business that helps expose the "hidden job market" for senior roles to leaders looking for a new challenge.

We will open the last 15 minutes to the group. If you have any specific questions you'd like to dive into, please send them to Adi.