Liquid: How CFOs Outperform

About Liquid: How CFOs Outperform

Today’s finance leaders are up against a major challenge: liquidity gridlock. They’ve got the skills and know-how to solve big problems, but disconnected, confusing systems keep their financial data siloed. What’s the impact? Weak data interpretation, poor future planning, and subpar risk control. And frankly, they deserve better. Welcome to Liquid: How CFOs Outperform, the podcast where top CFOs share their biggest and boldest approaches to transforming corporate liquidity and shaping business strategy straight from the Office of the CFO. This isn’t your typical finance show. Whether you’re a CFO, Treasurer, or any finance leader who has a stake in how your organization manages, plans, or optimizes liquidity, it’s time to break out of the mold to meet the moment and outperform the competition. Join Tom Gavaghan as he talks with visionary finance leaders to uncover the biggest and boldest strategies they’re currently using to grow their organizations and avoid liquidity gridlock. Powered by the team at Kyriba.

Publisher

Kyriba

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Aug 2024

Latest episode

15 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 26 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Adapt to Win: How Lean Portfolio Management Unlocks Organizational Agility

   Host Tom interviews Evan Campbell, author and veteran technology leader, as they reveal how lean portfolio management helps CFOs overcome strategic initiative failure by allocating capital and capacity effectively.

2. 

   10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Cash Void: When Growing Sales Puts a Company at Risk

   Host Tom interviews Cruz Gamboa, founder of Ascend Growth Ventures and ScalingCFO.io, about how growing sales can create a "cash void" and the CFO's evolving role in systems leadership and communication.

3. 

   6 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Build vs. Buy in the Age of AI: BlackLine's Patrick Villanova on Valuations, Risk, and Trust

   Host Tom interviews BlackLine CFO Patrick Villanova about navigating AI adoption, balancing build vs. buy decisions, and maintaining financial fundamentals in a changing market.

Inside a recent episode

Adapt to Win: How Lean Portfolio Management Unlocks Organizational Agility

Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] One of the smartest things you can do in portfolio management is break down these large boluses of work, decompose them to the extent possible into measurable quarterly outcomes. The other thing you can do is when you've got the capacity for two major initiatives and you've got five fairly attractive candidates in your intake process, break them all down into 10 pieces, and then reanalyze the value of all of those component parts and then put them back in your stack rank, interleaving the highest value components of all five initiatives. These initiatives and projects have a very high decay rate of the most valuable features or components to the least valuable. […]

Who has been a guest on Liquid: How CFOs Outperform

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Evan Campbell
• Cruz Gamboa
• Patrick Villanova
• Kartik Kaushik
• Natalie Derse

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

28

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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