Join Jennifer for a discussion around the pivotal shift in the role of finance right now, from budgeting and forecasting to analytics and data to managing across the org from CEO to the board…plus the latest on for sports front…and more!
• Share a little about yourself and your background, your path to the Warriors, and your path to CFO.
• Reflect a little on our journey the last year through COVID. The NBA bubble was a novel approach league wide. Were there strategic decisions that were delayed at the team level? Accelerated? Changed?
• How did your financial scenario planning evolve in the last year? The CFO of the Montreal Canadiens put it this way in a session last year: when you can’t plan for the end state, since the end is constantly changing, how do you model?
• What factors drive the Warrior's financial decision framework, not just capital spend for strategic investments but operationally? What are the critical factors in software platforms to manage operational expenses?
• What have you learned about leadership, not just as CFO, but as an executive guiding a sports team through a period of significant change?
• What investments have the greatest impact on fan (a.k.a. “customer”) satisfaction and loyalty?
• We’re quickly moving beyond just data. What are the critical privacy/security issues you are managing (general, not specific)? What are the operational/financial risks of increasing cybersecurity attacks, ransomware events?
• What are you most excited about in terms of the future of your sport and sports generally with regards to technology? What are you most concerned about?