@LarkinStreet

Ending youth homelessness by opening doors to housing, education, and employment as youth shape what’s next.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined November 2009
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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 22
Scaling a smart ring toward IPO (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Scaling a smart ring toward IPO

When Sean Brecker joined Oura as chief financial officer in October 2023, the smart ring maker had last been valued at $2.55 billion. Two funding rounds later, it is worth $11 billion, and Brecker’s...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 23
Adopting AI while protecting systems (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Adopting AI while protecting systems

“AI and frontier models such as Mythos have dramatically shifted the speed and severity of cyberattacks in favor of attackers,” said Anup Singh, CFO of Illumio. “The question is not whether companies...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 15
Coaching a team to go all in (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Coaching a team to go all in

"For a CFO or financially oriented person, you can drive outsized value in a smaller organization,” said Chris Ogden, senior vice president and CFO of CytomX Therapeutics.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 15
From a team of 6 to IPO in 1 year (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

From a team of 6 to IPO in 1 year

After a career that included Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, Nitin Agrawal was sure of one thing: no cloud business could scale without a bulletproof balance sheet. But when he met...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 16
Focusing on what really matters to drive growth (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Focusing on what really matters to drive growth

Howard Wilson describes himself as an accidental CFO. “I started out as a software engineer, and I have this interesting path to get here,” he said. “I didn’t stay in my lane.”

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 19
Charting a course for growth (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Charting a course for growth

“It was a dream job to be able to come back to Pebble Beach and do what I’m doing now,” said Matthews, who joined Pebble Beach Resorts as director of finance in June 2014. He became CFO in 2017 at...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 20
Building the capital structure behind 40 acquisitions (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Building the capital structure behind 40 acquisitions

“To me, the best finance teams aren’t a back-office function,” said Philip Mortimer, CFO of Heffernan Group. “They’re trusted business partners that help shape the future of the organization.”

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 21
Turning smartphones into collateral (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Turning smartphones into collateral

Bill Yialamas is CFO of PayJoy, a public benefit corporation that lends to people with no credit file, using their smartphones as collateral.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 12
Leading a SaaS pivot to scale (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Leading a SaaS pivot to scale

Kiran Choudary, CFO of the Palo Alto cybersecurity and AI operations company Rubrik, steered the firm in its pivot from a hardware appliance-based license software business to a SaaS subscription...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 14
Building a beauty powerhouse (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Building a beauty powerhouse

By March 2019, e.l.f. Beauty Inc. had grown to $268 million in annual net sales. Then Mandy Fields took the financial helm as CFO, and e.l.f.’s next-phase transformation kicked into high gear. The...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 13
The story behind the spreadsheet (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

The story behind the spreadsheet

Ashley Johnson thought she would pursue a career in foreign service. But a nudge from an ambassador she met as a student turned her toward business, first in investment banking, then private equity.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 9
Turning users into shareholders at the IPO price (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Turning users into shareholders at the IPO price

In March 2021, Reddit hired Drew Vollero as its first CFO. The move came a month after a more than $250 million funding round doubled the San Francisco company’s valuation to $6 billion. The plan was...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 2
Engineering a career of transformation and impact (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Engineering a career of transformation and impact

As the leader of Cisco System’s global finance organization, Herren was at the helm of a significant shift in the company from its hardware roots toward more software and recurring revenue.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 6
Navigating a company’s cultural shift (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Navigating a company’s cultural shift

When Aidan Viggiano stepped into the CFO role at customer engagement platform Twilio, her immediate task was to navigate the impact of a major culture change from “a ‘growth at all costs’ mentality...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 5
Turning uncertainty into options (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Turning uncertainty into options

In addition to her work at Airbnb, Mertz serves on the boards of DoorDash and Netflix. She also is focused on advocating for people across the organization to test and learn how AI can transform the...

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesOct 1
Celebrating 20 years of leaders in our corner (Sponsored by @LarkinStreet) bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Celebrating 20 years of leaders in our corner

Twenty years, one ballroom and so many futures quietly changed for the better — that’s what the Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards have meant to us at Larkin Street.

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San Francisco Business Times@SFBusinessTimesAug 3
Cuts to medical care, nutrition programs and arts grants are forcing organizations to rely more heavily on individual donors. Some family foundations are closing. bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco…

Bay Area nonprofits face 'perfect storm' of federal funding cuts

Bay Area nonprofits lose federal funding after H.R. 1, forcing program cuts and layoffs across healthcare, arts and youth services organizations.

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TNDC@TNDCJul 29
We cut the red ribbon ✂️🎀 at 730 Stanyan! 🏡🎉 Together with @chinatowncdc, we’re proud to announce the grand opening of 160 new affordable home in the Haight. Lean more at ow.ly/rAr150ZuvXm #AffordableHousing #TAY #GrandOpening
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SF Dept. of Homelessness & Supportive Housing@SF_HSHJul 28
This is amazing, congrats grads!
Larkin Street Youth Services@LarkinStreetJul 28
This summer at Larkin Street Academy: 🎓 45 grads (incl. 3 valedictorians!) 🎨 5 artists showcased at "Blooming in Time" 💼 80% of Youth Force grads landed jobs Next up: PAN 2026: Golden Revolution on Aug 21 @ The A.C.T. Strand Theater. Join us! 🎭 hubs.la/Q04qYF3X0
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SF Dept. of Homelessness & Supportive Housing@SF_HSHJul 27
Thanks again to all who volunteered to support our Homelessness Response System!
Larkin Street Youth Services@LarkinStreetJul 25
The glow-up our ECC deserved. 🎨 Thanks again to everyone who helped make it happen. #OneCityDay
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