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Inside look at how CFOs are recruited

Join Airbase CEO Thejo Kote for a panel discussion with executive recruiters Rhoda Longhenry, the Global Head of True’s Financial Offers Practice, and Jen Holmstrom, the Head of Talent at GGV Capital. Rhoda and Jen will share their best practices and advice for financial professionals looking to grow their careers to become a CFO. Learn how to set yourself apart from the pack in the eyes of an executive recruiter and how to connect with recruiters both in house and investors.

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Why attend?

  • Learn how to get your first CFO role
  • Get tips on how to position yourself to executive recruiters
  • How to work with in-house and VC recruiters
  • Learn about the executive recruiting process

Who should attend?

  • Finance professionals
  • Startup founders looking to hire their first CFO
  • Aspiring CFOs
  • First-time CFOs

About the speakers.

Rhoda Longhenry

Rhoda Longhenry

Partner and Co-Founder of the Financial Officers Practice at True Search

With over two decades of experience, Rhoda Longhenry co-founded True’s Financial Officers Practice. She specializes in supporting high-growth tech companies of all stages across several industries including enterprise, consumer, fintech, and healthtech. Clients include Anthropic, Rippling, Notion, Zapier, Abnormal Security, Watershed, StubHub, Quince, Ruggable, Ripple, Hinge Health, among others.

She joined True from Heidrick & Struggles where she was the partner in charge of the San Francisco office and was a member of the Financial Officers Practice, Global Technology Services Practice and Private Equity and Venture Practice. Prior to her career in executive search, Rhoda was head of investor relations at DoveBid and an equity research analyst at Montgomery Securities and at Merrill Lynch.

Rhoda holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a mother of two son, Storm and daughter, Breeze.

Jennifer Holmstrom

Jennifer Holmstrom

Head of Talent at GGV Capital

Jen Holmstrom joined GGV in 2016 and leads the firm’s talent and recruiting efforts. To support founders as their companies scale, she created Founders+Leaders, a leadership development platform that provides training, mentorship, global network and more.

Prior to joining GGV, Jen was a Talent Partner at Highland Capital Partners and a leader on the executive search team at Facebook. Jen’s career has been focused on team building in fast growing companies. Before Facebook, Jen was a Director at San Francisco-based Riviera Partners, an executive search firm focused on recruiting engineering and product leadership for fast growing venture-backed technology companies, and also worked with SPMB, a technology focused talent search firm. Jen received an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. from Boston College.

Thejo Kote

Thejo Kote

CEO and Founder at Airbase

A seasoned entrepreneur, Thejo is the Founder and CEO of Airbase, the cloud-based spend management platform for growing companies. Prior to Airbase, Thejo co-founded Automatic which was acquired by SiriusXM in 2017.

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