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David Goulden, CFO at Booking Holdings

Join us for this conversation between David Goulden, CFO at the world’s leading provider of online travel and related services Booking Holdings — which includes Booking.com, Priceline, OpenTable, Kayak, and others — and Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

David has operated in multiple international roles, both directly and indirectly involved in finance. His path to CFO is not the typical story of CPA/accountant or investment banker that we normally see. Having acted as CEO at EMC Information Infrastructure after working in sales, engineering, and product development within the EMC Corporation, as well as COO for the Americas and Asia Pacific at Getronics N.V. earlier in his career, David has multinational, and multidisciplinary insights to draw from. He shares lessons from his broad and extensive career, and brings a worldly set of perspectives and knowledge to this discussion with the Airbase community.

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Why attend?

  • Get career perspectives from top CFOs.
  • Get perspectives on how the role of CFO is changing.
  • Get ideas on how to build your career and up-level your skills.

Who should attend?

  • Always-learning CFOs and aspiring ones.
  • Controllers, FP&A, and accountants.
  • Finance professionals.

About the speakers.

David Goulden

David Goulden

CFO at Booking Holdings

David Goulden joined Booking Holdings in February 2018 after leaving Dell Technologies, where he had served as President of the company since 2016. Until 2016, David spent two years as CEO of EMC Information Infrastructure. It was alongside the acquisition of EMC Corporation by Dell that he made the move. David had acted within EMC Corporation since 2006, as both COO and CFO in between the years of 2006 to 2014. Having started out in worldwide Sales and Customer Operations at EMC, David became increasingly involved in the financial and operational mechanisms throughout his career there. Previously, David served various capacities at Getronics N.V., an information technology services company, which included COO for the Americas and Asia Pacific, as well as on the board of directors at VMWare, a cloud infrastructure and business mobility company.

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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