Financial storytelling: What it takes to go beyond record keeping

About this webinar.

The world’s best finance leaders don’t just compile the numbers — they tell the story behind them. It’s easy to say that every finance function should strive to tell the story behind their data, but not so easy in practice. What does it actually take to go from scrambling month after month to compile data just to report on the numbers to proactively creating narratives with the data? This webinar will answer that question. We will discuss things like:

What “financial storytelling” means in a practical sense.
The importance of transparency and real-time access to financial data.
How the best finance leaders actually go about aligning with their business partners on the numbers.
Examples of situations where storytelling better serves the business as opposed to just reporting numbers in a spreadsheet.

About the speakers.

Joe Garafalo

Co-Founder & COO at Mosaic

Joe is Co-Founder and COO of Mosaic, a software startup building the first Strategic Finance Platform. He began his career in the Big 4 with KPMG and went on to hold multiple leadership positions in finance at Palantir, Axoni, and Barkbox before founding Mosaic. Outside of work, Joe enjoys traveling, learning about capital markets and cryptocurrency, and spending time with family and his dog, Coconut.

Joe Michalowski

Content Strategist at Mosaic

Joe is the Content Strategist at Mosaic, overseeing content across the company’s blog as well as its podcast, webinars, and resource library. He began his content career in agencies where he got to write for B2B tech companies across many verticals. After working for Animalz, an acclaimed content agency that does strategy and writes for companies like Notion, Amplitude, Buffer, and more, Joe moved in-house to work with Mosaic. Now, he specializes in finance-related content and hosts Mosaic’s podcast, The Role Forward.

Danny Zorotovich

CFO at Kandji

Leading the financial operations of the company, Danny serves as CFO at Kandji. He joined in November 2020 as the first Finance employee to build and lead the organization through its growth. Previously, Danny worked at Sprinklr, another B2B SaaS company as Finance Director and prior to that at Microsoft for 7 years in various FP&A roles. He began his career in audit at Deloitte, has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA, and a Masters in Accounting and BA from the Foster School at the University of Washington. He currently resides in Bellevue WA.

Aneal Vallurupalli

CFO at Airbase

Aneal Vallurupalli is the Chief Financial Officer at Airbase. His background includes early- to late-stage corporate finance, corporate development, operations, and tech M&A. Most recently, Aneal was the Vice President of Finance & Operations at Mattermost, where he still serves as an advisor. At Mattermost, Aneal grew the company’s enterprise value, with a 4x increase in revenue growth and by leading the $50M Series B. He also managed the company’s fully distributed global growth by doubling the number of countries it operates in, and growing employee count by 5x. Prior to that, he was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company’s $164M Series C round of funding from SoftBank, and was the founding member of the Corporate Development team at Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE), helping it to grow from a $800M private company to a $7B public company. His career began in technology investment banking at Union Square Advisors, completing a range of public and private M&A transactions, including buy-side, sell-side, corporate divestitures, and restructurings.