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About setting up subsidiaries

In this new series, Airbase CFO, Aneal Vallurupalli, hosts fellow finance, accounting, and operations professionals to discuss the issues that impact him in his role as CFO. Aneal will invite experts who can help him — and you – learn about some of the strategic decisions your finance team faces now or may encounter in the future. Together, you’ll learn what you need to know to have a greater, more positive impact on your company’s future.
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About this webinar

Join me for this 45-minute conversion on whether, why, and how to set up and efficiently manage company subsidiaries. I’m Airbase CFO, Aneal Vallurupalli, and I’ll be joined by two of my amazing ex-colleagues from Mattermost. Tim Quock is VP Finance, who began his career at PwC, where he consulted with some of the largest privately held companies on their global operations. Jamie Hurewitz is Corporate Counsel with 15 years’ experience advising companies on a broad array of legal issues.   

My focus will be on the reasons and the factors that drive the establishment of new legal entities, and what is involved in setting them up. We’ll delve into the accounting and operational implications of having multi-subsidiaries, and how to find the right systems to simplify the ongoing accounting and operational challenges that they generate. I’ll ask about the rise of remote teams and their impact on international subsidiaries, and how to consider the additional burden of currency risk they entail. 

Going national and even global is no longer the purview of large enterprise companies. Even small to mid-market companies confront the challenges of complex legal and accounting structures as we expand our footprint domestically and internationally. Come with your questions and we’ll figure this out together. 

About the speakers.

Tim Quock

Tim Quock

VP Finance at Mattermost

Tim Quock is VP of Finance at Mattermost, Inc. Prior to joining Mattermost, Tim led finance and accounting organizations at Fastly (NYSE:FSLY), a leader in edge cloud computing, and Anki, an AI Robotics company. He began his career at PwC where he consulted for some of the largest privately held companies. He brings a wealth of experience supporting business leaders in their global operations, from hyper-growth startups to the Fortune 100. Tim is an alum of Santa Clara University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Jamie Hurewitz

Jamie Hurewitz

Corporate Counsel at Mattermost

Jamie Hurewitz is a legal executive with 15+ years of in-house legal experience advising companies, large and small, in various industries, such as banking, medical device, and DevOps, on commercial licensing, intellectual property, employment issues, corporate matters, and compliance. Most recently, she has been advising early-stage technology companies and building out the legal and compliance infrastructures for growth-stage startups. Jamie is responsible for supporting all of the legal needs of the fully distributed organization, which is headquartered out of San Jose.

Jamie earned a joint J.D./M.B.A. from Hamline University School of Law and the University of St. Thomas.

Aneal Vallurupalli

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.

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