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Cruise’s CFO is navigating big plans for driverless cars
“If you go out in San Francisco, on any night, we’ve received hundreds of autos that are running without any person powering the wheel,” Bill Nash, CFO of Cruise, an autonomous car or truck company, tells me. “I get rides a large amount, almost certainly at minimum every two or three months, to see how the assistance is progressing.” Cruise, bulk owned by Standard Motors, but a thoroughly unbiased company, is primarily based in San Francisco. The firm introduced in February that its fully driverless autos have traveled over 1 million miles. In November 2021, Cruise done the initially thoroughly driverless experience in San Francisco. Considering the fact that then,…
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What does it take for a CFO to become CEO?
You may have seen me in your inbox twice this morning. I had the opportunity to write today’s CEO Daily, filling in for Fortune CEO Alan Murray. The column is all about how CFOs are increasingly seeking the CEO role. You can read it here. However, the transition of a finance chief to a chief executive can have some complexities, even though CFOs and CEOs are strategic partners who work together closely, according to Jenna B. Bayard, a consultant at Spencer Stuart, a global executive search and leadership consulting firm. “CFOs have spent the majority of their careers looking at decisions based on numbers and data,” Bayard explains. “For decades,…





