Moving from Business Partner to Value Partner: The Next Evolution of Finance

Brad Floering serves as Vice President of Finance at Snowflake. For the past four and a half years, he has been responsible for building and managing the Financial Planning & Analysis team at Snowflake. Brad also has over ten years of experience as an investment banker advising internet companies with raising capital and mergers and acquisitions. Brad holds a business of bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

Gwen Shaneyfelt is responsible for accounting policy, financial reporting, corporate accounting, corporate taxation, transfer pricing, and financial operations (accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll) for Franklin Resources and its subsidiaries globally. Mrs. Shaneyfelt has devoted her career to the financial services industry and has spent more than 25 years in the investment management industry. From 2006 through 2011, she served as chairman of the ICI Tax and Advisor/Distributor Tax committees. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Mrs. Shaneyfelt was Executive Director of Tax at Morgan Stanley Investment Management where she was responsible for all corporate and fund tax matters for the Investment Management Division. In addition to Morgan Stanley, Mrs. Shaneyfelt's investment services career includes senior tax positions at Van Kampen Investments and KPMG Peat Marwick where she was Senior Tax Manager. Mrs. Shaneyfelt holds a BS in Accountancy from Northern Illinois University. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.

Robynne Sisco is co-president at Workday, and oversees the company's finance, global procurement, and internal audit organizations. Previously, Robynne served as Workday chief financial officer (CFO). Robynne joined Workday in 2012 as chief accounting officer, bringing more than 30 years of corporate finance and accounting experience to the role. Prior to joining Workday, Robynne was chief accounting officer and corporate controller at VMware, where she was responsible for accounting operations, real estate, and facilities. Before VMware, Robynne served as senior vice president and chief accounting officer at VeriSign and assistant controller at Oracle. She also held senior finance roles at Visa, General Electric, and Ford. Robynne has served on the board of directors for Unity Technologies since 2017.