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Title: CFO Company: Workday Industry: Technology

Zane’ s career has taken him from flying lessons in Cape Town to the CFO suite of a Nasdaq giant. He has held positions at Continental, United Airlines and Apple, and has been finance chief at both EMC and VMware, where he briefly took the reins as interim CEO.

Title: CFO Company: The Estée Lauder Companies Industry: Consumer Goods

Akhil’ s resumé reads like a wellthumbed passport. He spent 18 years at Procter & Gamble that took him from India to Thailand, Singapore and beyond before Estée Lauder lured him away in 2015, and these experiences have defined his success.“ You have to go to the bottom of the ocean before you can captain the boat,” he says.

36 financechief. com