This Masterclass is part of the Global CFO Academy and is delivered in collaboration with Bayes Business School, London.
This masterclass provides CFOs with the tools to forecast internal financial demand, manage external vendors, and scale services efficiently. With spending under increasing scrutiny, CFOs must balance flexibility and control while extracting maximum value from supplier ecosystems. Learn how to model demand, negotiate strategically, and track impact effectively.
Topics include:
• Financial demand forecasting and resource planning
• Strategic sourcing, procurement, and vendor lifecycle management
• In-house vs outsource decision-making
• Performance tracking, cost control, and transparency
• Using metrics, dashboards, and benchmarking for accountability
• Driving vendor innovation, collaboration, and SLA management
This is for Global CFO Academy Delegates only, to find out more or become involved please contact Sandy Markwick (sandy.markwick@winmarkglobal.com)
SPEAKERS
Edward Guest, Senior Operating Partner, DBay Advisors | Kashish Kohli, Group Chief Financial Officer and SVP Asset Management Division, Sanad – A Mubadala Company
Achieving $B Impact on Cloud Spend with FinOps: A Palo Alto Networks Case Study
Managing spend remains the number one cloud challenge. Traditionally IT spend has run on fixed budgets but with cloud running on consumption, costs can fluctuate often as a result of over-provisioning, cloud sprawl, poor visibility, inefficient pricing models and tagging failures. The true cost is more than just financial and brings with it operational drag, encumbered strategic processes, wasted time and damaged confidence.
SPEAKERS
Zhen Cao, JAPAC Value Realization Lead, Google Cloud
This Masterclass is part of the Global CFO Academy and is delivered in collaboration with Bayes Business School, London.
This masterclass supports CFOs in operating as strategic partners to the CEO, Board and wider stakeholder group. In today’s environment, the CFO is not only responsible for financial stewardship, but for shaping strategy, driving performance and enabling long-term value creation. The session explores how to strengthen board relationships, provide clear decision-ready insight, and increase the influence and impact of the finance function. Topics include:
• CEO expectations and the CFO’s evolving strategic role
• Building trusted relationships with the Chair, NEDs and C-Suite
• Structuring impactful financial input at board level
• Communicating risk and opportunity to non-financial stakeholders
• Aligning financial strategy with enterprise priorities
Designed for CFOs seeking to deepen their influence at the centre of organisational decision-making.
This is for Global CFO Academy Delegates only, to find out more or become involved please contact Sandy Markwick (sandy.markwick@winmarkglobal.com)
SPEAKERS
Patrick Butcher, Non Executive Director, Endava | Francisco Urzua, Professor of Finance, Bayes Business School
This Masterclass is part of the Global GC Academy and is delivered in collaboration with The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London.
This masterclass explores how General Counsel can lead high-performing legal departments that operate as strategic business partners. With expanding expectations on legal leaders to shape culture, uphold governance, and drive value, GCs must redefine how the legal function is structured, resourced, and perceived. The session examines how to position the legal team for maximum enterprise impact, build strong internal credibility, and move from cost centre to value creator.
Topics include:
• The GC’s evolving strategic role
• Structuring the legal team for influence and effectiveness
• Enhancing the legal department’s credibility and visibility
• Training, development, and succession planning
• Collaborating with key business functions
• Budgeting to demonstrate value and impact
This is for Global GC Academy Delegates only, to find out more or become involved please contact Ben Palmer (ben.palmer@winmarkglobal.com)
SPEAKERS
Yoko Oshima, Head of CELA Japan, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft | Amitabh Lal Das, Chief Legal Officer, Hyundai Motor India
HR Technology Transformation: Mastering Change Management and Culture
Philip Wixon recently led the HR systems transformation at the Hong Kong Jockey Club. This constituted a 30-month programme whose outcome was the consolidation of more than twenty HR systems into a single cloud platform plus supplementary tools serving over 18,500 employees multiple business entities and locations.
SPEAKERS
Philip Wixon, Former Head of HR Transformation, The Hong Kong Jockey Club
This Masterclass is part of the Global CFO Academy and is delivered in collaboration with Bayes Business School, London.
This masterclass equips CFOs to lead digital transformation within the finance function and harness AI, data and automation to enhance performance, insight and competitive advantage. As technology reshapes operating models and decision-making, finance leaders must move beyond traditional planning and control to become architects of digital capability and innovation. The session explores how to modernise finance infrastructure, embed intelligent tools, and lead innovation in a disciplined, value-focused way. Topics include:
• The CFO’s role in digital finance strategy and innovation leadership
• Embedding AI, automation and advanced analytics within finance
• Modernising systems, data architecture and reporting capability
• Using digital tools to enhance forecasting, scenario planning and insight
• Building technology fluency within the finance team
• Governing digital investment and measuring transformation impact
This is for Global CFO Academy Delegates only, to find out more or become involved please contact Sandy Markwick (sandy.markwick@winmarkglobal.com)
SPEAKERS
Aneesh Banerjee, Associate Dean and Reader in Management, Bayes Business School | Ed Jones, Chair, Wightlink Ferries and former CFO, P&O Cruises and Cunard Line
AI & Tech: Innovation Pathways & Capital Priorities
At this Chairs & NED meeting we will examine the rapidly evolving technology and AI landscape. Clif will share what he is currently seeing across the sector, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, which Goldman Sachs views as an emerging industrial revolution. He will outline how investment flows into AI are shifting, the innovative business models gaining traction, and how these trends are shaping both private and capital markets. Clif will also provide a concise overview of Goldman Sachs’ own activities in this space, offering valuable strategic insight for Chairs and NEDs.
Navigating Growth & Trust – The CMO’s Dilemma of Expansion Through Partnerships
For many brands, partnerships have become an increasingly attractive route to growth. They offer access to new audiences, new markets and new sources of relevance at a time when traditional marketing channels are becoming more expensive and less effective. Yet every partnership comes with a question: does it strengthen the brand, or dilute it?
SPEAKERS
Emilie Despois, Chief Marketing Officer, Fine & Country
