Features Chief Financial Officer

Rescar keeps American freight trains rolling; and Barry Anstandig keeps expenses from going off the rails. As senior vice president and chief financial officer for Rescar, he runs a lean financial engine for the privately held, Downers Grove, Illinois, company specializing in repair, maintenance and cleaning of railroad cars. That’s an essential service considering that […]

It may seem to the benefit of consumers, but the depressed price of natural gas presents issues to a multinational company’s division whose responsibilities include creating around a third of the world’s electricity from multiple sources—and is also in the midst of a realignment. So it’s a big-picture view that Chris Tyler must take to […]

It took less than two weeks on the job as Catania Oils’ new financial controller for Mike Coutu to identify the one glaring weakness in the company’s process-efficiency efforts—other than using old plastic sight tubes to gauge Catania’s massive vats of olive and vegetable oils by eye, that is. “You could tell just by looking […]

It started innocently enough as an opportunity for college student Lindsey Head to babysit in sunny Silicon Valley. The concept of hedge funds and high finance were as remote to her as molecules being harnessed for a pharmaceutical cure. But all of that was about to change. The mother of the little kids she was […]

She knows something about connecting. For as Judy F. Krandel explains, many folks find their work so all-consuming that they are hard-pressed to have a fulfilling social life, and from a holistic perspective how that’s to their detriment. But the lonely hearts can always seek her assistance, Krandel having long availed herself as a matchmaker […]

When the federal government was forced into a partial shutdown in late 2018, much of the media focus centered on the 2.1 million federal employees impacted by the impasse: park rangers, scientists, law enforcement agents, and countless more. By contrast, relatively little attention was paid to the thousands of private companies (and many millions of […]

A foreman in a solar panel manufacturing plant opens his banking app. This week’s paycheck is in there, right on time. After months of uncertainty, a single mom shuffles the day’s mail to find a desperately needed child-support payment. A laid-off flight attendant rests a little easier knowing tomorrow’s appointment with the doctor will be […]

The big test for institutions of higher education just might be how to adapt to an era of less financial support from the government and increasing operating costs. Creativity and efficiency seem the campus approach from here, and under the leadership of Dr. Morgan R. Olsen, Arizona State University just might be setting an example […]

Garth Brooks has friends in the right places, some of them at Cavender’s Boot City on Central Expressway in Plano. Seems that the king of country rock wanted to look especially sharp last year in Dallas, and the long tour had been wearing out his stage garb. Being very familiar with Cavender’s—he’d shopped at their […]

A mechanical engineer by training, who enhanced his credentials with an MBA, also from the University of New Mexico, Lou Hoffman has ample opportunity to use his diverse background as director of finance and administrative services for Albuquerque. “In engineering you learn that you can’t solve what you can’t define,” the mild-mannered, 70-year-old public administration […]