![]() ![]() Suddenly when I became CFO, my role became much broader. Before that, I had only worked on the accounting and controllership side of finance. Peggy: What I've realized is creating the best team and then enabling that team to be successful by making sure everyone understands jointly what we're trying to get done, and giving credit for what each person brings to the table, is important – because everyone wants to feel like their specific contribution is being recognized.Īn example of this is when I had the opportunity to be the CFO of. When you faced big challenges in your career, what are some successful strategies you employed to overcome them? Some of these very demanding experiences helped develop the skills that have allowed me to take on this opportunity and serve PayPal in a way that has allowed me to advance. From there, I pivoted from that perse academic experience into an environment where I was in investment banking and I served as a generalist, predominantly focusing on the industrials space, but I was also forced to get smart quickly in a lot of different areas. That required the ability to be both resilient as well as agile. Gabrielle: The experiences that helped me develop skills to be able to pivot rapidly, and play a different role in different contexts, started with some of my academic work when I pursued a law degree and an MBA at the same time. We'd failed three times in the process, and I learned so much from that. I had one role where I was asked to lead the largest SAP software implementation in aerospace at the time. Ones where there hadn't been success before, because it forces you to operate and think differently. So, for me, it's been about getting perse experiences that you bring together to understand how to grow a company, and how to serve customers in a scaled way.Īrchie: The best experiences were probably the ones where I perceived, or the company perceived, the greatest risk. I co-ran human resources for a while, which helped me understand how employees drive customer experiences and growth. Truly understanding the drivers of growth, metrics for success, and financials is a great basis to have.įrom there I went into general management-type roles, working very closely with customers in a sales function and with our employees, which was helpful. I have found that a strong financial background is valuable regardless of where one eventually works in a company. If you look at my background, it looks more like a lattice than a ladder. Peggy: I've focused my career on this idea of continuous learning – always trying to broaden and deepen my understanding of business by getting lots of different types of experiences to bring together and drive growth within a company. Looking back on your career, what experiences or learnings do you think most helped you excel? ![]() The answers below have been edited for length. ![]() We hope their insights and advice help everyone seeking to advance their career. Pictured from left to right: Peggy Alford, Archie Deskus, and Gabrielle Rabinovitch.Īs a part of PayPal’s Women’s History Month celebration, we sat down with the three leaders who serve on PayPal’s Leadership Team – Peggy Alford, EVP of Global Sales and Merchant Services Archie Deskus, EVP and Chief Information Officer and Gabrielle Rabinovitch, SVP and acting Chief Financial Officer – to learn about their career journeys, the experiences and challenges that they encountered and learned from, and the advice that most helped them in their careers. ![]()
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