1187: Pattern Recognition: How CFOs See Around Corners | Alex Chun, CFO, NEOGOV

About this episode

Alex Chun discusses his journey to becoming CFO of NEOGOV and the impact of his investor mindset on finance leadership.

Alex Chun already knew the management team at NEOGOV long before he became its CFO. As an investor at Warburg Pincus, he spent more than four years “in the trenches” with NEOGOV’s leadership team, flying to Los Angeles to work through operational challenges alongside them, Chun tells us. His path to finance leadership did not begin in accounting or FP&A. Instead, Chun spent nearly a decade evaluating companies at Morgan Stanley, General Atlantic, and Warburg Pincus, developing what he calls “pattern recognition” by analyzing “dozens, if not hundreds” of businesses, Chun tells us. That investor mindset now shapes how he leads finance. After joining NEOGOV in 2021, Chun focused on transforming finance into the company’s “centralized insights engine,” bringing quantitative discipline beyond the finance department and into sales, customer operations, and product decision-making, Chun tells us. He contrasts the polished presentations of boardrooms with the reality of operations, where even changing the pricing of a product can require “90 steps” across multiple teams, Chun tells us. Today, Chun is equally focused on AI’s impact across the business. At NEOGOV, teams are using AI to…

People in this episode

Guest: Alex Chun

Topics covered

• CFO leadership
• finance transformation
• AI in business
• pattern recognition
• operational challenges

Keywords

• CFO
• finance
• AI
• pattern recognition
• NEOGOV
• operational challenges
• Warburg Pincus

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NEOGOV, Warburg Pincus, Morgan Stanley, General Atlantic

Places: Los Angeles

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