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The Finance
Power List

2026

The CFOs, treasurers and finance chiefs who decide where capital creates value — recognized for turning the numbers into strategy, and for showing up to share the craft of the role.

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How honorees are chosen

What earns a place

I

Strategic scope

Finance leadership that sees beyond the spreadsheet — shaping capital allocation, transformation, and where the enterprise places its bets.

II

A public voice

Leaders who show up to explain the craft of the role — capital strategy, building the function, and where finance is heading next.

III

Modernizing the function

Operators rethinking how finance runs in an AI-driven economy — FP&A, treasury, controls — while keeping the organization grounded.

The Class of 2026

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01Gina Mastantuono
Gina Mastantuono
ServiceNow
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Gina Mastantuono
President & CFO
ServiceNow President & CFO Gina Mastantuono has expanded the modern CFO mandate across strategy and operations at one of enterprise software’s defining companies — and shows up authentically to share how. A 2026 CNBC Changemaker.
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02John David Rainey
John David Rainey
Walmart
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John David Rainey
EVP & CFO
As CFO of the largest company in the United States, John David Rainey steers Walmart’s numbers with steadiness and rare candor about the consumer economy — a model for how modern finance chiefs lead in public.
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03Wassia Kamon
Wassia Kamon
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs
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Wassia Kamon
CFO
A 2025 CFO of the Year and host of ’The Diary of a CFO,’ Wassia Kamon pairs real operating credibility with a gift for teaching the craft of finance to a fast-growing audience.
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04Joy Mbanugo
Joy Mbanugo
CXAI
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Joy Mbanugo
CFO
With a background spanning law, accounting and time at Google, BlackRock and EY, Joy Mbanugo is a clear voice on AI in finance and what the modern CFO role demands.
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05Jamie Miller
Jamie Miller
PayPal
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Jamie Miller
CFO & COO
PayPal CFO & COO Jamie Miller brings deep operating range from GE and EY to one of the most scrutinized balance sheets in payments — finance rigor paired with real operational ownership.
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06Charly Kevers
Charly Kevers
Carta
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Charly Kevers
CFO
Charly Kevers helped scale Carta through its defining years and leads its finance organization with rare clarity — a textbook modern operating CFO, fluent in both capital strategy and building a business.
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07Lauren Pearl
Lauren Pearl
North Pole Security
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Lauren Pearl
CFO & Educator
A sitting startup CFO who also teaches financial modeling at NYU and writes ’The Daily CFO,’ Lauren Pearl makes the realities of early-stage finance accessible to a growing community.
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08Kelly Steckelberg
Kelly Steckelberg
Canva
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Kelly Steckelberg
CFO
Kelly Steckelberg took Zoom public and now leads finance at Canva — one of the most relevant playbooks anywhere for scaling a beloved product toward its next chapter.
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09Adam Swiecicki
Adam Swiecicki
Rippling
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Adam Swiecicki
CFO
Former Brex CFO Adam Swiecicki now leads finance at Rippling, and is a candid, operator-minded voice on building finance functions inside companies growing at extraordinary speed.
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10Aneal Vallurupalli
Aneal Vallurupalli
Drata
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Aneal Vallurupalli
CFO
Aneal Vallurupalli brings a builder’s sensibility to the CFO seat at fast-scaling Drata, framing finance as a partner to growth rather than a brake on it.
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11William Petrie
William Petrie
Ramp
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William Petrie
CFO
At Ramp, one of fintech’s fastest-growing companies, William Petrie sits at the center of the effort to make corporate finance itself smarter.
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12Charlie Wagner
Charlie Wagner
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
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Charlie Wagner
EVP, CFO & COO
Charlie Wagner helped scale Vertex from roughly $3B to $13B in revenue as CFO and COO — a portfolio manager’s mind for capital allocation in one of finance’s most demanding sectors.
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13Jamey Mock
Jamey Mock
Moderna
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Jamey Mock
CFO
Jamey Mock holds one of biotech’s highest-profile CFO seats, bringing transparency to the numbers behind a company that became a household name almost overnight.
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14Sruthi Lanka
Sruthi Lanka
Public.com
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Sruthi Lanka
CFO
Sruthi Lanka leads finance at Public.com, helping reshape how a new generation builds wealth at the meeting point of capital markets and consumer technology.
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Also in this series — the Controllers & Tax Power List

The officers who sign the numbers the enterprise runs on, and the leaders who decide how it meets the code. Nineteen names across two tracks. Read the 2026 edition →

Track IThe Controllers11 leaders
01Stephanie Lepori
Stephanie Lepori
Caesars Entertainment
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Stephanie Lepori
Chief Accounting, Human Resources & Administrative Officer
Her title tells the story: accounting, human resources and administration under one leader across fifty-plus properties. Stephanie Lepori has been with Caesars since the opening of Silver Legacy in 1995 and helped steer the company through the acquisitions that made it what it is — and she is among the most consistently present finance voices in hospitality.
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02Julie Bishop
Julie Bishop
McAfee
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Julie Bishop
Chief Accounting Officer
Julie Bishop spent eleven years climbing Yahoo’s accounting organization, then steered global reporting through its multibillion-dollar separation from Verizon. At McAfee she is running a full finance transformation, ERP and all, while the company remakes itself around consumer software. She writes her own posts and puts her team in front of the recognition — rarer at this level than it should be.
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03Johnbull Okpara
Johnbull Okpara
Bank of America
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Johnbull Okpara
Chief Accounting Officer & Head of Global Financial Controls
A member of Bank of America’s management committee, Johnbull Okpara oversees the global corporate controller, corporate tax, legal entity and regulatory reporting functions. Thirty years on from Arthur Andersen, by way of American Express, Capital One, Morgan Stanley and Citi, he leads on what he calls feed-forward: what am I going to do next time, rather than what did I do wrong last time.
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04Lindsey Oshita
Lindsey Oshita
Franklin Templeton
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Lindsey Oshita
Chief Accounting Officer
Lindsey Oshita owns global accounting, SEC reporting, ESG disclosure and SOX compliance for a team of eighty-plus at Franklin Templeton, where she has spent her entire post-Deloitte career and climbed from accounting policy to the top seat. She is a fixture on the finance conference circuit and speaks there in her own voice.
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05Danielle Bastardi
Danielle Bastardi
National Football League
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Danielle Bastardi
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Danielle Bastardi built the controllership at Harry’s, then ran the books at Madewell and J.Crew before taking the chief accounting officer seat at the most-watched sports league in America in 2024. A retail operator’s instincts, applied to football.
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06Sarrah Schoenewald
Sarrah Schoenewald
UPS
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Sarrah Schoenewald
Global Chief Accounting Officer
Six seats in eleven years at UPS: external reporting, investor relations, corporate accounting, a $54B domestic business, FP&A, and now global chief accounting officer. Sarrah Schoenewald once served as the company’s spokesperson to its investors and wrote the CEO’s annual letter — which may be why she is among the few accounting chiefs entirely at ease in public. She is now driving the largest Oracle implementation in UPS history.
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07Aditya Maheshwari
Aditya Maheshwari
Dollar Tree
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Aditya Maheshwari
Chief Accounting Officer & SVP Finance
Sixteen years at KPMG across India, the UK and Canada, then chief accounting officer seats at OpenText, Under Armour and now Dollar Tree. Aditya Maheshwari has built the function at three very different companies, and he hands the credit to his team every quarter.
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08Renee Jewell
Renee Jewell
Airbnb
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Renee Jewell
Controller
Named 2025 National Controller of the Year, Renee Jewell is putting AI to work inside Airbnb’s global controlling organization and talking openly about what it actually changes.
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09Junko Swain
Junko Swain
Workiva
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Junko Swain
SVP & Chief Accounting Officer
Junko Swain has taken two companies public and now leads accounting, tax, internal audit, procurement and sustainability controllership at Workiva. She left Japan for a career she felt she could not have there, and this spring she joined the board of Tokyo-listed Metaplanet.
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10Lauren Hotz
Lauren Hotz
Intuit
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Lauren Hotz
SVP Finance & Chief Accounting Officer
Lauren Hotz leads accounting at Intuit and is one of the clearer voices on what the chief accounting officer role is actually becoming as generative AI moves into the close.
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11AJ Harris
AJ Harris
Los Angeles Lakers
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AJ Harris
Chief Accounting Officer & VP Finance
AJ Harris audited the Lakers as a young associate at PwC. His first client became his employer, and last August he became their chief accounting officer — having already rebuilt a manual finance function into a modern one.
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Track IIThe Tax Chiefs8 leaders
01Urvi Doshi Sood
Urvi Doshi Sood
Lockheed Martin
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Urvi Doshi Sood
VP, Taxes & General Tax Counsel; Acting Treasurer
Urvi Doshi Sood runs tax and, at present, treasury at Lockheed Martin, and chairs the board of the Tax Council Policy Institute. Two decades into her time there, she is still the rare tax chief who shows up week after week to explain the work in public.
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02Stephen Dunphy
Stephen Dunphy
Ross Stores
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Stephen Dunphy
SVP Tax
Stephen Dunphy leads tax at one of American retail’s most disciplined operators and serves as international secretary of Tax Executives Institute — where a great deal of the profession’s real teaching quietly happens.
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03Joseph Bertucci
Joseph Bertucci
Digital Realty
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Joseph Bertucci
SVP, Global Head of Tax
Joseph Bertucci sits where the AI buildout meets the tax code, leading global tax for one of the world’s largest data center platforms — and he is unusually willing to think out loud about what that means.
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04Shelley Chase
Shelley Chase
Patagonia
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Shelley Chase
Global Head of Tax
Shelley Chase has led tax at Patagonia for eleven years, through the company’s transformation into an environmental trust. She describes a leadership structure far flatter than its size would suggest, and hers is a rare tax seat where the philanthropy is the whole point.
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05Gus Makris
Gus Makris
Dow
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Gus Makris
Chief Tax Officer
Gus Makris came up through Cravath, Sidley and King & Spalding, spent seven years as tax counsel at Turner, then stepped into the chief tax officer seat at Dow in 2025. He calls himself a finance executive and a legal executive in the same breath — which is increasingly what the job actually is.
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06Sandhya Edupuganty
Sandhya Edupuganty
Sabre
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Sandhya Edupuganty
VP Tax
Sandhya Edupuganty leads tax at Sabre and has served as international president of Tax Executives Institute. She helped build the DFW tax school into a genuine training ground for the people coming next.
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07Kanthi Morrissey
Kanthi Morrissey
IBM
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Kanthi Morrissey
VP & Chief Tax Officer
Kanthi Morrissey leads tax at IBM, one of the most complex tax footprints in technology, and is among the first chief tax officers to speak publicly about what AI actually does to the function.
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08Emily Whittenburg
Emily Whittenburg
Nike
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Emily Whittenburg
VP & Chief Tax Officer
Emily Whittenburg came up through Arthur Andersen, EY, Waste Management and Shell before taking the chief tax officer seat at Nike. She calls herself a player’s coach — twenty-six years a player herself — and she leads a global tax team like a team.
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The leaders who stepped into the seat this year and are already impossible to ignore — a rolling sub-class refreshed as new chiefs make their mark.

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