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Leaders to Watch: The Finance Power List (2026)

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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.

Published · The 2026 Edition · The living series →
The 2026 Edition

Finance leadership is usually done quietly, behind the numbers. These fourteen leaders do far more than steward the balance sheet — they decide where capital creates value, where it’s at risk, and how the enterprise grows and competes in an AI-driven economy.

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

Hover or tap any leader to flip their card and read the citation. This roll call grows through the year as the class takes shape.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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