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The executives and staffers profiled on Possible\u2019s web site are described by the non-profit integrated healthcare provider as \u201cpossibilists\u201d \u2013 \u201cpeople with the perspective to embrace extraordinary challenge and the grit to get remarkable results anyway.\u201d The term suits Possible CFO Pavan Makhija, a former investment banker who possesses dual undergraduate degrees in math and religion, a master\u2019s in financial engineering from Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, and a passion for social issues. The former Lehman Brothers and Barclays controller is also an avid story-teller. Here, he narrates his anything-is-possible career trajectory while sharing how the Lehman bankruptcy \u2013 and his use the firm\u2019s balance sheet as a powerful narrative device at an arduous time \u2013 educated him on his CFO path. Makhija also describes the challenge of applying all of his financial engineering and management skills to guiding a mission-driven organization that provides affordable (and often free) high-quality healthcare in the U.S. and Nepal.