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Tony Tripeny\u2019s remarkable career at Corning can be defined by some impressive numbers: 33 years of service in every aspect of corporate finance at the 167-year-old company whose cutting-edge materials reside in nearly every cell phone and flat screen among so many other products. Yet, the veteran EVP and CFO prefers to describe the keys to successful corporate finance leadership with qualitative measures such as time, location and communications. Tripeny continually exhorts his group to deploy automation and related tools to free up more time to devote to analysis and other strategic contributions \u2013especially those that they provide from a seat at the decision-making table. \xa0He also emphasizes that it is vital for incoming finance chiefs to be as prepared as possible to manage the \u201cpublic aspect of the CFO\u201d role. \u201cIt\u2019s just different,\u201d he asserts, \u201cwhen you\u2019re the person being asked the questions, going to the conferences, or speaking for half the time on the conference calls.\u201d