717: Minding Your Workflows | Nathan Winters, CFO, Zebra Technologies

Published: July 14, 2021, 11 a.m.

Looking back, Nathan Winters says that his appointment as CFO of GE Healthcare\u2019s global supply chain was in every way a milestone in his career\u2014a high-calorie leadership stint that would ultimately propel him into the CFO office at Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), a publicly traded provider of digital workflow and tracking solutions.

Says Winters: \u201cIt gave me the responsibility for delivering productivity, improving working capital, and thinking about how we transform the supply chain to really create value for the company.\u201d

It also charged Winters with leading a global team spanning more than 50 manufacturing sites.

\u201cI had to quickly learn how to lead differently, drive change, and deliver results,\u201d he explains.

After 17 years with GE, Winters joined Zebra in 2018 \xa0as vice president of corporate development and business operations.

\u201cThis was just a great opportunity for me to leverage my operational background in a technology company but move outside my comfort zone,\u201d comments Winters, who adds that his first few years at Zebra also opened the door to new experiences.

\u201cI was exposed to investor relations, board communications, and the debt equity markets in ways in which I had not been exposed before,\u201d he comments.

\u201cThis was really the missing piece that helped to allow me to step into the CFO role earlier this year,\u201d says Winters, closing the loop on his GE-to-CFO journey.\xa0\u2013Jack Sweeney


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