When asked when he knew that he wanted to become a chief financial officer, Sean Mulloy tells us that he knew from the time he first became \u201csiloed\u201d within an organization. At the time, Mulloy was a project manager with the financial services company Discover, where his lines of sight seldom extended beyond his immediate projects.
\u201cI knew that I wanted to have a bigger impact. I knew that I wanted to tackle operational efficiencies and execute fund-raising and capital structure, but I was stuck sitting in a silo,\u201d explains Mulloy, who subsequently left his confines at Discover to join a consulting firm that specialized in turnarounds and structuring outcomes for distressed companies.
Says Mulloy: \u201cThis was essentially serving as the interim CFO for distressed companies.\xa0I was no longer just doing FP&A\u2014I became responsible for banking relationships, audits, operations, and HR.\u201d
No longer fenced in, Mulloy says, he acquired a taste for making an impact and a hunger that eventually would lead him to the CFO office at Level Ex, Inc.\xa0\u2013Jack Sweeney
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