Avoiding the Business “Vibecession”

Maintaining Financial Strength and Certainty with Proactive Spend Management

  • How can negative external sentiment overcome sound business fundamentals in financial decision-making?
  • Why is restructuring how organizations spend money just as important as how much, in maintaining effective spend control?
  • What can financial leaders do to better control employee spend?
  • How a combination of technology and effective processes and policies can work together to improve efficiencies and reduce waste

Adriana Carpenter
Chief Financial Officer
Emburse Inc.

As Chief Financial Officer of Emburse, Adriana is responsible for financial strategy, accounting, treasury, payroll, and financial reporting, planning and analysis.

Adriana has 30 years of finance and accounting experience. Prior to joining Emburse, Adriana was the SVP Finance and Chief Accounting Officer at Ping Identity where she managed through several significant transitions, including preparing and operating Ping as a public company. Prior to joining Ping in 2013, Adriana was the Global Controller at TeleTech where she managed multinational accounting and shared service operations.

Adriana also spent 12 years in the assurance practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), where she served large multinational clients in technology, information and communications, aerospace and defense, as well as high-growth technology startups. She has significant experience in M&A transactions, debt offerings and fraud investigations.

Adriana received her BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University and MMAS in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is a certified public accountant licensed in Colorado and Texas.