Intel-David Zinsner (Long Post)

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[mirichann]

Intro Clip: 5:00 - 5:23

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Office Hours. I'm Miri Chan, one of your co-hosts, and today we are joined by David Zinsner. David is the Chief Financial Officer at Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, and he has served in the role of CFO throughout different companies for over 15 years. You'll probably be impressed when you hear that he started his first role as CFO at age 36! David always knew that he wanted to be a leader in the financial industry and he set attainable goals throughout his education and early career that allowed him to achieve his success. From the start of his career, David constantly thought about the traits it took to make a good CFO. By knowing exactly what to focus his energy on, he was able to hone his skill set to be a successful CFO so early in his career. One thing that David emphasizes is risk- tasking. He mentions how if he hadn't taken some of the opportunities he was offered, he may have never become CFO. By being open to expanding his skill set and accepting roles outside of his comfort zone, he was able to develop the necessary skills of a financial leader, which is exactly what you can do too. As someone in the early stages of your career, now is the perfect time to be taking risks and determining where your career aspirations lie.

David began his journey to becoming a financial leader at Carnegie Mellon University where he received his Bachelor's degree in Industrial Management. After working as an analyst at Mellon Bank for two years, he returned to school at Vanderbilt to receive his MBA in Finance & Accounting. David speaks to the value that his graduate degree holds and he emphasizes the importance of taking advantage of your school's alumni base. After graduating from Vanderbilt, David returned to his work as an Analyst but at Harris Corporation. After 3 years in this role, he shifted to work at Intersil where he served as Corporate Controller & Treasurer. Even though this is a role he never thought he would accept, David learned a new set of skills in this job that helped him hone his strategy as CFO. After almost 6 years of serving as Treasurer, David was promoted to CFO of Intersil at age 36.

David achieved his goal of becoming CFO at such a young age and from there, he was able to determine how he wanted to help companies increase their financial value. After 3 years at Intersil, David shifted to Analog Devices where he immediately stepped into the role of CFO. After 8 years at Analog, David decided to try something new. He accepted the role of Chief Operating Officer at Affirmed Networks. David constantly emphasizes the idea of staying open-minded and accepting new opportunities. His open-mindedness in this role allowed him to realize that he wanted to stick to finance and he left his role as COO at Affirmed Networks.

David quickly shifted back to his roots and stepped back into his CFO shoes at Micron Technology where he worked for four years. At this point in his career, David realized his mission as a financial leader. He wanted to show companies how to increase their shareholder and financial value. After serving in so many different CFO roles, David shared a few key takeaways with us. The most important one was to always listen and learn in the first few months at a new company. Rather than trying to establish his strategy and demonstrate his skills, David takes a six-month tour of the company to determine their strong and weak points and develop an efficient financial strategy.

David was able to implement his strong listening and team tactics when he stepped into his role as CFO of Intel in January of 2022. In this interview, David shares his experiences adjusting to different company cultures and building respect from his employees. He shares amazing advice for young professionals who are certain they want to achieve an executive role in the future and how you can set achievable goals.

A few key takeaways from our discussion with David: Write down your goals. Seek out mentors. Jump at opportunities. Remain open-minded. And stay focused.

Keep listening to hear even more insight to how David achieved success at such a young age and how you can do just the same!

[mirichann]

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After becoming a CFO at age 36, David Zinsner has quite the background to share with ambitious young professionals, like yourself. Through the power of active listening and open-mindedness, David spent much of his early career determining the skill set he would need to one day become a Chief Financial Officer. (THE SWITCH BETWEEN THESE TWO SENTENCES DOESN"T MAKE SENSE) He mentions in this interview that he actually had an entire spreadsheet laid out with his goals and the skills he would need to reach them for his future! In this interview, David shares extremely valuable advice on how students can determine what skills they should be chasing and what opportunities they should be accepting. Having over 15 years of CFO experience under his belt, David details his multitude of experiences with managing people, establishing personal goals, and achieving your biggest goals. Tune in to this interview to hear how you can capitalize on your ambition and become the executive you admire!

Interviewers: Miri Chan & Brett Hummel Videographer: Bryan Avecedo

promazo #intel #cfo #finance #semiconductors #earlycareer #ambition #openmindedness #youngcfo BETTER HASHTAGS

[jaahmuhl]

Hello hello everyone welcome back to Office Hours. A show about how to make a successful jump from college to young professional life. We know that landing your first job can often be an intimidating, complicated and stressful process, but its not impossible! (UP ENERGY) And we’re here to help by giving you access to some of the brightest minds in business to get their advice for how to build a successful career. Take what you can (short pause), pick what you like and listen for that stroke of brilliance that you can use to help you get hired.

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I'm Miri Chan, one of your co-hosts along with Brett Hummel, and today we are joined by David Zinsner. David is the Chief Financial Officer at Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer. David has had the opportunity to lead the finance teams as CFO at several organizations throughout his career. But while you might think of CFOs as someone who has quite a few years under their belt, You'll probably be surprised to hear that he actually scored his first CFO role at age 36

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David began his journey to becoming a financial leader at Carnegie Mellon University where he received his Bachelor's degree in Industrial Management. His first job out of college was as an analyst at Mellon Bank, but a he returned to school to receive his MBA in Finance & Accounting at Vanderbilt two years later. After getting his MBA, David decided to work at a company called Harris (WHICH DOES WHAT) and it was here where he was faced with his first major career decision. You see the company was splitting up into two parts, but the second part of the business, Intersil, was seen as much weaker without a good chance of surviving. David saw it differently and thought there was a lot of opportunity to turn that portion of the company around and although everyone including his own manager told him it was career suicide to go to the spin off, David made the leap. He was completely thrown into the deep end, but as a result he was also given a lot of responsibility and eventually they were able to pull the company out of its nosedive and into growing business. He credits this single decision and leap of faith in himself which put him on a rocket ship to the C-Suite and in a few years, he was promoted to become the CFO of Intersil at only 36.

By securing the role, David had achieved his ultimate goal of becoming CFO. But David made sure he was always open to new opportunities so after feeling like he had accomplished his major professional goal, he decided to strike out and try a different direction, tackling operations for Affirmed Networks. One of David's key insights in our discussion today is to always stay open-minded about new opportunities. Ironically, what his open-mindedness allowed him to realize is that he actually preferred working as a CFO and wanted to concentrate on becoming one of the top ones in the profession.

David quickly shifted back to his roots and stepped back into his CFO shoes at Micron Technology. Its here that he honed his leadership style and has a few key takeaways about it for us today. The most important one is to always listen and learn in the first few months at a new company. As a result, rather than trying to establish his strategy and demonstrate his skills, David takes a six-month tour of the company to determine their strong and weak points and develop an efficient financial strategy.

David was able to implement his strong listening and team tactics when he got the call of a lifetime: the opportunity to become CFO of Intel in January of 2022. David leapt at the opportunity because he was intrigued by the chance to help rebuild Intel and bring it back to the top of the mountain where it had always existed throughout most of its history. In this interview, David shares his experiences adjusting to different company cultures and building respect from his employees. He shares amazing advice for young professionals who are certain they want to achieve an executive role in the future and how you can set achievable goals.

A few key takeaways from our discussion with David: Write down your goals. Seek out mentors. Jump at opportunities. Remain open-minded. And stay focused.

Keep listening to hear even more insight to how David achieved success at such a young age and how you can do just the same!

[jaahmuhl]

@mirichann I think the second half of the intro can be cut down a lot. It starts to get into just his bio which I would rather unpack in the discussion. So if you can summarize his career in 4-5 sentences and then add a few of his insights from the discussion I think that would be helpful.

Also with the caption there was a sentence that didn't seem to flow with the rest of the caption and it also needs some better hashtags.

[jaahmuhl]

Hello hello everyone (EXCITED AND WITH ENERGY) welcome back to Office Hours. A show about how to make a successful jump from college to young professional life. We know that landing your first job can often be an intimidating, complicated and stressful process, but its not impossible! (UP ENERGRY) And we’re here to help by giving you acccess to some of the brightest minds in business to get their advice for how to build a successful career. Take what you can (short pause), pick what you like and listen for that stroke of brilliance that you can use to help you get hired.

I'm Miri Chan, one of your co-hosts, and today we are joined by David Zinsner. David is the Chief Financial Officer at Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, (THIS PART SEEMS AWKWARD) and he has served in the role of CFO throughout different companies for over 15 years. While you might often think of CFOs as someone who has quite a few years under their belt, You'll probably be surprised to hear that he scored his first CFO role at age 36!

[jaahmuhl]

@mirichann Ready for recording

[jaahmuhl]

@mirichann you also need an intro clip for this one too

[mirichann]

PODCAST INTRO PART 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1odRDyNkQFi-1VH7PkazlYRb6FCNHqIdH/view?usp=share_link PODCAST INTRO PART 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k0aRZiH2AW2h7se_-lztwknd8Tb_QOpL/view?usp=share_link

[jaahmuhl]

Doesn't have the podcast intro. Don't know if needed

[jaahmuhl]

Need to take the first part of this clip: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HjrMPB_NLlxcMaRJcGZyX0M4nbmA46zl/view where she says 'Hello everyone and welcome back to Office Hours' and add it to part one