The Ascent Finance San Francisco Summit

As Mozilla’s Chief Financial Officer, Roxi leads the teams in charge of building the growth engine for the company through healthy finances, diverse revenues, data-driven business decisions, carbon-neutral business practices, and fueling innovation inside Mozilla and within a large network of entrepreneurs. Roxi drives the implementation of Mozilla’s strategic roadmap, enabling the business to scale and to identify and capture revenue growth and new investment opportunities. She is responsible for directing capital allocation, delivering technology-driven business services and solutions, providing analytics and performance results, as well as day-to-day management of the finance & business operations teams and their core functions. Prior to Mozilla, Roxi was Chief Financial Officer at Elo Touch Solutions. She held senior-level positions at General Electric, Medtronic, and Royal Bank of Canada and successfully led many private and public financing and M&A transactions. Roxi is a CFA charterholder, earned a Bachelor of Economics from Xiamen University, China, and an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

With over 25 years experience in general and financial management leadership roles - including 10 years in SaaS - Ed Schaffer served most recently as Hired, Inc.’s CFO, having sold the company to Adecco late last year. Prior to Hired, Mr. Schaffer held a number of senior management roles overseeing Finance, as well as, other functions including general management, at Leadspace, Rimini Street, Monster Worldwide, Intuit and oDesk. Mr. Schaffer also served in the corporate audit group for GlaxoSmithKline, and was an operations consultant at Accenture (previously Anderson Consulting), serving a wide range of companies, including global, Fortune 500 and midmarket organizations. Mr. Schaffer holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Oluwatoyin Aralepo is a first class accounting graduate. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria (ICAN), Fellow of the Institute of Information Management of Africa and an Alumni of the London School of Business and Finance (LSBF), with over 15 years’ wealth of experience across Banking, Telecoms and Fintech. Areas of expertise include finance strategy and business partnering, financial planning, analysis & reporting, audit and business assurance, financial controls and governance. She was the Head of Budget in UBA - responsible for over 400 business offices budget preparation and consolidation; Commercial Controller and Financial Controller at Airtel Nigeria where she managed portfolio of over 1bn dollar and supported cost initiatives that saved millions of dollars, and CFO of Cellulant Nigeria. She recently founded Africa Finance & Strategy Hub to support businesses especially SMEs have access to professional financial management skills, and tools that will assist them to understand, manage and scale their businesses. She wants to help businesses build financial structures to maximize their cash and profit. She is a very passionate and unassuming entrepreneurial role model to young women.

Thejo Kote is the co-founder and CEO of Airbase, the leading spend management platform for small and midsize companies. Founded in 2017, Airbase raised over $30m from Bain Capital Ventures and First Round Capital. Thejo’s first company, Automatic, was acquired by Sirius XM for over $100m.

Ben has 25 years of finance and accounting experience in the airline and software industries. From debits and credits to strategic finance, he rose from the ranks of FP&A analyst to SaaS CFO. Throughout his roles, he has improved the finance function with a focus on people, process, and technology. He shares his knowledge of SaaS finance at TheSaaSCFO.com, SaaSin60.com, and TheSaaSAcademy.com

Jason Lin serves as CFO for Centage Corporation. With over two decades of SaaS, FP&A and financial leadership experience, he manages operational efficiency and growth for this Boston-based company. With its Planning Maestro solution, Centage provides a cloud-native planning & analytics platform that delivers year-round financial intelligence. Before Jason joined Centage, he was the company’s target market, spending his entire career within corporate finance. As a self-described BizOps guy and product champion, Jason focuses on optimizing operational workflows, paving the way for growth, expanding product expertise internally, and gaining a deep understanding of how every aspect of a company works. Jason is a strong advocate for company cultures that get employees excited about coming to work, values input from everyone in the organization, and lives and breathes diversity. Before joining Centage, Jason served as ZoomInfo’s senior director of financial planning and analysis. He’s also held senior financial management roles at Monster.com, ikaSystems, and TripAdvisor. Outside of work, he enjoys playing tennis and basketball, both of which draw on different skills that can be applied in the business world. Tennis requires a high level of self-sufficiency and mental fortitude while basketball is a sport that relies on teamwork and effective communication. Balancing and embracing these two important environments by breaking down silos and promoting widespread business collaboration is the kind of challenge that Jason thrives on as he helps to scale the growth of Centage. Jason earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts and his MBA from Fitchburg State University.