#191 Catherine Portman - Treasurer at Palo Alto Networks

In today’s episode, I have Catherine Portman with me. Catherine is the former Treasurer at Uber and now Treasurer at Palo Alto Networks. She shares the career changes she has made, the challenges she has faced and the struggles they have had over the last 18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode we discuss:

• Catherine shares her current job at Palo Alto Networks
• Her career highlights over the last 18 months.
• The challenges they went through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• How the challenges will change the way they operate moving forward.
• Handling networking during the pandemic.
• Struggles they have found around Treasury that are hard to do remotely.
• Navigating around conferences remotely.
• Their parameters around hiring remotely.
• What makes a successful treasurer.