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Jennifer is the Chief Financial Officer of Devo, a cloud native logging and security analytics SAAS platform. She is responsible for contributing to the profitable growth of the company. This includes supporting ARR growth, managing margin and opex, assessing financial risks, and strategically allocating resources. As a business partner to the CEO, Jennifer manages a team of 17 across FP&A, Accounting, Procurement, Tax, Treasury, IT and Strategy.
Previously, she was a Chief Financial Officer and Head of Operations at Knewton and before that a Interim Managing Director at McGraw-Hill. Earlier in her career she worked with Penguin Group as VP of Global Strategy & Finance.
She graduated from Duke University – The Fuqua School of Business woth MBA and Georgetown University with an undergraduate degree in Finance.
Excellent leader and mentor, extrovert with an infectious energy that engages across all departments, drives strategic focus for optimal company performance, commands focus not only from her team but from senior leadership and the board of directors, financial analysis, investor relations, a trusted leader, transparent, sets clear expectations, decisive, manages change smoothly, recognition and rewards her team to which inspires commitment and excellent work product
Jennifer is extremely on point with her contributions to opportunities. As a member of the sales organization of our company, she always has fantastic and articulate negotiation ideas when we are working with customers. She also takes the time to help out at the ground level when needed. She’s made personal phone calls to customers to help them through the buying process when I was unavailable which is above and beyond in her role.
It is a pleasure working with Jennifer. She is a strong leader for the company. She is very knowledgeable about the industry as well as forecasting/budgeting. She values each employee in the company and encourages career growth. She is a great mentor for people on her team as well as throughout the entire company.
Jennifer is always ready to roll her sleeves up and work in all facets of the company. As a member of our sales team, she has worked with me in the field to learn more about our role and challenges so she can better understand our product and mission. She is a great leader!
Jen has personally taken me out to lunch twice to discuss any questions I have about the business and our financial strategy. She’s candid and helpful, and she’s also great at describing finance topics to employees in other areas of the company, such as engineering.
Absolute excellence in financial matters. Great eye for potential operations problems and taking a leadership role in solving them. Also a great cultural contributor, fostering transparency, alignment, and mentorship, and supporting womens roles in the company.
Jen is a great communicator and a strong female role model for those of us women who work at Knewton. In a technology industry which is dominated by male leadership, it’s important as a female to have female leadership of such high quality.
Jennifer has a friendly and engaging personality, she is extremely intelligent and able to analyze problems and make quick decisions. She is fair and generous, while also always putting what is in the best interest of the company first.
Jen is a strong leader that holds herself to the same standards as to to which she holds her colleagues. Her constant vigilance for new opportunities to strengthen her team’s skillset and experiences is incredibly admirable.
Ability to see the bigger picture and needs of the company. Leading the effort to gain investors and avenues of continued growth opportunities. Spending time with all levels of our company to understand challenges.
She knows how successfully lead and manage the finances of a venture-backed startup with over 100’s of millions of dollars in investment, spend in all the right places, and build a loyal and effective team.
Super engaged with employee base, has helped our company achieve financial goals and targets, has garnered funding for company, and had been extremely transparent and available throughout.
Jen is smart, focused and dynamic. I’ve worked with her closely in the field with customers (she listens and synthesizes information quickly, responds sincerely and does great follow up)..
Very passionate and dedicated to company cause Good negotiator but fair and reasonable in win-win transactions, persuasive and good presence Impressive speaker, thinker, and strategist
Jen will take her CFO hat off and step right in wherever and whenever she can! She is involved and contributes areas outside of her scope and does so with enthusiasm and humility!
Jennifer as CFO has done a great job making sure we’re spending responsibly. She also fought to bring us 401k matching, which is really important for me and a lot of my coworkers.
Detailed knowledge of financial matters, extensive experience in publishing and now technology industry which Jennifer leverages to work on the company’s business goals.
Jenn is in touch with all teams at Knewton and her commitment to providing resources and growing a supportive and collaborative environment are clear.
Extremely capable of clearly laying out the “story” that the financials tell to help rally the company around business successes or failures
Jennifer is smart, knowledgeable and very talented. She is a tremendous listener and has a comprehensive of the business and the industry.
As previously mentioned, Jennifer is exceptional and plays a very instrumental role at Knewton, well beyond her capabilities as CFO. A+
Jennifer is extremely evidence oriented — all of the information she provides are based on solid numbers and well-grounded research.
Keeps our finances balanced, pragmatic, energetic, talks to the non-senior management employees outside of the finance team
Very good on the strategic side of the business and identifying key risks for the business. Solution oriented.
Jennifer gets things done. She is highly motivated, highly driven and smart.