S1 E2: Your Mission Matters Most

Shari Freedman

Chief Financial Officer

Shari Freedman is the Chief Financial Officer of Room to Read, an organization that believes World Change Starts with Educated Children.

Shari’s leadership has transformed Room to Read’s global finance, accounting, legal and internal audit systems, deploying best-in-class approaches that have streamlined processes, increased internal efficiencies and delivered rigorous reporting and compliance standards.

Through her work, Shari has positioned the finance, accounting, legal and internal audit teams as strategic partners throughout Room to Read, improving organization-wide decision-making and risk mitigation.

Heather Peterson

Vice President, Customer Success Management at Emburse

Heather leads the customer success and training teams, partnering with customers throughout their journey to strategize on how best achieve their goals.

She joined the Emburse team in 2019 with 14 years of experience of working closely with customers in the travel and expense markets.

Grant Johnson

Chief Marketing Officer

As chief marketing officer, Grant leads global marketing for Emburse, overseeing marketing strategies, programs, and tactics designed to increase market leadership, generate demand, and enhance customer advocacy.

Grant has a storied history working in senior marketing roles for some of the best-known brands in technology, including FileNet/IBM, Symantec, and Toshiba. Before joining Emburse, Grant was CMO of cybersecurity company Cylance (acquired by BlackBerry). Prior to that, he was the CMO of Kofax and CMO of Pegasystems.

About Emburse

Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, finance professionals, and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most.

Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted expense and AP automation solutions, including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia, and Tallie. The company’s innovative offerings, which are uniquely tailored for specific industries, company sizes, and geographies, are trusted by more than 4.5 million users in more than 120 countries.

Over 14,000 customers, from start-ups to global enterprises, including Boot Barn, Grant Thornton, Telefónica, Lufthansa Systems, and Toyota rely on Emburse to make faster, smarter decisions, empower business travelers to recapture lost nights and weekends spent doing tedious expense management, and help make users’ lives—and their businesses—better.

For more information on Emburse, visit emburse.com, call 877-EMBURSE, or follow the organization’s social channels at @emburse.