February 21st, 2025

From CPA to CFO: Ron Wangerin, CFO @ Trust & Will

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Campfire Team
February 21st, 2025
General

From CPA to CFO highlights the journeys of top tech CFOs who began their careers in accounting. These intimate, one-on-one conversations, offer insight into candid stories about career transitions, challenges, and lessons learned.

​Our inaugural episode features Ron Wangerin, Chief Financial Officer at Trust & Will, who brings over 30 years of financial leadership experience. Starting his career at Deloitte and rising to a Senior Manager principally in their aerospace and defense group, Ron transitioned to industry roles where he consistently drove exceptional growth. As CFO of Viasat (NASD: VSAT), he helped scale revenue from $180M to $1B+ and market cap from $150M to $2B+.

​His expertise spans public and private companies across technology, software, communications, medical technology, and consumer products. Ron will share his journey on how he translated his technical accounting expertise into strategic financial leadership, including thoughts on AI & automation, organizational transformation, M&A and more.

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About the host

John Glasgow is the CEO and Founder of Campfire, the modern accounting software for tech companies. Backed by YC and Foundation Capital, Campfire offers powerful, intuitive software that saves accounting and finance teams' time, improves financial visibility. Prior to Campfire, John served 15+ years as a career finance veteran, during which he led the sale of Invoice2go to Bill.com for $625 million.