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Centage CEO Paul Lynch Launches The CFO Review, a Podcast for Finance Leaders Ready to Earn Their Seat at the Table

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New interview series features candid conversations with finance executives who’ve made the leap from mid-level manager to C-suite — starting with former Rackspace CFO Karl Pichler

SAN ANTONIO, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Centage, the company behind Modern AI Driven Financial Planning software (FP&A) used by hundreds of growing businesses, today announced the launch of “The CFO Review“, a new podcast hosted by Centage CEO Paul Lynch. The show features long-form conversations with CFOs and senior finance leaders who’ve already made the jump to the C-suite — and are willing to talk honestly about what it actually took to get there.

The debut episode is now available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, featuring Karl Pichler, former CFO of Rackspace, the leader who guided the company from $80M to $2.1B in revenue, took it public in 2008, and navigated a $4.5B leveraged buyout from Apollo Capital. It’s the kind of career story most finance professionals only read about in press releases. On The CFO Review, you hear it in his own words.

Built for the Finance Professional Who’s Almost There

The CFO Review is designed for mid-level finance professionals, VPs of Finance, Controllers, FP&A Directors — who are talented, ambitious, and trying to figure out how to make the leap that separates good finance managers from great CFOs. It’s a question that doesn’t have a clean answer, which is exactly why the show exists.

“There’s a lot of content out there for people who’ve already made it,” said Paul Lynch, CEO of Centage and host of The CFO Review. “We wanted to build something for the people in the middle of the journey, who are asking the right questions and just need to hear from someone who’s been there. The conversations we’re having are candid in a way that I think is genuinely rare.”

Each episode goes beyond the resume. Guests talk about the decisions that looked wrong at the time. The roles they almost didn’t take. The skills they didn’t know they were missing. The moments that defined them as leaders and the moments they’d rather forget.

Episode 1: Karl Pichler Turned Down Lehman Brothers. Then Rackspace Called.

In the debut episode, Karl Pichler walks through a career that defies the standard CFO playbook. He didn’t set out to become CFO. He nearly didn’t get hired at all — a Gallup leadership assessment came back with a clear recommendation: do not hire. He got the job anyway, and what followed was over a decade of building one of the most interesting finance functions in tech services history.

He talks about going to work for someone who used to work for him — and why he considers it one of the best decisions of his career. About being named interim CFO with the explicit message that he was a placeholder. About how he’d targeted being appointed CFO before his 40th birthday and how he got the call four days before.

He also shares a pointed view on where the finance function is headed: most companies are still running finance like it’s 2005. Too much in-house. Too much reinventing of the same processes. The CFOs who thrive in the next decade won’t be department heads — they’ll be builders of financial infrastructure, thinking in tech stacks instead of headcount.

“Anyone can make things complex,” Pichler says in the episode. “It takes genius to make it simple.”

About The CFO Review

The CFO Review publishes bi-weekly on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Each episode is a long-form conversation between Paul Lynch and a senior finance executive — focused on the experiences, decisions, and hard-won lessons that shaped their leadership. The show is produced by Centage and designed to give aspiring finance leaders a closer look at what it actually takes to earn a seat at the strategy table.

New episodes can be found at www.centage.com or by searching “The CFO Review” on any major podcast platform.

About Centage

Centage provides modern financial planning software that helps finance teams move beyond spreadsheets and into real-time, strategic decision-making. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Centage works with hundreds of growing companies to make budgeting, forecasting, and reporting faster, more accurate, and more connected to the business. Learn more at www.centage.com.

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Bitwise and Emissary Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Cost-Efficient, Governed AI at Enterprise Scale

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Collaboration combines Emissary’s AI platform with Bitwise’s AI-First data and digital engineering expertise to help enterprises reduce AI costs by up to 30%, improve governance, and accelerate production-scale AI adoption.

CHICAGO and PUNE, India, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bitwise, an AI-First data and digital engineering enterprise, today announced a strategic partnership with Emissary, an AI platform specializing in intelligent model routing, purpose-tuned models, and AI cost optimization.

As organizations move AI initiatives from pilots to enterprise-scale deployment, many face growing challenges around performance, governance, and rising infrastructure costs. Through this partnership, Bitwise and Emissary will combine purpose-built AI capabilities with enterprise-scale engineering expertise to help organizations optimize AI economics, accelerate deployment, and govern AI more effectively.

Raman Sapra, Global Chief Executive Officer, Bitwise

” As AI adoption scales, organizations need greater control over cost, governance, and business outcomes. Together with Emissary, we are helping enterprises optimize AI economics and operationalize AI at scale. By combining purpose-built AI capabilities with our AI-First data and digital engineering expertise, we are helping clients Engineer Their AI Advantage.”

The joint solution is designed to help enterprises reduce AI infrastructure and inference costs by up to 30%, while providing greater visibility, governance, and accountability of AI investments through enterprise AIFinOps capabilities. At the core of the partnership is a shared focus on AI tokenomics: helping enterprises understand, optimize, and govern token consumption so AI costs scale in line with business value rather than usage volume alone.

The partnership is designed to help organizations move beyond AI experimentation and establish a scalable foundation for production-grade AI adoption. Joint capabilities include:

Tokenomics Optimization: Modeling, managing, and continuously improving AI unit economics as usage scales.

Intelligent Model Routing: Directing workloads to the most appropriate model to optimize performance and cost.

Purpose-Tuned and Fine-Tuned SLMs: Enabling rapid development of small task-specific AI models designed for improved efficiency and business relevance.

AIFinOps for Enterprise AI: Bringing forecasting, visibility, governance, and accountability to AI spend across the organization.

Tanmay Chopra, Chief Executive Officer, Emissary

“Not every task requires a frontier model, and paying frontier-model prices for every workload doesn’t scale. Emissary helps organizations optimize AI performance and economics through a cascaded approach of intelligent model routing, small purpose-tuned models, and disciplined tokenomics. Together with Bitwise, we can help enterprises deploy these capabilities at production scale and realize business value faster.”

The partnership is particularly relevant for organizations in financial services, insurance, retail, healthcare, and other regulated industries seeking to scale AI while maintaining cost control, governance, and operational discipline.

By combining Emissary’s AI platform with Bitwise’s AI-First data and digital engineering expertise, the companies will help enterprises move from AI experimentation to production-scale value while improving AI economics, governance, and operational efficiency, enabling them to truly Engineer Their AI Advantage.

About Bitwise

Bitwise is an AI-First engineering enterprise that helps organizations turn AI into a sustainable source of competitive advantage. Backed by 30 years of legacy in data modernization, precision engineering, and enterprise-scale delivery, Bitwise delivers a comprehensive set of AI-First capabilities, enabling organizations to move from AI experimentation to scalable, production-grade outcomes. Headquartered in Chicago with global delivery centers in Pune, India, Bitwise pairs onshore client alignment with offshore delivery efficiency to serve as a strategic growth partner to leading global organizations.

Learn more at Bitwise.

About Emissary

Emissary is an AI platform that helps enterprises replace generalist, one-size-fits-all model usage with real-time intelligent model routing, purpose-tuned models, and AIFinOps giving organizations lower AI infrastructure costs, faster inference, and stronger governance in production.

Learn more at www.withemissary.com.

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The 19th Annual Globee® Awards for Impact Invite New Product and Service Achievement Nominations Worldwide

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Recognizing measurable achievements by new products and services that create meaningful impact for customers, organizations, industries, and communities

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Globee® Awards, organizers of merit-based, data-driven business awards programs with worldwide participation that recognize achievements across industries, announced that entries are now being accepted for the 19th Annual Globee® Awards for Impact, inviting organizations worldwide to nominate new product and service achievements that have delivered measurable impact across local, regional, and global markets.

Apply now: https://globeeawards.com/impact/

The program welcomes nominations representing achievements across every industry, including technology, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, education, retail, telecommunications, transportation, government, hospitality, professional services, construction, energy, life sciences, agriculture, media, and other sectors.

Eligible nominations may include achievements related to new software platforms, cloud services, artificial intelligence solutions, cybersecurity offerings, consumer products, business services, healthcare innovations, financial solutions, manufacturing technologies, sustainability initiatives, educational tools, digital platforms, communications services, and other products and services that demonstrate measurable impact through innovation, customer adoption, operational improvement, business growth, accessibility, or societal benefit.

Organizations of all sizes are invited to participate, including startups, small and medium businesses, large enterprises, public and private companies, government organizations, educational institutions, research organizations, and non-profit organizations worldwide.

The Globee® Awards for Impact recognize achievements across category groups including products and services, company and organization, individual and team, and brand, communications, and creative, reflecting the many ways organizations create measurable impact through innovation and execution.

Nominations are welcomed for local, regional, and global achievements, recognizing that impactful products and services can originate anywhere and create meaningful value regardless of an organization’s size or geographic reach.

Entries are evaluated through a merit-based, data-driven process involving participation from experienced professionals across multiple industries worldwide. Evaluations are conducted through a structured, consistent, and transparent framework based on defined scoring criteria.

Entries are open to organizations and professionals worldwide.

About the Globee® Awards

The Globee® Awards are organizers of merit-based, data-driven business awards programs with worldwide participation. Through 10 awards programs, the Globee® Awards recognize achievements across multiple industries and sectors. The programs use a structured evaluation approach involving participation from professionals across various industries.

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Harvey Unveils SNIPER: The World’s First Intelligent Drill Press

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New Intelligent Drill Press uses advanced computer vision, robotic motion control, and the Proactive Safety Protection System to eliminate the alignment, accuracy, and safety problems that have defined drill press work for generations.

LOS ANGELES, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Harvey Woodworking, a leading manufacturer of precision woodworking machinery, today launched SNIPER, the industry’s first Intelligent Drill Press — combining advanced computer vision, dual-axis robotic positioning, and the Proactive Safety Protection System in one integrated platform.

SNIPER is engineered to solve the three problems that have plagued drill press users for generations: cumbersome bit alignment, inaccurate positioning, and operator safety. Where every drill press built in the last century has been passive — relying on the operator to measure, mark, align, and correct by hand — SNIPER actively partners with the woodworker, recognizing the intended drilling point and automatically positioning the spindle over the target.

“Woodworkers shouldn’t have to spend their best hours fighting the machine for accuracy,” said Jack Xu, Founder of Harvey. “A single misaligned hole can ruin a $2,000 walnut tabletop. With SNIPER, we set out to make the machine serve the craft — not interrupt it.”

Three breakthrough technologies in one machine

Sniper Vision™ Targeting System identifies the user’s intended drilling point in real time, replacing the manual cycle of measuring, marking, and test-drilling that consumes most drill press setup time.

Robotic Dual-Axis Servo Motion Platform automatically positions the spindle on the X and Y axes with repeatable accuracy — delivering consistent results across cabinet hardware, shelf pins, dowel joinery, and custom furniture runs.

Proactive Safety Protection System uses vision-based monitoring to watch the danger zone around the spindle. When a hand is detected in the unsafe region, the system pauses operation or triggers a hardware-level safety stop.

Together, these systems form what Harvey calls an Embodied Intelligence approach — capability built into the motion of the tool itself.

Pricing and availability

SNIPER is built for professional woodworkers, custom furniture shops, cabinet makers, and advanced hobbyists. Now on sale for $6,790.00 at harveywoodworking.com/products/sniper-sd-20-intelligent-drill-press and through authorized dealers.

ABOUT HARVEY

Harvey builds high-performance woodworking machinery for serious craftsmen, custom furniture makers, and modern workshops, with a focus on precision, innovation, and user-centered engineering. Learn more at www.harveywoodworking.com.

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