AlphaSense CFO dedicates at least 10 hours per week to AI skills

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Newly appointed AlphaSense CFO Samantha Greenberg tries to dedicate at least 10 hours each week outside of her job to learning and honing artificial intelligence skills, she told CFO Dive. Greenberg took the top finance seat for the AI-powered market intelligence platform in April, according to a press release at the time.

That includes everything from doing workshops, reading research and building with the technology, and “making sure I am right on top of everything that is happening, how AI can be used for internal productivity, for business strategy, to run a truly AI-native finance organization,” she said in an interview.

A new CFO archetype

The 10-hour a week practice comes as Greenberg considers how finance leaders with decades of experience can continue to grow and hone their skills as new technologies disrupt finance and business models.

The “archetype of a CFO in the age of AI has changed so dramatically from what a [software-as-a-service] CFOs’ skills needed to be just a few years ago,” she said.

Greenberg is joining New-York based AlphaSense with 25 years of experience in the technology business, having recently served for three years as CFO for identify verification company ID.me, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her tenure there ended last month.

She founded and served as chief investment officer for Margate Capital Management, which became the third-largest female-run hedge fund before it was sold to Citadel in 2019, with Greenberg taking a role as a portfolio manager for technology, telecom and media. In that role she honed her “abiding passion” for the intersection of data science and forecasting, she said. After leaving Citadel, she served as CFO for hospitality tech firm Mint House.

As AlphaSense CFO, Greenberg aims to channel her passion for data while leading the company’s capital markets strategy and financial operations as the company continues to rapidly expand,…

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