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Amy
Alost
CFO
Providence Speciality Group
Amy Alost is a CFO and strategic finance leader with more than 25 years of experience driving growth, restructurings, and operational improvement across private equity-backed companies, family offices, and businesses in the manufacturing, distribution, construction, technology, and professional services sectors. A CPA and MBA with a Big 5 accounting foundation, Amy brings deep expertise in financial planning and analysis, capital strategy, working capital optimization, systems implementation, M&A support, and building scalable finance functions that enable sustainable growth. Throughout her career, she has partnered closely with boards, owners, investors, and executive teams to improve performance, strengthen financial discipline, and create long-term value. Her areas of expertise include FP&A and KPI dashboard development, cost accounting, capital structure management and lender relations, cash flow and working capital optimization, M&A diligence and integration, ERP and digital transformation initiatives, board and investor reporting, risk management, controls and compliance, and finance team leadership and development. Amy is known for combining strategic insight with operational execution to help organizations navigate change, improve profitability, and achieve their growth objectives.
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24 June 2026 11:10 - 11:55
Panel - The CFO as enterprise value architect: Orchestrating capital, risk, and investor confidence
The modern CFO is no longer just reporting performance to investors. They are actively shaping how the company is valued, how risk is priced, and how capital is deployed across the business. This panel focuses on how CFOs translate strategy into a credible value story across equity holders, lenders, rating agencies, and boards, while balancing growth investment with resilience. The discussion will get into capital allocation trade-offs, how macro risk and geopolitical exposure are being priced into strategy, and how CFOs maintain investor confidence during periods of transformation, M&A, or volatility. Expect a candid look at where value is created or quietly destroyed long before it shows up in reported numbers. Key takeaways: - Balancing growth investment vs capital preservation in uncertain markets - Aligning internal strategy with external investor expectations and market signals - Where capital strategy fails when risk is treated as a compliance exercise