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Tom
Fencl
CFO
Quantilope
Tom Fencl is Chief Financial Officer at quantilope, recognized as the #1 Market Research Technology globally in the 2024 and 2025 GRIT Reports, a role he has held since January 2024. He leads financial strategy for the company's AI-native platform disrupting the $30 billion consumer insights industry, having steered quantilope to EBITDA profitability while sustaining 30% YoY growth and raising $25 million in debt and equity financing. Previously, Tom was CFO at CHEQ Inc., leading a strategic review and financing round through its sale to Cantaloupe (NYSE: CTLP), and spent over four years as CFO at Price f(x), where he scaled the finance team to 30+, raised nearly €100 million across three funding rounds, led an acquisition, and built the company's data analytics function. He also serves as a Board Member at PromethistAI and has lectured on M&A, private equity, and venture capital at Charles University in Prague since 2015.
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17 November 2026 11:15 - 12:00
Panel - AI can build the forecast. You still own it.
AI is doing more of the modeling behind a forecast, but the authority and responsibility for what goes to the board doesn't move with it. This panel gets into what it actually means to hold that line: how CFOs are making sure models are trained on data they'd actually defend, what a real audit trail looks like so a forecast isn't a black box, and what happens when a number misses and "the model said so" isn't an acceptable answer. Key takeaways: - Why authority over the forecast stays with the CFO regardless of how much of the modeling AI handles. - What "properly trained" actually means in practice, and how CFOs are vetting the data before it ever reaches the model. - How CFOs are building a genuine audit trail into AI-generated forecasts, so the logic is inspectable, not a black box, when the board asks questions.