Pegasystems

Hi, it's Jack.

On today's show, we speak with Ken Stilwell, CFO of Pegasystems.

We hear a lot about CFOs becoming more strategic, but what does that actually look like? Ken Stilwell offers a pretty good practical answer.

You don't become strategic simply because someone invites you into the strategy meeting.

CFO Ken Stilwell is with us.

Ken's career has taken an uncommon path, moving between finance and operating leadership before bringing those experiences together in the CFO office.

Along the way, he led business units, held several CFO roles, including at Dynatrace, and joined Pegasystems as CFO in twenty sixteen.

Today, as both CFO and COO, Ken brings a particularly broad lens to Pega's business as cloud AI and changing software economics reshape the company's next chapter.

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Today, experts from Pegasystems and AWS reveal how AI-powered tools now modernize decades-old mainframe systems in weeks instead of years, unlocking trapped data faster than ever.

Hi, everyone.

Today, as a part of this session, we'll walk you through how you could accelerate a mainframe modernization by leveraging one of the AWS services called AWS Transform, along with one of our partner products, Pega Blueprint.

And to do it in an extremely cost-effective fashion, the key is figuring out how to

This is Alan Treffler, founder of Pegasystems.

He scaled his company into a $6 billion enterprise that automates complex workflows for global giants.

And today he's revealing what AI companies won't tell you and what you need to do to implement AI sustainably.

And this all goes back to Patrick Clancy too.

So Patrick Clancy, he spends his career climbing through all of these hyper-advanced backend operations at Automation Anywhere, Software Motive, and Pegasystems.

When all of this happens with his children, he was working as a business application sales executive and global black belt specialist at Microsoft.

Now, global black belt is is the elite tier of technical sales enterprise systems deployment.

Ben transitioned to corporate and ultimately became the VP, Head of Technology and Innovation after 15 years at Intel.

Today, he is the Chief Legal Officer at Pegasystems and serves on the NYU School of Law, Innovation, Law, and Policy Advisory Board.

Ben, welcome.

Thank

So there's many GCs that were already functioning in that expanded business partner capacity, but it's just now kind of getting enshrined a little bit more.

What led you to transition out of Intel? You were there for 15 plus years, which feels forever compared to most people nowadays.

And what brought the opportunity at Pegasystems?

I just had reached sort of that point where I really was hungry for and prepared for the opportunity to contribute at the CLO level.