Clara Fain is the Chief Financial Officer at Via, a TransitTech software company transforming the way cities move in more than 35 countries globally. Prior to joining Via, Clara was a private equity investor at Goldman Sachs in New York where she invested across all stages and asset classes. She is an active investor and advisor to several technology start-ups and she serves as a founding and steering committee member of The F Suite, our community platform for CFOs of leading venture capital funds and high growth technology companies.

Clara holds a BS and MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris, a leading French engineering school, and lives in New York City with her husband and three kids.

With 15+ years of experience, the bulk of that has principally been in SaaS with a focus on enterprise infrastructure and dev tools. Brian has led finance, accounting, and operations for Bandwidth.com, Ansible, Anchore, Code Climate, and now Tidelift. Growing early stage startups has become Brian's passion.

Brian brings a unique, cross-functional approach to finance and accounting, as he believes it's the role's responsibility to help others do more and make better decisions. Brian does that by leading with intellectual curiosity and empathy. He also feels it's his responsibility to mentor, educate, and learn from my peers in product development, engineering, and sales and marketing, so that they can collectively build a strong business and culture. Just as much as it is his responsibility to balance the books or build a financial model.

Success requires going the extra mile to help focus the analysis or decision-making process for the team. It can't be achieved by simply signing up for a bunch of tools, building a spreadsheet, or hiring a large team.

Brian looks forward to continuing building relationships with the rest of The F Suite Community--learning from shared experiences, growing together, and building a thriving community of operational finance leaders.