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In this episode of CFO Weekly, Jill Howe, Chief Financial Officer at Lineage Cell Therapeutics, joins Megan Weis to explore how finance leaders can modernize their organizations through technology while keeping people, flexibility, and fit-for-purpose thinking at the center of every decision drawing from more than two decades of building finance infrastructure in the San Diego biotech sector.
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