Chief Financial Officer
Prior to InsideWork, Geoff Finch was Vice President & CFO of Lockheed Martin Finance Corp. where he provided various finance solutions for Lockheed Martin's customers worldwide. He directed budgets, forecasts, financial reporting, and renegotiated a $150 million structured credit facility while at LMFC. He also served as VP of Finance for VentureStar, which was Lockheed Martin's $5 billion new business venture for a next generation space transportation system. Previously, he was Vice President of Business Development at Lockheed Martin Finance Corp where he managed a team of 9 professionals and an annual deal flow of $18 billion.
He began his corporate career at Lockheed after serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Coast Guard. He has extensive international business travel in Asia, Latin America, Europe & Middle East. He is fluent in Spanish, has knowledge of Portuguese, and some Thai.
InsideWork’s Geoff Finch is headed for some presentations to the finance ministers of a couple of countries that only a few years ago were dedicated socialist regimes. His underlying message to them was going to be that a free market/private enterprise system is a better model than a centrally planned and publicly operated economy. Now he’s not so sure he should cite the shining example of the US-style private markets to support his thesis. So what does he present as a good working model?
Geoff Finch responds to images and sound bites from a special service called “A Hybrid Hope” at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan on December 7, 2008 with his own mix of compassion, confusion and guarded hope for the future of auto workers in the U.S.
This comes under the heading of no baby boomer should talk to his teenager about social security.
I have one teenage son still living at home. We were having an after dinner chat last night about politics and “the system.” My rant was that none of the current batch of politicians is even talking about Social [...]
Former Morgan Stanley chief, Phillip Purcell, identifies five lessons bankers must relearn in the 21st Century [the supremacy of profits over revenues, compensation based on sustained results; leverage cuts both ways; diversification; risk management as a business culture]. Geoff Finch describes two more…
Geoff Finch, InsideWork’s financial expert, returns from doing business in Rwanda. What he experienced there is nothing short of hope for the emergence of a new African economy.
InsideWork’s Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton’s, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.
A Story of Economic Discovery
David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith’s great work by a similar name down to the present day.
Learning on the Job
Geoff Finch recalls hard lessons on how to treat people.
What is a person’s responsibility to provide for his family? Is church work a higher calling than, say education or finance or plumbing? Geoff Finch wrestles with these questions and a whole lot more.
The miracle we celebrate on Easter is the judgement after human judgement; the overturned verdict that transforms an earthshaking perversion of justice into the greatest good this world has ever seen.
