The CFO: ‘You need to have a stomach of iron during times of volatility,’ says Block’s Amrita Ahuja

The payment firm’s CFO and COO on why IR teams should own up to their mistakes – and her love of baking

Many IROs hope that their time in the profession might set them up well for a C-suite position well one day. But for Amrita Ahuja, CFO and COO for payments company Block, the transition happened directly during her time as head of IR for interactive entertainment firm Activision Blizzard, where she was called upon to become finance chief of its video-game publishing wing Blizzard Entertainment in 2018.

Fast forward a few years and she now holds the dual posts of CFO and – for the past two years – COO at Block, the financial technology company founded by Jack Dorsey, who also co-founded Twitter.

Amrita Ahuja, CFO and COO for payments company Block

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