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Financial Executives International – Arizona Chapter Honor Four Arizona CFO Leaders

EVENT CELEBRATES THE IMPORTANT AND VITAL ROLE THAT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS PLAY IN THE SUCCESS OF A BUSINESS.

Financial Executives International – Arizona Chapter celebrated the importance of chief financial officers and the role they play in the success of companies’ success at CFO Awards. Finalists and winners were honored Thursday, November 8, 2012 during a ceremony and dinner at Fairmont Scottsdale Princess.

Finalists were profiled in the November issue of Az Business Magazine.

Finalists were recognized for extraordinary skill and achievement across a full range of CFO responsibilities, exemplary leadership, and for contributions to the Arizona community at large. FEI-Arizona Chapter recognized the following recipients as the 2012 CFO Award winners:

  • Nonprofit of the Year – Todd LaPorte, Chief Financial Officer, Scottsdale Healthcare
  • Nonprofit of the Year – Craig McKnight, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Phoenix Children’s Hospital
  • Public Company of the Year –Ray Sadowski, Chief Financial Officer, Avnet
  • Private Company of the Year – Susan Sweeney, Chief Financial Officer, CyraCom International, Inc.

Details about the 2012 CFO of the Year finalists and winners can be found at,http://aznow.biz/events/cfo-year-awards-2012-finalists-winners

ABOUT SUSAN SWEENEY

Through Sweeney’s direction, the company more than doubled revenues to $43.7 million and increased the earnings per share by 180 percent. The company has dramatically increased from 198 employees at the end of 2007 to more than 692 at the end of 2011. During Sweeney’s tenure, CyraCom has also been listed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

ABOUT CYRACOM INTERNATIONAL, INC.

CyraCom International, Inc. provides innovation in language services with solutions for Over-the-Phone Interpretation (OPI), Translation and Localization, Video Remote Interpretation, On-Site Interpretation, and Testing and Training. CyraCom International is the 2nd largest provider of OPI in the world and the 8th largest language services company in the U.S., according to industry reports. In business since 1995, and based in Tucson, Arizona, the company provides language services to over 2,500 clients in healthcare, business and government.

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