Director of Finance, Gelati Celesti

An ice cream company in Richmond, Virginia.

In January the most technical thing I'd done was build an Excel model. Six months later, my two-person team runs daily sales pipelines, a rolling cash-flow forecast, and an agent that reads payroll PDFs and posts the journal entries.

Now we're building our own ERP — I design the system, Claude writes the code.

Speaking · June 11, 2026 · AI Ready RVA

AI in the Finance Seat

How a finance leader with no coding background builds real infrastructure — the workflows, what they replaced, and what broke along the way.

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