Informatica CFO Earl Fry is compelled to be an active participant in the organization’s technology decisions. He says all finance officers should take an interest in IT, even if it’s not under their direct purview. In the past, IT was seen as a backward-looking necessary cost to keep systems running, he says. “The CFO can’t be solely focused on finance — there has to be a balanced perspective,” Fry says. In addition to IT, he leads finance, accounting, HR, facilities, legal, and investor relations.”]