LiveRamp & The Future Of Finance With Lauren Dillard
About Lauren Dillard
Lauren Dillard, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at LiveRamp, discussed her leadership philosophy and career experience in an April 2025 interview. She stated that she values teams where members believe they are only successful if the business is successful, and she compared this to her basketball days, saying the best teams had a low ego and focused on whether the team won or lost. Dillard also described a "dinner test" she uses in interviews, which she attributed to a former boss, to determine if candidates are people she would want to have dinner with after working long hours. She noted that when she stepped into the CFO role, she joined a team with long tenures, including a controller with 25 years and a head of internal audit with 40 years of experience. Dillard said that her prior experience in a marketing role, where she had to put herself in the mind of customers, was "invaluable" and has shaped how finance influences go-to-market motions, customer retention, and sales compensation. She described a lot of what she picked up in that marketing and communications role as "quite transferable" to her current work. In earlier appearances, while at Nasdaq, Dillard described global information services as about 30 percent of Nasdaq's revenue footprint, with a "North Star" of providing data, analytics, and transparency to the investment management community. She also said that the company was seeing "hyper-heightened digitalization" and had moved up plans to provide alternative platforms for quick access to data.