HPE's CFO: Making Agentic AI Work in Finance

Making agentic AI work in finance involves addressing a core challenge: finance relies on precision and control, while AI depends on probability and constant adaptation. At HPE, the CFO's office has advanced AI from purely advisory dashboards to actively handling real financial tasks, such as accounts payable, credit, and collections.

In CXOTalk Episode 914, Marie Myers, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, explains how her team established the governance, trust frameworks, and talent development necessary to make this shift successful.

Myers led the development of Alfred, HPE's internal agentic AI platform, and oversaw the reskilling of 3,000 finance employees to build and operate AI agents. Her experience offers a practitioner's perspective on what it takes to move from AI experimentation to AI execution within a global finance organization.

What we will cover:

Where agentic AI can act independently in finance operations, and where human oversight must remain
How to establish trust in AI-generated financial outputs when models produce probabilistic rather than deterministic results
What accountability looks like when a system, not a person, performs the work
How to allocate capital to AI when technology evolves faster than the investment cycle
Whether industry AI demand reflects real economic value or circular financing among major players
How to develop the next generation of finance leaders when AI handles the analysis that junior staff once performed

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EPISODE PARTICIPANTS

Marie Myers joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in January 2024. She is a strategic and visionary CFO known for making financial decisions that fuel innovation and performance. Marie most recently served as CFO of HP Inc. since 2021, where she led the company’s Finance organization and was responsible for all aspects of financial operations. Marie previously served as CFO at robotic process automation company UiPath and was HP’s finance lead for the 2015 separation of Hewlett-Packard Company, which resulted in the creation of HPE.

Michael Krigsman is a globally recognized analyst, strategic advisor, and industry commentator known for his deep business transformation, innovation, and leadership expertise. He has presented at industry events worldwide and written extensively on the reasons for IT failures. His work has been referenced in the media over 1,000 times and in more than 50 books and journal articles; his commentary on technology trends and business strategy reaches a global audience.