How does one become a strategic CFO? Most CFOs have developed strong financial leadership and broad financial expertise, in areas such as financial planning, reporting, process/system reengineering, audit and investor relations. How does a CFO move beyond the leadership role of a functional team into an indispensable strategic business partner to the CEO, Board and rest of the executive team?As a new series, CFEI is inviting business leaders of varying background to share their experience as a leader, business starter and/or change agent and their views of what make CFOs a strategic business partner. We hope these insights into the working of successful operations and business developments can help CFOs gain a first-hand understanding on how to support your company's key operations. For our first event of this series, we invite Dr. John Liu, Corporate Vice President of Sales and Operations for Greater China, Google to share insights about what has made him successful as the profit and loss head for Google Greater China and SK Telecom China, as well as how business-minded CFOs from Google and Singapore Telecom have made an impact to his career successes. Dr. Liu has been awarded "Ten Outstanding IT Business leaders of China" in 2006, "Mundell World Executives Reward for Achievements in China" in 2007 and "Special Award of "Top 10 Business in China" in 2009. Dr. Liu served as a board member for TTP Company, Beijing Information Industry Park Co., Uni-SK Co. and SK Mobile.