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Featured Practitioners

Every person featured on CVL brings invaluable insight for the FinOps community, for what they know, how they think, and what they've built.

Being featured by CVL means something because the conversation is real, the relationship is personal, and the story belongs to the practitioner. These are the people who've stepped into the spotlight.

Eli Mansoor

Karate practitioner 10+ years in cloud Founder of OskaQ Co-author of Mastering AWS Cost Optimization

Founder of OskaQ, an independent Cloud Procurement and FinOps-as-a-Service practice. On the day-zero shift in who buys FinOps, why structural waste outweighs surface cleanup, procurement as the next FinOps skill, and why senior practitioners need to be the polyvalent unicorns of cloud, finance, and contracts.

Over ten years in cloud. Former country manager for CloudHealth in Israel, then four years at AWS Israel. Now operates OskaQ. Co-author of Mastering AWS Cost Optimization with Yair Green, a reference still circulating among practitioners almost a decade after publication.

Geraud Gonzalez

Partner, Cybersecurity Practice at EY France Former CISO Europe at XPO Logistics Nearly 20 years in cybersecurity Advises French mid-market and enterprises

Partner leading the Cybersecurity Practice at EY France. On what cybersecurity's ten-year head start reveals for FinOps: visibility before tools, vendor literacy, the compliance trap, and culture as the multiplier no platform can replace.

Nearly twenty years across audit, consulting, and in-house security leadership. Former CISO for Europe at XPO Logistics. Currently advises mid-market and large enterprises across France from EY.

Sasi Kanumuri

Indoor cyclist on Zwift Author of Scaling Cloud FinOps AWS trainer to 500+ students Head of FinOps at Supabase

Head of FinOps at Supabase. On treating cost spikes as incidents, the Six-Factor Formula that breaks the optimisation re-leak cycle, the #piggy-bank Slack channel as cultural engine, and why patience is the trait nobody lists on the FinOps job description.

FinOps practitioner since 2019 at Uber, before the discipline had a name. Founding engineer for cloud economics at Slack. Built FinOps functions at Lacework (acquired by Fortinet), HealthEquity, and AWS as a Cloud Financial Management Specialist. Author of Scaling Cloud FinOps.

Naval Kush

Royal Enfield long-distance rider DGR fundraiser for men's health Pune FinOps Community co-founder Cloud Governance Manager at Amdocs

Cloud Governance Manager at Amdocs. On governance as guardrails not gates, why cost avoidance beats optimisation before the cloud account exists, where AI still needs humans for the math, and why he builds the platform he can trust.

Fourteen years in the industry, the last six at Amdocs across cloud governance, cost and security compliance, FinOps, presales, and community building. Cofounded the Pune FinOps Community ahead of the FinOps Foundation's India chapter.

Rohit Mishra

Indian-railway train-spotter Football fan FinOps X 2026 speaker Head of Cloud FinOps at Avaloq

Head of Cloud FinOps at Avaloq, the Swiss banking software platform. On making FinOps boring as the goal of maturity, shift up before shift left, why pull requests beat dashboards, and the contract stage as the lever the console cannot match.

FinOps practitioner since 2020. Began as a Unix admin in 2009, moved into AWS workload cost analysis in 2015. FinOps in Action podcast guest. Active voice in India's FinOps practitioner community.

Rense Siegmund

Ultra-trail runner PE teacher turned trainer FinOps Academy co-founder FinOps enablement specialist

Co-founder of FinOps Academy. On teaching organizations to run their own FinOps, why early data discipline prevents late-stage collapse, and the parallels between ultra-trail running and FinOps practice.

Co-founded FinOps Academy in the Netherlands. Former PE teacher and corporate trainer. Ultra-distance trail runner (100km+ Alpine races).

Anderson Oliveira

Multi-instrumentalist A cappella arranger FinOps speaker FOCUS contributor

FinOps practitioner and FOCUS contributor. On why 95% of FinOps problems start at the top, budget as the real adoption instrument, and the unit economics frontier.

FinOps Foundation speaker. FOCUS contributor. Active across European FinOps and AI Economics communities.

Dieter Matzion

Cave explorer Lava tube rappeller FinOps Ambassador FinOps since 2013

FinOps Ambassador and long-time Roku practitioner. On scope expansion, executive mandates, AI ROI, and why the memory gap is the real gap.

FinOps practitioner since 2013. Google, Netflix, Intuit, Roku. FinOps Foundation Ambassador.

Rick Triana

Wilderness First Aid Dog trainer Podcast guest Knowledge sharing 400+ scuba dives

Cloud FinOps Manager and FinOps Certified Instructor. On influence without authority, redefining the win, and why AI is heading for your cloud bill.

FinOps Certified Professional. AWS, Accenture, RGA, IHG. Active FinOps Foundation community member.

Hayley Kozak

Immigrated from China Bungee jumper & skydiver DFW FinOps meetup founder FinOps community builder

FinOps practitioner and community builder. On building the DFW FinOps meetup from nothing and how showing up became a career engine.

6+ years across enterprise, hyperscaler, and consulting. AWS OPTICS team, Spot by NetApp, 3M Healthcare, Experian.

Anne-Gaëlle Roux

GreenOps advocate Cloud CoE operator European FinOps community 20+ years in IT

FinOps and GreenOps practitioner. On the Saving Plan paradox, CSP carbon data conflicts, and why the ecological frame opens doors cost reduction cannot.

20+ years in IT infrastructure. Cloud Centre of Excellence operator. Active in European FinOps and GreenOps communities.

Ben de Mora

Electric guitar collector Blues musician Oracle data centre background Unit economics advocate

Strategic FinOps consultant. On why cost without context is meaningless, unit economics over time, and vendors stuck in the housekeeping space.

FinOps practitioner since 2019. Oracle data centre engineering background.

Larry Advey

"Fred FinOps" persona FinOps TAC member FOCUS maintainer Community mentor Practitioner since 2012

Director of Cloud Platform and FinOps at CloudZero. On architecture over cleanup, specialisation over boiling the ocean, and trust as the AI bottleneck.

FinOps Foundation Technical Advisory Council member. FOCUS maintainer. Cost allocation at Marathon Petroleum since 2012.

Erik Norman

Large-scale cloud architect Airline industry FinOps Data-driven designer M&A modernisation specialist

Cloud Architect and FinOps Consultant. On data-driven architecture, the POS case study that cut usage 98.4%, and why bespoke building-block libraries beat universal ones.

Large-scale cloud architect. M&A modernisation specialist. FinOps consulting for European commercial airlines.

Jason Kelly

Culture translator $700M cloud spend managed FinOps Certified Trainer Pre-certification veteran

FinOps Certified Trainer and enterprise practitioner. On the vocabulary gap between finance and engineering, why dashboards don't fix culture, and FinOps fading into how work gets done.

Managed ~$700M annual cloud spend across multi-cloud environments. Pre-certification-era FinOps veteran.

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