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We are delighted to announce that our CMO, Allison Munro, has been appointed Chief Marketing & Ecosystem Officer at Vena with a mandate to drive finance-led transformation and elevate the strategic office of finance through the combined power of Vena’s product, partners and community. Business agility has never been more important for organizations than it is today with rapid change and constant uncertainty underpinning an increasingly complex business environment. In her new role, Allison, previously Vena’s CMO, will work cross-functionally to connect Vena’s partner network, services, lines of business, intellectual property and community advocacy to extend the value of the Vena platform, empower the strategic office of finance to navigate businesses through these challenges and accelerate the growth of Vena customers and partners. “Vena Partners are an indispensable part of our business as they extend our brand and platform value, and support our mission to transform how businesses Plan To Grow with their deep product and solutions expertise,” said Vena CEO Hunter Madeley. “Allison brings the passion, perspective and leadership we need to align resources and unlock the full potential of our partner channel as we build the industry's most influential ecosystem.” Working in close collaboration with leading Vena Partner organizations, including Microsoft, BDO, Finext, Fluence, Prolytics, the Kansas City Chiefs and more, Allison will orchestrate an ecosystem built on cooperative platform innovation, solution integration and go-to-market channel alignment across sales and marketing via co-selling and Vena’s digital community on plantogrow.com. “At its core, ecosystem growth is about aligning product, channels and community to accelerate growth, and over the last two years, Vena has built a thriving partner network and digital community that integrate into our product-led motion and demand programs,” said Allison. “I am excited to continue driving this growth forward with a focus on finding new and innovative ways to bring our partners, product and community together to drive interconnected and customer-centric value through our growing ecosystem.” Allison will also preside over the ongoing development of the Vena Partner Program, which will continue to invest in the growth of Vena Partners through services, training and enablement. Click here to learn more about the Vena Partner Program.

Here at Vena, we realize that adding a member to your family is a big change—to both your home and work life. The journey from parental leave to working parenthood affects everyone differently and that’s why it’s important for us to create a culture of inclusion and equitable support around parental leave. "When we were looking to revise our parental leave policy, promoting diversity and inclusion, which is reflective of our workplace culture, was top of mind,” says Monica Illiopoulos, Senior Total Rewards Manager at Vena. “We wanted to take a gender-neutral approach and factor in family diversity, realizing that all parents, whether birthing or not, should equally be entitled to paid time off. We also asked our current and exiting employees what mattered to them and made adjustments based on what they told us.” Some of this feedback was received through company surveys. Others provided feedback during exit surveys, while others offered their experiences upon return from parental leave. As a result of this direct feedback, we identified a need to improve the inclusivity for all family structures in our programming so that regardless of how a dependent comes into your life, (e.g through birth, adoption, surrogacy, etc.), all Vena parents are able to enjoy the flexibility needed in our program. Our employees also told us that more education and resources were needed to support parents upon their return to work and that more options to decide when and how they return to work would be beneficial. In order to best support new parents and to continue honoring the needs of working parents, we were driven to make enhancements to our Parental Leave Program which put inclusivity, equity and flexibility front and center in our policy. Vena’s New Parental Leave Program We’ve taken action on all the feedback we received and have made the following changes to our Parental Leave Policy at Vena: Top-Up Program: Our Top-Up Program applies to ALL parents equally, whether birthing or not, regardless of gender All parents receive 20 weeks of top-up pay at 80% of salary Alternative: 10 paid Parental Days if not participating in top-up pay The choice to opt-in for: Gradual return to work flexibility Leveraging accrued vacation days before/after leave Staying in touch on Vena updates while on leave Resources for Parents: What To Expect Guide: resources by country; details on leave planning Family Essentials Spend: monetary gift from Vena Wellness Spending Account for dependant-related expenses Headspace App for parents/dependents Access to an internal Vena Parents Slack community Regardless of how our employees are choosing to grow their families, we remain committed to supporting them in creating a career and family strategy—with paid leave, flexibility and job security—that works for them. Did you know? Vena was named one of Canada’s 2022 Top Small and Medium Employers? And last year, Vena won Comparably Awards for Best Company Culture, Best Company for Diversity, Best Company for Women, Best CEO and more. For the full list of Comparably awards Vena won in 2021, click here. Come Grow With Us Vena is hiring. We are a hybrid remote-office workplace with offices in Toronto, Canada and London, United Kingdom. Visit our newly launched Careers site for current job openings and to learn more about life at Vena.

Vena's Complete Planning platform scores “top rated” for ranking in the top tier of all three categories We're thrilled to share the news that Vena has been recognized by TrustRadius with three 2022 Top Rated Awards in the Corporate Performance Management (CPM), Budgeting and Forecasting and Financial Close categories. Based entirely on customer feedback, TrustRadius Top Rated Awards have become the industry standard for unbiased recognition of B2B technology products. Second Consecutive Win for Vena CPM TrustRadius issues Top Rated badges to products in the top tier of their categories. This is the second consecutive Top Rated win for Vena in the CPM category. In 2021, Vena also earned Best of Customer Support and Best of Feature Set for its corporate performance management. Interested to know how much verified users value Vena? Click here to read their reviews. The Most Complete Excel-Based Budgeting and Forecasting Software Vena won a Top Rated award for Budgeting and Forecasting based on excellent customer satisfaction ratings. Vena’s Complete Excel-based Budgeting and Forecasting Software can scale to thousands of users with consistent performance to meet the demand of customers—now and in the future. With its familiar Excel interface, data integrations with various source systems and endless capabilities, Vena’s budgeting and forecasting software can be counted on to cut cycle times with its intelligent budgeting and forecasting tools. Looking to share your own feedback? Please leave a review here. Finance Teams Close Faster With Vena The high rankings Vena customers gave Vena’s Financial Close Management Software for its reliability to build trust in numbers, shorten time to close and improve everyone’s confidence in the numbers teams are reporting led us to receive our third Top Rated win. “At Vena, we’re always so grateful for the positive feedback and trust our customers put in our Complete Planning platform,” said Vena CEO Hunter Madeley. “We’re always looking at feedback from our customers to guide us in better serving them. To receive top ratings from our user community in all three categories inspires us to continue growing and investing in innovation with our partners. We will always strive to be better in serving our mission to power our customers’ Plan To Grow™.” Go here to learn how the world’s biggest brands are powering their growth with Vena. About TrustRadius TrustRadius is the most trusted research and review platform for business leaders to find and select the right software for their needs. Decision-makers across industries rely on verified, peer-based guidance and research from TrustRadius. Vendors engage and convert high-intent buyers by telling their unique stories through rich reviews. Over 12 million visitors a year create and engage with high-quality review content and data on Trustradius.com. Headquartered in Austin, TX, TrustRadius was founded by successful entrepreneurs and is backed by Mayfield Fund, LiveOak Venture Partners, and Next Coast Ventures.