REACH - A Podcast for Executive Assistants

Life as an Executive Assistant in a Publicly Traded vs Privately Held Company

REACH - A Podcast for Executive Assistants

Show Notes

If you’re a regular listener of REACH, you know that we like to unpack the nuances associated within Executive Assistant roles across industries and across stages of organizational maturity. We’ve talked previously about what’s involved in taking a company public from the EA perspective, and in this episode with Katherine Estep, who currently supports the CFO at Udemy with executive operations, we discuss the specific responsibilities of an EA working in a publicly-traded company. Katherine joined Udemy the month they announced their IPO and has been supporting their CFO ever since the company became publicly traded on NASDAQ. We’re excited to share what she has to say about the EA role after a company has gone public!

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