Just caught that Fortive completed the Ralliant spinoff last year, and apparently Neill Reynolds took the CFO role when it officially separated. The guy's got serious pedigree - spent over 25 years climbing the finance ladder at major companies. Most recently he was running finance at Wolfspeed, and before that he was at Freescale dealing with that massive $40 billion NXP merger integration.

What's interesting about Neill Reynolds is his range. It's not just balance sheets and spreadsheets - he's done M&A, investor relations, supply chain optimization, the whole toolkit. He apparently spent 15 years at GE early on, which explains the operational depth. The Ralliant spinoff needed someone who could actually execute, not just manage numbers.

So Neill Reynolds basically went from managing finance at a semiconductor company to building out the finance function for an entirely new publicly traded company. That's the kind of move that signals Fortive had confidence in how this thing would run independently. Curious to see how Ralliant performs now that it's on its own.