Adobe CFO Dan Durn has deployed agentic AI across finance operations, auto-responding to 300,000 emails, dramatically reducing contract review times, and stress-testing earnings messaging with AI. Durn oversees technology, security, and operations in addition to finance, allowing him to move AI pilots to production quickly. Adobe pairs rules-based, data-heavy finance workflows with AI agents while maintaining strict accuracy standards. His thesis: finance departments that don't adopt AI become a brake on company growth.
Why it matters
This is the most detailed public case study of a Fortune 500 CFO deploying agentic AI in finance operations. The playbook — structured data, governance, combined leadership over finance/IT/security — is directly transferable to any enterprise.
What to do
Share this with your CFO. Adobe's model of unifying finance, IT, and security leadership under one executive to accelerate AI deployment is a structural insight worth discussing at your next leadership meeting.