Leadership in Finance: Starwood's Vasant Prabhu | cfo.com

For the hotel company's CFO, it's much more important now to have a stash of cash than to rake in the revenues. These days, a good night's sleep can be hard to come by for a CFO in a precarious industry like the hotel and time-share business. Banks and investors are well aware of the fragility of travel-and-vacation revenues in the current downturn, and capital doesn't come cheap.