Eric Bakke Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

Interim Head of G&A and Marketing Finance from October 2023 through March 2024

I supported 4 SVPs in the Products and Technology organization including the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Security Officer, SVP of Infrastructure, and the Chief Technology Architect. My team is responsible for forecasting, planning, and strategic support for our Technology organization, including all headcount and related expenses, consulting, software.

I led the team responsible for the financial planning and decision support for Facebook’s network infrastructure. My team was responsible for all financial aspects of Facebook's edge, backbone, and datacenter network infrastructure providing connectivity between 1.5+ Billion global users and Facebook’s datacenters.My team provided ROI analyses for major.

Seattle, WA, US

• Managed a team of seven responsible for:
• AWS financial package (P&L): Responsible for the reporting package that supported the 3-year financial plan for all AWS cloud services including revenue, operating margins, free-cash-flow, ROIC, and asset velocity. The.
• Cost analysis: As AWS cost lead, responsible for the infrastructure cost assignment methodology and reporting of all AWS marginal and average costs to support pricing analysis, new region launch strategies, and new.
• Business finance support – Database Services and Cloudfront: Senior finance oversight for the revenue/demand planning, P&L management, custom pricing analysis and hardware capacity planning for AWS Database Services.
• Internal usage controllership: Finance lead for the launch of an internal billing project to charge back cloud computing consumption to internal teams. Key contact for Amazon Retail and Digital teams on pricing and.
• AWS billing and authentication platform: As finance lead for billing, fraud and bad-debt, managed a number of business process improvement initiatives. These included the design and implementation of a.

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for forecasting and controllership of the department’s ~$XXMM operating budget. Finance Manager for the multi-channel global gift certificate business (Corp Sales, Website, Physical Retail). Developed a channel based profitability and pricing model for the corporate direct business. Other sales support duties included variable comp plans.

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for company-wide competitive intelligence and monitoring, investor presentation materials, maintenance of external IR website, IR vendor management, and tracking of sell-side analyst consensus estimates. Prepared all CFO investor presentations, earnings call slides, and Jeff Bezos' 2006 annual shareholder meeting presentation.

Seattle, WA, US

Responsible for all Amazon financial aspects (forecasting, controllership, and reporting) of Amazon.com powered websites – ToysRUs.com, Target.com, NBA.com and Bombaycompany.com. Built the financial models for the Toys "R" Us litigation as well as the Target.com contract renewal.

San Francisco, CA, US

Responsible for proposal preparation, project scoping, design analysis/engineering, technical specifications, construction contract documentation, cost estimating, and construction management of large and small civil construction projects for public sector and private sector clients.- Had two papers published which were presented to a national audience.

Conducted Phase 1 & 2 environmental site assessments in support of commercial real estate transactions, asbestos and lead surveys, geotechnical investigations, and construction monitoring of commercial foundation projects.

Part of a program management consulting team responsible for project controls on the $900 MM DART light rail project. Performed forecasting, financial reporting, and activity based cost management system implementation.

Mba, Finance

B.S., Civil Engineering