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Technology professional with 30 years of global experience leading large organizations. I have broad governance, financial and commercial skills with a specific focus on strategic planning and execution, resource allocation, compliance, talent development, diversity, and inclusion. A respected senior executive who has worked globally in highly matrixed environments and has a proven record of working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders.As the CFO of Microsoft Americas, an area with revenue of over $35B and more than 8,500 employees, I partnered with Microsoft's Sales, Marketing and Services leaders to drive revenue and marketing efforts across a broad set of enterprise, mid-market and small business customers across the US, Canada and Latin America. As the Americas CFO, I led a team that was responsible for providing actionable business insight through revenue, profitability and resource analytics, business planning and business excellence through controls, compliance and audit activities and personnel leadership through development of the area Finance community.Prior to joining Microsoft Americas, I held a series of international finance leadership roles at Microsoft including the General Manager of Microsoft Western Europe, Senior Director of World-Wide Small and Medium Solutions and Partners (SMS&P) segment and Director of the Microsoft Business Solutions Business Group. Prior to that, I worked at JD Edwards / PeopleSoft and IBM Global Services. At JD Edwards / PeopleSoft, I was the Senior Director of Finance supporting the Sales, Marketing, Consulting and Education businesses across the Americas region. In addition, I had responsibility for corporate and field controllership functions such as payroll, accounts receivable and services to cash as well as full finance and statutory responsibility for the Latin America area.Prior to my tenure with JD Edwards / PeopleSoft, I held a series of progressively expanding roles during my 7 years at IBM Global Services in field roles as well as in the IBM Global Services headquarters, Somers New York.I received an MBA from Columbia Business School, a BS from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management and live in Bellevue, WA with my wife and daughters.