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Amy Hood, who is an executive at Microsoft, recently was named as the first ever woman Chief Financial Officer
of the company. She becomes the first woman to handle the top most finance job
available at Microsoft.
Hood joined Microsoft in the last quarter of 2002, and utmost recently
was named the chief financial officer
of Microsoft's business division.
She is only 41 years of old, but she has loads of experiences with herself,
which will surely help her to handle the pressure of the job.
Microsoft’s business division is the unit which consists of its top most
lucrative Office suite of applications
that are used by millions of people regularly around the world. It will be a tough
job, but considering the talent and quality that Hood possesses, she will be
able to do it properly for sure.
Mr. Peter Klein, who was the
former Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft, recently declared that he was
resigning in order to spend a lot more quality time with his family. Now Amy Hood is succeeding him in the top
slot of the senior leadership.
It has to be mentioned here that over the years few women have been able
to grab top ranks at Microsoft, but its top most position i.e. the senior
leadership is still dominated by the men just like other leading technology companies. There is an exception too, as Lisa Brummel is the Chief People Officer, and she is
currently actively running human
resources department of the Microsoft. Last year Microsoft appointed two women
in its most important Windows division.
These two women, Tami Reller and Julie Larson-Green, is now handling the
finance operations and engineering of that unit.
Hood is all set to indulge herself in a much bigger role as the chief
financial officer of the company. Eventually she will help the tech giant to
adapt to some key major changes in its business outlook. Microsoft is planning
to shift to mobile devices from PCs,
and a must needed transformation of traditional software into cloud services.
Microsoft's Chief Executive Steven Ballmer has been continuously talking about the
company as a services and devices company for the last six months or so. He is
very much keen to make the changes in the business outlook that I’ve already
mentioned above.
Amy Hood will also be the ambassador
of the Microsoft to Wall Street. It has to be added here
that the Wall Street has always followed Microsoft's efforts to enter new
businesses like Internet search engine.
Recently Microsoft has managed to report solid earnings, and as a good result of that the prime investors of
the company have become more reliable on the future prospects of it. Now days
Microsoft’s share is trading very high, almost near to its 52 week high.
This Wednesday Ballmer sent an email to Microsoft employees. In that
email he stated that Hood had already helped lead the necessary change of Microsoft Office into a web-based cloud service. He added that
he had the experiences of working closely with her on two big acquisitions of the tech company. These two acquisitions
are of Skype and Yammer; he concluded that her critical
and innovative thinking would be an important asset in her new job.
"Amy is a great collaborator with
a history of successful cross group projects, and I am looking forward to
having her as a member of my leadership team," Ballmer wrote personally in that email.
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