908: Back to School | John Rex, Former CFO, Microsoft Corp. NA
As John Rex tells it, when he first arrived inside the finance function at Microsoft Corp. in 2007, one executive greeted him with “Hey, welcome to Microsoft—if you’re still here a year from now, let’s reconnect.”
A senior finance hire with experience in manufacturing and consumer products at such companies as Novartis (3 years) and Kodak (14), Rex was to find the message behind the conditional invitation particularly prescient only 12 months later, when he “very nearly got the boot.”
Seated across from his boss, Rex was “read the riot act” for having absorbed what the boss deemed to be only…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.