Biggs C. Porter serves as Chief Financial Officer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation. Porter 52 is in charge of the company’s finance accounting investor relations and related functions. He reports to Trevor Fetter Tenet’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
Porter joined Tenet in June 2006 from Raytheon Co. where he served as Vice President and Corporate Controller. He also served as Raytheon’s principal accounting officer.
Porter joined Raytheon as Vice President and Controller in May 2003. He served as acting Chief Financial Officer from April 2005 until earlier this year. From December 2000 to May 2003 he was Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of TXU Corp. a large public utility based in Dallas.
Before that he was Chief Financial Officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation’s integrated systems sector. Previously he was Vice President Controller and Assistant Treasurer of Vought Aircraft Company and before that he was corporate manager of external financial reporting for LTV Corporation both in Dallas.
From 1978 to 1987 he began his career in various audit positions with the accounting firm of Arthur Young and Co. in Dallas and Houston.
A certified public accountant Porter holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Duke University and a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Texas Austin. |