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As corporate vice president and CFO of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division, Brent Callinicos oversees the financial performance of the three business groups that comprise the Platforms & Services Division: Windows Client, Server and Tools, and MSN. In this role he also has responsibility for the Platforms & Services Business Management group and World Wide Licensing and Pricing. Callinicos previously served as corporate vice president for World Wide Licensing and Pricing. Prior to that, he was Microsoft’s corporate vice president and treasurer. He joined Microsoft as a financial analyst in 1992 and began working for the treasury organization in 1994, where he was promoted to treasurer in 2000. He was named a corporate vice president in July 2001.
Before joining Microsoft, Callinicos worked in various finance and treasury positions for the Walt Disney Co. and the Procter & Gamble Co. Callinicos is a certified public accountant (CPA) and holds a bachelor of science and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He is a member of Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire’s Council of Economic Advisors, a group of 12 financial officers from the state’s top employers. Callinicos was named Ernst & Young Global Risk Manager of the Year in 1998 and received the 2004 Distinguished MBA alumni award from UNC-Chapel Hill. During his tenure, Microsoft’s Treasury won numerous awards, including a CFO Magazine award for financial risk management (1999), Risk Magazine’s 2002 Corporate Risk Manager of the Year Award, and Treasury & Risk Management’s Alexander Hamilton Award for Overall Treasury Excellence (1998, 2001, 2003). | 