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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). | 