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As corporate vice president and chief financial officer of the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft Corp., Mindy Mount leads all strategic planning, business development, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and analysis activities for the division, and is responsible for assessing its fiscal performance and setting future targets.
Mount joined Microsoft in May 2006, bringing a mix of planning experience and financial strategy to the Entertainment and Devices Division. Most recently, she was executive vice president and co-managing director of AOL UK, responsible for advertising, programming, strategy, business development and finance. During her tenure there, she led the business from significant annual losses to profitability through aggressive cost management, renegotiation of key network agreements and pricing adjustments. Mount also developed new businesses such as the AOL Music Channel and AOL over the Sky platform and negotiated key agreements such as AOL�s exclusive distribution through the U.K.�s largest consumer electronics retailer, Dixons, and broadband access agreements with the major cable companies. Before working with AOL UK, Mount was the vice president of corporate strategy and development at Time Warner, and before joining Time Warner she was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley.
Mount received an MBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and a bachelor of business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She sits on the board of directors for the University of Wisconsin Foundation and serves as an advisor to the students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business�s Applied Corporate Finance program. | 