Chris Liddell
Chris Liddell
Christopher P. Liddell CNZMis a New Zealand businessman. He was the Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officerof General Motors. Liddell joined GM in January 2010, and led the company’s global finance operations until March 2011, including the $23billion GM IPO, at the time the largest ever...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 April 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.
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Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.
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We pushed the supply chain as hard as we could to sell as many as we could. We haven't yet reached the positive position of having supply equal demand, because to some extent we continue to see very good demand.
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confidence about the future performance of the company.
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As we moves closer to the launch on Office 12 we expect corporate customers to increasingly prefer annuity licensing programs when they evaluate purchases.
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The customer reaction to our newly launched products has been fantastic. We feel confident about how we will end the year.
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The growth in our core businesses was healthy during the quarter driven by strength in Server and Tools, and the success of our Windows Client products in a robust PC market.
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Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.
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We are now accelerating our investments in the business to drive future growth, which is reflected in our financial guidance. We believe next fiscal year will deliver even stronger double-digit (percentage) revenue growth than this year.
I don't sit down and relax very much. I don't desire to.