Chris Liddell, Microsoft's finance chief since 2005, jumped ship late last year to join battered General Motors as its CFO and vice chairman.
He succeeds Ray Young, a long-time GM finance executive who moved to the company's international operations in the shake-up that followed CEO Fritz Henderson's departure.
During Liddell's time at Microsoft, the company issued its first bond offering and paid out more of its cash hoard to shareholders. But in a May 2009 profile, Liddell told Treasury & Risk he was proudest of the finance team's response to the economic downturn, when it quickly pulled together a program to save $1.5 billion in operating expenses.
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