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Amy E. Hood

  • Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, MSFT since 2013-05src

Microsoft's EVP and CFO since 2013; at the company since 2002

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design8050% performance-conditioned · revenue, operating income, relative tsr, individual, time only · 91.94% for · 0.03% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
54src
In the role
13 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • Reported pay rose from $19.9m (FY2023) to $29.5m (FY2025), about 48%, almost all in stock awardssrc
  • Half of her annual equity is time-vested stock (four-year vesting); the proxy says only that 'over 50%' of other NEOs' pay opportunity is performance-basedsrc
  • Sold 41,674 shares (about $20.8m) on 2026-09-14 under a 10b5-1 plan adopted 2026-06-10, two weeks after 31,260 PSA shares vestedsrc

In their favour 1

  • Thirteen years as CFO with no change of role; she met the 8x-salary ownership requirement, and hedging and pledging are bannedsrc

Career

  1. 2013 – now
    Microsoftsrc
    Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
    CFO from May 2013, EVP & CFO from July 2013
  2. 2010 – 2013
    Microsoftsrc
    Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft Business Division
    Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange and Dynamics; involved in the Skype and Yammer acquisitions (MMM-DEF14A-2020)
  3. 2002 – 2010
    Microsoftsrc
    Finance positions in the Server and Tools Business and corporate finance

Undated in the sources

  • Goldman Sachs & Co.src, Investment banking and capital markets groups

Not located: Start date and titles at Goldman Sachs (before 2002) not stated in any primary document

Achievements

  • Microsoft's CFO since May 2013, the whole of Nadella's tenure as CEO; she joined the company in 2002 from Goldman Sachssrc
  • As Business Division CFO (2010-2013) helped lead the shift to Office 365 and worked on the Skype and Yammer acquisitionssrc
  • The FY2025 proxy credits her with returning over $37bn to shareholders and investing over $88bn in capital expenditure in the yearsrc
  • FY2025 cash incentive paid $3.42m against a $2.5m target (250% of salary), about 137%src
  • Chosen as Duke University's Class of 2026 commencement speakersrc

Education

  • Duke University, BA Economics (1994)src
  • Harvard University (Harvard Business School), MBA Business administrationsrc

Background

  • Family Neither the 2025 proxy nor the FY2026 10-K discloses any family relationship among Microsoft's directors or executive officerssrc
  • Boards Director of 3M from August 2017; did not stand for re-election at 3M's 2025 annual meeting, after eight years on its boardsrc
  • Boards Holds no other public-company directorship listed in Microsoft's FY2026 10-K executive-officer section (which lists them for Althoff and Smith)src

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

13
  1. Filing Microsoft Corporation 10-K for fiscal 2026 (Part I, Information About Our Executive Officers; signatures) (0001193125-26-323660) · 2026-07-29
  2. Filing Microsoft Corporation DEF 14A (2025 annual meeting; FY2025 pay) (0001193125-25-245150) · 2025-10-21
  3. Filing Microsoft Corporation 8-K Items 5.02/5.07, 2025 annual meeting results (0001193125-25-311196) · 2025-12-08
  4. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 789019 (FY2025 10-K 0000950170-25-100235) · 2025-07-30
  5. Filing 3M Company DEF 14A 2020, director nominee bio of Amy E. Hood (Goldman Sachs; Duke BA; Harvard MBA) · 2020-03-25
  6. Filing 3M Company 8-K Ex. 99.1, '3M Announces New Board Appointments' (Hood not standing for re-election) · 2025-02-10
  7. Filing Form 4, Amy Hood (reporting CIK 1576843), tax withholding of 2026-03-02 (0000789019-26-000045) · 2026-03-03
  8. Filing Form 4, Amy Hood, FY2024 PSA vesting and tax withholding of 2026-08-31 (0000789019-26-000155) · 2026-09-01
  9. Filing Form 4, Amy Hood, 10b5-1 sales of 2026-09-14 (0000789019-26-000212) · 2026-09-15
  10. Filing Form 4, Amy Hood, stock award of 2026-09-15 (0000789019-26-000222) · 2026-09-17
  11. Filing Form 144, Amy Hood, proposed sale (0001958244-26-000598) · 2026-09-14
  12. Web search result WebSearch: The Duke Chronicle, 'Microsoft CFO Amy Hood named Class of 2026 Commencement speaker' (economics degree, 1994) · 2026-09-24
  13. Web search result WebSearch: 3M investor news, 'Amy E. Hood Elected to 3M Board of Directors' (effective 2017-08-13) · 2026-09-24