Claims

Factual · Their own work or organisation

“Tami’s contributions to Microsoft are significant; she’s held multiple CFO jobs across the company, for Microsoft Dynamics, the Product and Services Division and Windows.”

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, internal email · 3 March 2014 · Satya Nadella announces changes to senior leadership team (Microsoft Source)

Tami Reller has held multiple CFO roles at Microsoft, for Microsoft Dynamics, the Product and Services Division and Windows.

Mixed Partly true and partly false in roughly equal measure.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

Judged as of 2014-03-03. True: records show Tami Reller had held CFO roles at Microsoft for all three units named: Microsoft Dynamics (or its predecessor business), the Platforms and Services Division (or the division the claim calls 'Product and Services Division'), and Windows. A small naming slip in a division title, with the role itself confirmed, still counts as true. Mostly true: CFO roles are confirmed for two of the three and the third was a closely related finance leadership post rather than a CFO title. Mixed: CFO roles are confirmed for only one or two units and the others are not supported. Mostly false: she held finance or senior roles but only one CFO-level post, so 'multiple CFO jobs' is overstated. False: evidence shows she held no CFO role at Microsoft.

Evidence

1. At the top of technology The Forum (Fargo, ND) · 16 July 2007

   “She worked in marketing before returning to Fargo to become the company's chief financial officer.”

2. Memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella looks to find perfect 'swing' with leadership changes GeekWire · 3 March 2014

   “Reller, meanwhile, had previously led marketing and finance in the Windows division before heading up Microsoft’s Marketing Group eight months ago.”

3. Microsoft Announces Leadership Changes to Drive Next Wave of Products - Source Microsoft News Center (Microsoft Source) · 13 November 2012 Own record

   “She began her career in technology at Great Plains Software in 1984 while still in college, and was the company’s chief financial officer at the time the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2001.”

4. Microsoft Announces Leadership Changes to Drive Next Wave of Products - Source Microsoft News Center (Microsoft Source) · 13 November 2012 Own record

   “Tami Reller retains her roles as chief financial officer and chief marketing officer and will assume responsibility for the business of Windows.”

Reasoning

Microsoft's 2012 announcement says Reller kept her role as chief financial officer while taking on the Windows business (E4). GeekWire, an independent source, says she had led finance in the Windows division (E2). The same announcement says she was chief financial officer of Great Plains Software when Microsoft acquired it in 2001 (E3), though the evidence does not itself link Great Plains to Microsoft Dynamics. None of the evidence shows a CFO role for the Platforms and Services Division (or 'Product and Services Division'), so only two of the three named CFO roles are supported.

Cite this claim

Satya Nadella, “Tami Reller has held multiple CFO roles at Microsoft, for Microsoft Dynamics, the Product and Services Division and Windows.” (said 3 March 2014). Verdict: mixed. Reliability API, claim c_c443a394c3e2, method 0.1.0+28da144b. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_c443a394c3e2