Speaker profile

As the General Manager of Treasury Capital Management at Microsoft, Anita Prasad is responsible for corporate finance, structured investments, global cash and liquidity, treasury operations, and credit services for Microsoft’s growing online businesses. She led the issuance of Microsoft’s inaugural debt and helped achieve record setting pricing for most of the company’s $12B bonds. Anita recently completed the first ever implementation of SWIFT’s ISO-XML 20022 version 2 for worldwide cash operations and cash flow forecasting. Anita is passionate about partnering with customers and partners to showcase use of Microsoft technology in corporate treasury and financial services arena. She has led her team to winning several industry awards including Alexander Hamilton, Euro Finance, Adam Smith, and Pinnacle awards for leveraging technology and innovative processes to address business challenges in treasury. She was recently named to the 2011 list of Treasury & Risk magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in Finance.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Anita served as Vice President of Treasury and Tax at LSI Logic Corporation where she provided leadership in effective balance sheet structuring, stock buyback programs, currency & interest rate risk management, M&A, domestic and off-shore portfolio management, venture portfolio, international tax structuring and manufacturing strategy.

Before corporate life, Anita was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She holds a Bachelors and Masters in Economics, an MBA in MIS, and a PhD in Finance and International Business.

Corporate profile

Microsoft is engaged in developing, manufacturing, licensing, and supporting a range of software products and services for different types of computing devices. The company operates in five business segments: Client, Server and Tools, Online Services Business, Microsoft Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division. The software products and services include operating systems for servers, personal computers, and intelligent devices; server applications for distributed computing environments; information worker productivity applications; business solutions applications; computing applications; software development tools, and video games. Microsoft provides consulting and product and solution support services, and trains and certifies computer system integrators and developers.