Chris Liddell

Christopher P. Liddell was the Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of General Motors. Liddell joined GM in January 2010, and led the company’s global finance operations until March 2011. Liddell is currently Chairman of Xero, a cloud software company, NEXT Foundation, one of New Zealand's largest philanthropic foundations focused on education and environmental projects, and CFO of WME-IMG. Previously, Liddell was a Senior Vice President and CFO of Microsoft where, from 2005 to 2009, he was responsible for leading their worldwide finance organization. His responsibilities included overseeing corporate strategy, acquisitions, treasury activities, tax planning, accounting and reporting, internal audits and investor relations. Liddell left Microsoft in December 2009. Prior to Microsoft, from 2003 to 2005, Liddell served as CFO of International Paper. From 1999 to 2002, he was Chief Executive Officer of Carter Holt Harvey, a forest products firm and then New Zealand’s second largest listed company. He had been CFO of Carter Holt Harvey from 1995 to 1998. In 2012, Liddell was Executive Director of Transition Planning for the Romney Presidential Campaign.