Updated: July 30, 2007

Joe Matz is corporate vice president of the Worldwide Licensing and Pricing (WWLP) group at Microsoft Corp. The WWLP group is accountable for leading and orchestrating the business groups, business segments and field sales teams in the global development and implementation of licensing business models and financing solutions, which makes it easy for customers to acquire, use and manage Microsoft software products and software services and helps maximize the company's long-term profitability.

Matz joined Microsoft in 1993. Previously he was Microsoft's assistant treasurer, responsible for foreign exchange, corporate finance, strategic equity investments, financial risk management, treasury information technology, and corporate business risk-management programs. He drove the transformation of Microsoft's financial risk-management practices to take a more systematic and consistent approach to risk measurement.

Matz was on the core team that delivered the company's employee stock option transfer program in 2003, and the successful $1 billion (U.S.) preferred stock offering in December 1996. He also was responsible for creating Microsoft's first foreign exchange program.

In 2003, Matz received the gold Alexander Hamilton Award for Financial Risk Management for work he did with the Microsoft Treasury team to develop a system to hedge invoices in dollars with options and forward contracts. This system is now Microsoft's flagship currency-protection program.

Matz received a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor of science degree in economics from Georgetown University.

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