Amy Hood

Amy Hood is an American business executive who has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft since 2013, making her one of the longest-serving chief financial officers in the technology industry. She joined Microsoft in 2002 and held finance roles across the company, including chief financial officer of the Microsoft Business Division, before being appointed corporate CFO in May 2013 as part of the leadership changes late in Steve Ballmer's tenure. She holds an economics degree from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

As CFO she has overseen Microsoft's finances through its transformation into a cloud-first company, the rise of Azure, and a run of very large acquisitions, including LinkedIn, GitHub, Nuance, ZeniMax, and the roughly seventy billion dollar purchase of Activision Blizzard. She is widely regarded as a disciplined operator focused on margins and capital allocation, and has been a central voice in Microsoft's enormous spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, which the company projected at around eighty billion dollars for its 2025 fiscal year.

In 2026 she became an unusually visible figure in gaming coverage. Reporting during the Xbox restructuring pointed to a demanding profitability target, described in some accounts as a thirty percent "accountability margin," said to have been set for the gaming division under her financial oversight. Microsoft has publicly called the specific thirty percent figure incorrect, and Xbox leadership has said its mandate is to be the number one gaming company rather than to hit a fixed margin. What is not disputed is that the division was being measured against a margin framework at the time of the studio closures and layoffs.