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Francois is responsible for financial business partnerships with Google's engineering, operations, products, marketing and G&A organizations, and he also manages the corporate FP&A activities and the financial systems group. He joined Google from Hyperion, where he was in charge of emerging businesses; including three fast-growing product lines the company had acquired through its M&A activities.
Earlier, Francois was Vice President of Corporate Finance, overseeing Hyperion's financial planning and analysis worldwide, as well as treasury, procurement, real estate, and the enterprise performance management group. Prior to joining Hyperion, Francois was CFO at Kadiri, a human capital management software company and CFO of Xtime, a service CRM software company. He has held other senior finance roles in the enterprise software industry, notably as VP of Finance and Administration at Business Objects, and he spent 9 years in the European and the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc.
Francois earned a degree in industrial engineering at the Institut Catholique des Arts et Metiers (ICAM) in France, and an MBA in Finance from the Anderson School at UCLA. | 