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Roxanne S. Austin is the president of Austin Investment Advisors. The firm provides investment focused consulting to technology and media companies and investors.
Prior to that position, Ms. Austin was executive vice president of Hughes Electronics Corporation and the president and chief operating officer of DIRECTV from June 2001 to December 2003. In that role, she was responsible for all DIRECTV operations in the United States. DIRECTV is the nation's leading provider of digital television entertainment services. Ms. Austin was also a member of the Hughes Electronics executive and management committees, the company's two top leadership groups.
Before joining DIRECTV, Ms. Austin was the corporate senior vice president and chief financial officer of Hughes Electronics. As CFO, Austin oversaw all company-wide financial activities, including treasury, mergers and acquisitions, risk management, investor relations, financial accounting and reporting, tax planning and compliance, business planning, financial management information services, internal audit and investment management of employee benefit plans.
Prior to assuming her role as CFO, Ms. Austin served Hughes as the company's vice president and treasurer, chief accounting officer and controller. She joined Hughes in 1993.
Before joining Hughes, Ms. Austin was a partner at the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche, where, as a partner, she was a firm-designated specialist in aerospace and defense and had firm-wide responsibility for many industry activities. She served such companies as Hughes, Rockwell, Honeywell and Northrop in a variety of supervisory and consulting roles. Austin was also designated by Deloitte & Touche as a specialist in the area of mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive experience in all phases of the acquisition and disposition process and assisted various companies in numerous financial and strategic transactions.
Ms. Austin earned her B.B.A. degree in accounting, summa cum laude, from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She serves on the board of trustees of the California Science Center and is a member of the California State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ms. Austin serves on the board of directors of Target Corporation, Abbott Laboratories and Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. | 