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B. Kevin Turner is an American businessman known for his executive leadership roles at Wal-Mart and Microsoft. He is the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft and a Board of Director at Nordstrom.
Turner worked nearly 20 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. He began working as a cashier for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1985 in his hometown of Ada, Okla. While attending college, he rose through the store ranks, to customer service manager, housewares department manager and head office cashier. In 1987, Turner earned a bachelor's degree in business with an emphasis in management from East Central University in Ada. The next year, he joined Wal-Mart's internal audit department. Two years later, Turner joined the company's Information Systems Division, where has worked his way up from business analyst, strategy manager, director and assistant chief information officer. In February 2000, Turner became chief information officer overseeing Wal-Mart's legendary worldwide data-tracking system. The division had about 2,000 employees in Bentonville. He then was named, president and chief executive officer of Sam's Club, which had over 46 million members and over $37.1 billion USD in annual sales. In 1995 at the age of 29, Turner became the youngest corporate officer ever named at Wal-Mart.
2005 Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be Chief Operating Officer (the prior COO, Rick Belluzzo, had left the company in 2002 and no replacement had been hired). Microsoft offered Turner a base salary of $570,000 per year, a $7 million up-front payment, and other stock awards to help compensate him for stock-based pay that he lost when he left Wal-Mart. Microsoft also gave Turner 325,000 shares of stock that would vest over a period of many years, beginning in 2008 and running through to retirement. Turner would have been required to forfeit the entire $7 million up-front payment had he left voluntarily or been terminated for cause before completing 12 months of employment.
Source: Wikipedia
Turner worked nearly 20 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. He began working as a cashier for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 1985 in his hometown of Ada, Okla. While attending college, he rose through the store ranks, to customer service manager, housewares department manager and head office cashier. In 1987, Turner earned a bachelor's degree in business with an emphasis in management from East Central University in Ada. The next year, he joined Wal-Mart's internal audit department. Two years later, Turner joined the company's Information Systems Division, where has worked his way up from business analyst, strategy manager, director and assistant chief information officer. In February 2000, Turner became chief information officer overseeing Wal-Mart's legendary worldwide data-tracking system. The division had about 2,000 employees in Bentonville. He then was named, president and chief executive officer of Sam's Club, which had over 46 million members and over $37.1 billion USD in annual sales. In 1995 at the age of 29, Turner became the youngest corporate officer ever named at Wal-Mart.
2005 Microsoft hired Kevin Turner to be Chief Operating Officer (the prior COO, Rick Belluzzo, had left the company in 2002 and no replacement had been hired). Microsoft offered Turner a base salary of $570,000 per year, a $7 million up-front payment, and other stock awards to help compensate him for stock-based pay that he lost when he left Wal-Mart. Microsoft also gave Turner 325,000 shares of stock that would vest over a period of many years, beginning in 2008 and running through to retirement. Turner would have been required to forfeit the entire $7 million up-front payment had he left voluntarily or been terminated for cause before completing 12 months of employment.
Source: Wikipedia