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Deloitte country CFO: How you can rise through the ranks

Future CFO

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. After finishing my master's degree in finance, I joined Microsoft in Redmond as a senior financial analyst for three years before relocating back to Thailand and joining Microsoft Thailand in 2008 as a financial controller for another three years.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. But I found — you know, I was a financial analyst and I was literally — you know, what we talked about, I was going to go and do that again, I loved looking at companies. RIEDER: A100 percent.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. ASNESS: Yes.