Brent Callinicos, vice president and treasurer at Google, will give a free public lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School on March 16. The 5:30 p.m. talk at UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Koury Auditorium is part of the Dean’s Speaker Series.

Please RSVP to this free lecture. Free parking will be available only in the business school parking deck on a first come, first serve basis.

Callinicos joined Google in 2007 after 14 years at Microsoft, where he was corporate vice president and divisional CFO for Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, encompassing the Windows, Server and MSN business groups. He was also Microsoft’s Treasurer from 2000-2004. He also has worked at Walt Disney and in various financial capacities at Procter & Gamble.

Callinicos received a 2008 Risk Magazine award for “Corporate Risk Manager of the Year” and a 2010 Adam Smith Award for “Overall Treasury Excellence.” In 2009, he was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance” by Treasury and Risk Magazine, for the 4th time.

He also is alumnus of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, having received his BSBA in 1987 and MBA in 1989.

Previous Dean’s Speaker Series speakers have included Robert Moritz, chairman and senior partner of the U.S. firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Ellen Kullman, chair of the board and chief executive officer of DuPont; Steve Howe, Americas managing partner, Ernst & Young; Timothy P. Flynn, chairman, KPMG International; and William C. Weldon, chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson.

Media contact: Heather Havenstein, 919.962.8951, heather_havenstein@unc.edu