Michael Woodford (Manager)

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Michael Woodford , MBE (born June 12, 1960 ) is a British manager and whistleblower of the Olympus affair.

Life

Michael Woodford grew up in Liverpool . He worked for Olympus since 1980 . In January 2002, Woodford was inducted into the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to leading KeyMed and its commitment to road safety techniques . In April 2011 he was named President of the Olympus Confederation and Chief Operating Officer (COO) , making him one of the first Europeans to lead a Japanese-controlled corporation. In October 2011 he went to the top of the entire company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) . When Woodford wanted to criticize the company's accounting on the company's board of directors shortly afterwards , he was promptly dismissed. Woodford publicized what he believed to be corrupt practices in the Financial Times , which led to a number of top executives, including his predecessor as CEO, appearing in court.

Woodford himself was able to win a settlement of 12 million euros in a British court.

Woodford was voted “Business Person of the Year” in 2011 by the British newspapers Sunday Times , The Independent and The Sun and in 2012 received an “ArcelorMittal Boldness in Business Award” from the Financial Times.

Woodford lives in London with his family .

Fonts

  • Exposure: inside the Olympus scandal: how I went from CEO to whistleblower . New York: Portfolio / Penguin, 2012
    • Reveal: from CEO to whistleblower at Olympus . Translated by Andreas Schieberle and Marlies Ferber. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH-Verl. 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Michael Woodford , at Deloitte , accessed May 19, 2014
  2. ↑ Michael Woodford awarded MBE  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from Olympus, accessed May 19, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.olympus.co.jp  
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Gast: Olympus, Snowdon and the big money , in: TAZ , May 17, 2014, p. 27
  4. ↑ Accounting scandal: Olympus pays Woodford a million dollar settlement , in: Der Spiegel , June 8, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Woodford, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British manager
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1960