Mary Jo Green.

• Author: Heffes, Ellen M.
• Position: Balance Sheet - Senior vice president and treasurer of Sony Corporation of America - Brief Article

As a high school student, Mary Jo Green skipped grades -- not classes -- to graduate at age 16, while working the register, part-time, in the basement of a Newark, N.J. "five and-10-cent" store of retailer McCrory Corp. Quick fingers constantly jamming the register got her sent to the accounting office, where a CPA/mentor steered her to a career in finance. While scholarships supported her college tuition, she supported herself -- often working 40 hours a week, evenings and weekends. She's balanced single parenthood (raising her daughter solo for 10 years) with a demanding career in financial operations in retail, then chemicals, pharmaceuticals, office products and now media and entertainment. Six years ago, she re-married, and in the process of acquiring a husband, she got with the deal three additional children -- the easy way, she claims, not having to go through the births!

Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer

Company: Sony Corporation of America

Born: Newark, N.J., June 27, 1948

Spouse: Steve

Children: Brad, 13; Catherine, 15; Alison, 19; Nicole, 23

Education Summary: BA Economics, Rutgers, New Jersey, 1969; MBA Accounting, Rutgers, 1970

Career Summary: Began her career in the accounting department of retailer McCrory Corp., 1964-'74; joined American Cyanamid Co. in the budgeting department and later the accounting department, 1974-'79; 1979-'86, Schering-Plough Corp. several positions of increasing responsibility in the treasury department; 1986-2001, Pitney Bowes Inc., rising to President and Treasurer. In early 2001, joined Sony Corp. of America with responsibility for cash management, bank relationships, hedging foreign exchange and interest rate exposures, asset management relating to pension funds and 401(k) defined-benefit! defined contribution plans and funding strategies for several business units -- electronics, pictures, music and computer entertainment -- that fall under the Sony umbrella.

FEI Chapter: Connecticut/Westchester. Has served in a variety of leadership roles with both FEI local chapter and national and the FEI Research Foundation, including: Past Chapter President, 1993 and '94, National Leadership Board since '97, and currently...