Teri L. List — Board Member Accountability Profile
Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Board Tenure: 2014 – present Committee Memberships: Audit Committee (Financial Expert); Governance and Nominating Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)
Basis for Inclusion: Teri L. List holds a documented governance role as an independent director and Audit Committee financial expert at Microsoft Corporation, which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while the corporation faced regulatory and policy decisions directly affecting its financial interests. As an Audit Committee financial expert, List bears specific fiduciary oversight responsibility for Microsoft’s financial reporting, internal controls, and risk management. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.
Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.
What is NOT the basis for inclusion: List’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.
Biographical Overview
Teri L. List is a veteran corporate finance executive with a distinguished career as CFO at multiple Fortune 500 companies. She served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Gap, Inc. from 2016 to 2020. Before that, she served as EVP & CFO of Dick’s Sporting Goods and EVP & CFO of Kraft Foods Group (2012–2016). Earlier in her career, she was SVP & Treasurer at Procter & Gamble and served as a Practice Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
List is SEC-designated as an Audit Committee financial expert at Microsoft, reflecting her deep expertise in financial reporting, internal controls, and corporate governance. Her oversight responsibilities include review of Microsoft’s quarterly and annual financial statements, oversight of the external audit, and monitoring of financial risk.
She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Grand Valley State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Board Role and Governance Authority
- Company: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)
- Board tenure: 2014 – present
- Committee assignments: Audit Committee (financial expert); Governance and Nominating Committee
- Key governance function: Designated financial expert with oversight of financial reporting, external audit, and financial controls
Other Current Board Memberships
- Conduct detailed research via SEC EDGAR for current concurrent public company board seats
Parent Corporate Donor Profile
This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Microsoft — Corporate Donor Profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.
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Investigative trail pointers (public records)
Education only — verify independently. Absence of hits is not proof.
| Channel | Starting points |
|---|---|
| Federal courts | CourtListener / PACER party and attorney searches (spelling variants) |
| Campaign finance | FEC + OpenSecrets for committees and donors tied to documented roles |
| Corporate / LLC | State secretary of state; OpenCorporates for cross-border shells from reporting |
| Sanctions / PEP | OpenSanctions when international business context is already sourced |
| Contracts / grants | USAspending.gov for named entities from investigations |
Use public-records-research-specialist, corporate-intelligence-investigator, and public-corruption-ombudsman evidence tiers.
Sources
- Microsoft Corporation DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed October 21, 2025 (annual meeting December 5, 2025)
- SEC EDGAR filing: Microsoft Corporation (CIK 789019)
