Sustaining an Agile and Future-Proof Corporate Strategy
  • Evolving strategy to win in today’s dynamic business environment.
  • How a more competitive and less predictable environment is shortening the relevance and life span of many business models
  • Surviving and thriving: Organizations need to be more forward-looking and agile, with greater rigor over strategic decisions
  • Executing your strategy with an operational model that accelerates momentum, secures value and mitigates risk

Mike Lenz
Former EVP and Chief Financial Officer
FedEx

Mike Lenz is Executive Vice President and CFO of FedEx Corporation. Lenz is responsible for all aspects of the corporation’s global financial functions, including financial planning, treasury, tax, accounting and controls, internal audit, investor relations, and corporate development. He is also a member of the five-person Executive Committee, which plans and executes the corporation’s strategic business activities.

Lenz’s extensive experience in the transportation industry and finance spans more than three decades, including his over 15 years at FedEx. Lenz joined FedEx in 2005 as vice president of finance at FedEx Office. He became staff vice president of strategic finance at FedEx Corporation in 2010, followed by a promotion to corporate vice president and treasurer in 2012. Prior to joining FedEx, Lenz worked at American Airlines, where he held positions in several finance and commercial areas including investor relations, financial planning and analysis, international planning and fleet planning. Before working at American, Lenz was an avionics engineer at Boeing.

Lenz received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Duke University, where he was a four-year varsity letterman for the swim team. He later returned to Duke to earn his master’s degree in business administration.

Lenz serves on the boards of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the Memphis Shelby County Sports Authority.