Biggs C. Porter, chief financial officer of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, is responsible for financial strategy and ensuring that the company is driving value for Tenet shareholders.  Porter serves on the company’s executive management team and reports directly to Trevor Fetter, Tenet’s president and chief executive officer.

Porter is actively steering Tenet through a growth cycle, successfully translating the company’s vision into a financial action plan.  In the last three years, Tenet has reshaped it’s portfolio and made a dramatic change in the areas of operations and financial management.  Porter contributed to this process by overseeing the company’s finance, accounting and investor relations departments.  He also provides leadership to steadily move the company toward its goal of increasing cash flow, improving return on invested capital and raising the share price.

Porter joined Tenet in June 2006 after three years with the Raytheon Company where he served as vice president, controller and acting chief financial officer.  From December 2000 to May 2003, he was senior vice president and corporate controller of TXU Corp., a large public utility based in Dallas.

Prior to that role, he was chief financial officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation’s integrated systems sector, vice president, controller and assistant treasurer of Vought Aircraft Industries, Inc., and corporate manager of external financial reporting for LTV Corporation. 

He began his career with the accounting firm of Arthur Young and Co. in Dallas and Houston, where he was employed from 1978 to 1987.

A certified public accountant, Porter earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Duke University and his master’s degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin.  He has twice been selected as one of the 100 most influential people in finance by Treasury and Risk Magazine.