Chapter Three
Derek patiently waited for the elevator to his office on the sixth floor Monday morning. Vigers Tech, an infrastructure and internet hardware company, occupied the entire fourth, fifth, and sixth floors of the PetroChem building in downtown Houston. Derek was the company’s CFO and go-to-answer-man.
Some days he couldn’t wait to get to work. Like when the international financial markets were a flurry of activity, the company launched a new product, or The Fed announced a rate reduction.
All accounting and treasury functions reported to him, in addition to asset management, which included Vigers’ manufacturing sites and their two call centers. Basically, the financial health of the company rested on his shoulders.
This week, it was business as usual with nothing exciting in
