Koskinen Rescues IRS as Y2K Man & Freddie Mac CEO-CFO-COO
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Deep into a career turning around companies and government agencies, John Koskinen found himself doing four jobs at once in 2009.
His title was non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac, where he was supposed to rebuild the U.S.-owned mortgage financier after the credit crisis. Then the chief executive officer quit, the chief financial officer committed suicide and Koskinen became CEO, CFO and chief operating officer.