Agenda
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Moderated by:
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel L. Blumen, CTP is a founding partner of Treasury Alliance Group where he leads consulting engagements dealing with working capital management, systems integration, liquidity and risk management and other global treasury issues. Prior to co-founding Treasury Alliance in 2002, he was Managing Director of Knowledge Management Applications, a firm he founded in 1998. Dan was with Bank of America in Chicago and Singapore, where he managed the ASEAN region of the Global Payment Services Group. He also worked for Citibank in Chicago and in London where he had pan-European management responsibility for cash management business development. He has worked with large multinationals and emerging international companies and shares his experience as an author and as a frequent speaker at cash management gatherings worldwide.
Moderated by:
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Bob has more than 30 years of corporate treasury experience in the roles of treasurer, credit director, finance manager and controller at BP America and Amoco Corporation. He has successfully managed post-acquisition integrations, technology upgrades and corporate restructurings. Currently, Bob is a partner with the Treasury Alliance Group, leveraging his corporate experience in client engagements dealing with global treasury, risk and crisis management; cash management and cash flow forecasting; working capital management; shared service operations and general management. He also shares his experiences by tutoring others in courses such as international cash and treasury management, corporate risk management and cash flow forecasting, as well as by chairing, moderating and speaking at treasury conferences worldwide.
Opening remarks
Emma West
Managing Director, EuroFinance & CPI
Emma West
Managing Director, EuroFinance & CPI
March 21st 2023- 09:00am -9:10amOpening remarks
Surviving the economy
Suddenly it seems as if we are in a completely new era economically since this conference was last held in March 2022. Then, the pandemic was waning, inflation was low albeit rising, and rates were flat. Now, the economy has dramatically turned, with inflation running at a 40 year high, interest rates soaring and a recession looming. Global supply chains are disrupted by the lingering pandemic and energy and commodity prices are rocketing due to a tragic war in Europe. In this keynote session we analyze the forces shaping the global economy and their impacts on US growth companies, how long this all might last, and ask what interventions might be made by the Fed and central banks around the world to steady the rising tide of inflation and prices.
Daniel Franklin
Executive editor,
The Economist
Daniel Franklin
Executive editor,
The Economist
March 21st 2023- 09:10am -10:00amSurviving the economy
Nick Bloom
Professor of economics,
Stanford University
Nick Bloom
Professor of economics,
Stanford University
March 21st 2023- 09:10am -10:00amSurviving the economy
Nicholas (Nick, he/his/him) Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His research focuses on working from home, management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the UK Treasury and McKinsey & Company.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships, the Bernacer Prize, the Frisch Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London.
On the personal side he is English, living with his Scottish wife and American kids on Stanford campus, in a multi-accented English household.
Moderated by:
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Bob has more than 30 years of corporate treasury experience in the roles of treasurer, credit director, finance manager and controller at BP America and Amoco Corporation. He has successfully managed post-acquisition integrations, technology upgrades and corporate restructurings. Currently, Bob is a partner with the Treasury Alliance Group, leveraging his corporate experience in client engagements dealing with global treasury, risk and crisis management; cash management and cash flow forecasting; working capital management; shared service operations and general management. He also shares his experiences by tutoring others in courses such as international cash and treasury management, corporate risk management and cash flow forecasting, as well as by chairing, moderating and speaking at treasury conferences worldwide.
Treasury strategies to beat the downturn
With a recession on the horizon and inflation rising in consecutive months throughout 2022, the priorities of the treasurer have suddenly dramatically shifted to an intense focus on driving efficiencies in costs, freeing up cash, slowing down capital investments, optimizing working capital, reviewing hedging strategies, analyzing cash investments, and strengthening liquidity buffers. This urgent to-do list has suddenly emerged into an inflation risk crisis management project. Many treasurers have never seen anything like this unless they were around in the 1980s when inflation and rates were higher than today. Today’s treasurers have been used to a stable and steady environment and are now facing unprecedented challenges that they have never had to deal with in their careers. With the US facing negative growth, and the prospect of a huge slowdown in both business and consumer spending, recession looms. Having come through the pandemic with some optimism that markets would rebound, treasuries are now focusing on developing strategies to survive the future. In this session leading treasurers discuss their survival strategies to get to the other side of this volatile economic environment.
Cathy Fields
Assistant treasurer, sr. director of global risk management,
Hitachi Vantara
Cathy Fields
Assistant treasurer, sr. director of global risk management,
Hitachi Vantara
March 21st 2023- 10:00am -10:50amTreasury strategies to beat the downturn
Cathy has been involved with Treasury or Treasury related functions in a multi-national environment for 30+ years. She is currently the Assistant Treasurer and Director of Global Risk Management at Hitachi Vantara LLC. She is responsible for Global Treasury Operations which includes Banking, FX Strategies, Cash and Liquidity Management, Debt, Investments, Insurance Risk Management and anything else Treasury needs to do to support the company’s continued growth throughout the world.
Cathy is currently on assignment in Singapore, helping to lead a Treasury transformation project for Hitachi Ltd. the Japan parent for Hitachi Vantara LLC.
Cathy has a BS in Exercise Physiology from California State University Fullerton and earned her MBA in International Business from National University. Cathy has held her CTP certification (formerly CCM) since 1998.
Zac Nesper
SVP, Global head of treasury,
HP inc.
Zac Nesper
SVP, Global head of treasury,
HP inc.
March 21st 2023- 10:00am -10:50amTreasury strategies to beat the downturn
Debbie Kaya
Senior director of treasury,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Debbie Kaya
Senior director of treasury,
Cisco Systems, Inc.
March 21st 2023- 10:00am -10:50amTreasury strategies to beat the downturn
Debbie is the Global Cash and Operations Director for Cisco Systems, Inc. based in San Jose, California. She is responsible for the Global Cash Management, investment and defined contribution (401k) operations as well as Global Stock Plan Services and M&A Payroll/Stock. Debbie joined Cisco in 1999 and has held various roles throughout Cisco’s Finance Organization. She has worked in Sales Finance FP&A, Supply Chain Finance, and Treasury.
In addition to working at Corporate Head Quarters in San Jose, Debbie worked within the Investment Operations team in Reno, Nevada and was the EMEA Cash Manager and acting APAC Cash Manager based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
She has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry. Debbie holds a Bachelor of Science from The University of California, Los Angeles and a Masters in Business Administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Moderated by:
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Bob has more than 30 years of corporate treasury experience in the roles of treasurer, credit director, finance manager and controller at BP America and Amoco Corporation. He has successfully managed post-acquisition integrations, technology upgrades and corporate restructurings. Currently, Bob is a partner with the Treasury Alliance Group, leveraging his corporate experience in client engagements dealing with global treasury, risk and crisis management; cash management and cash flow forecasting; working capital management; shared service operations and general management. He also shares his experiences by tutoring others in courses such as international cash and treasury management, corporate risk management and cash flow forecasting, as well as by chairing, moderating and speaking at treasury conferences worldwide.
Networking break
Fighting the immediate impact of inflation on treasury
Inflation is already taking its toll on consumer spending with prices rising rapidly. The double whammy of higher interest rates is also making the cost of capital more expensive. Some treasurers are concerned that there is, at the extreme, potential for social unrest, and that the cost of living crisis is not going to be short-lived. With rising fuel prices and supply shortages across the globe, the rising cost of production and distribution, as well as higher prices, means that for treasury, the risk to cash and liquidity is all too real. Interest rate hedging across the treasury, including FX, cash investments, and other assets is now high on the agenda. In this session treasurers discuss the measures they are taking to mitigate the immediate impacts of inflation, and the collaboration across the business to limit ongoing inflation risks.
Arun Batra
VP, treasurer,
Bloom Energy
Arun Batra
VP, treasurer,
Bloom Energy
March 21st 2023- 11:30am -12:10pmFighting the immediate impact of inflation on treasury
Elizabeth Kwong
VP treasurer,
Autodesk
Elizabeth Kwong
VP treasurer,
Autodesk
March 21st 2023- 11:30am -12:10pmFighting the immediate impact of inflation on treasury
Todd Yoder
Global MD strategic finance and treasury,
Fluor Corporation
Todd Yoder
Global MD strategic finance and treasury,
Fluor Corporation
- 11:30am -12:10pmFighting the immediate impact of inflation on treasury
- 11:10am -11:50amCrypto crash: but is there a phoenix coin in the ashes?
Todd Yoder serves as Global MD strategic finance and treasury at Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) and finance committee member of mega-projects, joint ventures, and subsidiaries. Yoder began his career in corporate accounting followed by progressive roles in banking commercial credit, corporate financial planning and analysis, global strategic finance, and treasury – and most recently co-led one of the most successful de-SPAC mergers of 2022 taking NuScale Power Corporation public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SMR) in May 2022. Yoder has been an invited guest speaker at events throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia; and has work published by Bloomberg, Association for Financial Professionals, Corporate Executive Board, Reuters and Treasury Today magazine. Yoder serves as the Innovation Catalyst for Fluor’s world headquarters, is an alum of Fluor’s Innovation Unwrapped program, and has led numerous treasury and finance related technology projects. Yoder is a proven leader passionate about building high performing collaborative teams with servant leadership focused on people development and cross-discipline relationship building that foster an authentic and innovative culture hungry to add value to the business. Yoder holds three business degrees including his M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with academic honors. Yoder is often praised for his down-to-earth communication style that effectively delivers complex financial and macroeconomic concepts and strategies into easy-to-understand terms.
Moderated by:
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel L. Blumen, CTP is a founding partner of Treasury Alliance Group where he leads consulting engagements dealing with working capital management, systems integration, liquidity and risk management and other global treasury issues. Prior to co-founding Treasury Alliance in 2002, he was Managing Director of Knowledge Management Applications, a firm he founded in 1998. Dan was with Bank of America in Chicago and Singapore, where he managed the ASEAN region of the Global Payment Services Group. He also worked for Citibank in Chicago and in London where he had pan-European management responsibility for cash management business development. He has worked with large multinationals and emerging international companies and shares his experience as an author and as a frequent speaker at cash management gatherings worldwide.
eBAM build success: a tale of two cities
Manual bank account management is a major pain point in modern treasury. In today’s increased regulatory environment, it is essential to have an efficient eBAM tool for storing, tracking and reporting on account information. For Treasurers grappling with unwieldy and unmanageable spreadsheets with thousands of data points and multiple signatories, manual BAM is unstainable and unscalable. Ready made eBAM solutions are available – but what if no current eBAM solution in the market can meet your specific needs? The answer for Salesforce was to build their own eBAM solution inhouse. This involved a treasury in San Francisco working in collaboration with software developers eight thousand miles, and 12 hours away, in Hyderabad on a complex digitisation project. In this case study the treasury team talks through their eBAM journey, the challenges they faced in account data management and solution development, the resources involved, the risk they reduced and the benefits they achieved through enhanced internal reporting and audit. The project is a success story of global collaboration of treasurers and technologists separated in distance but united in vision.
Samuel Vallotton
VP, global treasury,
Salesforce
Samuel Vallotton
VP, global treasury,
Salesforce
March 21st 2023- 12:10pm -12:50pmeBAM build success: a tale of two cities
Samuel Vallotton is the Vice President, Global Treasury at Salesforce. During his 10 years at this dynamic tech company he witnessed a number of changes through the company’s unprecedented growth. The most recent step in that transformative journey is the implementation of the company’s first in-house bank. Prior to his tenure at Salesforce, Samuel was engaged with several global companies at various stages of growth, both in the US and internationally (BAT, Nestlé, Tetra Pak, Sensormatic). His roots go back to Switzerland and UBS bank, where he began his career. In his free time, he will be found on a bike somewhere, breathing fresh air and enjoying the outdoors.
Linda Xu
Senior treasury manager,
Salesforce
Linda Xu
Senior treasury manager,
Salesforce
March 21st 2023- 12:10pm -12:50pmeBAM build success: a tale of two cities
Dafina Hajrullahu
Senior manager, treasury,
Salesforce
Dafina Hajrullahu
Senior manager, treasury,
Salesforce
March 21st 2023- 12:10pm -12:50pmeBAM build success: a tale of two cities
Moderated by:
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel L. Blumen, CTP is a founding partner of Treasury Alliance Group where he leads consulting engagements dealing with working capital management, systems integration, liquidity and risk management and other global treasury issues. Prior to co-founding Treasury Alliance in 2002, he was Managing Director of Knowledge Management Applications, a firm he founded in 1998. Dan was with Bank of America in Chicago and Singapore, where he managed the ASEAN region of the Global Payment Services Group. He also worked for Citibank in Chicago and in London where he had pan-European management responsibility for cash management business development. He has worked with large multinationals and emerging international companies and shares his experience as an author and as a frequent speaker at cash management gatherings worldwide.
Lunch
How embracing technology can transform your treasury’s future
You have recently heard about tools such as ChatGPT take off which is making everyone rethink how organizations can leverage ML/AI and what that means to each industry. What is quantum computing and what does that mean for the world? You also have ongoing investment by many companies to move to the cloud using built in capabilities to create operational efficiencies and enhance processes. This has led many to leverage tools such as data visualization tools, low code no code solutions and RPA. In this session treasurers discuss how they are innovating, what they have implemented, what is the 3-5 year horizon plan for organizations, how do Treasury’s think big and embrace new tech and how investments are prioritized. This is a THINK BIG session about the future and innovation to help build your long term tech investment roadmap.
Jim Scurlock
Senior director, assistant treasurer,
Expedia Group
Jim Scurlock
Senior director, assistant treasurer,
Expedia Group
- 02:00pm -2:40pmHow embracing technology can transform your treasury’s future
- 11:50am -12:30pmOn time treasury: Do you need it and are you ready?
Jim Scurlock is the Sr. Director and Assistant Treasurer at Expedia Group. He is responsible for Global Treasury Operations which includes Investments, Cash and Liquidity Management, Banking, and Trade Finance. He has more than 20 years of domestic and international Treasury experience. Prior to Expedia, Jim spent the past 14 years as the Head of Global Cash Management at Microsoft managing the Treasury, banking, and M&A activity.
Vidhi Jain
Treasurer and head of global shared services,
Qualtrics
Vidhi Jain
Treasurer and head of global shared services,
Qualtrics
- 02:00pm -2:40pmHow embracing technology can transform your treasury’s future
- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs now the time to hire more technologists in the treasury?
Vidhi is the Treasurer and Head of Global Finance Shared Services at Qualtrics with 15+ years of overall Finance experience. She has played impactful roles in all aspects of Finance (as a steward in ensuring compliance; as an efficient operator in managing Finance functions; as a strategist in influencing business growth and acquisitions; and as a catalyst in driving business improvements via cost reduction initiatives). Currently, she leads Treasury, AP, AR and Billings global teams at Qualtrics. Prior to Qualtrics, she worked with Nordstrom and Microsoft corporate treasury teams. She also has several years of experience in corporate banking before she joined the corporate finance roles. She is an MBA and Engineer from leading institutes in India. She lives in Redmond with her husband and two kids for the last eight years. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhi–jain/
Moderated by
Tahreem Kampton
Managing Director, Wholesale Payment Solutions, J.P. Morgan
Tahreem Kampton
Managing Director, Wholesale Payment Solutions, J.P. Morgan
Leveraging treasury risk technologies for operational efficiency and flexibility
Change is the only constant in the current economy, where treasurers are increasingly achieving more with less. In today’s elevated risk environment, treasury leaders are driving new efficiencies in their risk management programs, helped by recent advancements in technology. By leveraging new tools, including automated workflows, treasury teams are now able to better facilitate data-driven decisions on risks for key stakeholders in the company. In this panel, we will hear case studies from leading treasury practitioners at Magna International, Under Armour, and ZimVie, on how they optimised risk systems technologies to deliver greater efficiencies in operations and better financial outcomes.
Jeffrey Cooper
Director, foreign exchange and risk, Magna International
Jeffrey Cooper
Director, foreign exchange and risk, Magna International
March 21st 2023Jeffrey Cooper is the Director of Foreign Exchange & Risk at Magna International Inc., a global automotive parts manufacturer with operations across the globe.
Prior to Magna, Jeffrey worked in Bank of Montreal’s capital markets trading division in both Toronto and Hong Kong as an FX Option trader and structurer for 17 years. He has been involved in a diverse mix of fx and derivative businesses for the past 30 years.
Jeffrey graduated from Western University in London, Ontario, Canada and is a CFA charter holder as well as a holder of the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF).
Kevin Fay
Associate director, treasury, Zimvie Inc.
Kevin Fay
Associate director, treasury, Zimvie Inc.
March 21st 2023Kevin leads the Treasury team at ZimVie (NASDAQ: ZIMV), a global medical device company. Prior to ZimVie, Kevin worked for Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW) and Newmont Corporation (NYSE: NEM). Kevin holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a BBA from the University of Portland. Kevin is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Cameron Bengel
Sr. manager global risk management and capital markets, Under Armour
Cameron Bengel
Sr. manager global risk management and capital markets, Under Armour
March 21st 2023In his role at Under Armour, Cameron oversees the Global Risk Management, Capital Markets and Disbursements functions, including UA’s balance sheet and cash flow hedging programs.
Prior to joining Under Armour, he has held roles at Choice Hotels International, Crocs Inc, and Pall Corporation, where he helped to lead risk management, financing and Treasury operations.
Cameron is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Maryland.
Moderated by:
Amol Dhargalkar
Managing partner, chairman, Chatham Financial
Amol Dhargalkar
Managing partner, chairman, Chatham Financial
Amol is Chairman of the Board of Directors at Chatham and a Managing Partner leading the Global Corporate Sector, serving companies focusing on interest rate, foreign currency and commodity risk management. He earned his BS in Chemical Engineering and Economics from Pennsylvania State University and his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar.
The impacts of inflation, financial market volatility and macro uncertainties on cash forecasting
With inflationary pressures and prices rising rapidly in domestic and international markets, the cash flowing in and out of the business in terms of increased costs and higher prices is changing the fundamentals and dynamics in cash forecasting formulae. As a result of inflation, rising interest rates, volatility in foreign exchange and risks of recession add new levels of complexity to cash forecasting. The opportunity to review cash forecasting models given the inflationary environment is now. In this session treasurer’s talk through the changes that are occurring in cash forecasting due to the inflationary environment, the tools they are developing to ensure visibility and accuracy, and how this is reflected in revised cash forecasting and in consolidated reporting.
Priti Kartik
Head of treasury,
Crowdstrike
Priti Kartik
Head of treasury,
Crowdstrike
March 21st 2023Priti Kartik joined CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity technology company, in late 2020. With more than 20 years of progressive experience in high growth companies, Priti brings deep experience to various areas of treasury. She previously served as Group Treasurer at Logitech, where she also oversaw the Credit and Collections functions. Priti is currently a committee member of San Francisco Treasury symposium and WIT group (Women in Treasury) and served as Vice President and President of the Silicon Valley AFP (formerly PTMA) in 2009-2011. She is a frequent speaker at business and industry events. Priti holds a Graduate Diploma in Finance from Australian National University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai, India. She is CTP certified.
Guillermo Viveros
VP, treasurer,
Infoblox
Guillermo Viveros
VP, treasurer,
Infoblox
March 21st 2023Vice President, Treasurer for Infoblox with + 20 years of experience. Responsible for Treasury, Financial Operations (Accounts Receivable, Account Payable and Payroll) and Mergers and Acquisition support leading a team of professionals located globally in Santa Clara, Seattle, Bangalore and Australia. Acknowledged for strength as a strategic business partner to executive leaders – delivering in-depth analysis and recommendations that affect every part of the business. Prior in depth experience in Financial Planning and Analysis business partnering with C-Suite executives at Tivo and Juniper Networks. Early career in Treasury at Hewlett-Packard in Capital Markets and Foreign Exchange.
Jean Furter
Treasurer,
Poly
Jean Furter
Treasurer,
Poly
March 21st 2023Jean Furter is the Treasurer at Poly (recently acquired by HP). Prior to Poly, Jean held treasurer positions at Brocade Communications in San Jose CA, Agrokor/Fortenova in Zagreb Croatia and Silicon Graphics in Sunnyvale CA.
In his treasurer roles, Jean has focused on transforming the Company’s treasury organization from a tactical/transactional department to a strategic function, working with CEO/CFO/senior execs on developing a cash business model and managing/driving actions across functions to achieve the targeted model, e.g., setting working capital targets and working with the business owners on actions to meet the targets.
In addition, Jean has driven improvements in the following areas: a) Strategic planning – Treasury to drive long-term cash, debt & equity planning process, fully integrated into the evaluation and decision processes for strategic initiatives; b) Capital structure – Capital allocation strategy, optimize debt and shareholder return; c) Financial risk management – FX and interest rates – manage risks to Company’s risk tolerance; d) Use of new technologies to transform treasury value proposition; e) Best practices and benchmarking.
Networking break
Networking break
Is now the time to hire more technologists in the treasury?
When we think of treasury we think of financial experts, yet increasingly treasury is populated with technical experts and software engineers that can build out optimal systems internally and can develop, maintain, evolve and change the treasury systems to meet changing business needs and treasury practices as the company grows. So should treasurers be hiring more treasury technologists in the team? In this session, we invite treasurers who have done just that to discuss how they identified technical talent to meet their needs , and discuss the benefits that tech savvy treasury professionals have brought to treasury management and business growth.
Matt Martin
Senior treasury manager,
Shopify
Matt Martin
Senior treasury manager,
Shopify
March 21st 2023- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs now the time to hire more technologists in the treasury?
Matt joined Shopify Treasury in 2018. He is responsible for leading the team that oversees FX risk management, Insurance, Technology initiatives and anything else that Treasury needs to do to support Shopify merchants and the company’s continued rapid growth.
Stefan Jensen
VP, treasurer Americas,
Sephora
Stefan Jensen
VP, treasurer Americas,
Sephora
March 21st 2023- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs now the time to hire more technologists in the treasury?
Vidhi Jain
Treasurer and head of global shared services,
Qualtrics
Vidhi Jain
Treasurer and head of global shared services,
Qualtrics
- 02:00pm -2:40pmHow embracing technology can transform your treasury’s future
- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs now the time to hire more technologists in the treasury?
Vidhi is the Treasurer and Head of Global Finance Shared Services at Qualtrics with 15+ years of overall Finance experience. She has played impactful roles in all aspects of Finance (as a steward in ensuring compliance; as an efficient operator in managing Finance functions; as a strategist in influencing business growth and acquisitions; and as a catalyst in driving business improvements via cost reduction initiatives). Currently, she leads Treasury, AP, AR and Billings global teams at Qualtrics. Prior to Qualtrics, she worked with Nordstrom and Microsoft corporate treasury teams. She also has several years of experience in corporate banking before she joined the corporate finance roles. She is an MBA and Engineer from leading institutes in India. She lives in Redmond with her husband and two kids for the last eight years. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhi–jain/
Is it time to review your hedging strategies?
With a strong dollar and rising rates, FX markets are becoming a little more unpredictable than in the recent past. The business objective is to reduce volatility as a result of foreign exchange, so hedging exposures in foreign currencies is a strategy that treasurers are now actively engaging, where previously there was no requirement for FX hedging. Yet the cost of hedging can sometimes be prohibitive especially in exotic currencies, or where exposures are not significant, but for major currencies there can be advantages in locking in rates against market fluctuations. In this session, treasurers discuss their decision making around hedging strategies, the process by which they review hedging and the tools they use to measure the effectiveness of FX hedging. We also look at automatic hedging and ask how this is best utilized in FX transactions.
Sarah Alloy
Director, capital markets and treasury,
Prologis
Sarah Alloy
Director, capital markets and treasury,
Prologis
March 21st 2023- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs it time to review your hedging strategies?
Jacqueline Pagano
Head of treasury,
Logitech, Inc.
Jacqueline Pagano
Head of treasury,
Logitech, Inc.
March 21st 2023- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs it time to review your hedging strategies?
Jacqueline is the Global Head of Treasury for Logitech, Inc. She is responsible for Global Cash Management, Investments, FX strategies, Insurance Risk Management, Banking, Payment Gateways and everything else Treasury must do to support the business’ growth.
Jacqueline has over 10 years of progressive experience in various areas of treasury. She is currently a member of the Next Gen WIT group (Women in Treasury) and served as Secretary of the Silicon Valley AFP in 2019-2021.
Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University. She has held her CTP certification since 2015.
Rene Bustamante
Staff VP and assistant treasurer, global cash management,
FedEx Corporation
Rene Bustamante
Staff VP and assistant treasurer, global cash management,
FedEx Corporation
March 21st 2023- 04:00pm -4:40pmIs it time to review your hedging strategies?
Rene Bustamante is Staff Vice President & Assistant Treasurer, Global Cash Management, in the Treasury Department of FedEx Corporation since 2010. In this position, he is responsible for the development and oversight of the corporation’s global cash management structure and activities. He has oversight for all global cash flow, banking services, short term investments, foreign exchange, derivatives, and Treasury Transformation/Technology.
Prior to this post, Bustamante served as Staff Director of Corporate Finance and held various positions in Finance within the corporation since 1994. Before joining FedEx, he was a management consultant for Stone & Webster Management Consultants in Denver and an Economics Research Analyst for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. He also served as an Adjunct Instructor of Economics for the University of Memphis for 17 years.
Bustamante is a graduate of the Leadership Memphis Class of 2009, a two-time winner of the Five Star Award at FedEx, and he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Memphis, and an MBA from the George Washington University. He served as Board President of the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis (2020-2021). He sits on the Boards of Mid-South Latino Chamber of Commerce (Treasurer), Leadership Memphis (Vice-Chair), and the University of Memphis Foundation Board (Finance Committee Chair), and Tennessee State Soccer Association (Executive Vice-President). In addition, he is on the client advisory councils for JP Morgan, Citibank, and Bank of America.
FX automation: a post merger workflow win
Félix-Antoine Marchildon
Senior manager, treasury, Keurig Dr Pepper
Félix-Antoine Marchildon
Senior manager, treasury, Keurig Dr Pepper
March 21st 2023- 04:40pm -5:20pmFX automation: a post merger workflow win
World Bank: triple A-rated bonds for sustainable development
The World Bank Treasury issues around $50 billion in bonds (under the name of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)) every year to mobilize financing from private capital markets. Funds are used to support sustainable development activities in middle income countries across the globe. In recent years, this has included efforts to tackle overlapping crises that developing countries are facing —from war, surging food and energy prices, to the effects of climate change. Please join this session to learn more about the World Bank, the impact it is creating, the investment opportunities it offers in the current rising rate environment, and how your treasury can help support the mission by earning a financial and social return on its investment portfolio.
Akinchan Jain
Head of asset and liability operations,
World Bank Treasury
Akinchan Jain
Head of asset and liability operations,
World Bank Treasury
March 21st 2023- 04:40pm -5:20pmWorld Bank: triple A-rated bonds for sustainable development
Akinchan (Aki) Jain is Manager and Head of Asset and Liability Operations at the World Bank Treasury. In this role, Aki leads a global team responsible for a range of middle office functions for a large, fixed income and derivatives portfolio. This includes approx.$250bn in outstanding debt issuance and $650bn in derivatives for the World Bank, and $185 billion in assets under management for the World Bank and 60+ clients including central banks and official institutions. As part of his responsibilities, Aki leads large business and technology projects and manages relationships with clients, market counter parts, custodians, paying agents, and technology vendors.
Previously, as Senior Financial Officer in the Structured Finance and Derivatives team at the World Bank Treasury, Aki played a key role in managing the $60 billion funding and derivatives program for the World Bank’s IBRD and IDA entities. Aki designed, structured, and executed customized and innovative capital markets solutions to support the needs of World Bank’s investors and clients. Aki has worked on several landmark transactions and initiatives, including the World Bank’s first catastrophe bond, the first global pandemic bond, the first bond linked to the achievement of the Sustainable development Goals, a social impact bond to incentivize the reduction of carbon emissions, and a guarantees and blended finance facility to help countries affected by the refugee crisis. In previous roles, Aki led the middle and back-office teams supporting the capital markets business.
Aki’s areas of interest include fintech, central bank digital currencies (CBDC), ESG investments, climate finance, impact bonds, and insurance-linked securities.
Aki holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from SRCC in Delhi University and an MBA in Finance from American University.
Networking reception
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Global Treasury Americas West Coast | Networking Reception Sponsored by Visa
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Visa is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network – enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device, for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.
Drinks reception
Moderated by:
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Bob has more than 30 years of corporate treasury experience in the roles of treasurer, credit director, finance manager and controller at BP America and Amoco Corporation. He has successfully managed post-acquisition integrations, technology upgrades and corporate restructurings. Currently, Bob is a partner with the Treasury Alliance Group, leveraging his corporate experience in client engagements dealing with global treasury, risk and crisis management; cash management and cash flow forecasting; working capital management; shared service operations and general management. He also shares his experiences by tutoring others in courses such as international cash and treasury management, corporate risk management and cash flow forecasting, as well as by chairing, moderating and speaking at treasury conferences worldwide.
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel L. Blumen, CTP is a founding partner of Treasury Alliance Group where he leads consulting engagements dealing with working capital management, systems integration, liquidity and risk management and other global treasury issues. Prior to co-founding Treasury Alliance in 2002, he was Managing Director of Knowledge Management Applications, a firm he founded in 1998. Dan was with Bank of America in Chicago and Singapore, where he managed the ASEAN region of the Global Payment Services Group. He also worked for Citibank in Chicago and in London where he had pan-European management responsibility for cash management business development. He has worked with large multinationals and emerging international companies and shares his experience as an author and as a frequent speaker at cash management gatherings worldwide.
Moderated by:
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Bob has more than 30 years of corporate treasury experience in the roles of treasurer, credit director, finance manager and controller at BP America and Amoco Corporation. He has successfully managed post-acquisition integrations, technology upgrades and corporate restructurings. Currently, Bob is a partner with the Treasury Alliance Group, leveraging his corporate experience in client engagements dealing with global treasury, risk and crisis management; cash management and cash flow forecasting; working capital management; shared service operations and general management. He also shares his experiences by tutoring others in courses such as international cash and treasury management, corporate risk management and cash flow forecasting, as well as by chairing, moderating and speaking at treasury conferences worldwide.
Moderated by:
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel L. Blumen, CTP is a founding partner of Treasury Alliance Group where he leads consulting engagements dealing with working capital management, systems integration, liquidity and risk management and other global treasury issues. Prior to co-founding Treasury Alliance in 2002, he was Managing Director of Knowledge Management Applications, a firm he founded in 1998. Dan was with Bank of America in Chicago and Singapore, where he managed the ASEAN region of the Global Payment Services Group. He also worked for Citibank in Chicago and in London where he had pan-European management responsibility for cash management business development. He has worked with large multinationals and emerging international companies and shares his experience as an author and as a frequent speaker at cash management gatherings worldwide.
Exhibition opens - light breakfast
Deploying the explorers’ mindset for corporate strategy and finance
The pace of technology-fuelled change has never been quicker. We’re seeing new industries and billion dollar class opportunities emerge in the blink of an eye. From air taxis to AI-created symphonies, energy transition to customized medicine, more will be created in the next few years than has ever existed. To compound these disruptions customer sentiment has recently and dramatically changed in virtually every demographic. This keynote shares a few examples of the incredible pace of technology developments while engaging the audience in a discussion of how best to allocate resources, plan, and build in the face of constant, accelerating societal, technological, and corporate disruptions.
Amish Parashar
CEO,
Explorers’ Lab
Amish Parashar
CEO,
Explorers’ Lab
March 22nd 2023Amish Parashar is the CEO of Explorers’ Lab – a group of 100+ technology and business professionals working to understand what’s next and build new ventures. His background includes invention, regulated industry R&D, and founding a public company’s corporate venture capital practice & $100M VC Fund. He’s led investments in AI, robotics, self-driving vehicles, and beyond. Amish graduated twice from Dartmouth College and once from the University of London. Amish lives and works in Silicon Valley with his wife and two sons.
Treasury and transaction services in today’s economy
As the economy evolves into a new phase into 2023, treasury and transaction services also evolve to meet the new needs of clients today. How services evolve is a process of listening to treasurers and treasury to understand what helps now, and how treasury services can collaborate with treasurers to create solutions. From greater, real time cash visibility to instant liquidity and capital solutions, to bank account management and real time payments, services are in a constant process of continual improvement and optimisation to meet clients specific needs. In this session banks and treasurers discuss how they create treasury and transaction services together, and how changes in today’s economy are focussing minds on evolving solutions.
Derrick Walton
GTS head of emerging payments and innovation,
Bank of America
Derrick Walton
GTS head of emerging payments and innovation,
Bank of America
March 22nd 2023- 09:50am -10:30amTreasury and transaction services in today’s economy
Larson McNeil
Executive director, marketplaces and digital ecosystems, payments, J.P. Morgan
Larson McNeil
Executive director, marketplaces and digital ecosystems, payments, J.P. Morgan
March 22nd 2023- 09:50am -10:30amTreasury and transaction services in today’s economy
Greg Bloh
CEO,
Transcard
Greg Bloh
CEO,
Transcard
March 22nd 2023- 09:50am -10:30amTreasury and transaction services in today’s economy
Greg Bloh serves as CEO of Transcard, bringing 28 years of management, consulting and investment expertise to continually drive Transcard forward across the ever-changing financial landscape.
A recognized business leader and financial technology entrepreneur, he previously served as CEO at Secure Cash Network, a pioneer in prepaid card technology and international money remittance.
Additionally, Greg spearheaded a team as founding partner of TechQuest Capital Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology start-ups. With $60 million in its first fund, the firm was ultimately acquired, and Greg utilized his expertise and leadership in an advisory capacity to smooth the transition.
Throughout the 1990s, he served in various capacities as a business and management consultant, including as an experience manager at Accenture, working with Fortune 100 brands such as Shell, Exxon Mobil, Halliburton, Lloyds of London, and Bank of America.
Networking break
Remote vs hybrid vs office: the work/ life debate
Hybrid working is now the norm in many companies and the shift in working patterns and practices is the lasting legacy of the pandemic on the global workforce. Yet as the pandemic recedes and working life normalizes, the question for many companies and employees is what is the optimal balance between office, hybrid, and remote working now? Whilst the cloud technologies are in place to enable effective treasury operations in remote situations, there is also the view that colleagues might more effectively collaborate on new treasury projects through in-person meetings. In this session, treasurer’s talk about their team structures and the processes they have developed around hybrid and remote working. A key consideration in this is the decentralization of operations, and the commercial office space that the treasury does or does not require. For new talent too, the liberation from the office, and the city, means the treasury can recruit from a wider geographical talent pool. We compare different treasury models of work to see what has been effective and what the future might look like in terms of how treasury teams work together.
David Watt
Head of treasury,
Sonder Inc.
David Watt
Head of treasury,
Sonder Inc.
March 22nd 2023- 11:10am -11:50amRemote vs hybrid vs office: the work/ life debate
David joined Sonder to found their Treasury department at the start of 2019. Prior to that he spent 4+ years helping Uber expand to nearly 80 countries leading a team that grew to 30 people across 3 locations in the San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Singapore. In addition to the two recent roles with start ups David worked in several public companies such as URS, eBay, and World savings. Before getting into Treasury David worked in Accounting and earned a CPA license in California.
Robert Lau
Treasurer and head of real estate and workplace,
Informatica
Robert Lau
Treasurer and head of real estate and workplace,
Informatica
March 22nd 2023- 11:10am -11:50amRemote vs hybrid vs office: the work/ life debate
Robert Lau is the Treasurer and Head of Real Estate and Workplace at Informatica. In addition to his Treasury and Real Estate responsibilities, Robert was previously responsible for Investor Relations and Stock Administration when Informatica was a private company. Prior to joining Informatica, Robert held treasury and finance roles at Yahoo! Inc. and Agilent Technologies and was a Tax professional at Price Waterhouse Coopers.
Robert received a Masters in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Robert also has a Masters in Tax from Golden Gate University. Robert is a CFA Charterholder and CPA (Certified Public Accountant).
Bruce Edlund
Group director, assistant treasurer,
Cloud Software Group
Bruce Edlund
Group director, assistant treasurer,
Cloud Software Group
- 11:10am -11:50amRemote vs hybrid vs office: the work/ life debate
- 02:20pm -3:00pmCash repatriation: is the moment now?
Bruce Edlund is Assistant Treasurer at Cloud Software Group which was formed 9/30/22 when Citrix Systems, Inc. was taken private and merged with Tibco Software. His experience includes: cash/liquidity mgmt, investments, FX hedging, capital structure, debt execution, ratings agency relationships, stock repurchases, API bank connectivity, Swift, TMS implementations, Chapter 11 reorg, private equity, M&A Advisory, valuations, Excel/Access/VBA automation.
Previous roles: Director of Global Treasury at Walmart, Assistant Treasurer at DIRECTV Latin America, Investment Banking Associate at Bank of America. Received a MBA from Thunderbird. Recreated FORAD finance simulation in use at Thunderbird, UC Berkeley and Kingston School of Business
B.A. degrees in Economics and French from CSU, Sacramento.
Lived in US, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Avid cyclist, foodie and traveler. Wannabe guitarist.
Crypto crash: but is there a phoenix coin in the ashes?
The great crypto crash of the summer of 2022 saw bitcoin lose 70% of its value, and has left many decentralized finance advocates in the industry in a corner, holding uncertain crypto assets of volatile value. Some think that the market will rebound and surpass previous highs, whilst others, who have maintained a degree of skepticism around the asset class, feel that it is just yet another signal that the fundamentals are weak. The development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), with Fed-backed stablecoins, might be a gamechanger in the development of digital dollars, with US regulators supporting the Fed to develop CBDCs for current markets. How this will all fall out is still yet unknown, but we can seek to know how companies and their treasurers will position around any US CBDC, or other stablecoins. In this session generative AI speaker, Prudence Cloud will join treasury leaders to discuss their thinking and strategy around cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and other digital assets as both investments and stores of value, and as instruments of payment.
Todd Yoder
Global MD strategic finance and treasury,
Fluor Corporation
Todd Yoder
Global MD strategic finance and treasury,
Fluor Corporation
- 11:30am -12:10pmFighting the immediate impact of inflation on treasury
- 11:10am -11:50amCrypto crash: but is there a phoenix coin in the ashes?
Todd Yoder serves as Global MD strategic finance and treasury at Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) and finance committee member of mega-projects, joint ventures, and subsidiaries. Yoder began his career in corporate accounting followed by progressive roles in banking commercial credit, corporate financial planning and analysis, global strategic finance, and treasury – and most recently co-led one of the most successful de-SPAC mergers of 2022 taking NuScale Power Corporation public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SMR) in May 2022. Yoder has been an invited guest speaker at events throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia; and has work published by Bloomberg, Association for Financial Professionals, Corporate Executive Board, Reuters and Treasury Today magazine. Yoder serves as the Innovation Catalyst for Fluor’s world headquarters, is an alum of Fluor’s Innovation Unwrapped program, and has led numerous treasury and finance related technology projects. Yoder is a proven leader passionate about building high performing collaborative teams with servant leadership focused on people development and cross-discipline relationship building that foster an authentic and innovative culture hungry to add value to the business. Yoder holds three business degrees including his M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with academic honors. Yoder is often praised for his down-to-earth communication style that effectively delivers complex financial and macroeconomic concepts and strategies into easy-to-understand terms.
Prudence Cloud
Thought leader and digital disrupter
Prudence Cloud
Thought leader and digital disrupter
March 22nd 2023- 11:10am -11:50amCrypto crash: but is there a phoenix coin in the ashes?
Prudence has more than 18 months of experience scouring open sources and generating financial wisdom. She is an avid hiker and enjoys spending time with family and friends in the great outdoors.
Treasury technology investments: The future is here!
The acceleration of corporate process change, behavior and investment trajectories have shifted dramatically over the past 3+ years. The pandemic was in large part an igniter of the true need to invest and innovate. Remote technology, move to cloud-based systems, better capabilities to manage client relationships are just a few of the many shifts we have seen—with more to come. We are really at the end of the beginning with a return our new business as usual, hybrid work, doubled focus on API’s as a liberator for companies and legacy platforms, etc. The name of the game is digitization—and we all want to make the right play for the future. In many ways, the future is here, but we simply need to focus on the right plays that will scale and give us all the efficiencies we need now and into the next 5-10 years. We will discuss the tailwinds that got us here and the headwinds impacting investing ahead. In this session we will discuss whether now is the time to be accelerating investments in treasury technologies balanced against challenges in costs and simply play a “fast follower approach”. This is a must-see session for treasurers leading our industry.
Sonia Shah
Head of treasury, Juniper Networks
Sonia Shah
Head of treasury, Juniper Networks
March 22nd 2023- 11:50am -12:30pmTreasury technology investments: The future is here!
Sonia Shah is the Head of Treasury at Juniper Networks Inc., with 20+ years of Treasury experience. She is responsible for a team that oversees Capital Markets, FX and Investments, Cash Flow and Treasury Operations. Previously, she has worked in Corporate Treasury teams at LinkedIn, VMware, Extreme Networks and Sun Microsystems. Sonia is currently a member of the WIT group (Women in Treasury) and has served as President and various Board positions at the Silicon Valley AFP from 2012-2018. Sonia has an MBA in Finance and Masters in Statistics from leading institutes in India. Sonia lives and works in Silicon Valley with her husband and two kids.
Rafif Ismail
Treasurer, Stanford Health Care
Rafif Ismail
Treasurer, Stanford Health Care
March 22nd 2023- 11:50am -12:30pmTreasury technology investments: The future is here!
Rafif Ismail is the Treasurer at Stanford Health Care (SHC). She is a seasoned financial expert and Certified Treasury Professional with over 15 years of experience in treasury and capital markets.
In her current role, Rafif provides stewardship over SHC’s investment portfolio, capital markets access, liquidity management, and banking operations, enabling the organization to effectively deploy its financial resources to support its mission and strategic objectives.
Rafif earned her Master of Science in Finance from the George Washington University and her Bachelor of Business Administration from the American University of Beirut.
Moderated by:
Lamar Berry
Head of B2B channel sales,
Visa
Lamar Berry
Head of B2B channel sales,
Visa
Lamar Berry is Visa’s Head of B2B Channel Sales. Lamar is charged with managing the channel sales team that efforts focus on driving B2B digital payment volume and revenue across North America with Visa’s processors partners, financial institutions, and corporate merchant clients. Prior to joining Visa Lamar was Director, Client Management – Healthcare, Education & Energy Solutions. A graduate of DePaul University, Lamar holds a master’s degree from Northeastern University. Lamar and his wife reside in Tampa, Fl and is the father of (4) daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and working out and is a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) weekend warrior.
On time treasury: Do you need it and are you ready?
Today’s treasurers are transitioning to a digitally enhanced, interconnected ecosystem driven by data. On-time treasury is the technology driven acceleration of operational workflows that support a continuous, on-demand, always on process under near constant monitoring. It involves the combination of the evolution of technology, data analytics and practical application to accelerate automation thereby enabling on-time to take hold.
Jim Scurlock
Senior director, assistant treasurer,
Expedia Group
Jim Scurlock
Senior director, assistant treasurer,
Expedia Group
- 02:00pm -2:40pmHow embracing technology can transform your treasury’s future
- 11:50am -12:30pmOn time treasury: Do you need it and are you ready?
Jim Scurlock is the Sr. Director and Assistant Treasurer at Expedia Group. He is responsible for Global Treasury Operations which includes Investments, Cash and Liquidity Management, Banking, and Trade Finance. He has more than 20 years of domestic and international Treasury experience. Prior to Expedia, Jim spent the past 14 years as the Head of Global Cash Management at Microsoft managing the Treasury, banking, and M&A activity.
Brian Zarahn
Director of capital markets,
Palo Alto Networks
Brian Zarahn
Director of capital markets,
Palo Alto Networks
March 22nd 2023- 11:50am -12:30pmOn time treasury: Do you need it and are you ready?
Brian Zarahn is a Director of Treasury at Palo Alto Networks. Brian manages the Company’s capital markets strategy, investment portfolio, and foreign exchange hedging. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he served as a Wall Street equity research analyst at Barclays, Lehman Brothers and Mizuho. Brian also worked in Washington D.C. as a legislative analyst in the U.S. House of Representatives and at the National Endowment for Democracy. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree from James Madison University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Brian is a CFA® charterholder.
Moderated by:
Michael Bosacco
Head of advisory, global transaction services,
Bank of America
Michael Bosacco
Head of advisory, global transaction services,
Bank of America
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Risk management tools to navigate uncertainty
Systems and processes within the treasury to manage and mitigate risk scenarios are in sharp focus in the current economic environment. Whilst we have discussed risk mitigation strategies, the focus is on how to set up warning systems and dashboards so that treasury and the business can see any threats to cash and liquidity positions in developing real-time scenarios. Understanding where liquidity risks might come from and what to do to mitigate risk, is critical and at the treasury’s raison d’etre. The risk management framework is a project which is under constant review, where the treasurer works closely with business partners to constantly evolve and develop processes to limit liabilities. In this session we discuss how the business and treasury work together to develop such frameworks to create bulletproof risk management systems.
Sayan Mukherjee
VP, group treasurer,
Nexperia
Sayan Mukherjee
VP, group treasurer,
Nexperia
March 22nd 2023- 01:40pm -2:20pmRisk management tools to navigate uncertainty
Lee-Ann Perkins
Assistant treasurer,
Specialized Bicycle Components
Lee-Ann Perkins
Assistant treasurer,
Specialized Bicycle Components
March 22nd 2023- 01:40pm -2:20pmRisk management tools to navigate uncertainty
Lee-Ann Perkins, CTP(CD), FCT is the Assistant Treasurer at Specialized Bicycle Company, a global leader in the high-end bicycle and bicycle components business. Originally from South Africa she received her bachelor’s in Management Accounting before moving to the USA on expat assignment with her husband. She obtained an MBA with honors and due to a continued interest in compliance and governance Lee-Ann completed the inaugural Financial Compliance Certificate through Chicago-Kent Law School in 2016. In 2021 she was awarded the FCT fellow designation with merit from the Association of Corporate Treasurers in the U.K.
Lee-Ann holds the Association of Finance Professionals (AFP) CTP and CTP (CD) Canadian certifications and is recognized as a Subject Matter Expert by the AFP serving on the CTP exam formulation committee since 2008. Lee-Ann has been a member the AFP Treasury Advisory Group since 2017 and current Advisory Board member for NACHA. She has served on the Houston Treasury Management Association Board as President & Chairman and held various other committee roles over the years.
Lee-Ann has been a Treasury practitioner for 18 years and held roles in increasing authority in Publicly traded Oil and Gas and construction industries.
Cash repatriation: is the moment now?
The revised tax environment for offshore funds has meant that many US companies are transferring their foreign capital pools back into US accounts. Now however, with a strong dollar the price of repatriation of funds is increasing as FX rates rise. So is now the right time to repatriate foreign cash and securities? For some treasurers in need of liquidity in US businesses, the answer to that question will be yes. In this session treasurer’s discuss their strategies and processes for cash repatriation to achieve greater pools of accessible working capital for the business and stronger liquidity buffers as rates rise in US markets.
Regina Ochev
SVP, treasury,
Prologis
Regina Ochev
SVP, treasury,
Prologis
March 22nd 2023- 02:20pm -3:00pmCash repatriation: is the moment now?
Regina Ochev is a Senior Vice President of Treasury at Prologis where she oversees public capital raising, management of company’s banking and rating agency relationships, foreign exchange strategy, liquidity planning, global cash operations and investments. Regina has spent fourteen years at Prologis driving and transforming Treasury department as the company quadrupled its balance sheet, entered new markets and increased assets under management more than ten-fold. She has participated in numerous banking and industry conferences including AFP and EuroFinance. Prior to joining Prologis, Regina spent eight years in a variety of corporate treasury and risk management roles at International Paper Company, Hewlett Packard and Charles Schwab. Regina holds an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from University of San Francisco. She is a California CPA.
Bruce Edlund
Group director, assistant treasurer,
Cloud Software Group
Bruce Edlund
Group director, assistant treasurer,
Cloud Software Group
- 11:10am -11:50amRemote vs hybrid vs office: the work/ life debate
- 02:20pm -3:00pmCash repatriation: is the moment now?
Bruce Edlund is Assistant Treasurer at Cloud Software Group which was formed 9/30/22 when Citrix Systems, Inc. was taken private and merged with Tibco Software. His experience includes: cash/liquidity mgmt, investments, FX hedging, capital structure, debt execution, ratings agency relationships, stock repurchases, API bank connectivity, Swift, TMS implementations, Chapter 11 reorg, private equity, M&A Advisory, valuations, Excel/Access/VBA automation.
Previous roles: Director of Global Treasury at Walmart, Assistant Treasurer at DIRECTV Latin America, Investment Banking Associate at Bank of America. Received a MBA from Thunderbird. Recreated FORAD finance simulation in use at Thunderbird, UC Berkeley and Kingston School of Business
B.A. degrees in Economics and French from CSU, Sacramento.
Lived in US, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Avid cyclist, foodie and traveler. Wannabe guitarist.
Roundtables
Open forum format around a table with an expert moderator to discuss ideas together. Choose your topic of choice from:
- Future of money: crypto, NFTs and CBDCs
- ESG and sustainability
- FX and hedging risk
- Managing working capital and payments economics in a dynamic economy
- APIs and technology investment
- Recruitment and building treasury teams
- Diversity and inclusion
Moderated by:
Jori McCuskey
Director, treasury, Magnite
Jori McCuskey
Director, treasury, Magnite
Jori McCuskey is Director of Treasury at Magnite, Inc., a global leader in advertising technology. Mr. McCuskey joined Magnite in 2021 and is responsible for capital markets, treasury operations, cash forecasting & liquidity management, investing, treasury systems and financial risk management. Before joining Magnite, Mr. McCuskey had been primarily in the technology and financial services sectors while at Symantec Corp., Dell, Inc. and Dell’s captive financing subsidiary Dell Financial Services LLC. in a variety of capacities. Collectively, he has managed complex global capital structures, run hedging programs, supported TMS implementations and M&A integrations, completed M&A-related financing transactions, including supporting Dell’s take-private transaction, and implemented strategies to better manage working capital and improve control and visibility of cash. While at Dell, Mr. McCuskey had also helped to grow and develop a treasury shared services center based in the Slovak Republic. In addition to these experiences, Mr. McCuskey has provided various data, financial & analytical services to clients involved in complex commercial disputes and investigations while at FTI Consulting and Navigant Consulting. Mr. McCuskey is a CFA Charterholder and graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business.
Alan Koenigsberg
SVP, global head of treasury and working capital solutions,
Visa
Alan Koenigsberg
SVP, global head of treasury and working capital solutions,
Visa
Professionally, Alan Koenigsberg is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Treasury and Working Capital Solutions at Visa. This is a new appointment for Alan and a new team focused on developing leading edge solutions/ventures for our commercial clients. Previously, was leading all aspects of the commercialization of Visa B2B Connect, a unique multilateral cross-border B2B payments network, as well as opening new payment business opportunities for Corporate Treasury Services in the Business-to-Business space worldwide.
Prior to this role, Alan was Chief Revenue Officer at Traxpay, a payments and supply chain Financial Technology company based in Germany. During his tenure, he grew the startup into a major player and led all go-to-market relationship building with financial institutions. Alan is an experienced payments and treasury professional who was previously Managing Director and Corporate Banking Group Executive at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In this role, Alan worked with global corporates to provide corporate lending and treasury management solutions worldwide. Prior to Bank of America, Alan has also held key leadership roles in London and New York at J.P. Morgan and product Management and Operations roles at American Express. He has always been focused on bringing the world together through democratizing trade and payments for all. His belief and north star are that financial inclusion brings the world together. His efforts have also included assignments in the Middle East – such as Kuwait, etc. – working to improve and rebuild financial infrastructures.
Alan views board service as a mission and passion. He sits on two non-profit boards/Advisory groups in New York and in Los Angeles. Much like his professional work, Alan has always worked to bring business and non-profits together, linking arts, education, and commerce to further inclusivity, understanding and acceptance for all.
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Robert Novaria
Senior EuroFinance tutor and partner,
Treasury Alliance Group
Bob has more than 30 years of corporate treasury experience in the roles of treasurer, credit director, finance manager and controller at BP America and Amoco Corporation. He has successfully managed post-acquisition integrations, technology upgrades and corporate restructurings. Currently, Bob is a partner with the Treasury Alliance Group, leveraging his corporate experience in client engagements dealing with global treasury, risk and crisis management; cash management and cash flow forecasting; working capital management; shared service operations and general management. He also shares his experiences by tutoring others in courses such as international cash and treasury management, corporate risk management and cash flow forecasting, as well as by chairing, moderating and speaking at treasury conferences worldwide.
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel Blumen
Partner,
Treasury Alliance Group LLC
Daniel L. Blumen, CTP is a founding partner of Treasury Alliance Group where he leads consulting engagements dealing with working capital management, systems integration, liquidity and risk management and other global treasury issues. Prior to co-founding Treasury Alliance in 2002, he was Managing Director of Knowledge Management Applications, a firm he founded in 1998. Dan was with Bank of America in Chicago and Singapore, where he managed the ASEAN region of the Global Payment Services Group. He also worked for Citibank in Chicago and in London where he had pan-European management responsibility for cash management business development. He has worked with large multinationals and emerging international companies and shares his experience as an author and as a frequent speaker at cash management gatherings worldwide.
Bruce Edlund
Group director, assistant treasurer,
Cloud Software Group
Bruce Edlund
Group director, assistant treasurer,
Cloud Software Group
- 11:10am -11:50amRemote vs hybrid vs office: the work/ life debate
- 02:20pm -3:00pmCash repatriation: is the moment now?
Bruce Edlund is Assistant Treasurer at Cloud Software Group which was formed 9/30/22 when Citrix Systems, Inc. was taken private and merged with Tibco Software. His experience includes: cash/liquidity mgmt, investments, FX hedging, capital structure, debt execution, ratings agency relationships, stock repurchases, API bank connectivity, Swift, TMS implementations, Chapter 11 reorg, private equity, M&A Advisory, valuations, Excel/Access/VBA automation.
Previous roles: Director of Global Treasury at Walmart, Assistant Treasurer at DIRECTV Latin America, Investment Banking Associate at Bank of America. Received a MBA from Thunderbird. Recreated FORAD finance simulation in use at Thunderbird, UC Berkeley and Kingston School of Business
B.A. degrees in Economics and French from CSU, Sacramento.
Lived in US, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Avid cyclist, foodie and traveler. Wannabe guitarist.
Todd Yoder
Global MD strategic finance and treasury,
Fluor Corporation
Todd Yoder
Global MD strategic finance and treasury,
Fluor Corporation
- 11:30am -12:10pmFighting the immediate impact of inflation on treasury
- 11:10am -11:50amCrypto crash: but is there a phoenix coin in the ashes?
Todd Yoder serves as Global MD strategic finance and treasury at Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) and finance committee member of mega-projects, joint ventures, and subsidiaries. Yoder began his career in corporate accounting followed by progressive roles in banking commercial credit, corporate financial planning and analysis, global strategic finance, and treasury – and most recently co-led one of the most successful de-SPAC mergers of 2022 taking NuScale Power Corporation public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SMR) in May 2022. Yoder has been an invited guest speaker at events throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia; and has work published by Bloomberg, Association for Financial Professionals, Corporate Executive Board, Reuters and Treasury Today magazine. Yoder serves as the Innovation Catalyst for Fluor’s world headquarters, is an alum of Fluor’s Innovation Unwrapped program, and has led numerous treasury and finance related technology projects. Yoder is a proven leader passionate about building high performing collaborative teams with servant leadership focused on people development and cross-discipline relationship building that foster an authentic and innovative culture hungry to add value to the business. Yoder holds three business degrees including his M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with academic honors. Yoder is often praised for his down-to-earth communication style that effectively delivers complex financial and macroeconomic concepts and strategies into easy-to-understand terms.
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