2009 AFP Pinnacle Awards

Has your treasury or finance department recently launched a strategic, innovative, or risk management solution that contributed to your company's bottom line financial success? The Association for Financial Professionals® (AFP) and Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company, invite you to nominate that winning solution for the 2009 AFP Pinnacle Award.

AFP Pinnacle Awards are presented annually to organizations that have successfully developed dynamic solutions that make treasury and finance more efficient and effective.

The Pinnacle Awards recognize excellence in treasury and finance in three award categories: strategy, innovation and risk.

Strategy: Treasury as a Strategic Partner. These winning solutions demonstrate the value treasury can create as a strategic player through successful capital structure initiatives, corporate growth deal structures, business unit and project decision-making programs.

Innovation: Leading Advances in Treasury and Finance. These winning solutions demonstrate creative organizational structures, innovative technologies and processes, and sophisticated performance metrics that are on the cutting edge of treasury and finance.

Risk: Advanced Risk Management Methodologies. These winning solutions demonstrate advanced risk management methodologies that reduce organizational risk related to financial risks, internal controls and compliance, fraud prevention, business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Note, the 2009 AFP Pinnacle Awards seek to recognize your team's original thinking and initiative. Turn-key vendor solutions will not be considered.

To submit a solution that has added significant value in your organization:

1. Click here and fill out your entry information.
2. Soon after you submit your entry, a confirmation e-mail will be sent to the e-mail address you provide in the form. The e-mail will include a link to your entry so that you can make changes and/or additions as necessary.
3. Please contact Ernie Humphrey, Director of Treasury Services, 301.961.8611 with any questions.

Deadline for submission is June 12, 2009.

The AFP Pinnacle Awards, symbolizing excellence in Treasury and Finance, are awarded annually to organizations who in the judgment of their treasury colleagues and peers have successfully developed dynamic solutions that make treasury and finance more strategic.

Treasury and finance departments of companies, organizations or government entities -- regardless of size, industry or location -- may enter for a 2009 Pinnacle Award.

There are no entry fees. Affiliation with AFP or any other professional association is not required. The treasurer or CFO of the applying company must validate all entries, and every applicant must agree to be interviewed.

All entries will be screened to mask any material necessary to ensure blind and impartial evaluation by the judges. All entries become the property of the Association for Financial Professionals for the general advancement of knowledge in the treasury and financial field. The sponsors may publish and publicize entries in any manner and without compensation. Entries will not be returned to applicants.

Individuals and organizations submitting entries to the AFP Pinnacle Awards Program acknowledge that they:

• Grant permission to the sponsors and to anyone authorized by the sponsors to publicize the organization's name as well as photographic likeness of the developer(s) of the winning entry.
• Affirm that the submission is the original work of the entrants/Treasury department and that it does not infringe upon the property rights of any third parties. Further, affirm that the Treasury department has the full right to enter the award program and to transfer all rights in the submission to the sponsors.
• Agree to hold the sponsors harmless from claim by any third parties arising from any use of the submission.

AFP's 2008 Pinnacle Award Winners:

• Strategy: Treasury as a Strategic Partner
  PAETEC, Fairport, New York
• Innovation: Leading Advances in Treasury and Finance
  Enhanced Investment Technologies, LLC (INTECH), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
• Risk: Advanced Risk Management Methodologies
  Belk Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina

Each 2009 AFP Pinnacle Category Award Winner will be honored for their winning solutions in their respective categories at this year's AFP Annual Conference in San Francisco, October 4 at 3:30 p.m., in Hall D of the Moscone Center, in front of over 6,000 treasury and finance professionals. The awards will be presented by a senior Wachovia executive in concert with the President of AFP. The AFP Pinnacle Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the category winners and be awarded this special honor during the ceremony. The Grand Prize Winner will also receive a $10,000 charitable donation to the charity of their choice from Wachovia. AFP provides for up to two complimentary conference registrations, transportation and lodging for each of the category winners.

Immediately following the AFP Annual Conference, AFP and Wachovia will present the AFP Pinnacle Grand Prize Winner a $10,000 check, coordinating and staging a press conference to be held in the city in which the Grand Prize Winner's company or organization is located.

The winners will have the opportunity to present their winning solutions during the Annual Conference. In addition, AFP's Publications staff will help the winners develop their entries into articles that will be published in an upcoming AFP Exchange magazine. In addition, each winner will receive one CTP/CCM credit for each page of the published articles.