Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Michael Raynor
Author of The Strategy Paradox and The Innovator's Solution
The Strategy Paradox was just rated one of 2007's best business books by BusinessWeek and Strategy+Business!

Michael Raynor is unique among business thinkers for having broken significant new ground on both of the fundamental problems of strategy: driving the competitive success of your business without taking on the risk of failure. Raynor has written two breakthrough books that together provide the complete guide to business strategy. Conceptually challenging yet fact-based and practically applicable, this remarkable approach to strategy will change the way you look at every aspect of your business.

Raynor is an accomplished and eloquent speaker who will stretch your thinking and your organization. He brings unparalleled insight and pragmatism to the most difficult problem in business: pursuing greatness without courting ruin. Raynor is also an adjunct professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada where he teaches innovation, advanced strategy and executive education. Michael is a prize-winning essayist, including a McKinsey award-winning article in the Harvard Business Review.

LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Rick Funston
Principal and National Practice Leader, Governance & Risk Oversight
Deloitte & Touche

Rick Funston is one of the firm's leading experts on Risk Intelligence and Enterprise Risk Management. Funston typically works with boards and senior executives of large, complex and global enterprises across a wide range of industry sectors, including consumer business, telecom, technology, manufacturing, life sciences, distribution, logistics and the public sector. Funston has led the development of many of Deloitte's methodologies and tools to support improved Risk Intelligence including application within Deloitte itself.

Michel Bekkers
Global Director, Financial Risk Management
Dow Chemical Company

Michel Bekkers is the Global Director for Treasury's Financial Risk Management and Financial Investments at Dow Chemical, based in Midland, Michigan. As the global leader for financial risk management, Michel is responsible for global risk management of Dow?s financial market exposures, including foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risk management. He also leads the Company?s risk measurement and enterprise-wide risk modeling. Michel received a BA in Economics from the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, New York.

Bruce Branson
Professor, Department of Accounting
Associate Director, Enterprise Risk Management Initiative
NC State University

Alumni Distinguished Professor of Accounting and Associate Director of the NC State University Enterprise Risk Management Initiative. Bruce's research has appeared in such journals as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Decision Sciences, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, and Advances in Accounting. Bruce teaches both undergraduates (Intermediate Financial Accounting) and graduate students (M&A Accounting and Accounting for Derivatives) in the Jenkins Graduate School of Management at NC State.

Steven D. Dreyer
Managing Director
U.S. Practice Leader for Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings
Standard & Poor's

Steve Dreyer is U.S. practice leader for Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings, overseeing a group of 50 analysts providing credit ratings and research on investor-owned electric, gas, and water utilities, independent power producers, gas pipelines, project finance, and public-private infrastructure partnerships. He also leads an S&P research project on the applicability of Enterprise Risk Management analysis to the credit analysis process for U.S. corporate ratings.

Peter D. Fahrenthold, CTP
Managing Director Risk Management
Continental Airlines Inc.
AFP Corporate Risk Forum Task Force Member

Peter Fahrenthold has over eighteen years of risk management experience and has been serving as the Managing Director of Risk Management for Continental Airlines since 1997. His responsibilities include leadership of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process at Continental. In addition to his experience in the airline industry, he has served in risk management positions at other global corporations in the manufacturing and service industries.

David Fox
Director, Risk Management
KBR, Inc.

David Fox serves as Director, Risk Management for KBR, Inc. after having spent over twenty years in various finance and risk management roles within the energy business, international banking and regional investment banking. Prior to joining the KBR, David worked for an investor owned utility, a merchant energy company, and an international bank. David holds an M.B.A. from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, and a B.B.A. from The University of Texas.

Barry Franklin
Managing Director
Aon Global Risk Consulting

Barry Franklin is currently serving as the Principal Group Managing Director, Americas for Aon Global Risk Consulting, which provides professional consulting including actuarial and analytics, risk management consulting, risk finance consulting, and enterprise risk management. Barry?s areas of expertise are enterprise risk management, risk modeling, loss reserving, and insurance pricing. Prior to joining Aon, he held positions at Ernst & Young, Zurich Insurance Company, and Allstate Insurance Company.

David P. Groeber
Director of Finance & Risk Management
Tuthill Corporation
AFP Corporate Risk Forum Task Force Member

Director of Finance and Risk Management for Tuthill Corporation, a privately held industrial manufacturer. Served as Assistant Treasurer of Tuthill since 1994. Prior to Tuthill, Dave worked as a Tax Manager for Deloitte & Touche. Dave is a CPA and has his BS in Accountancy from the University of Illinois in Champaign, IL.

Guillermo Gualino
Assistant Treasurer
Flextronics International Ltd.
AFP Corporate Risk Forum Task Force Member

Guillermo Gualino is responsible for global cash operations, investments, borrowings, equipment leasing, risk management, trade finance, capital markets and banking relationships. He received a BS in Mechanical Electrical Engineering from LaSalle University in Mexico City, and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Susan Keller
Managing Director
BlackRock

Susan Keller is a Managing Director and Corporate Risk Officer at BlackRock. Ms. Keller is also responsible for managing the firm?s insurance programs. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2003, she was Senior Vice President and Managing Director at PFPC where she headed the Risk Management department. Susan joined PFPC in 1997 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where she was a supervising examiner and manager of the Banking Studies unit. She received a BS in Accounting from Rutgers University and an MBA from Rider University.

Eric Lamarre
Director, Global Risk Practice
McKinsey & Company

Eric Lamarre joined McKinsey in 1994 and is currently Director of the Montreal office. He also co-leads McKinsey's Global Risk Practice, serving North American and global companies in the basic materials, industrial, energy, and healthcare sectors. He specializes in risk management, business and manufacturing strategy, post-acquisition integration, and R&D management. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a management degree from the College des Ingenieurs in Paris.

Christopher E. Mandel
Executive Officer, Enterprise Risk Management
USAA

Christopher E. Mandel has over 25 years of experience in insurance and risk management and is currently head of enterprise risk management for USAA. He previously held positions in risk management at Marsh & McLennan, Verizon, the American National Red Cross, PepsiCo, and Tricon Global Restaurants. Mr. Mandel writes the ?Ask a Risk Manager? column for Business Insurance magazine and was named Risk Manager of the Year 2004 by Business Insurance and the Risk and Insurance Management Society. The ERM program he and his team created received the 2007 Alexander Hamilton Award for Excellence in Enterprise Risk Management.

Venu Nagali
Procurement Risk Management Group Lead
Hewlett-Packard Company

Venu Nagali is a Distinguished Technologist with and heads HP's Procurement Risk Management (PRM) Group. In July of 2000 he co-founded the PRM program at HP with the charter to enable the measurement and management of supply chain risks. He invented the quantitative framework for PRM that forms the basis of the program being implemented at HP. PRM has been implemented for $8 billion in annual HP spend, and has enabled $450 million in savings for HP over the past 7 years. Venu received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University.

Jiro Okochi
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Reval.com, Inc.

Jiro Okochi is the CEO for Reval a leading web-based derivatives risk management and hedge accounting solutions provider. Prior to Reval, he was involved in sales of derivative products at major global financial institutions. With over 20 years experience, he is a frequent speaker on courses on derivative, risk management and FAS 133/IAS 39.

Neil O'Sullivan
Director of Strategy and Risk Management
Verizon

Neil O'Sullivan is Director of Strategy and Risk Management at Verizon Investment Management Corp. Mr. O'Sullivan is responsible for assisting in strategy development, investment monitoring, risk management and corporate governance for over $60 billion in assets across pension, savings plans and VEBA trusts. In prior engagements, Mr. O'Sullivan also over saw operations and served as corporate secretary.

Jason M. Schenker
Risk Management Specialist
McKinsey & Company

Jason Schenker writes commentaries on energy, international economics, foreign exchange and metals commodities. He has been cited by the Wall Street Journal and numerous other press publications and has appeared on CNBC, ABC News, Al Jazeera, the BBC and Bloomberg TV as a guest host. He holds Master's degrees in Economics and German.

C. Jeffery (Jeff) Triplette
President & Chief Operating Officer
FNC, Inc.

Triplette serves as president & chief operating officer for FNC, Inc., a pioneering collateral infrastructure and information company focused on the collateral components of residential mortgage lending. Prior to joining FNC, Triplette was employed by Duke Energy for over 32 years serving in numerous leadership roles to include assistant treasurer, vice president of corporate accounts, vice president of risk management services and general manager of real estate.

Patrick R. Whalen, CTP
Global Financial Risk Manager
E.I. DuPont Co.
AFP Corporate Risk Forum Task Chair

Whalen is responsible for foreign exchange and commodities risk management, joint venture governance, and special financing projects Under his direction the department provides global execution services from Wilmington and Singapore and risk management consulting to DuPont businesses. Whalen began his career at DuPont in 2000 as Senior Consultant Exchange Rate Management. Prior to joining DuPont he was Assistant Treasurer at Pioneer Hi-Bred International that was acquired by DuPont in October 1999.

Alex P. Wittenberg
Managing Director, Global Head of Corporate Risk
Oliver Wyman

Alex Wittenberg is a Managing Director and leads the global Corporate Risk Consulting practice of Oliver Wyman in New York City. Wittenberg has been in the international risk management industry for over 17 years, leading enterprise risk and risk adjusted strategy consulting to corporations, public entities and government organizations. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, he was a Managing Director and was the National Practice leader for both Business Risk Consulting and Risk Finance at Marsh Canada Limited. Wittenberg is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in Economics and Political Science.

Nick Zelenczuk
Senior Vice President of Audit and Risk Management
Bell Canada

Nick Zelenczuk is the Senior Vice President of Audit and Risk Management for Bell Canada, the largest telecommunications company in Canada. He is responsible for leading and developing Enterprise Wide Risk Management for Bell Canada. His portfolio of responsibilities also includes internal audit, corporate security, corporate responsibility, environmental compliance and revenue assurance. Prior to joining Bell Canada, Nick held senior line and risk management positions in the financial services industry in Canada.