2003 — Agenda
Treasury & Risk's 9th Annual Alexander Hamilton Best Practices Summit —
September 30 and October 1, 2003
September 30, 2003
7:45am - 8:30am
Registration & Alexander Hamilton Breakfast Roundtables
Past AHA winners and industry experts will host separate discussions on trends in cash management, corporate finance, credit risk management, financial risk management, insurance, real estate, retirement plans and technology. Join the table that's tackling the issues most important to your company.
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8:30am - 9:20am
Opening Address: “Best Practices in Corporate Governance” David Shedlarz, EVP and CFO, Pfizer, Inc. talks about Sarbanes-Oxley and Pfizer’s best practices in corporate governance.
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9:20am - 10:10am
Technology Panel
• What does STP mean for treasury professionals?
• How to use the Web effectively
• Are B2B services and exchanges delivering the promised savings?
• Is your enterprise integrated?
Session Chairman: Ken Dummitt, President, SunGard Treasury Systems
Panelists:
Frank Luongo Director, Treasury Analysis, Whirlpool Corporation
Lynda McGoey, Manager of Trade and Project Finance, General Electric Company
Robert Newton, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
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10:10am – 10:30am
Networking Break
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10:30am – 11:20am
Real Estate Panel
• Making real estate boost the bottom line
• Overcoming the surplus space dilemma
• What will your real estate be doing in its next life?
• Transformational outsourcing: Real estate’s new value proposition
Session Chairman: Kenneth Rudy, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, Jones Lang LaSalle
Panelists:
Christian Bigsby, Director of World Wide Real Estate, GlaxoSmithKline
Mark Brooks, First Vice President, Real Estate Planning, Merrill Lynch
Steven Feldman, Head of Global Real Estate, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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11:25am – 12:15pm
Financial Risk Management Panel
• Optimizing your capital structure with derivative products
• Managing your fixed to floating mix
• Trends in the dollar and current rate environment
• Using derivative products to optimize debt issuance for high grade, high yield, private placements, ABS and cross border
Session Chairman: Marc Katz, Managing Director, Global Derivatives Products, Bank of America
Panelists:
Michael Joseph, Partner, Ernst & Young
Michael Irgang, Director, Financial Risk Management, McDonald’s
Nancy McEwen, Assistant Treasurer – Credit, General Electric Company
Margaret McLeod, Assistant Treasurer, Whirlpool Corporation
Michael Morrow, Director of Foreign Exchange, Microsoft Corporation
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12:30am – 2:00pm
Luncheon Address: “The Challenges Ahead” John V. Faraci, President, and former CFO, International Paper Co. talks about the challenges facing the CFO and treasurer post Enron.
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2:15pm – 3:05pm
Cash Management Panel
• The Plastic Revolution? P-cards, payroll cards and EIPP
• How to make your liquidity work better for you
• In-house banking—who should do it and how?
• Global consolidation
• Working capital management
Session Chairman: David Benjamin, Vice President, Commercial Markets Group, Visa U.S.A.
Panelists:
Gene Angelo, Vice President and Treasurer, The Related Companies
Byron Jackson, Assistant Treasurer and Corporate Vice President, Motorola, Inc.
Renee McKenzie, Head of ING Treasury Services, ING Treasury Services
Samir Patel, Manager International Treasury, International Paper Company
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3:05pm –3:20pm
Networking Break
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3:25pm – 4:15pm
Retirement Panel
• Are traditional DB plans dead or just in need of serious tweaking?
• What do employees really want from employers?
• Should plan sponsors hedge their liabilities?
• Are company matches disappearing?
• Giving advice without getting burned
• Coping with slow growth in equity valuations
• A hard look at the risks of alternative investments
Session Chairman: Jack Boyce, Senior Vice President, GE Asset Management
Panelists:
Gregory Davies, Executive Director & Treasurer, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Robert Hunkeler, Vice President, Investments, International Paper Co.
Susan Kirby, Treasurer, Tektronix
Rodger Smith, Managing Director, Greenwich Associates
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4:20pm – 5:15pm
Overall Excellence Panel
How to ensure the leadership role of the 21st Century Treasurer
This panel will look at the job description for what the life of a treasurer and life in treasury will be like two to five years down the road. Panelists will speculate, based on current financial pressures and internal and external demands, on which trends will take hold, which will expand and which will contract. They will also discuss smart strategies for enhancing the role of treasury within the organization, including defining which functions are key to making treasury a more visible player within the overall operations of the corporation and which functions are no longer value-added expenditures of time and resources.
Session Chairman: Geoff Garden, Managing Director, Head of Global Cash Management in the US, Deutsche Bank
Panelists:
• Walter Borst, Treasurer, General Motors, Inc.
• Neil Schloss, Assistant Treasurer, Ford Motor Company
• David VanBenschoten, Vice President and Treasurer, General Mills, Inc.
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October 1, 2003
7:45am - 8:30am
Registration and Breakfast Case Study Discussion Groups
Join the 2003 Alexander Hamilton Awards winners and industry experts to discuss
their award-winning projects as well as the state of the market.
• Cash Management
• Corporate Finance
• Credit Risk Management
• Financial Risk Management
• Insurance
• Real Estate
• Retirement:
• Technology
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8:45am - 9:35am
Insurance Panel
• Is premium inflation coming to an end?
• Alternative risk strategies that aren’t so alternative
Session Chairman: Chris Johnson, Senior Vice President Western Division, FM Global
Panelists:
Bill Buchan, Executive Director of Enterprise Risk Management, AT&T Wireless
Douglas Ruschman, Vice President Corporate Safety & Risk Management, American Commercial
Barge Line, LLC
Brian Warren, Senior Claims Manager, Microsoft Corporation
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9:40am - 10:30am
Credit Risk Management Panel
• Counter-party risk
• Supply chain management
Session Chairman: George Davidson, Treasurer, UOP LLC
Panelists:
William Aamoth, Vice President and Treasurer, STERIS Corporation
Jerry Amsler, Director of AR, Sigma-Aldrich, Inc.
Gregory Davies , Executive Director & Treasurer, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
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10:30am – 10:45am
Networking Break
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10:45am – 11:35am
Point-Counterpoint on the Economy: The View from Washington vs. The View from Wall Street
Andrew A. Samwick, Chief Economist, Council of Economic Advisors
M. Cary Leahey, Director and Senior US Economist, Deutsche Bank Securities
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11:35am – 12:30pm Corporate Finance Panel
• Is it time to start cranking up the M&A machine again?
• Credit rating agencies—are they doing better?
Session Chairman: Richard Valone, Vice President, Deputy Treasurer, Avon Products
Panelists:
Bill Dordelman, Vice President of Finance and Assistant Treasurer, Comcast Corporation
Craig Douglas, Vice President and Treasurer, The Stanley Works
Kitty Yoh, Assistant Treasurer, General Electric Company
Closing Remarks