Session 05 | Texpo Conference

Economic Update in a Post-Covid World (I)

Global Liquidity and Risk Management Optimization (I)

Love ‘Em or Leave ‘Em? The Value of Partnering with Banks, Fintechs or Both to Achieve Treasury Transformation (X)

Betsy Clark, Vice President, Treasury Manager, Rockpoint Group
Kevin Kachur, CTP, Treasury Operations Supervisor, Marathon Petroleum
Eric Thibo, CTP, Corporate Banking TM Sales Director, Fifth Third Bank

Tuesday, April 26th
9:45am - 10:45am
Waller C

Session Description

In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, treasury professionals face an abundance of choices and opportunities to harness innovative solutions that promise to drive efficiency and business improvements. In this panel discussion, leading industry practitioners will break down the latest treasury innovations and evaluate how these tools can be transformative. We will examine the role banks and Fintechs have in bringing new solutions to the market and how to determine which solutions make sense for your business.

Learning Objectives:
– Attendees will learn how to evaluate the latest treasury offerings from bank and Fintechs, and how to evaluate those solutions might impact transformation objectives
– Attendees will gain insights into how to develop an effective RFP, and how to factor in a bank credit relationship when selecting a transformation partner.

Speaker Information

Betsy Clark is Vice President, Treasury Manager at Rockpoint Group located in Dallas. Prior to joining Rockpoint, Betsy was a Senior Director, Treasury at Integer Holdings Corporation. Prior to that, Betsy worked as a Director, Treasury at Alliance Data Systems. Betsy has also held roles at AIG Commercial Asset Finance, ORIX USA Corporation and PwC. Betsy earned her M.S. in Accounting and B.B.A. with an emphasis in Accounting and a minor in Mathematics from Southern Methodist University.

Kevin Kachur has been with Marathon Petroleum for 10 years and has been in his current role as Treasury Operations Supervisor for 3 years. Managing billions of dollars in liquidity, the MPC Treasury team recently embarked on a new ERP implementation that is predicated on in-house cash and virtual bank accounts. With the new virtual account solution, MPC was able to reduce the number of their physical bank accounts from over 300 to approximately a dozen physical accounts, resulting in significant cost savings. The virtual bank accounts also provide an extra benefit of mitigating the risk of fraudulent activity and reducing KYC requirements and lead times for opening new accounts. Kevin also has presided over the implementation of a dynamic discounting program for MPC with C2FO.

Eric Thibo is Corporate Treasury Management Sales Director leading the National Diversified Industries and Energy verticals at Fifth Third Bank. In this role, he leads a group of Treasury Management Sales Consultants offering traditional treasury and fintech solutions to improve working capital and enhanced automation. Eric earned his B.B.A in Finance from Northwood University and his M.B.A from Central Michigan University. He is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP).

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SESSION CANCELLED: Case Study – Cutting Through the Hype: Pearson’s AI-Based Cash Forecasting Marvel (A)

Panel – People: Your First and Last Line of Cybersecurity Defense (I)

Charmaine Shi, Director of Treasury, BrandSafway
Justin Ellerman, SVP, Wells Fargo
Jordon Loyd, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI

Tuesday, April 26th
9:45am - 10:45am
Waller F

Session Description

Human performance strategies will help you gain the upper hand in the fight against cybersecurity fraud. Cognitive hacking tactics like phishing targets well intentioned employees to get them to perform differently than they would normally. Fraudsters gain opportunities when people, process, and technologies are not optimally aligned. Learning Objectives:
– Creating a culture of trust is one of the most important strategies to help enhance cybersecurity defenses
– Involving employees from board of directors down in the development of processes and technologies will broaden your cybersecurity effectiveness.

Speaker Information

Charmaine Shi is currently Director of Treasury at BrandSafway. Previously, she was Director, Treasury at McDermott International, a premier, fully integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Charmaine is responsible for global cash operations and trade finance at McDermott, leading teams located in Houston and Dubai. Charmaine has over 20 years of experience in international treasury, corporate restructuring and M&A. Prior to joining McDermott, Charmaine had broad Treasury and corporate finance experience with multinational companies, including Halliburton, CEMEX and Delphi. She has led a wide range of Treasury project implementations in different roles.

Justin Ellerman is an SVP for Wells Fargo’s Cybersecurity Client Office Group. Justin has 15 years’ of cybersecurity and privacy experience in financial services. His previous roles include incident response, privacy operations, and cybersecurity strategy. Justin holds an MBA and industry certifications including the CISSP, CIPP/US, GCCC, GCTI and GSTRT.

Jordan Loyd is an FBI Supervisory Special Agent based in Austin, where he supervises a team of investigators, computer forensic examiners, and others who conduct investigations into computer intrusions with a criminal and national security focus. Jordon previously worked in Iowa, New York, Virginia and Bulgaria investigating computer intrusions for the FBI. He has been with the FBI since 2009 and was a network administrator for six years prior to joining the FBI. Jordon is a graduate of Oklahoma State University.

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Agriculture Industry Roundtable Discussion Group (I)

Tresha Rodgers, CTP, VP Cash Management, Farm Credit Services of America
Raymond Vines, CTP, CFO, Turningpoint Communications

Tuesday, April 26th
9:45am - 10:45am
403 - Level 4

Session Description

“For Treasury Practitioners, this “Ag” round table discussion will center around the financial aspects of this enduring, complex and diverse industry. The financial aspect of industry trends, environmental factors (climate and pandemic) will be discussed, including:

Hot topics:
-Cannabis as a crop
– Governmental subsidies / incentives
Factors affecting production levels:
– Climate Change
– Robotic Processes / AI / Machine Learning
Effects of:
– Distribution / Supply Chain
– Pandemic
Emerging Environmental Factors / Trends to watch:
– Plant-based “meats.”
Learning Objectives:
– Efficiencies, productivity gains, savings, convenience, risk and fraud mitigation techniques brought about by treasury and finance technology
Trends to watch out for
-Support for natural and man-made industry disruptors and Seasonality”

Speaker Information

Tresha Rodgers is a treasury practitioner turned relationship manager, and is uniquely qualified to offer comprehensive cash management solutions to meet the Farm Credit Services of America and Frontier Farm Credit customers’ challenges. Throughout her career in treasury, Tresha has served in various roles from a Corporate Cash Manager to Treasury Management Payment Consultant, where she managed large corporate and business banking clients. A treasury industry advocate and champion, Tresha has served the Nebraska Association for Financial Professionals’ Board in various capacities for over 10 years, including as President. She is currently Past-President and Annual Conference Chair and an award-winning AFP Regional Officer. Community minded, Tresha has served on the Ralston Public Schools Board of Education, Score4sports, and currently serves as a Teammates mentor. Tresha holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from University of Nebraska at Omaha and an MBA from Bellevue University.

Raymond Vines is CFO and an Educator for Turningpoint Communications, a national treasury management focused marketing, business development and training firm, headquartered in Boston, MA. Ray brings his 30 years’ corporate treasury experience to bear for TPC’s customers as the “voice” of the client – and shares his knowledge with prospective practitioners. Ray is also an instructor for Association for Financial Professionals Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) Treasury Learning System Instructor-led courses to hundreds of prospective CTP candidates each Spring and Fall in his areas of expertise for Rice University and the University of Texas. Formerly, Ray served as Director of Treasury for Dean Foods in Dallas for seven years, where he was responsible for leading the treasury operations function and team, managing internal and external relationships and continuous process improvement. Prior to his role at Dean Foods, Ray spent 20 years at RadioShack as Director of Treasury Operations. Ray is an active participant in enhancing the role of treasury management as an industry and career through his participation on industry roundtables and his leadership of the Dallas Association for Financial Professionals, including his role as past president of the organization. Ray co-chaired the award-winning TEXPO conference in Dallas in 2018, leading all technological, marketing and communications aspects of the conference and serves on the education committee for the Dallas TEXPO Committee 2023.

CTP – Short Term Borrowing (B)

Dubos Masson, Ph.D, CTP, CertICM, President, The Treasury Academy
Tyrone Gant, CTP, SVP, Director of Treasury Management, Vectra Bank

Tuesday, April 26th
9:45am - 10:45am
Waller E

Session Description

This session discussed the characteristics of different types of money market securities, as well as how these instruments are priced, yields are calculated and investments managed. Also included is coverage of short-term financing from the borrower’s perspective, including the calculation of the costs on bank lines of credit and commercial paper.

Speaker Information

D.J. Masson, Ph.D., is President of The Treasury Academy, a training and consulting firm specializing in treasury management, international finance, business forecasting, and risk management. Over the past 25 years, D.J. has provided business and financial consulting and training services to a wide variety of corporations, financial institutions, and not-for-profit organizations in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Finance at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business and is a trainer and curriculum developer for programs with Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), GT News and Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in the U.K, and Citibank’s Global Transactions Services unit. D.J. has extensive experience in developing curriculum for a wide range of teaching and training environments, both residential and on-line. He has developed classes and taught at all levels of higher education: undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and in-house, custom-designed courses. D.J. has worked with professional associations to develop workshop, training materials, and certification programs in the areas of Treasury Management, Credit Management, Global Cash Management, Financial Forecasting, Commercial Banking, and Risk Management. D. J.’s educational background includes a B.A. in Business from the University of New Orleans and an MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from Indiana University. D.J. earned his Certified Cash Manager (CCM/CTP) credential in 1988. D.J. also earned the Cert ICM, an international cash management certification, from the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) in the UK in 1999.

Tyrone Gant, CTP, is the Director of Treasury Management for Vectra Bank Colorado, a division of Zions Bancorporation. Tyrone is a results oriented financial professional with 25 plus years’ experience in the banking industry including leading and executing growth and sales strategies, new business development and treasury management consulting.