Session 06
L - Leadership, T - Transformation, A - Advanced, I - Intermediate, B – Basic, F- FP&A Renewal Credit, G - GTOT Credit
CTP Preparatory Sessions are not available for CTP or FP&A credit.
Rates, Recession and Liquidity: Finding the Upside Ahead of an Economic Downturn (I) (G) (F)
- Jeff Jones - CFO - Twisted X
- Wesley R. Rager, CPA - Portfolio Manager - Invesco
- Brittany O’Shea - SVP, Head of Liquidity and Receivables Product Management - Texas Capital Bank
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
Dallas 1
Session Description
We won’t sugarcoat things: the rising rate environment and its undeniable woes will likely persist well into 2023. This session will answer questions like: What are other companies doing with excess cash? What’s been forecasted for the 2023 economy? What factors should I consider to protect my firm? During this Q&A panel, you’ll hear from Twisted X CFO, Jeff Jones, Invesco’s Chief Investment Officer and Head of Global Liquidity, Laurie F. Brignac, and Brittany O’Shea, Head of Liquidity and Receivables Product Management from Texas Capital Bank as they discuss the economy and offer advice on how to navigate this ever-changing rate environment.
Speaker Information
Jeff Jones, CFO of Twisted X since 2015, currently leads accounting/finance, logistics, HR and Customer Service teams. Previously, he’s worked for a footwear company as a Key Account Sales Rep, Controller and CFO leading diverse areas including IT, GM/Retail, Marketing, and Fulfillment, just to name a few. Jones believes a holistic view of business is the best way to help his teams and business succeed.
Jones has a BBA in Accounting and a MA in Conflict Management/Resolution. He was recently honored as a Dallas Business Journal CFO of the Year 2022. Jones is married with 6 kids (5 married) and 2 grandchildren.
Additionally, Jones is a speaker and a writer on topics that include leadership development and management, team building, conflict resolution, peacemaking and time management.
Brittany O’Shea is the Head of Liquidity and Receivables Product Management at Texas Capital Bank. (TCB). Brittany has 15+ years Global Treasury Management experience and has been at Texas Capital Bank for the past four years. During her time at TCB, she has focused on Receivables and most recently, Liquidity .
Prior to joining TCB, she was at JPMorgan in Global Liquidity Solutions and Bank of America in Payments and Receivables Product Management. Brittany began her career working for LaBranche & Co on the New York Stock Exchange and working in the White House during George W. Bush’s term as President of the United States of America.
Brittany has earned a BA degree in Public Policy and Economics from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She an active member of Movember and participates in several s within her community. Brittany is married with two children, ages 7 and 5.
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A Borderless Future for Payments: A Basis Technologies Case Study (I)
- Aimee Schumaker, Director, B2B Partnerships at Flywire
- Matt Teumer, Sales & Partnerships at Flywire
- Nick Arnell, Head of Corporate eFX at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
Dallas 2
Session Description
Keeping your ERP as a central source of truth. Basis Technologies, a marketing technology provider, presents financial professionals with a valuable case study for not only international expansion, but also how A/R automation drives efficiencies internally. Attend this session to hear how Basis uses technology to enhance customer service and reduce the burden on finance teams to free them for more strategic tasks.
Speaker Information
For the past 10 years, Matt Teumer has established himself as a thought leader in cross border payments, cash management and accounts receivable. Matt is a Senior Director based in Austin for Flywire's rapidly growing B2B vertical. He has worked his entire career on applying cutting edge financial technology to business use cases and creating win-win solutions for his clients and partners. Matt lives in Austin, is a member of Austin AFP and enjoys spending time with his wife, two young kids and two corgi pups.
Public Finance 101 (I) (G) (F)
- Adrian Galvan - COO, CCO, Managing Director - TGL
- Esther Young - Director - TGL
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
Dallas 3
Session Description
This session will cover the process of issuing municipal debt and securities, debt instruments and options available to Texas municipalities, recent market considerations, and recent legislative changes that may have important implications for the sector.
Speaker Information
Adrian Galvan serves as Managing Director of TGL and is responsible for the firm’s overall quantitative analysis and transaction structuring supervision.
Mr. Galvan has over 28 years of experience in public finance, having personally structured over 1,300 bond financings totaling more than $28 billion. Mr. Galvan has significant experience in structuring complex project financings (both tax-exempt and taxable), developing short- and long-term plans of finance for issuers of various sizes, and managing all phases of financing from the initial approval process to closing.
Mr. Galvan holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is registered with the MSRB as a Municipal Advisor Representative (Series 50) and Municipal Advisor Principal (Series 54).
Esther Young is a Director in TGL’s Dallas office and is responsible for quantitative analysis and transaction structuring and execution.
Esther has eleven years of experience in public finance and municipal investment having structured more than $4 billion of municipal debt for a range of issuers including cities, counties, utilities, school districts, higher education authorities, transit and transportation authorities, housing authorities, special districts, and public private partnerships. Esther assists issuers with structuring complex project financing, developing short- and long-term plans of finance, and managing all phases of financing from bond election to closing.
Esther holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Finance from the University of Alabama. She is registered with the MSRB as a Municipal Advisor Representative (Series 50) and Municipal Advisor Principal (Series 54).
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PLUS: Electronic Transactions. MINUS: Separated Remittance Detail (I)
- Blaine Carnprobst, CTP - Senior Vice President, Receivables Product Advisor - PNC Bank
- JaeSon Kim - Vice President, Mid-Market - HighRadius
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
Houston A
Session Description
Electronic payments have passed the tipping point where they now outpace checks in both volume and dollars. But while electronic transactions have the ability to include remittance details, most often they do not. This challenge continues to make posting receivables a greater challenge. This presentation reviews practical applications that can overcome these challenges and achieve higher automated posting hit rates in accounts receivable.
Speaker Information
Blaine Carnprobst is the Receivables Product Advisor in the Treasury Solutions Group (TSG) within PNC Treasury Management. Blaine partners with PNC Product Management, Operations and Sales to represent a robust set of receivables services that comprise PNC's Integrated Receivables Suite. These services include PNC's award-winning Integrated Receivables portal, which includes lockbox, ACH, wire, EDI and card payments with remittance details and images. The suite also provides superb exception management tools and receivables matching services. Blaine joined PNC in April 2017 after more than 30 years of supporting treasury services through operations, product management and business strategy at two other financial institutions. Blaine's product experiences have included Retail and Wholesale Lockbox, Remote Deposit Capture, Merchant Services, ACH, Smart Safes and Check Services. Blaine is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), has a bachelor's degree in accounting and holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
JaeSon Kim is currently the Vice President of Mid-market at HighRadius. He is an accomplished and highly analytical executive professional with 20 + years of experience in implementing various financial software, including software in receivables, payables, tax, and treasury in both North America and APAC regions. He graduated from Brown University and Stanford University and started his career as a financial applications developer at Oracle.
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Managing Cash Forecasts During Periods of Heightened Market Volatility (I) (L) (F) (G)
- Jon Paquette - VP U.S. Client Solutions - TIS
- Cathy Fields - Assistant Treasurer, Sr. Director of Global Risk Management - Hitachi Vantara
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
Houston B
Session Description
Over the past 5 years, the cash forecasting process used by Hitachi, a global provider of technology and data services, has evolved substantially. Having first transitioned from excel to a specialized forecast solution in 2019, Hitachi’s treasury group has continued to explore new methods and solutions for forecasting in order to continually improve their overall accuracy, flexibility, and analysis capabilities. This has resulted in several additional transitions to more robust forecasting solutions and workflows. As a result of this journey, Cathy Fields, Assistant Treasurer at Hitachi Vantara, has gained substantial insight regarding what to do (and what “not” to do) when attempting to optimize the forecast process. This session will explore how Hitachi’s cash forecasts have evolved over time, highlight the challenges associated with their transformation, and analyze how the workflows maintained through their current process result in optimal levels of accuracy, efficiency, and automation.
Leadership Track Sponsored by J.P. Morgan
Speaker Information
Jon Paquette is a former Senior Treasury Director with over a decade of multi-industry experience as a practitioner within the corporate realm. He obtained his MBA from Boston College's Carroll School of Management in 2013 and has been working for TIS since 2019 as VP of U.S. Solutions
Cathy Fields has been involved with Treasury or Treasury related functions in a multi-national environment for 30+ years. She is currently the Assistant Treasurer and Sr. 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, and Insurance Risk. Cathy is also currently providing leadership support on a Treasury Transformation Project for Hitachi, Ltd., the Japan parent for Hitachi Vantara LLC. Hitachi, Ltd..
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Leveraging Business Process Best Practices and Technology Enablement to Drive Insights, Value, & Competitive Advantage (A)
- Philip Peck, FPAC - Vice President - Finance Transformation & Advisory Services, Peloton Consulting Group
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
San Antonio A
Session Description
Modern finance leaders must be indispensable business partners who help drive business strategy & execution, develop accurate plans & forecasts, optimize the allocation of scarce resources, deliver forward looking insights & analysis, end help the organization navigate the increasingly complex and uncertain environment. Unfortunately, most organizations are ill equipped to support these critical business objectives as they lack the robust business processes, enabling tools & technologies, finance skillsets, and business acumen needed for success. In this session we will explore the key building blocks enabling the finance function of the future, share client success stories, and provide tips and tricks to enable the finance transformation journey.
Speaker Information
Philip Peck brings over thirty years of consulting and industry experience with a specific focus on planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics assessment efforts, digitally enabled business process transformation, and optimizing technology investments to enable superior performance. He has led numerous process improvement and finance transformation projects for global companies across various industries that span data governance and decision analytics, scorecard development and implementation, management reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, information management business requirements, and business transformation roadmap development. Mr. Peck is a frequent speaker on planning and performance management subjects and a recognized industry thought leader. He currently serves on the FP&A Advisory Council for the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP).
Prior to working for Peloton, Philip led the Performance Management Practice for the Palladium Group. He was also a key leader in the Planning and Performance Management Group for Answerthink Consulting. Prior to entering consulting, Philip worked in various business planning, finance, strategy, and sales operations capacities for Chicago area companies including Océ-USA, Ameritech, Apollo Travel Services, and RR Donnelley & Sons.
He holds degrees In Industrial Management from Purdue University and a Master of Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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CTP – Session 6 – Mastering CTP (ETM7) Materials (B)
- Dubos Masson, Ph.D, CTP, CertICM, President, The Treasury Academy
- Raymond Vines, CTP - Part Time Treasurer, Treasury Consultant, Trainer - Turningpoint Communications
Tuesday, April 18th
11:30am - 12:30pm
State Room 2
Session Description
- Chapter 19: Long-Term Investing
- Chapter 20: Capital Structure and Financial Decisions
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.
Ray Vines brings 30 years of corporate treasury experience (and honesty) to bear for Turningpoint Communications’ treasury management sales trainees, customers, customers’ clients and other key constituents as the “voice of the client” for programs, documentation and high-touch client experiences. Ray is also an instructor for the Association for Financial Professionals’ (AFP) Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Treasury Learning System instructor-led courses, educating hundreds of prospective CTP candidates each spring and fall 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 treasury operations and his team, managing internal and external relationships and continuous process improvement. Prior to 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 AFP, including his role as past president of the . Ray co-chaired the award-winning TEXPO conference in Dallas in 2018, leading all technological, marketing and communications aspects of the conference and is a key member of the content team for #DallasTEXPO2023. Ray holds a B.S. in Finance and MS in Accounting from the University of Texas and is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP). Ray is also a WSET Level 3 Advanced (Wine & Spirits Education Trust) Wine and Spirits Certified instructor, and customizes courses in wine/spirits etiquette for financial audiences and executives.
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