Session 07 | Texpo Conference

The Hardening Market – Captive Insurance 101 (I)

The Evolution of Corporate Liquidity Investing: Navigating the Choppy Economic Waters (I)

Patrick O'Callaghan - Global Head, Client Portfolio Management and Product Strategy - Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
Ian Dilley, ACCA - Managing Director, Corporate Finance & Treasury, Crow Holdings
Dean Jenkins, CPA - MD, Assistant Treasurer, Southwest Airlines Co.

Tuesday, April 18th
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Dallas 2

Session Description

Moving from the COVID cash boom of 2020 to an unprecedented hiking cycle in 2022 and into the recession watch for 2023, the themes of Corporate Treasury have transitioned to capturing yield, incorporating ESG and adjusting to reform. Treasurers have navigated the volatility by remaining proactive and adapting to choppy waters. Please join Goldman Sachs as we explore our investment outlook for 2023 and the innovative ways we have partnered on unique Money Market opportunities.

Speaker Information

Pat O’Callaghan is the Global Head of Client Portfolio Management and Product Strategy with the Liquidity Solutions team. He and his team work with GSAM’s third party, institutional and private wealth management teams and their clients, across the globe to assist them with their liquidity management needs. In addition, Pat and his team work internally with GSAM's distribution and portfolio management teams to develop content, product, and liquidity specific analysis across the front-end platform as the monetary policy and regulatory environments continue to evolve.

Ian Dilley is responsible for Board and Shareholder financial reporting at Crow Holdings, along with much of the debt management on stabilized real estate and related valuation processes. He has oversight of firm level capital allocation and liquidity management across the combined business lines – real estate development, real estate investment management and growth businesses.

Dean Jenkins, MD Assistant Treasurer, joined Southwest Airlines Co. in 2008 and currently has management responsibility for capital markets, cash management, investments, interest rate risk management, fuel risk management, cash flow planning and analysis, and stock plan administration. Prior to joining Southwest Airlines, Dean was the Assistant Treasurer at Electronic Data Systems, Inc. with global responsibility for cash management, subsidiary capital, capital markets, foreign exchange, interest rate risk management, and capital planning. Dean has an accounting degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio, a Masters of Business Administration from the University of North Texas, and is certified public accountant.

Payment Trends: Employee & Employer Attitudes Regarding Earned Wage Access (I)

George Mavrantzas - VP of Strategy & Thought Leadership - ADP
Dr. Martin Armstrong, CPP, MBA, DBA - Vice President, Payroll Shared Services - Charter Communications
Steve Helms - VP, North America Digital Partnerships, Visa

Tuesday, April 18th
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Dallas 3

Session Description

Earned Wage Access (EWA) is the ability for employees to request and get their earned wages in between pay cycles. It is in the market now and here to stay. It is broadly popular across workers in every industry and pay range. What are the demographic & economic changes, payment trends, and consumer habits driving this worker need? How transformative is this change for the treasury & payroll operations of businesses? Can you really offer this benefit to employees with no disruption at all? In this session we will explore these critical questions and more.

Speaker Information

George Mavrantzas is a seasoned payments executive with over two decades in the industry. Prior to ADP, George held several executive and senior level positions at firms including Global Cash Card, rapid! PayCard, Incomm, T-Mobile, ITC Financial Services, and Powertel. He has worked in all facets of prepaid and payment operations including but not limited to: Executive Management, Business Development, Project Management, Customer Service/Contact Center, Implementation, Relationship & Account Management, Thought Leadership and Social Media Expansion. As Vice President of Strategy and Thought Leadership at ADP, George is a member of the Wage Payments Executive team. He devises & executes strategic decisions for the business and delivers thought leadership and on-site presentations.

George is a recognized expert and prolific speaker in the payments industry, and he is invited to speak at over 50 industry conferences a year to educate professionals on the ever changing industry landscape & the benefits of electronic pay.

He is a national member of the American Payroll Association and serves on the National Speakers Bureau. A graduate of the University of North Florida, George resides in Jacksonville, Florida

Dr. Martin Armstrong is the Vice President of Payroll Shared Services for Charter Communications. Charter Communications serves more than 25 million customers in 41 states, has 36 operating divisions, and pays more than 90,000 employees.

Dr. Armstrong has 30 years of accounting experience and has held positions as a Senior Accountant, Internal Auditor, Tax Manager, Payroll Manager, and Payroll Director. He also has extensive training in management, benchmarking, process improvement, change management, best practices, strategic tax planning, and mergers & acquisitions.

Dr. Armstrong has been a Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) since 1990, holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, a MBA degree from the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), and a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from Argosy University. His dissertation concentrated on employee readiness for organizational change.

Steve Helms is an executive of the North America Digital Partnerships organization and leads a team responsible for the business development and account management of Financial Institutions and Program Managers. His team focuses on credit, debit, prepaid, commercial, small business, health care and government segments. Steve has been with Visa for 23 years in various sales and managerial roles. Prior to joining Visa, Steve worked for General Mills for 16 years.

The Way We Pay: 2022 & Beyond (I)

Working Capital Management and Liquidity (A) (X)

Craig Jeffery, FLMI, Permanent CCM - Founder, Managing Partner - Strategic Treasurer

Tuesday, April 18th
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Houston B

Session Description

The eye of the treasurer hasn’t moved off working capital management and liquidity management over the past decade. However, with macro-economic shifts and supply chain disruptions, far more focus has been placed on managing liquidity. Every great firm is deliberate in their management of working capital and liquidity. This session highlights the following:

Foundational aspects of working capital management.
Recent trends in managing and measuring working capital.
Emphasis on liquidity planning.
What your peers are monitoring and measuring to help their companies succeed.
How supply chain financing changes liquidity to a non-binary equation.

Executive Track Sponsored by HighRadius

Speaker Information

Craig Jeffery formed Strategic Treasurer in 2004 to provide corporate, educational, and government entities direct access to comprehensive and current assistance with their treasury and financial process needs. Craig Jeffery formed Strategic Treasurer in 2004 to provide corporate, educational, and government entities direct access to comprehensive and current assistance with their treasury and financial process needs.

His 30+ years of financial and treasury experience as a practitioner and as a consultant have uniquely qualified him to help organizations craft realistic goals and achieve significant benefits quickly. He is primarily responsible for relationship management and ensuring total client satisfaction on all projects.

Craig was previously a Senior Vice President and Practice Leader for Wachovia Treasury & Financial Consulting from 2000 through 2004. Prior to joining Wachovia, Craig worked with a major regional bank as Vice President and worked in the Information Management, Investment, and Treasury Divisions at The Hartford.

Craig’s experience in finance, treasury, consulting, information technology, and process re-design encompasses numerous industry segments. He has extensive cross-functional project management experience and has aided many organizations on a variety of projects, including strategy formulation, financial transparency, and system implementation efforts. His project experience ranges from multi-year, multi-million dollar efforts to rapid assessments.

Craig graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in Accounting. He is a permanent Certified Cash Manager and a Fellow of the Life Management Institute with distinction.

On Time Treasury: Do You Need It and Are You Ready? (I) (F)

Accelerating into API’s: A Practical and Strategic Approach (A) (F)

Daniel Cohen - President - Golden Money Transfer
Beth Martin - Treasury Solutions Officer - Texas Capital Bank

Tuesday, April 18th
2:30pm - 3:30pm
San Antonio A

Session Description

API Strategy – widely discussed, yet poorly understood. This session will focus on the considerations and benefits of cultivating a company-centric API strategy. Breaking down the partnership between Texas Capital Bank and Fintech expert and Treasury practitioner, DanielCohen,ofGoldenMoneyTransfer,thissessionexploresAPIusecases, engaging with banks to collaborate on an efficient implementation, and determining what a successful Treasury API strategy looks like for organizations.

Speaker Information

Daniel Cohen is a Fintech expert who has dedicated his career to the digital transformation of payments. He is on a mission to facilitate the movement of money around the world via technology, which all started when he managed an impressive coin collection in kindergarten. Currently, he is President at Golden Money Transfer, a licensed firm based in North America, enabling the seamless movement of money to 100+ countries - with an expertise in compliance.

Previously, he worked for over 12 years at Mastercard, where he was most recently Mastercard’s Chief Credit Officer & EVP for Global Credit. Daniel led a team that oversaw the digital transformation of the company’s global credit portfolio - leading the move from card-based payments to digital, tokenized payment solutions. He’s held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility throughout different regions (North America, Middle East, & Latin America). While in Israel, he established a tech and innovation center focused on cybersecurity and crime prevention based in Tel Aviv. In Latin America, he was part of the region’s executive leadership team and launched solutions that helped secure digital payments
in markets like Brazil and Mexico.

In addition to being an avid enthusiast of technology and future trends, he enjoys reading, running, and spending time with his wife and three children who are growing up speaking English, Spanish, Hebrew & Mandarin.

Beth Martin is an experienced Treasury Solutions Officer at Texas Capital Bank where she manages a portfolio of Corporate Clients. As a trusted advisor, she focuses on providing value-add expertise for her clients to help manage their working capital and liquidity, mitigate risk, and optimize treasury operations.

Beth began her career at J.P. Morgan, where she first strove to build strong, long-term relationships with her clients and tailored specific solutions that fulfilled their needs. Beth brings over 14 years of industry experience and attended the University of Oklahoma.

CTP – Session 7 – 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
2:30pm - 3:30pm
State Room 2

Session Description

CTP Math Session 2 – Review of Advanced Calculations
Course Wrapup

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.