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Executive Briefing on Foreign Exchange Best Practices – What every CFO needs to know about Foreign Exchange

 

As former CFO of Microsoft, John Connors understands the challenges of managing foreign exchange exposure. It is no surprise that he still believes that managing foreign exchange is the hardest job in finance. He, James Hallemeyer, Director of Foreign Exchange for Citigroup Global Markets, and Bret England, Group Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer for JDA Software Group, Inc. are joining our FX Best Practices Webinar series to discuss the need for corporations to invest in the adoption of best practices based approaches for managing foreign exchange exposure. Mr. England will share his company’s challenges with managing foreign exchange exposure and how JDA Software successfully achieved and benefited from the investment in best practices. Last but not least Mr. Hallemeyer will share applicable best practices that Citigroup feels are prudent for corporations to use to effectively manage foreign exchange risk. He will also provide attendees an understanding of Citigroups CitiFX Chief Dealer, which has the ability to automatically receive, process, and track foreign exchange transactions, resulting from decisions provided by the FiREapps application.

The Webinar is valuable to Senior Accounting and Finance executives as well as foreign exchange managers as we will approach this problem from a Management and Corporate perspective.

Our esteemed panel discussed best practice based approaches for managing foreign exchange exposure.

Panelists:

  • John Connors – Former CFO of Microsoft Inc.

  • James R. Hallemeyer - Director of Foreign Exchange, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

  • Bret England – Group Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer, JDA Software Group, Inc.

  • Wolfgang Koester – CEO, FiREapps

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About the Speakers:

Bret England is Group Vice President, Corporate Controller and Treasurer at JDA® Software Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:JDAS).  In his role at JDA, Mr. England is responsible for all global accounting, tax and treasury functions.  Working with FiREapps, Mr. England ensures that JDA's operating results are not impacted by foreign exchange movement.  JDA is the leading software and service provider for manufacturing and wholesale-distribution customers in more than 60 countries realize real demand chain results.  Prior to joining JDA, Mr. England held executive level positions in the US and Europe with leading software and technology companies including Symantec, Informix, AltaVista, and Portal Software.  Mr. England is a Certified Public Accountant, is a member of Financial Executives International (FEI) and has over 20 years of experience.

James R. Hallemeyer is Director of Foreign Exchange for Smith Barney a division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. In this position Mr. Hallemeyer manages a group specializing in Foreign Exchange and Currency Management. Further he assists multi-national corporations with their excess liquid cash investment needs and utilizes his hedging skills and the Citigroup commodities platform to hedge and manage risk in key commodities such as Oils and Metals.

Prior to joining Smith Barney, Mr. Hallemeyer worked 20 years in the Bio-Tech and Computer industries holding positions in Corporate Treasury and Corporate Controller.

John Connors spent sixteen years at Microsoft Corporation in several strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 Mr. Connors was Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer. He currently is a partner at Ignition Partners, LCC, a capital investment firm.

Wolfgang Koester is the CEO of Rim-Tec, Inc. which developed FiREapps, the leading corporate foreign exchange management technology firm. Mr. Koester has been managing risk for Fortune 100 companies as well as governments, including G-10s, since 1986. Prior to forming Rim-Tec, Mr. Koester served as President with GFTA Trendanalysen Inc., a quantitative currency manager.

About FiREapps

FiREapps, a subsidiary of Rim-Tec, Inc., is the leading technology provider of Exposure Management solutions. FiREapps delivers the market's only end-to-end solution that evaluates foreign exchange exposures and optimizes decisions to reduce economic risk and operational inefficiencies. FiREapps' optimized decision making processes are supported by comprehensive analytical capabilities and patent pending Decision Management Technologies. An on-demand solution based on proven best practices for managing foreign exchange exposures, FiREapps is highly accurate, user friendly and easily tailored to meet individual corporate needs. FiREapps has offices in Scottsdale, Arizona and Portland, Oregon and can be visited online at www.fireapps.com.

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