Steve Capon joined ACE from The Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in February 2002 to develop the ACE Country & Credit Risk Management Department, Political & Trade Credit Insurance. In 1991 Stephen received his first management appointment within Lloyds Corporate Banking before taking up a post in the Credit Risk Department. While with Lloyds Bank he was largely involved with US and Western European corporates in the insurance, iron and steel, engineering, entertainment and defence sectors. In 1994 he moved to the United Bank of Kuwait Plc where he was a Senior Credit Analyst responsible for Emerging Markets and in particular country and bank risk. He was also appointed to their Arab Equity Fund Advisory Committee. In January 1997 Steve took up day to day management of credit assessment for all new transactions involving Central & Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS and the Middle East and Africa at The Sumitomo Bank Ltd in London. By mid-1999 he was Assistant General Manager and Head of Structured Trade & Commodity Finance for these geographical regions. He has a Masters in Modern History with Middle Eastern Politics, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, a member of the Institute of Directors and a member of the Institute of Petroleum.
Christian Hauber is head of the Global Credit Management Group of Roche Pharmaceutical, guiding 65 sales affiliates and close to 100 direct export markets in the trade of credit management. With an educational background in Economics and Business Administration he started his career in the banking industry prior to joining Roche as Head of Global Marketing Controlling of its former Vitamins division.
Mike Holley has 25 years industry experience and joined Atradius in November 2004 as Director of Special Products. Mike started his career at ECGD, in Political Risk Claims, and was subsequently involved in the privatisation process, in particular the development of new products for the private sector environment. He joined NCM at the privatisation and spent 10 years in a product development role. In 2002 he joined AIG's Political Risk Team where he broadened his knowledge of the private market for political risk. Since joining Atradius his new team has been at the forefront of developing new products for the London trade credit and political risk makets.
Ben Hosh has enjoyed a long and interesting career in the trade finance industry. For over 40 years, he has lived and worked in Europe, Asia and the USA and has been instrumental in the start-up of many businesses specialising in all aspects of current asset finance. He has also been responsible for giving strategic and operating advice to companies worldwide. His wide experience has been supplemented by several international Board appointments and has also served as Chairman and Executive Committee member of Factors Chain International, the receivables financing industry's largest trade association. Ben's particular expertise is in the fields of strategic development and operational structure. Staff selection, motivation and training are also strengths; as is the adaptation of standard techniques to different country and cultural environments.
Martin Kirby is the Manager for Accounts Receivable for BUPA Wellness, leading for the business areas of Billing, Corporate Credit Control, B2C Credit Control, Sales Ledger and Contract Management. Martin was invited to join BUPA 20 months ago from CHEP Europe to use his experience to improve poor collections performance, introduce rigorous controls, improve service and delivery to customer. To lead the department through a significant change program. During this short tenure, BUPA have enjoyed 30% headcount reduction, 32% improvement in working capital from recovered debtors resulting in substantial DSO improvement aligning itself back to the best quartile of the industry sector for Healthcare. Good recovery performance along with strict compliance to internal and external audit requirements have stabilized the business. Customer confidence has returned. A practicing Six Sigma Black Belt, Martin put this methodology to good use resulting in controlled measurable improvements.
Chris Kuehl is the co-founder and Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence and is the editor and primary writer fot several publications including Strategic Intelligence Briefs. Chris is a frequent commentator for the media and is extensively quoted in national newspapers and trade publications. Chris is the Chief Economist for Fabricators and Manufacturers Association. This includes writing Fabrinomics and serving as a keynote speaker for their conferences and meetings through the year. He holds a Masters Degree in Soviet and East European Studies, a Masters in East Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Economics from the University of Kansas. He has been on the faculty of universities in the US, Hungary, Estonia, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan.
John Marston is an advisor to European Governments on law and best practice and an advisor to the UK Government on High Court Enforcement. Former Chair of the High Court Enforcement Officers Association and expert in the Council of Europe, John Marston is the Company’s Chairman. A Government Advisor on Civil Enforcement, John has 25 years experience in the industry and was authorised as a High Court Enforcement Officer on 1st April 2004.
Phil Simmons joined Trade Indemnity co Ltd( now Euler Hermes UK plc) in 1975 as a Management Trainee. He worked in most areas of the business over the years, reaching the position of Head of Commercial Accounts before he left the company in 2004. After a short break, he joined IRC (Europe)Ltd, and is now Director of Broking . He lives in Shenfield Essex, with his wife and two teenage sons.
Heleen Rijkens was born and raised in Rotterdam. After graduating in Law at the University of Leiden in 1993 she was a lawyer at the firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke in Rotterdam from 1993 until 1996. In 1996 she moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil where she worked as a lawyer with the international law practice of Price Waterhouse (now PriceWaterhouse Coopers). In 1998 she moved to Cape Town, South Africa to join the South African private investment company Citadel. She worked as a relationship manager and investment advisor. After having moved back to Holland in 2001 Heleen Rijkens joined the Omni Bridgeway Group BV in 2002 and is responsible for business development.
Ron Wells is the author of Global Credit Management - an Executive Summary, and co-author of the Chinese version Huan Xin Shui Shi (Awaken the Sleeping Lion on the Balance Sheet - an Executive Summary for International Credit Management) published by T3P LIMITED (www.t3plimited.com).
Ron has twenty three years of commercial, corporate banking and trade finance experience; plus 17 years of experience in international corporate credit management. He is Vice President Credit Risk Management for RBS Sempra Commodities Europe, supporting worldwide power, natural gas, coal and emission credits trading. His previous experience with Chevron covered all credit aspects of international cargo transactions (crude and refined petroleum products), lubricant marketing transactions (marine and inland) and technology marketing transactions. This has enabled an in-depth understanding of structured and unstructured trade finance techniques, of banking law, regulation and practice, of commerce and business generally and an extensive network of professional relationships.
Ron maintains a free access, credit resources web site at www.BarrettWells.co.uk and a weblog at www.gcmg.blogspot.com. Ron is a Certified Credit Executive (CCE), a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA), a qualified International Banker (ACIB) and a Chartered Corporate Secretary (FCIS). He participated in the NACM Graduate School for Credit and Financial Management in 1996/97, passed with distinction and was elected Best Student.
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The conference will be held at the Lisbon Marriott Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal.