Speakers

• Donna Miskin, Editor-in-Chief, Treasury & Risk
• Tom Duggan, Publisher, Treasury & Risk

Speaker

• Ann Marie Petach, Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, BlackRock

Introduction by:

• Eric Cohen, Director, Corporate Treasury Solutions – PwC

This category targets the areas of portfolio management, short-term investing and contingency planning for cash availability, as well as crisis management that ensures liquidity.

Moderator

• Chris Van Alstyne, Investment Relationship Manager – Northern Trust

Speakers

• Anita Prasad, General Manager of Treasury & Capital Management - Microsoft
• Conor Leyden, Director – Omnicom
• Krupa Srinivas, Manager, Structured Finance; Treasury/Capital Markets – Toyota Financial Services

This category includes information reporting and activity relating to the collection of incoming payments (lockbox, A/R outsourcing) and the disbursement of outgoing payments (wires, ACH, all check services, AP outsourcing), as well as all security arrangements around payments.

Moderator

• Amol Gupte, Managing Director, Head, Treasury & Trade Solutions – CITI

Speakers

• Jim Scurlock, Cash Planning Manager – Microsoft Corporation
• Sunnie Ho, Senior Treasury Analyst – Microsoft Corporation
• Kathy Zevola, Director, Treasury & Finance – Sun Chemical
• David Shaw, SVP & Treasurer – Thomson Reuters

Exceptional solutions for risk management involving domestic or international interest rates, foreign exchange, credit risk, counterparty risk, commodity price or country risk; the use of derivatives; or the use of capital markets to hedge a company’s financial risk exposure.

Moderator

• Krishnan Iyengar, VP-Global Solutions – Reval

Speakers

• Paul Anderson, Senior Direcotr of Credit – Flextronics International
• Andrea Vasilevski, Manager-Corporate Finance – Honeywell International Inc
• Marc Monyek, Senior Director, Asia Pacific Middle East Finance – McDonald’s

Speaker

• Joseph Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist & Managing Director, Bank of America

Projects, programs and initiatives in which the corporate treasury or finance department is taking a leading role. These include promoting any one of the following areas or a combination: environmental awareness, conservation, social responsibility, greening the supply chain and sustainable business models.

Moderator

• Stephen Markwell, Head of our Treasury Services Disbursements Product Group – J.P. Morgan

Speakers

• Jennifer MacKethan, Sr. Manager ERM and Corporate Sustainability – RTI International
• Adhi Kesarla, Principal, Business Development Group – Google
• Deirdre Stokes, CTP, Manager, Corporate Treasury – Kellogg Company

Innovations and improvements in investment strategies aimed at expanding the company’s intellectual property and longevity or supporting defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans, as well as solutions to other costly programs, such as healthcare and workers compensation. This can include asset allocation, investment management structure, employee investment options, administrative structure and communications programs, as well as strategies for investing in volatile markets amid regulatory constraints. Performance submissions must be compared with standard benchmarks over a minimum of three years and address the nature of the liability involved.

Moderator

• Kevin Bannerton, Managing Director, Head of Institutional Liquidity Management Distribution, Americas: New York – DB Advisors

Speakers

• Gregory Andrulonis, Vice President & Assistant Treasurer Capital Planning and Markets – Covidien
• John Tus, VP & Treasurer – Honeywell International Inc
• David Cheng, Senior Portfolio Manager – Hewlett-Packard Company

Systems and solutions, developed or customized by vendors or banks, that tackle ongoing challenges in innovative ways or offer cutting-edge solutions to new challenges, creating new opportunities. Visibility tools, exception management dashboards, data analytics, scenario testing and cloud computing are some examples. This is the only category open to vendors.

Moderator

• George Garner, President, CreditPoint

Speakers

• Rebecca Chen, Treasury Manager of Treasury Operation – Microsoft Corporation
• Fran Berndt, First VP and Treasurer – Travelex Global Business Payments
• Glen Solimine, Global Head of Account Management-eBAM – Wall Street Systems

Projects that focus on the balance sheet and building the framework to manage the business, as well as long-term plans to ensure robustness and continuity of the capital structure. This can include re-investing in the business, dealing with rating agencies, dividends, share repurchases, share retention and investor relations.

Moderator

• Marie Hollein, President & Chief Executive Officer – Financial Executives International

Speakers

• Dave Webb, Director, Financial Strategy – Ford Treasurer’s Office
• James Abel, SVP-Finance and Treasurer – PPL Corporation
• Amit Singh, Senior Director, Capital Markets – Pfizer Treasury

Speakers

• Donna Miskin, Editor-in-Chief, Treasury & Risk
• Tom Duggan, Publisher, Treasury & Risk

This category recognizes corporate treasuries or finance departments for their creation and/or exceptional implementation of technology (which can be internally or externally developed or a combination of both) that is innovative, or solved a major problem that yielded impressive results, or is likely to establish a best practice. Projects that would fall into this category include those that add breadth and scope in solving a financial or compliance issue, in conducting electronic commerce, improving communications or analysis of financial data and information, mitigating risk, or providing strategic advantage..

Moderator

• Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner – Strategic Treasurer

Speakers

• Frank Chow, Business Systems Integrator – Google
• Vanita Aggarwal , Director, Treasury Risk and Analytics – Toyota Financial Services
• Eric Huttner, EVP – Omnicom

Cash flow forecasting and centralization efforts, as well as any effort that aimed at and resulted in significant working capital management efficiencies. Entries in this category can be submitted in a second, narrower category, such as cash management or liquidity management.

Moderator

• Peter Lugli, Senior Director, Financial Services – Ariba, Inc.

Speakers

• Dean McNaught, Corporate Finance Services Manager – Caterpillar
• Michael Donnelly, Senior Business Leader – Visa, Inc.
• Kathy Kroupa, Vice President, Business Operations – DRS Technologies

This category encompasses innovative solutions and larger programs involving risk assessment, identification, mitigation and/or transfer when protecting a company’s business, property, supply chain, personnel, data and/or reputation.

Moderator

• Scott Montigelli, CTP, Principal – Treasury Strategies

Speakers

• Erich Heneke, Senior Finance Manager – Mayo Clinic
• Paul Boodee, Director- Americas Region Finance – Toyota Financial Services
• Frank Fiorille , Director of Enterprise Risk Management – Paychex, Inc

No applications are submitted for this category. The winner is chosen from among the winners of the other Alexander Hamilton Awards, based on projects that cumulatively show a standard of best practices throughout a company’s treasury or finance department or on the unique, innovative nature of a particular project.

Presenter

• Peter Frank, Director, Corporate Treasury Solutions – PwC