FCIB Export Credit and Trade Finance Conference in Europe

October 11-13, 2009 • Crown Plaza Rome - St. Peter's • Rome, Italy

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Speaker Biographies

 

Peter Beyer, Trade Finance/Credit Risk Manager, Eastern Europe, Syngenta Agro, AG, Switzerland.
Peter spent 10 years in banking focusing on international export financing schemes.  He has gained 20 years experience in the  international export business.

Whilst working with Syngenta, Peter has held various positions having recently completed a five year stay in Moscow .He currently manages the risk portfolio of some 30 countries, mainly emerging markets at high risk level.

As part of his everyday duties with the company, Peter manages the Policy/ Strategy setting and risk and exposure management.  In addition, he also deals with trade finance/ structured financing, project financing in emerging/developing economies.

Peter also has extensive experience in contract consulting, legal advice, feasibility studies, customer /country analysis at project level, project management and debt rescheduling and settlement.

     
 

Angela Bradbury, Group Credit Manager, Innospec Inc.
Angela Bradbury MICM (Grad) has been a credit manager for 14 years, starting at National, then international and now globally, primarily for companies in Pharmaceutical and chemical industries, passing through logistics and telecoms along the way.

Her experience and understanding in global risk and collections is often used by the ICM technical panel to resolve sensitive issue in remote areas. Her passion for credit is only matched by her commitment to development of other credit professionals. Her belief that you are only as good as the people around you has borne fruit and allowed her to become involved in projects beyond the credit arena.

     
Corsini   Luca Corsini, Director, Head of Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank, Italy
Luca Corsini serves as Head of Trade Finance Sales of Deutsche Bank Spa (Italy). After leaving University, he worked for six years in the trade & export finance department of two export-oriented Italian corporates (Snamprogetti and Pirelli Spa).

In 1998, he joined Barclays Capital as Head of the Structured Trade & Export Finance team in Milan (Italy), supporting clients' sales organizations when starting new projects in high risk countries.

After two years as Director of Global Trade Advisory and Head of Working Capital Sales with Abn Amro Milan Branch (Italy), he joined Deutsche Bank Spa in June 2006 and lead the turnaround of the local Trade Finance department, both in terms of financial performance, client service and sales strategy.
     
  Paul de Dree, Partner, Salans, Paris
Paul de Dree specialises in bankruptcy law, litigation, debt collections, creditors' rights and international commercial law. He advises a wide range of French and international clients (including investors, distressed companies, trustees in bankruptcy, liquidators, directors and creditors) in insolvency and re-organisation matters. In addition, as a litigator, Paul is particularly experienced in complex cross-border disputes involving multiple jurisdictions. In the debt collection area, he is very active representing foreign creditors who have debts to collect in Europe, particularly in France, and he works frequently for US collection agencies. Paul also speaks regularly at conferences, seminars and workshops across Europe and the United States on international litigation, debt collections, creditors' rights, bankruptcy, banking and finance law and international contracts.
     
  Steven Frieze, Partner, Brooke North LLP
Steven Frieze is a solicitor in England and a licensed insolvency practitioner. He is a partner in the law firm of Brooke North LLP and specialises in international debt recovery and insolvency. He has written a number of books on insolvency and litigation. He was for a number of years a part time High Court deputy district judge. Most of his work now centres on acting for export credit insurers and collection agencies pursuing debtors in the UK for non-UK based creditors. Steven has lectured extensively on his specialist subjects in many countries and regularly attends international conventions.
     
  John Marston, OBE, Chairman, Marston Group, UK
With over 25 years experience, John Marston’s in-depth knowledge of the enforcement sector enables him to continue his work as a key advisor to European governments, Ministers and Senior Policy Officials on Enforcement Reform, Law and Best Practice. In 2003, John was awarded an OBE for services to the enforcement industry and is currently an advisor to the UK Government on High Court Enforcement, achieving authorisation as a High Court Enforcement Officer on 1st April 2004. As part of his new role, John was also invited to join a working group for the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ), where he will represent and preside over the working group after being voted Chairman by the other national experts.
     
 

Steve Mayos, Credit Manager, EMEA, NACCO Materials Handling Group
Steve has worked in various credit positions and industries over the last 20 years, starting out in printing & mobile-telecoms in South Africa before moving to the UK where he worked in computer-hardware and manufacturing in the UK.

     
 

Alastair Malcolm, Director, AIG Trade Finance Ltd
 Mr. Malcolm has worked in the London insurance market for more than 20 years after qualifying as a chartered accountant (FCA) with Coopers & Lybrand. He specialized in credit insurance and formed PanFinancial Insurance with capital from Continental of the U.S., Skandia and Yasuda to launch his design excess of loss credit cover. This has now been widely copied around the world. More recently, he has pioneered the use of on-line credit limits from status agencies to improve dramatically the cost base of traditional credit insurance. This was developed in AMA Underwriting Agencies, where he was Chief Executive from its foundation. Prior to the development of the FITR concept, he worked in conjunction with Swiss Re to launch the first dedicated credit insurance Protected Cell Captive in the world. He has also provided consultancy to the United Nations UNCTAD programme for development of export credit cover for emerging nations.

     
   

Andrew Ponsford, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services, UK
Andrew Ponsford is Executive Director within the Product Management team for Core Cash Management services at J.P. Morgan Treasury Services, London. Andrew is responsible for managing the revenue streams, profitability and the development of payables and receivables products for Corporates and clearing services for Financial Institutions within Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Andrew’s team of payment solution architects were responsible for crafting J.P. Morgan’s SEPA Credit Transfer offering launched in 2008.

Andrew joined the firm in 2006 and before taking his current Product Management responsibilities, worked in Strategy where he developed business growth strategies for Treasury Services across the region. This provided vital insight into customer requirements across cash and liquidity management, risk management, credit, and trade finance.

Prior to this, Andrew was a management consultant specializing in Finance, Risk Management and the Telecoms industry across Europe, the US and Asia.

     
 

Louis Robinson, Manager, Trade Finance, National Bank of Abu Dhabi London
 Louis recently joined the National Bank of Abu Dhabi in London where he will be focusing on trade flows between the Middle East and the rest of the world. Prior to joining NBAD Louis was Head of Trade Sales at RBS/ ABN Amro based in London and has been a member of FCIB since 1996.

     
 

Robert L Schulze, Lawyer , Germany
Robert L. Schulze is practising law for 25 years now and is partner and owner of a law company with offices in Duren (Germany), Moscow (Russia) and Tiflis (Georgia). He is mainly involved in international business law for German Embassies and for multinational clients like Daimler, Chrysler, ABB, Nestle and others. On behalf of German and international institutions  he advised governmental institutions in Russia and other CIS countries, commenting on the Russian law regarding foreign investments and introducing law drafts to the Russian State Duma."

     
 

Dieter Suedhofen, Managing Director, Creditreform International E.V. Germany 
Dr. Suedhofen graduated in computer science from the Technical University of Aachen and achieved his Ph.D in 1986. He then joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie AG and worked in strategic marketing for 3 years. In 1989 he joined Creditreform, a leading supplier of business credit information and debt collection services in Europe, where he has been responsible for international services since 1990. In 2008, he was appointed Managing Director of Creditreform International, the umbrella organisation of the Creditreform operations in 21 countries.

Creditreform has been a member of FCIB since 1996 and Dr. Suedhofen has regularly attended FCIB’s European conferences, on several occasions giving presentations on credit related subjects in Central and Eastern Europe.

     
 

Nick Tiltman, Credit & Customer Services Director, Computer 2000. Director of Credit Services, Tech Data Europe
Nick Tiltman joined Tech Data in 1992 and has over 22 years of Credit Services and business experience in various industries including Publishing, Electronics Manufacturing and Distribution.

Nick serves on the main board as Credit and Customers Services Director for Computer 2000, the UK arm of Tech Data. In addition, he is Director of Credit Services EMEA, for Tech Data Europe and responsible for 17 counties and 150 Credit staff who manage 85,000 customers with sales circa $9.5 billion.

He attended the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management (GSCFM) in the United States in 2000/2001 and was awarded the Executive Award with highest distinction and the designation of Certified Credit Executive.

Nick is a Fellow of the Institute of Credit Management in the UK, a Fellow of the Association of Credit Professional and has served on the Board of Directors for the FCIB (Finance Credit and International Business Association.) He currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board for the FCIB and has moderated conferences in Athens, Madrid and Istanbul.

Nick is a dedicated exponent of the development and education of people and regularly trains and speaks at conferences and seminars across the UK and Europe. He is a founding board Director of the Association of Credit Professionals in the United Kingdom.

     
 

Freddy Van Den Spiegel, Chief Economist, Director of Public Affairs, Fortis Bank, Belgium
Freddy Van den Spiegel is Chief Economist and Director of Public Affairs at BNP Paribas Fortis. He is also a Professor at the Free University Brussels, where he teaches courses in Financial Management, Financial Markets and Financial Institutions. He is a Visiting Professor at Warsaw University since 1992 and several other European and US Universities.

As an economist, he has a specific interest in the effects of European integration and worldwide globalisation on financial markets and risks.

His other specific field of interest is Banking Regulation and Supervision: he is Chairman of the Steering Group regulation and supervision of the European Financial Services Round Table. Also, he was a Member of the European Commission expert group, preparing the priority programme for the commission for 2005-2009. He is Chairman of the Consultative Panel of CEBS, Member of the Inter Institutional Monitoring Group for EU financial integration (mandate of the European Parliament), and Chairman of ELEC Belgium (European League for Economic Cooperation).

     
  Dr. Thomas Voller, Partner, EurocollectNet, Germany
Dr Thomas Voller  was admitted as an attorney in 1982. Dr Voller’s legal training includes time spent in the United States and England before setting up his own practice in 1987 in Frankfurt-am-Main. Dr. Voller represents domestic and foreign firms both in and out of court and in all areas of business law including international debt collection. He also acts for Credit Insurers and Banks. He is authorized to represent clients before all German Local, Regional and Higher Regional Courts. Dr. Voller’s focus is on national and international Commercial and Corporate Law. In addition, he is also active as Mediator in the area of dispute resolution having training as an  Attorney Mediator (DAA). Dr Voller is founder of Consulegis-Collect, now known as EuroCollectNet, Lawyers. This network covers Europe with one lawyer per country giving reliable connections in debt collection and related legal matters.