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IT for Finance Executives - What You and Your Financial Team Need to Know About IT(CLE/CPE Qualified Rebroadcast)
Bill Sinnett
Director of Research
Financial Executives Research Foundation, Inc.
Bill is Director of Research for Financial Executives Research Foundation, Inc. (FERF), the research affiliate of Financial Executives International (FEI).
The mission of FERF is to advance the profession and practices of financial management through research. FERF’s research is therefore a compilation of the insights and experiences of FEI’s 15,000 senior level members. Bill interviews members of FEI for research projects and magazine articles on financial reporting, internal control and their use of technology.
Bill also supports FEI’s Committee on Finance & IT (CFIT), and authors its e-newsletter, “Finance & IT News.”
Bill joined FEI as Accounting Manager in 1985, and became Manager of Research for FERF in 1989. He was promoted to Director of Research in October 2005. Prior to his positions at FEI and FERF, Bill was employed by Carnegie-Mellon University and Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and is listed in Who’s Who in Finance and Industry.
Bill can be reached at (973) 765-1004 or bsinnett@financialexecutives.org
Bill Overell
President
Overell Solutions
Bill, a four-time CFO with both public and private company experience, provides executive level financial consulting services for high technology companies.
This has included serving as interim / part-time CFO, providing advice to boards & CEOs, assisting with fundings and strategic partnerships, M&A due diligence and integration, re-engineering financial systems including outsourcing and offshoring, and personnel recruitment and development. Overell Solutions clients have included Clarity Consulting, D2D Systems, Frequency Management, Ignite Venture Partners, InfoScreen, Microsoft, My Song To You, SpaceLift Products, WeMeUs, and Yodlee.
Before forming Overell Solutions in 2000 Bill was senior vice president & CFO of PayMyBills.com, a venture backed leading e-finance company. Bill joined PayMyBills.com from Software Technologies Corporation (STC; later SeeBeyond Technologies-SBYN), where he served as vice president, finance & CFO for the then IPO bound leading enterprise application integration solution provider. Prior to his tenure at STC, Bill served as senior vice president, finance & CFO of Insurance Auto Auctions, a NASDAQ listed company (IAAI). He has also served as a management consultant and board member in the Silicon Valley, CFO for Gamma Microwave, a vp at NYSE listed Spectra-Physics and a senior consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co.
Bill is vice chairman of FEI’s National Committee on Finance and Information Technology (CFIT), chair of its Emerging Technologies sub-committee, and is active the Los Angeles Chapter of FEI, where he has held various chapter offices including director and vice president. He has represented CFIT as part of its Interactive Data / XBRL initiative at meetings with XBRL-International, XBRL-US, the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) and the SEC.
Clients have been located in Southern California, Silicon Valley, Washington state and New York. Bill lives in Southern California and has a second home in the Twin Cities.
Arthur N. Alderson
Vice President Financial Systems
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Art Alderson is the Vice President, Financial Systems, for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. responsible for the global accounting, finance, tax and treasury systems.
Art has over 25 years financial and operating experience in manufacturing, distribution and consumer products companies including new business ventures and several successful M&A efforts. He has notable accomplishments in setting strategy, implementing programs and managing to achieve results. Art completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and did graduate studies at the University of Texas-Dallas. He is a past president of the Atlanta chapter of Financial Executives International, served on the Southern Area board, and the National Board and the Ethics and Eligibility Committee. He currently serves on the FEI committee on Finance and Information Technology. He has held leadership roles in his community, church and Boy Scouts.
Taylor Hawes
CFO Intellectual Property & Licensing
Microsoft Corporation
Taylor is the CFO of the Intellectual Property and Licensing Group at Microsoft. As CFO he is focused on the core finance functions and management of Microsoft’s substantial investments in numerous private equity partnerships. As an 18 year veteran, he led the global outsourcing of the international accounting & operations function across 91 countries, was the assistant corporate controller, designed and implemented Microsoft’s financial and management reporting systems, and led the creation of the current “Investor Central” site on Microsoft.com. Taylor is the former chairman of FEI’s Committee for Finance & Information Technology (CFIT), chairman of the finance and reporting subcommittee of CFIT, vice chairman FEI’s board, board member of XBRL US and on the curriculum advisory council for University of Southern California
Michael Cangemi
President
Cangemi Company LLC
Michael P. Cangemi, an author and business advisor, is the former President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Etienne Aigner Group, Inc., a leading designer of women’s accessories.(Aigner- 1991-2004) and President and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Executives International, the professional association for senior-level corporate financial executives (FEI 2007-08).
He currently serves as President of Cangemi Company LLC, which he founded in 1968. Mr. Cangemi is a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC), a Senior Advisor to Oversight Systems, and serves on the SOX&GRC Institute Advisory Board, the Pace University Lubin School of Business Advisory Board, the Rutgers Continuous Audit Advisory Board; and ISACA Strategic Advisory Board.
Mr. Cangemi recently completed a two year term on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)-Standards Advisory Council and a year as the FEI representative on the Board of COSO. In 1993, he published his second book Managing the Audit Function. The second and third editions were published in 1996 and 2003 respectively. The book was featured in the business section of the Sunday New York Times in August 2002 and translated into Chinese in 2005.
Aigner was the U.S. holding company of The Hartstone Group, PLC, a London Stock Exchange company. Michael joined Aigner as Senior Vice President & CFO and progressed to CEO and Director of Aigner and Finance Director of the UK parent company. At Aigner, Michael led the company’s expansion into licensing and electronic commerce programs. During this period he also served as a Director of The National Fashion Accessories Association, as a member of the Finance Committee of the Board of Solaris Health System SM, as Chairman of the Board of the Edison Chamber of Commerce and as a Director, Vice Chair and Chair of the Audit & Governance Committee of New Jersey Reads, Inc. From 2006 to 2009 he served as Chairman of the Edison Project an Economic Development Initiative in Edison NJ.
Prior to joining Aigner, Mr. Cangemi was Partner at BDO Seidman where he managed two practice divisions, IT Audit and Internal Audit Services, which he founded. Before joining BDO, Mr. Cangemi was General Auditor and then Corporate Vice President responsible for IT (CIO) at Phelps Dodge Corporation, a NYSE Fortune 500 mining and manufacturing company. Prior to joining Phelps Dodge, he was a principal at Ernst & Young where he managed the New York Region Computer Audit Program. Mr. Cangemi graduated from Pace University. During his undergraduate years, he worked on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch and then Blair & Company.
Mr. Cangemi is a Certified Public Accountant, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor-Honorary. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IS Control Journal, in which his regular column, Issues & Comments appeared from 1987 to 2007. His Presidents Page editorial column appeared in Financial Executive magazine 2007 – 2008. In 1991, Mr. Cangemi co-authored Auditing in an EDP Environment. He is a member of FEI, AICPA, Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the N.Y. Society of CPAs. Mr. Cangemi is a past International President of the IS Audit & Control Association (ISACA). After serving seven years as a director of ISACA, he was voted lifetime honorary membership. He has served as a Trustee of the IIA Research Foundation and the Pace University Lubin School -Accounting Advisory Board.
Mr. Cangemi has been a speaker and keynote speaker at numerous conferences and corporate meetings. He is a recognized author of not only his books and his popular column, but in addition articles appearing in a number of publications including Director & Officers Advisor, Computers In Accounting, Internal Auditing, and The Practical Accountant. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Brandweek, CFO Magazine and Computerworld and has been a guest on CBS MarketWatch, K-Rock (radio), News 12 New Jersey and on Forbes Sky Radio. In 2000, The Cangemi Library was established at the University of Mississippi’s National EDP Auditing Archival Center to house his collection of over 250 books on Auditing and EDP Auditing. Mr. Cangemi received The Joseph J. Wasserman Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Information Systems Control, and is listed in Who’s Who in The East and in Who’s Who in America. In 2003, Mr. Cangemi received the Alumni Achievement Award and in 2007 he received the Legacy Award from Pace University Lubin School of Business. In 2007, he was named one of the top 100 Accountants by Accounting Today.
IT for Finance Executives (CLE/CPE Qualified Rebroadcast)
Speaker Organization and Firms:
Financial Executives Research Foundation, Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc..
Microsoft Corporation
Cangemi Company LLC
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