Financial Forecasting & Planning SummitSeptember 15-16, 2011 | Intercontinental | Boston

FP&A INNOVATIONSuccessful Planning Through Strategic Financial Initiatives

Optimize Decision Making

Hear Experts. Share.Matthew Ziegler, Vice President of FP&A, AOL

John Coskran, Senior Director, Domestic FP&A, Best Buy

Stephanie Thomas, Sr. Director Global FP&A, BMS

Inder Singh, VP, Corporate Portfolio Management, Finance, Cisco

Rob Harryman, Director Corporate Planning & Analysis, Clarient

Tarun Chopra, CFO, & VP Finance, Worldwide

Roberto Moreas, Vice President, Strategy & Marketplace Intelligence, Coca-Cola

David Mann, Director of Finance, Constant Contact

Sam Gar!eld, VP, Operational Excellence / Enterprise PMO, Discovery Communications

Simon Robinson, Senior Vice President, Corporate FP&A, Discovery Communications

Brian Johnson, SVP, Finance & Operations, Genworth Financial

Gary Alicea, Director, Finance, Florida International University

Mary Loomas, Senior Controller, Next Generation FP&A, Intel

Adam Carson, Director of Finance, Intuit

Alan Priest, Vice President, Financial Planning, LiveOps

Andrea Freedman, Chief Financial Officer, Method Home

David Elrod, Director of Finance, Microsoft

Michael Schwindle, Chief Financial Officer, Musician’s Friend

Daniel Acosta, Director, Strategy & Analytics, Office Depot

Greg Hinson, Associate Director, Global Shared Services, Procter & Gamble

Brad Hampton, Vice President, Finance, Sprint Nextel

Arturo Guillen, Vice President of Finance & CFO North America, United Phosphorous

Bas Brukx, Vice President, FP&A, Vocus

John Cappadona, Director FP&A, WB Mason

Don Wilson, Vice President, EIM and Specialized Program Delivery, Bank of America

Innovate. Plan. Execute.CFO

FP&AFinance

ControllersFinance & Operations

Strategy & PlanningBusiness Planning

& you

Effective #nancial planning is central to business success. In the modern business environment technological developments and the advances of globalization have created unparalleled opportunities for businesses to expand their markets. But new opportunity has opened the door to new challenges.

This summit will focus on the solutions offered by innovative #nancial planning and business forecasting. The Summit will comprise of learning objectives, illustrated intermittently with a number of illustrative case studies, to include:

- Strategies to engage senior leadership around #nancial forecasts and reviews, as well as methods to facilitate this

- Using the #nancial forecast as the vehicle to drive accountability for results- Learn how to optimize the role of Financial Forecasting & Planning in your

company- Budget, Financial Plan and Forecasting - an approach to a single repeatable

#nancial planning cycle

and much more..........

Matthew Ziegler, VP, FP&A, AOL

FP&A Innovation at AOL

This presentation will focus on the innovative use of FP&A in driving business change, covering:

- Systems - use of HFM/HP and Tableau

- Patch - trying to plan for and operate a highly distributed  business model/start-up inside a public company

- Leveraging Indian resources effectively

- Employee culture - Finance-developed awards and advancement programs

Matthew Ziegler is responsible for the FP&A function for the Paid Services, Corporate, and Technology groups. He has held multiple FP&A roles at AOL over the last 11 years, including leading AOL's Corporate Planning function during the spin-off from Time Warner in 2009, as well as  in the International  and Digital Services groups. Prior to AOL, he was at MCI Worldcom's Corporate Planning group and also in consulting. Matthew has a B.S. degree in International Finance from the American University

Mary Loomas, Senior Controller, Next Generation FP&A, Intel

Intel, Corporate Finance Planning & Reporting

Intel is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.. Intel has over 85,000 employees worldwide. current business complexities and the increased rate of change in the market place a new project is being launched to re-engineer the budgets and planning processes at Intel with the goal to improve cycle time, address gaps in the current processes, and create better analytics and portfolio analysis capabilities. In this presentation, Mary will review the lessons learned from the initial program and the next steps for Intel to tackle for #nancial planning.

Mary Loomas recently rejoined Intel to lead a #nancial planning re-engineering program. An entrepreneur for the past seven years, Mary has created a Chocolate company which was named one of the top 50 Chocolatiers by Complex Magazine. Before that, Mary spent 10 years at Intel in various #nance positions including Finance eBusiness Solutions, Corporate Marketing Controller, Cost & Inventory Manager and Technology Manufacturing Finance Manager. Prior to Intel, Mary spent 10 years with BAE Systems as a Division Controller and Marketing Manager. Mary has her MBA from Loyola Marymount University and a BA from U.C. San Diego.

Stephanie Thomas is responsible for Global Financial Planning & Reporting capabilities at Bristol-Myers Squibb, a global biopharmaceutical company. Over the past 10 years, Stephanie has been involved in various types of FP&A, in-country, at regional HQ and at Corporate HQ. Starting in 2007, BMS underwent whole scale transformation from a mid-cap health care company to a next-generation, focused BioPharma business. Stephanie now leads their Financial Planning & Reporting center for productivity, whose job is to constantly innovate and anticipate how new technology and lean processes can enable an agile and entrepreneurial response to the company’s changed focus.

Stephanie Thomas, Sr. Director Global FP&A, BMS

Global Financial Planning Transformation: A Case Study

Bristol-Myers Squibb has rede#ned its Finance function over the last three years through simpli#cation, standardization and, where valuable, outsourcing. We signi#cantly reduced the frequency and granularity of our #nancial forecasts. We aligned P&L, Working Capital, Tax and Cash Planning into one cohesive exercise. We built, from scratch, integrated systems for Financial Reporting and Financial Planning. Can driver-based budgeting be uniformly applied? Is standardization a realistic objective? What sort of change management, and what sort of organization must accompany this re-engineering? What is the proper role of MS Excel in a sophisticated FP&A department? I will describe for you our transformation and some of our ongoing challenges.

Sam Gar!eld, VP, Operational Excellence / Enterprise PMO Discovery Communications

Transforming Discovery's External and Management Reporting

This presentation examines how Discovery Communications #nance organization embarked on an initiative to simplify our accounting structures and enhance our #nancial reporting capabilities in preparation for becoming a publically traded company. The effort focused on implementing a uni#ed, companywide #nancial reporting solution that signi#cantly reduced the number of Excel-generated reports used in the reporting process. The initiative also provided:- Consistency in the reporting views used by Management (across Divisions and Business Units) and those

provided to the SEC and shareholders; - Introduced a new #nancial management report book that improved the transparency of #nancial results

through focused analysis in one consistent format.

Sam Gar#eld has spent the last seven years at Discovery Communications focusing on #nancial systems and process improvement. Sam is currently the Vice President, Operational Excellence / Enterprise PMO. Discovery Communications is the world's number one non#ction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries. Prior to Discovery, Sam worked at BearingPoint, AOL Time Warner in International Finance and Arthur Andersen LLP. He has received a Bachelors and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Maryland

Rob Harryman, Director Corporate Planning & Analysis, Clarient

Implementing Rolling Forecasting: A Case Study

In 2010, Clarient, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLRT) transitioned from a high-growth cancer diagnostics lab with recurring losses to one that managed to a pro#table bottom line by a commitment to #scal management through the implementation of driver-based rolling forecasts and monthly operating unit budget to actual/business management meetings. Through these tools, senior management has been able to navigate the numerous unexpected variances from plan that occur in any business and still achieve overall variances of 1% or less by making real-time decisions. In this case study, Rob Harryman will discuss the tools used, how they were developed, and how these efforts translated into the pending acquisition by GE.

Rob Harryman is the Director of Corporate Planning and Analysis at Clarient, Inc., a cancer molecular diagnostic and anatomic pathology laboratory. In this position, his responsibilities include managing the company’s annual budgeting process, long-range planning and forecasting activities. Additionally, he has been fortunate to be involved in the company’s various #nancing and M&A activities over his three years with the company. Prior to Clarient, he was the Director of Finance for Regency Enterprises, a #lm production and distribution company in Los Angeles and began his career with the Seattle office of Deloitte.

Matthew Glaser, Global Director, Finance, Adobe Systems

Use the FP&A Pulpit to Business Partner with Sales and Directly Drive Predictable Revenue

· De#ning the role of “Sales Finance” as the engine of revenue growth and cost containment within the organization· Methods for positioning Sales Finance to transcend the pivot table and leverage the skill set of a sales #nancial professional to help formulate effective sales strategies· Building credibility and relationships with Sales Manager and Executives as an effective means to collecting forecast data and in%uencing organizational priorities· Finance as a sales tool: optimizing the role and skill

Matthew Glaser is a Financial and sales operations professional with over 10 years of progressively responsible positions supporting and creating high performing sales teams in the technology and software sector. In his role as a Sales Controller he has created and managed high performing Sale Finance teams directly engaged with driving top line revenue growth, winning awards for exceptional sales support while serving in variety of positions at different companies.  He has experience in all aspects of sales #nance, quote to cash operations, structuring and negotiating complex technology sales transactions, revenue and expense forecasting, reporting and planning.

David Mann, Director, Finance, Constant Contact

A Better Option than Just Saying ‘No’ – Linking Investments to Strategy

One stereo type of the #nancial planning and analysis role is that of the #nancial cop - that is, someone who simply says ‘ yes’ or ‘no’ to budget and investments requests, without providing perspective. The goal is to %ip this relationship on its head. Companies should establish an agreed upon long term strategy, and from there, determine short-term guidelines to link the strategy to investment decisions. Under this framework, #nance is a business partner, steering appropriate investment decisions that are well understood by the organization, and ensuring investments turned down are done so based on sound business rationale. As a result, #nance is more actively engaged in the business decisions and direction of the company.  

David Mann is the director of #nance and assistant treasurer at Constant Contact (NASDAQ: CTCT). David helped take Constant Contact public in 2007 and is part of the leadership team that has driven compound annual revenue growth of 60% since then. David has more than 15 years of experience in #nance, including #nancial planning and analysis, treasury, M&A, and investment banking. David previously worked at Raytheon, Gtech, Citibank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and various startups.

Michael Schwindle, VP & CFO, Musician’s Friend

Developing a Team

Face it: we are leaders, and a leader is only as good as his/her team.  How do you build or develop a solid team?   How do you structure your value proposition to your CEO and to the rest of the organization?  There are many considerations as you build a team that takes your organization's data and transforms it into knowledge that can be used for decision-making.  

Explore real-life examples of how #nancial planning teams have been built to address business challenges:  talent management, development, collaboration, and role & responsibilities management.  Also, how do you hold onto those critical resources?

Michael Schwindle is VP of Finance and divisional CFO for Musician's Friend (the online arm of Guitar Center, the largest online retailer of musical instruments, and the 36th largest e-tailer.  In his time at Musician's Friend, Michael has driven signi#cant cost-reduction initiatives, improved planning processes, and increased Finance's analytical support with all operational areas.  He has 22 years of experience predominately in the retail industry and has knowledge and experience in many functional areas including corporate #nance, treasury, investor relations, strategic planning, #nancial planning, sales analysis, merchandise planning, store control, supply chain, and human resources.

Curtis Neumann, Director, Corporate FP&A, AT&T

High Performance Driver Based Modeling at AT&T

Recently, AT&T transitioned to a fully cost allocated product and assigned pro#t center internal reporting standard to address a new accountability paradigm. To align with this new reporting standard, the Corporate Planning group had to dramatically expand its driver based annual target models to accommodate the new data scale, resulting in more than a hundred interconnected Excel #les. These spreadsheets became difficult to change structurally and new iterations of input data took days to model. Utilizing Oracle Essbase 9, a market leading analytical tool, the driver based modeling iteration durations became lightning fast (hours to complete) and error free.

Curtis Neumann is a FP&A Associate Director with AT&T and leads the Corporate Planning Systems group. During his 15 year tenure with AT&T, Curtis architected and implemented various innovative #nancial reporting and strategic planning solutions utilizing industry leading BI tools including Oracle Essbase, Oracle Planning and Oracle Financial Management. Prior to joining AT&T, Curtis held various #nance and accounting positions in real estate management, hospitality and food manufacturing. After graduating with a BS degree from UC Berkeley in 1987, he worked for Deloitte and Touche in San Francisco and obtained his CPA certi#cation in 1992.

Bas Brukx brings with him over 16 years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis. As Vice President of FP&A, Bas leads a team that is responsible for all quarterly and annual planning activities, results analysis and management reporting for Vocus' global operations. During his nine years at Vocus, Bas has been instrumental in helping the company obtain several rounds of venture capital, complete a successful initial public offering , and close six acquisitions.Prior to Vocus, Bas held several #nancial management positions at Nexchange, WorldPort Communications and MCI Worldcom. Bas earned his BBA from Nyenrode University in the Netherlands and his MBA from Emory.

Bas Brukx, Vice President, FP&A, Vocus

More Real Time, Less Wasted Time; The Bene!ts of Real Time Forecasting

What if you could have real time view into your company’s future?Vocus (NASDAQ: VOCS) has created a global, highly %exible and dynamic planning environment. Our infrastructure and processes offer real time monitoring of key #nancial and operational metrics and determine the impact of changing business conditions on operations, forecasted #nancials and strategic direction. In addition, it allows us to quickly model different strategic initiatives, what-if scenarios and potential acquisitions. We’re able to then translate those initiatives into operational and tactical plans and measure their success. Learn what Vocus did to create real time forecasting.

Inder Singh, VP, Corporate Portfolio Management, Finance, Cisco

Using Portfolio Management to Drive Long Term Growth at Cisco

During this session, Inder Singh -- Vice President of Corporate Portfolio Management and M&A -- will share Cisco’s approach to prioritizing and managing the company’s strategic investments related to long-term growth.

In this keynote, you will learn how Cisco:·         Uses portfolio management to drive its long-term growth strategy·         Prioritizes investment opportunities in 30+ market adjacencies·         Measures and manages the performance of its diverse portfolio

Cisco has a robust leadership team including Inder Singh, Vice President of Corporate Portfolio Management, M&A Finance and Long-Range Planning. Inder has been focused on aligning Cisco’s corporate strategy with those of the business segments, and in helping the organizations maximize its’ investments and M&A activities. Speci#cally, addressing the big questions of what Cisco will invest in to get them to their targeted growth, and working with the business on the how-to strategy.

Don Wilson, VP, EIM and Specialized Program Delivery, Bank of America

Firing on All Cylinders

As the economy evolves, so do organizational strategies. Evolving markets are complex. Organizations are re-evaluating core competencies beyond traditional boundaries. Long-term growth is sustained by effectively integrating the full range of organizational capabilities. For organizations today; it’s never been more challenging to integrate capabilities through and across the organization.

Don is a VP / change manager for Bank of America’s Enterprise infrastructure organization. Don is responsible for leading Enterprise change and simpli#cation associated with mission critical systems. Don has over 28 years of project and program management experience. Don has his MBA from Strayer University and certi#cations in Project Management, Quality Management / Operational Excellence and Six Sigma. Don’s passion at the bank is driving operational excellence across the bank (people, processes and technology capabilities). Don’s passions outside of the bank include his family (inlc. his new grand-daughter) and the rare opportunity to play golf.

Tarun Chopra, CFO, & VP Finance, Clements Worldwide

The Proces of Financial Analysis

An overview of alignment between capital planning, business operations, #nanial analysis and planning cycle. All companies conduct #nancial analysis of various sorts. The presentation takes best practices across various industries and provides an efficient, structured process on conducting #nancial analysis.

Tarun Chopra is a senior business executive with over 18 years of experience in #nance, strategy, accounting and M&A. As CFO, Vice President of Finance at Clements Worldwide currently, he is responsible for strategic leadership and oversight of the Finance division, in addition to corporate compliance, treasury and M&A. He has held multiple leadership positions globally with Fortune 500 companies, including Fannie Mae, Whirlpool Corporation, Boston Consulting Group and Ernst & Young. He has a Chartered Accountancy and earned his MBA from Melbourne Business School.

John Cappadona, Director FP&A, WB Mason

Taking Finance to the next phase - Building FP&A at WB Mason

Founded in 1898, W.B. Mason is the largest private office products dealer in the United States with sales rapidly approaching $1B. The company has 10 distribution centers and some 20 showrooms in ten states. In recent years, WB Mason has dramatically accelerated its growth trajectory, doubling in size the last #ve years and expects to continue to see double digit growth over the next #ve years. WB Mason has recently established a Financial Planning and Analysis function in order to help drive the company through their next growth phase. This presentation will cover the #nancial tools and processes that have been introduced and how FP&A is helping to drive operational efficiency and accountability throughout the company.

John Cappadona is the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at WB Mason where he was brought in to build the function. Prior to joining WB Mason, John was the Vice President, Operational Finance at Gyrus ACMI and Sr. Manager Operations FP&A at Boston Scienti#c. John holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MBA from Babson College.

Brian Johnson, SVP, Finance & Operations, Genworth Financial

Global FP&A Process Implementation at Genworth

Brian is responsible for ensuring Genworth’s Finance key processes are designed to effectively/efficiently provide consistent and reliable results as well as provide prioritization and project management of key Finance initiatives. Prior to his role in Finance Operations, Brian was the Senior Vice President of Finance Systems where he led full lifecycle program for the world-wide implementation of a single ERP and Business Intelligence solution.

Brian Johnson, SVP, Finance Operations, Genworth Financial Mr. Brian Johnson has been the Senior Vice President of Finance Operations of Genworth Financial, Inc since February 2009.   In his current role, Brian is responsible for ensuring Genworth’s Finance key processes are designed to effectively/efficiently provide consistent and reliable results as well as provide prioritization and project management of key Finance initiatives. Prior to his role in Finance Operations, Brian was the Senior Vice President of Finance Systems where he led full lifecycle program for the world-wide implementation of a single ERP and Business Intelligence solution.  The initiative included the transformation of business processes for budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting, development of shared service facilities and the implementation of the global solution.

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Pre Event Workshop.

Application Requirements for Rolling ForecastsBy Rand Heer, founder and architect of the original Pillar software, now CEO of Alight Planning; and Ben Lamorte, VP Sales, Alight Planning.

Application Requirements for Rolling Forecasts

The challenges for implementing rolling forecasts often boil down to how well your planning software handles three critical processes:

·      Scenario analysis: You can’t predict the future, but you can set up ‘what if’ scenarios that let you explore in real time how you might behave or decide if things are better, worse or just different.

·      Driver-based planning: You need to reduce data volumes. You do this with driver-based planning where material items in a #nancial plan are linked to operational drivers of the business.

·      Integrating actuals: It’s not just importing. You need to integrate actuals into your plans, lining up actuals and plan data to identify trends and using actuals as drivers for forecast time periods.

 Based on customer case studies, this fast paced workshop will explore how robust functionality in these three areas will help you implement a true rolling forecast process.

Planning for Black SwansIn his groundbreaking book The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb describes the elements of Black Swans, those highly improbable events (such as the #nancial crisis of 2008) that cause massive negative and positive consequences. In this fast moving and thoughtful presentation, Rand Heer kicks off a new dialog within the planning community by translating Taleb’s theories into best practices for how #nance, sales and operations staffs should think about and plan for Black Swans. Speci#c topics items include:

• What are Black Swans? De#nitions and examples from recent history.• Understanding your domain: the risks and opportunities of “scale” in your business.• You can’t predict the future, but… strategies for preparing for high impact events.• The Black Swan modeling checklist: speci#cs for getting a handle.• The special role of scenario analysis for understanding exposures.

The Planning Maturity Curve: Where Are You? Where Do You Want to Be?

In the fast paced and often humorous workshop, Rand and Ben analyze the #ve levels of planning maturity—no planning, seat of the pants, budgeting, forecasting and agile planning—based on their adaptation of the Capability Maturity Model #rst developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Not surprisingly, the goals, processes and requirements for each type of planning vary substantially including effectiveness in resource management and impact on decision making.

The workshop includes a company case study of Agile PlanningTM, a new methodology for real time collaboration and scenario analysis now being used by many organizations for overhauling their stagnant and over politicized planning processes. Also, Rand and Ben perform a hilarious simulation of a real time agile planning session.

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Schedule.Pre-Day Workshop - September 14

1.00 - 5.00 PM

Day 1 - September 15 8.30 - 10.00 AM Session One

10.00 - 10.30 AM Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.00 PM Session Two

12.00 - 1.30 PM Lunch

1.30 - 3.00 PM Session Three

3.00 - 3.30 PM Coffee Break 3.30 - 5.00 PM Session Four

5.00 - 7.00 PM Networking Drinks

Day 2 - September 168.30 - 10.00 AM Session Five

10.00 - 10.30 AM Coffee Break

10.30 - 12.00 PM Session Six

12.00 - 1.30 PM Lunch

1.30 - 3.00 PM Session Seven

3.00 - 3.30 PM Coffee Break!3.30 - 5.00 PM Session Eight

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Financial Forecasting & Planning SummitSeptember 15-16, 2011 | Intercontinental | Boston

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