Finance has quickly
taken center stage in driving every facet of business success. Your integrity
and independence are essential, necessary and valued. Your role is now one
of trusted adviser – to
your stakeholders, CEO, investors, creditors and analysts. This creates great
opportunity. But are you prepared?
SAS and CFO.com invite you to view this on-demand Webcast featuring Lynn Brewer, former Enron executive and author of Confessions
of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story; Lee Dittmar,
principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP; and David Klementz, senior vice president
and chief financial officer of Progress Rail Services Corporation, a subsidiary
of Progress Energy. You'll hear a variety of viewpoints on the new opportunities
and challenges facing Finance today.
View this Webcast and learn more about how to:
- Curtail the risk of executive liability or business failure from non-compliance.
- Anticipate and respond to changes in market conditions.
- Gather, analyze and report accurate financial information that you can
put into action.
Panel members will explore such topics as:
- Overcoming impediments to change.
- Ensuring investor expectations about future growth and value.
- Combining hindsight, insight and foresight to move your business forward.
- Achieving compliance without compromising performance.
- Defining the strategic role of Finance in enterprise planning.
- Moving beyond theory to practice.
View the Archive!
About the speakers:
Lynn Brewer
Lynn Brewer is a former Enron executive and author
of Confessions of an
Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story. In her nearly three years
at Enron, she was responsible for risk management in Energy Operations, the
e-commerce initiatives for Enron's water subsidiary and competitive intelligence
for Enron Broadband Services. During her tenure, she witnessed numerous instances
of illegal and corrupt dealings, including bank fraud, espionage, power price
manipulation and gross overstatements to the press, public and financial
world.
Prior to joining the energy giant, Brewer worked in forensic accounting and
spent 18 years as a legal professional in private practice. From there, she
joined Ralston Purina, where she worked in corporate development for the general
counsel and chief financial officer.
Since leaving Enron, Brewer has become an internationally recognized speaker.
She is also president of The Integrity Institute, which assesses and certifies
corporate integrity at the request of organizations for the benefit of their
stakeholders.
Brewer earned certification in business ethics from Colorado State University
and serves as chairwoman of the International Society of Ethics Examiners (ISEE),
an organization she founded. The ISEE is open to ethics professionals who share
a common vision – the development of a uniform certified ethics
examination – to
examine the ethical environment of corporations to communicate real value and
risk in capital markets.
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Lee Dittmar
Lee Dittmar is a principal with Deloitte & Touche, where he serves as the
lead consulting partner and co-leader of the firm's Sarbanes-Oxley initiative.
In this capacity, Dittmar develops initiatives to help clients respond to the
requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, designed to hold CEOs accountable for
corporate financial statements. He recently co-authored
"The Currency of Good Governance," an article that highlights challenges
in the new regulatory environment and outlines actions that companies can take
to differentiate themselves.
Dittmar has more than 25 years of consulting experience. He has helped executives
manage major change, challenges and opportunities. He has helped executives
define new visions and the attributes of success to revitalize their organizations.
His work encompasses strategy, business process improvement, information technology,
and education and training. Dittmar has led consulting engagements for clients
in the United States, Japan, Canada and Central America.
He holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Drexel University and
a master's of business administration from the Wharton School of Business at
the University of Pennsylvania.
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David Klementz
David Klementz is senior vice president and chief financial officer of Progress
Rail Services Corporation, a subsidiary of Progress Energy, since March of 2002.
While at Progress Rail Services, he has been extensively involved in business
operations and the divestiture of various divisions.
Prior to joining Progress Rail Services, Klementz served within Progress Energy's
Strategic Planning Department, most recently as manager of strategic planning
and business development. He was instrumental in supporting the merger of Carolina
Power & Light and Florida Power Corporation, serving as integration manager,
and was also heavily involved in the asset acquisitions of Westchester Gas
Company and LG&E. Before coming to Progress Energy, he served as vice president
of finance and accounting for a clinical research company. He also had been
manager of finance at the Oracle Corporation.
Klementz holds a bachelor's degree in business administration finance from
James Madison University and is a certified public accountant.
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