Cash management debate: Participants

Jack Large (JL – chair) is a partner at J&W Associates and is an independent consultant working in cash and treasury management and payment cards. He provides consultancy services and training seminars for financial institutions, payment system companies and multinational corporations.

Andrew P Reid (AR) is director, treasury solutions team head, northern Europe, at Deutsche Bank. He has worked for Deutsche for nine years, holding managerial positions in the corporate cash management division. Now located in London, he recently spent two years in New York heading the European cash management sales desk.

Ruth Wandhöfer (RuW) is a vice-president and the international payments market manager with Citi Global Transaction Services. She was previously closely involved in the work of the European Payments Council in co-authoring the Sepa Credit Transfer scheme rulebook and was an active lobbyist in the successful negotiation of the EU Payment Services Directive.

Sander Cok (SC) is senior strategy consultant with ING Payments and Cash Management. He has 15 years’ experience in the payments sector and has represented ING on many projects and committees, most recently EBA, EPC and Sepa migration for Dutch banks.

Colin Hemsley (CH) is head of major corporate & financial institutions sales, corporate banking at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets. He has over 30 years’ experience in cash management and trade finance. He heads a team of cash and trade experts responsible for developing and implementing financial supply chain solutions for banks, larger corporates and financial institutions.

Gianfranco Tabasso (GT) is CEO of FMS Group, a treasury software and consulting company in Milan.  He is chairman of the EACT Payment Commission and coordinator of the Cast projects. He is also a member of the EC Expert Group on e-invoicing and Italian representative in ISO 2022 RMG.

Raffi Basmadjian (RB) is deputy treasurer at France Telecom. He started his career 15 years ago in France Telecom’s treasury. He is now designing and building the web based, centralized treasury of the FT Group including various processes such as Netting, Payment Factory and CashPooling.

Rebecca Wilson (RW) is treasury manager, Europe, at Kimberly Clark. She began her career as one of the youngest stockbrokers in the City of London and later moved to accounting. She joined Kimberly Clark in 2002 and moved to treasury in 2003, heading the European cash management team and more recently the global in-house bank. She now focuses on treasury projects.

Richard Smith (RS) joined Mondi in October 2007 as assistant group treasurer. He is responsible for funding and interest rate and foreign exchange risk management. He has more than 12 years’ experience in treasury, having previously worked for Carphone Warehouse, TI Automotive, United Utilities and Railtrack.