Supply Chain Finance Forum

Reed Smith LLP

17th October 2018

London

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_{BCR’s inaugural Supply Chain Finance Forum in London focuses on the industry’s emerging evolutionary trends and in particular the move towards targeting the largely untapped mid-cap buyers market. The forum will showcase innovations within supply chain finance for the mid-market, new arbitrage opportunities this market can provide, and review developing markets such as Asia and other high interest rate regions.}

	Paul Crayford - Director, Operations Consulting, KPMG ^{Paul is a Director in KPMG's Operations Consulting practice in the UK. He supports our clients in whole breadth of industry sectors, by transforming the performance of their operations and supply chains. Paul is currently focused on helping our clients prepare their supply chains and operations for Brexit, and am the Brexit lead for Supply Chain at KPMG.} ^{He has more than 12 years of 'Big Four' consulting experience. A lean manufacturing engineer by background, he previously worked with companies such as Toyota and Honda to improve the efficiencies and flexibilities of large production lines in the automotive supply chain.} ^{Since joining KPMG, he has led many transformation projects in major multi-national organisations in the automotive, consumer goods, retail, telecoms and hotel sectors. Paul is interested in the role that next generation technology, simulation and advanced analytics will play in operational performance improvement.}
	Bertrand De Comminges - Head of Structuring, GTRF, HSBC _{A global Trade Finance specialist, Bertrand is currently responsible for HSBC’s Global Trade and Receivables Finance Solutions Structuring team. He leads the team that structures complex working capital optimisation receivables, supply chain, and lending solutions for HSBC’s clients. On a daily basis, he engages clients around the world in the structuring of complex working capital efficient solutions that support the release of free cash flows into the client’s business and its stakeholders. Previously, Bertrand was Global Product Head, Structured Solutions for HSBC GTRF. He joined HSBC from JPMorgan where he managed the EMEA Structured Trade Advisory business. Prior to joining the banking industry, Bertrand had roles in the corporate and consulting world, with his last role as EMEA lead of Strategic Sourcing for Johnson & Johnson’s Visioncare division. Bertrand is a Chartered Actuary, has an MBA from the London Business School and, an MSc degree in Economics and Business Sciences from UCM. He is married and has five children.}
	Angela Koll - Specialist Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Commerzbank _{Angela Koll has worked in Trade Finance since she joined Commerzbank in 1990. Experienced with foreign payments and documentary business, she worked in documentary credit departments in Frankfurt and London and moved back to Transaction Banking Trade Finance in Frankfurt. Angela gained experience as specialist in Sales Strategy International Business from 2007 to 2013, changed 2014 to Product Management for Trade Finance and is now Product Manager in Trade & Supply Chain Finance, being responsible for the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) business in Commerzbank. As a member of the BPO Commercialisation Initiative, Angela supports the BPO market adoption and assisted as Global SCF Forum Drafting Group member to find definitions for SCF techniques. In 2016 Angela started being engaged in blockchain activities in Commerzbank, the EBA Working Group on Crypto Technologies for Trade Finance and the R3 blockchain consortium.}
	Mark Ling - Head of International Large Corporates, Santander Corporate & Commercial Banking, Santander ^{Mark joined Santander to drive the development of its International business across the UK in May 2014. He is responsible for International Origination across our Large Corporate business (£50 + Turnover) nationally and for our Trade Finance, Supplier Finance and Invoice Finance Products and solutions across SCCB. Mark represents the Bank in numerous forums in particular the BBA on committees that focus on Exports and Trade Finance. Also acts as lead for our relationship with UKEF. Prior to joining Santander Mark spent 12 years at RBS leading various businesses and teams throughout its Large Corporate, Institutional, Corporate and SME business. He was instrumental in building the FTSE 350 business around the Trade and Supply chain financing disciplines. Mark began his career as a management trainee with Standard Chartered bank where he worked across the UK branch network, in London and in Asia for 20 years. As well as leading Corporate and Institutional Banking teams across a variety of sectors, geographies and segments he also developed Standard Chartered’s Supply Chain Financing proposition, leading a Global team in Singapore. Mark is passionate about developing international business across the corporate and commercial segments and creating the next generation of Exporters and skilled international bankers}
	Bart Ras - Managing Director, Greensill Capital ^{Bart is a Managing Director at Greensill Capital. He brings a unique, entrepreneurial and globally-focused approach to treasury, trade finance, supply chain and technology. Combining over 20 years of experience in different environments and industries, he has innovative and, often, non-traditional solutions for the market solving clients’ most pressing issues. He enjoys working with and inspiring others who also want to understand, develop and harness rapidly advancing technologies in order address some of our largest challenges. Previously, Bart was Global Head Business Development for HSBC Global Trade and Receivable Finance. He held senior positions at Citi Bank, Philips NV, ING Bank and co-founded one of the first internet companies in the Netherlands in the early 90s.}
	Sonja Rethagen - Head of Credit Insurance and Factoring, BüchnerBarella Holding _{Sonja Rethagen is the Head of Trade Credit, Surety und Receivables Financing. She manages and co-ordinates a team of 15 specialists located in BüchnerBarella’s offices across Germany. Sonja’s professional focus is on the placement and handling of national and international trade credit and factoring facilities. She is based in Munich. BüchnerBarella is an independent, owner-managed insurance broker founded in 1922 and is today one of the fastest growing broking companies in Germany. Before joining BüchnerBarella in March 2015, Sonja was the managing partner in a start-up company in trade credit insurance broking. Her career began in January 2000 as a regional sales and account manager at the world’s largest credit insurance group. She served this company in various client interface and management roles for over 9 years, her last position being that of Senior Executive Manager.}
	Nick Stainthorpe - Partner, Reed Smith _{Nick is a finance partner who focuses on receivables finance and structured finance. He regularly advises on supply chain finance, alternative finance transactions involving p2p platforms and securitisation (particularly trade receivables securitisation). He participates actively in industry bodies and speaks regularly at events on matters such as the implications of regulation on the financial services sector. His clients include funds, banks and alternative capital providers.}
	Laurent Tabouelle - Group Managing Director, CODIX _{Laurent is Group Managing Director of CODIX, a French commercial finance software provider that supports all flavors of corporate/commercial finance, including PO finance, Factoring (international/two-way, reverse/NAFIN, classical, etc.), Invoice Discounting, Asset Based Lending and Supply Chain/Inventory Finance as well as sophisticated debt collection capabilities. With a staff of 500+ business and technical experts located in 7 countries, CODIX delivers its iMX solution worldwide to clients of various sizes from Fintechs, SMEs to international groups, and always with a comprehensive suite of services including system customization, on-site training and assistance, as well as expert level business recommendations and project management. Laurent's career background is in I.T. for the financial/SCF industry: 1997 Business/Systems analyst, 2002 Project Manager, 2003 joined CodiX as PM, 2006 Product Manager, 2007 CodiX Bulgaria General Manager, 2010 CodiX Group Managing Director.}
	Richard Whitehouse - Sales Director for Supply Chain Finance, Sancus ^{Richard has over 18 years’ experience in invoice finance, asset based lending, supply chain finance and trade finance. His roles have included working at both independent and bank owned funders in the UK, Ireland and Germany, including Aldermore Bank, AIB Plc, and Royal Bank of Scotland Invoice Finance. He has been integral in developing and delivering sales at a strategic level and has a track record in achieving performance objectives with a keen eye on returns. He has an excellent reputation in leadership roles within both sales and relationship management. Richard became sales director at Sancus Finance in June 2016 and was appointed to the board in March 2017.}
	Jamie Whiteway - European Sales Director ^{Jamie serves as European Sales Director for one of the fastest growing Fintech companies in the world - Taulia, and is based at Taulia's European Headquarters in London. Jamie is a Chartered Accountant and has a proven track record in helping companies across Europe and APAC review, assess and optimise financial processes, working capital and cash flow. Prior to joining Taulia in early 2016, Jamie spent a number of years at HSBC and Barclays in the UK advising, structuring and implementing working capital financing tools. Prior to moving to the UK, Jamie began his career in Australia at KPMG practicing Audit, Risk Advisory and Restructuring across APAC. Like most Australians, Jamie is sports mad, and being a keen golfer you can find him most weekends trying to cure his slice.}
	Nick Wildgoose - Global Supply Chain Product Leader , Zurich ^{Nick is a qualified accountant and supply chain professional and has held a variety of senior global financial, supply chain and commercial positions in a number of industry sectors, working for companies such as PWC, BOC Group, The Virgin Group, and currently Zurich Insurance Group. He has spoken and written on a number of topics related to business intelligence and value chain management. He served on the Board of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply which is the biggest professional body in the world with around 110,000 members. He has also served as a specialist advisor to the World Economic Forum on the topic of systemic supply chain risk and as Chairman of the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council a select group of multinational companies looking to improve supply chain risk and still serves on the Board. He is currently leading the rollout of innovative and award-winning supply chain risk products for Zurich Insurance Group, which has given him the opportunity to interact with a large number of global companies and understand how they are addressing the real issues they are facing in terms of the globalisation of their value chains and how they improve their production effectiveness and efficiency.}