Eugene is an ACT student and thinks the greatest challenge facing treasurers today is the Interest Rate Market.
Courtney received the Mentee of the Year award in 2017. She was recently involved the sale of Logicor from Blackstone to CIC - the second largest European real estate transaction in history.
His first degree is as a bacteria breeder (actually Genetics and Microbiology), although the career path he decided to pursue was in finance, initially in FX risk management. He juggles working in a busy treasury environment with his passion for judo. Find out more about the ACT’s regional group ambassador for Switzerland.
Read Mike’s top career tips and hear how he uses the skills he developed while in treasury in his current role as a business performance consultant.
Niriniaina is a student on the Educational Trust Bursary scheme, and has recently completed her Certificate in Treasury Fundamentals.
Raj decided to join the ACT’s Mentor Me scheme as he wanted advice on his transition to Asia from the UK. He has some useful top tips for anyone thinking of signing up to the mentoring scheme.
Alan has been a member of the ACT for 25 years. A former Secretary to the Lord Chancellor’s Strategic Investment Board, Alan is now a non-executive director (NED) for a NHS Trust.
Jill recently spoke at the ACT’s Annual Conference in Manchester on Redefining bank relationships.
Vinni recently completed the ACT’s Certificate in Treasury qualification and believes it is important for bankers to understand the key issues affecting treasury teams in order to help their clients more effectively.
Margaret is a Fellow of the ACT and spent 13 years working in investment banking before becoming a career coach. She is one of the coaches offering her expertise as part of the Time Critical Conversations initiative.
Edward has worked as a treasurer in both the UK and Saudi Arabia and is currently the treasurer for the charity, Save the Children. He believes treasurers have vital core skills in risk management, negotiation and strategic thinking which are easily transferrable between countries and sectors.
Brian has had a varied treasury career and is currently Group Treasurer at Willis. He has worked at House of Fraser, Halcrow, Rackspace and the Valspar Corporation along with many additional consultancy roles. He has benefitted from informal mentoring during his career and he wanted to give something back by being a mentor for the ACT.
Gary was one of the panellists at the NED and volunteering evening in November 2018. He is a trustee at Essex Youth Build and at Thames Chase Trust and is an advocate of using treasury skills to help not-for-profit organisations.
Roger took over as treasurer at Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water in September having moved from The Co-operative group. What does Roger think treasurers need to focus on in the coming months and who is his business hero.
Paul worked for a consultancy (Deloitte) before moving to Bodycote and then to Morrisons.
Paul became the President of the ACT on 1 May 2019. He has worked in treasury-related areas of financial services throughout his career with roles which included being part of the restructuring negotiations for Lloyds of London in the mid-90s and restructuring ABN Treasury for RBS in the late 00's.
An experienced treasurer, Louis was involved in the complete automation of the financial processes for Kenya Railways Corporation - the first organisation in Kenya to go cashless through the adoption of technology and innovative techniques.
I am a refugee from the banking world. But after a few decades of mergers, turnover and turmoil I decided I was more suited to the entrepreneurial life style rather than being an employee. I think my past bosses would agree with that and in fact my ex-employers became my first clients. I have never been happier. I now have the best boss I have ever had and the help does everything exactly as I would have done it!
Finance is the life-blood of any organisation, community or a nation for that matter! How you raise, protect, preserve and grow it sets benchmarks and monitors its deployment which will determine whether the organisation, community or nation's stakeholders will thrive or fail. Treasury brings it all together in a common sense, yet sophisticated and focussed manner that I find extremely purposeful and amazing!
Catherine is the newest member of the Membership Development Forum. She has worked at Paragon Community Housing Group and Cancer Research UK before moving to CBRE.
Chris has responsibility for the insurance function as well as all core treasury and he enjoys how his role reaches into every corner of the business, involves lots of social contact and offers tremendous variety.
Emilie has worked in treasury for over 12 years in various roles and across a range of industries including non-profit, biotechnology and infrastructure. She completed her AMCT qualification in 2013 and became the Chair of the Future Leaders in Treasury group in January 2019.
Keith has worked as a consultant working on projects with, amongst others, Deloitte and EY as well as in industry, most recently at Kingfisher.
Lynda is the group treasurer at Tesco, having recently moved to the retail giant from Kingfisher. What does Lynda think treasurers need to focus on in the coming months and what are her top tips for managing your career?
Roshun has worked in a treasury role in the Middle East for over two years and is a member of the working group for Future Leaders in Treasury. Read about his take on the importance of treasury qualifications and why he thinks it's necessary for younger members to have a strong voice within the ACT.
Ollie is the Deputy Chair of the Future Leaders in Treasury forum and sits on the Membership Development Forum, actively providing a voice to the ACT on behalf of younger members.
Julia’s career to date has been in financial services and she now works for a company specialising in international money transfer. She talks about the issues that will impact the payment services sector, and the best piece of career advice she has been given.
Dermot has worked in both banking and treasury consultancy. He joined the mentoring scheme when in launched two years ago and was awarded Mentor of the Year in 2017.