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Management
Advisory BoardMr. Deusinger is a member of the management team of confero, the leading independent German advisor for the banking and fund management industry. Over the course of his 20-year career in banking & consulting, Mr. Deusinger has become a specialist in designing and building operational management systems for custody and securities operations, including Repos and Securities Lending, Collateral Management, Trading and Derivatives. Prior to joining confero, Mr. Deusinger also held senior positions with Ernst & Young, European Transaction Bank (etb), Commerz Financial Products GmbH and Commerzbank AG. Mr. Deusinger has significant management consulting experience in the areas of migration projects, founding and structuring of new entities, operational turnarounds, in- and outsourcing, Service Level Agreements, cost reduction and Process Reengineering as well as Activity-based Costing / Management. He is a member of various Clearing- and User committees; former registered Trader on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and EUREX and is a lecturer and author on Settlements and operational quality.
^ top Mr. Dörig has over twenty years experience in the consulting and risk management fields, advising clients on information system reengineering and risk management in the financial services, high-tech, pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries. Beginning his career at Zurich Financial Services as Head “Ressort Systems Engineering” leading 15 engineers, his other positions include Partner at both Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen and Senior Partner at Ernst & Young. During his tenure at Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen, Mr. Dörig was responsible for successfully developing and building up several new expert units dealing with risk management. Prior to his responsibility as the Managing Partner of Pukall Doerig + Partner Mr. Dörig was a Deloitte Partner responsible for Enterprise Risk Services in Switzerland. Mr. Dörig is a frequent speaker at Business, ICT and Risk Management events. He graduated with a B.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil, Switzerland and completed post graduate studies in systems engineering. ^ top Mr. Katz started his career with an intelligence branch of the U.S. Air Force from 1968 until 1973, where he was based in the United Kingdom. He then became a journalist in the U.S., but returned to the UK in 1979 to accept a position as deputy editor of a British provincial newspaper. He joined Kroll Associates in London in 1987 and by 1995 became the Director of European Operations. The following year he was named UK country Head. After leaving Kroll Associates in 1998, Mr. Katz became Chief Executive of the Bishop Group in 1999. He has been responsible for hundreds of sensitive inquiries, ranging from due diligence concerning controversial public figures and contested takeover battles to investigations concerning homicide and political corruption. Mr. Katz holds an undergraduate degree from the City University of New York.
^ top Dr. Luftman is a Distinguished Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Management and the Associate Dean for Stevens’ Information Systems programs. In this capacity, Luftman manages and conducts projects, research, and executive programs about business-IT alignment. Prior to his work at Stevens, Dr. Luftman worked at IBM as a program manager at the Advanced Business Institute, where he played a significant role in defining and introducing IBM’s Management Consulting Group. He has had success as a CIO, Management Consultant, and academic. His framework for assessing strategic alignment maturity is fundamental in helping clients achieve the management, technology and business process changes required to realize improved IT-business integration. He is the SIM VP of Chapter Relations and the NJ Chapter President. Dr. Luftman has authored or co-authored ten books.
^ top Over the span of his 30-year career, Mr. Preston has held senior positions globally for organizations including Rabobank, Chase Manhattan, Salomon Brothers and NIB Capital Bank. His area of expertise encompasses Operations and IT Strategy, Business Turnarounds, Capital Market and Treasury operations, Custody and Securities operations, Audit Controls and Quality Control, Payments and Cash Management operations, Outsourcing and Insourcing as well as marketing for transaction-based businesses. Mr. Preston holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a BA from Washington and Lee University. He is a lecturer and author on Operational Risk, Settlements and Operational Quality. ^ top Mr. Roberts is a senior executive with over 40 years experience in US governmental relations, policy management, and lobbying / advocacy in Washington, DC. A specialist in Internal Governmental Policy and Operations Management, Mr., Roberts has worked with leaders at the highest level in the Executive and Legislative Branches of US Government. He has extensive experience developing and managing government programs and building congressional relations for corporate clients, and has built a strong working relationship over the years with key Capitol Hill staffers and members of Congress. He is currently a business strategy consultant in the Washington DC area.
^ top Professor Sherwin has served over 20 years as Associate Professor of Economics and Management at Goucher College, a private liberal arts university located in Maryland. Her academic areas of specialty include courses in accounting, small business management, and taxation. She is recognized for her outstanding leadership in education, and has been awarded the Certificate in Excellence in Economic Education presented by the Freedoms Foundation. Professor Sherwin is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Maryland, and has served as Vice President of Sherwin Consulting, a consulting firm specializing in quality assurance processes for the hospitality industry. Professor Sherwin has served as an advisor to various management and service businesses. She earned a B.S. from Kent State University, an M.B.A. from University of Baltimore and a M.Ed. from Goucher College.
^ top Mark W. Sickles, United States Mark W. Sickles is an advisor to boards of directors and top management teams, and founding principal of Mark W. Sickles, LLC. (www.markwsickles.com) He is the author of Shareholder Value Assurance — The Cure for Enronitis and The Mark W. Sickles Handbook for Well-Intended Boards and Directors, plus numerous articles on achieving long-term shareholder value, including Tool Kit for the Post-Enron Board. Mark has served as adjunct professor and faculty member at The Singapore Institute of Management, American Management Association, and Rutgers University. He currently is an adjunct professor and advisory board member of Inside the Boardroom at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, where he teaches his newly designed corporate governance certification course to boards and senior management teams. Having served as a Fortune 500 “C” level executive and corporate officer, Mark is also the founding President and CEO of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (www.nacdnj.org). ^ top Management TeamWith nearly 20 years experience in the reinsurance and insurance industry, Arnoud started his career with Swiss Re, where he began as an Underwriter and held positions as Chief of Staff at the headquarters of Swiss Re. He was an Executive Manager and a COO of Swiss Re Africa in Johannesburg, where he founded and build the continental Shared Service Centre. He acquired proven international operational leadership and project leadership experience on an executive level also as Global Management Development Manager of Swiss Re and as Operations Manager of the Swiss Aviation Insurance Pool. Before joining Trestle Group, Arnoud was the Deputy CEO of an international outsourcing enterprise in the field of insurance and reinsurance. He has years of experience in managing multi-cultural departments and projects across Europe and the globe. To this he has added experience in world-wide human resource projects, client relationship management and leadership questions. Arnoud holds a Dutch and a Swiss passport, studied mechanical engineering at the ETH Zürich and he speaks besides his mother tongues German, English and Dutch also French and Spanish.
^ top Bernhard Janischowsky, Germany Mr. Janischowsky has enjoyed a truly global professional career, having begun as an Industrial Engineer in Dallas, Texas. Thereafter, he moved to Spain to join the German engineering group Bosch International, where he was directly responsible for the design and development of manufacturing processes for quality certification. He then moved into consulting, advising on the reengineering of corporate strategy of former East German state-owned conglomerates. He was later recruited into Arthur Andersen Business Consulting in Frankfurt, Germany to manage a variety of international projects in the areas of process design and IT strategy. After five years with Arthur Andersen he and three partners founded ecovista, a company focused on planning and implementing large scale IT projects for international clients. Building upon this success, Mr. Janischowsky co-founded Trestle Group. Mr. Janischowsky holds a degree as Industrial Engineer from the University Erlangen-Nuernberg in Germany and an M.B.A. from London Business School.
^ top Mr. Schonenbach is the CEO of Trestle Group and on the Board of Trestle Group Foundation. He has held senior positions with the firms Andersen and Ernst & Young. Over the span of his career, he has established several successful consulting practices with a primary focus in the financial services industry and has advised high-level executives around the world on how to transform the way they manage and deliver services, as well as how to tackle the pressures brought about by resource constraints. Through Trestle Group Foundation, he is passionately involved with providing support to both women and emerging entrepreneurs in developing countries. Mr. Schonenbach frequently speaks at conferences and has authored a variety of publications. Mr. Schonenbach earned a degree in Business Management from Goucher College.
^ top Prior to joining Trestle Group, Mr. Dana Smith served as public affairs professional with extensive experience in non-profit administration, governmental relations, public affairs, strategic planning, communications and media relations. Mr. Smith has worked with government leaders at the highest level in the Executive and Legislative branches in the State of Ohio, as well as with key Members of Congress at the federal level in the United States. He has extensive experience developing and managing legislative programs, strategic communication efforts and public awareness campaigns on behalf of a broad range of clients including non-profit organizations, Fortune 100 companies, as well as state and national trade associations. Mr. Smith earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from The Ohio State University and he currently resides with his wife Elizabeth in London. Mr. Smith serves as Executive Director of Trestle Group Foundation.
^ top 18 years of global professional exposure to diverse fields ranging from Business Administration and Management to IT Professional Services have made Jan Uetz a well-rounded individual. His experience in the ICT Industry has been gained from years of professional service covering many domains, such as project and product management for enterprise-scale IT hardware and software projects, consulting for and management of IT-related sourcing projects, conception and development of software, as well as conceptualization and implementation of workflow and data processes. He was the Managing Director of a Swiss service company in the ICT industry for nine years, specializing in customer oriented, Internet-based communications solutions and business applications, servicing a.o. also governmental and non-profit organizations. He has worked for Yamaha Corporation, Japan, the Swiss Red Cross, The Collective NYC in New York, and has extensive experience with Far East and low-cost countries (Japan, Philippines, India, Ukraine, Belarus a.o.). Mr. Uetz holds an M.B.A. degree from Business School Lausanne.
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