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Shawna is a detail oriented, customer focused credit professional with 20 years of extensive practical experience in the areas of domestic and international credit, collections and accounts receivable management. A thoughtful strategist who excels at managing ambiguity and assessing risk, she believes in partnering with sales to create win-win results for the end customer. Shawna’s expertise is specializing in maximizing systems and workflow efficiencies and has been a key member of many ERP system implementations.
Ms. Arneson will be participating in the Women in Credit & Finance Panel
Phyliss Blacknall-Jones is the Chief Financial Officer of Benelli USA. Highly accomplished, result-driven financial executive with over 25 years of experience and success in finance and accounting for mid-size companies. Phyllis’s expertise includes strategic planning, internal controls, budgeting, forecasting and treasury management. She believes in integrating finance and strategy to create value. Excellent track record for leading and empowering, high performing team members. Responsible for oversight with ERP system, technical accounting design processes, and project management.
Ms. Blacknall-Jones will be participating in the Women in Credit & Finance Panel
A trusted advisor to unsecured creditors, creditors' committees, and distressed companies, Jeff's tenacious counsel adds steady momentum to our growing client base in retail bankruptcy and is a strong resource to distressed clients in the technology sector. His practice centers on Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations and related litigation. Current representations include the creditors’ committees in Gibson Guitar, United Sporting Companies, Mission Coal Company, Fred’s, Gander Mountain, and Vitamin World; individual creditors Under Armour and Estée Lauder in Bon-Ton Stores Chapter 11, Estée Lauder in Sears Canada proceedings, National Football League in Cumulus Media Chapter 11, and participant lenders in Toys “R” Us and Tops Markets Chapter 11 cases.
Mr. Cohen presents - Bankruptcy Bootcamp
Janine Friedman is the owner of Choice Training and Coaching Solutions, Inc. Launched in 2013, its mission is to inspire and empower individuals to live their best lives. Janine possesses a complementary blend of experience in human resources, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), corporate upskilling and coaching, and women’s empowerment. Developing leaders for over 24 years, Janine’s customized system of coaching is tailored to each client’s specific personality, background and needs. She is an engaging and inspirational speaker, conducting training programs that are both educational and memorable. She excels at delivering her message with enthusiasm and clarity, resulting in better learning and deeper understanding. Janine is passionate about supporting women who are struggling to achieve success in the workplace and in life. She is able to provide the tools necessary to help women develop competence and confidence as well as explore behaviors that may be holding them back. Prior to launching Choice Training and Coaching Solutions, Janine served as Director of Training and Coaching for Open Arms and Employee Support Network EAP and as Vice President of Human Resources for a large independent broker-dealer.
Mrs. Friedman moderates - Women in Credit & Finance
Mark Greenberg is a Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal in New York, where he provides financial advisory services to creditors and specializes in representing official committees of unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. For more than 15 years, Mr. Greenberg has provided advisory services to debtors, creditors and equity holders in both bankruptcy and out-of-court restructurings within a variety of industries.
Mr. Greenberg presents - Bankruptcy Bootcamp
Ideoclick’s e-Commerce Optimization Platform delivers transformative results for hundreds of leading brands through complete integrated services including:
-Catalog/data excellence
-Account management, strategy and insights
-Marketing, promotions and content
-Data analysis and reporting
-Complete Amazon reseller services
-Operational compliance services
Ideoclick’s operational compliance team works to uncover and reduce non-compliance issues for vendors selling on Amazon, as well as to recover related chargebacks and shortages. In the last six months alone, Ideoclick has helped clients improve their Amazon operational compliance best practices, resulting in chargeback avoidance, successful disputes and recoveries totaling over $5.16 million. With Ideoclick’s help identifying root-cause, these clients are better positioned to avoid a large number of the same chargebacks and shortages going forward.
Ideoclick presents - Amazon Best Pactices
Dr. Chris Kuehl is a Managing Director of Armada Corporate Intelligence. He provides forecasts and strategic guidance for a wide variety of corporate clients around the world. He is the chief economist for several national and international organizations; Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, National Association of Credit Management, Finance, Credit and International Business and the Business Information Industry Association. He is also the economic analyst for several state accounting societies - Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Kansas.
Prior to starting Armada in 1999 he was a professor of economics and finance for 15 years teaching in the US, Hungary, Russia, Estonia, Singapore and Taiwan. He holds advanced degrees in economics, Soviet studies and East Asian studies.
Chris is the author of Business Intelligence Briefs and Executive Intelligence Briefs, both publications from Armada. He is also responsible for the Credit Manager's Index from NACM and Fabrinomics from the FMA.
Dr. Kuehl presents - 2020 - The Year of Living Dangerously (Economically Speaking)
Richard Newman is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Creditor Advisory in Chicago where he provides financial advisory services to creditors and focuses on representing official committees of unsecured creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. He specializes in liquidity management, budget planning, cash flow forecasting, business plan review and formulation of reorganization plans.
Mr. Newman presents - Bankruptcy Bootcamp
The founder and owner of Riemer Reporting Service, Lois Riemer has been involved in the credit industry for more than 50 years. She has encountered many of the challenges experienced in the field of credit management and has watched the industry evolve since the mid-60's. Her educational background includes a B.A. from Bowling Green State University, as well as, specialized secretarial skills such as court reporting that were necessary for credit groups requiring verbatim documentation of credit-related discussions. After 55 successful years, 130 credit associations and 7500 members that she (mostly) knows personally, Lois has finally retired and has become very active in the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church where she currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
Mrs. Riemer will be participating in the Women in Credit & Finance Panel
