Topic: Panel Discussion - What Makes the Best Marriages Between Bankers and Practitioners Work
Topic Description:
If a treasury-bank relationship is less than solid, then there is the risk that the bank will be less of a resource when the corporate needs it, whereas healthy long-term relationships create a system of financial stability and resiliency with corporates and banks working together as strategic allies.
This session will be panel presentation with corporate practitioners from insurance and manufacturing/publishing plus two regional bankers that discuss strategies and insights for building and strengthening new or existing relationships. The panelists will explore how prioritizing the partnership can drive efficiency and transparency throughout the cash management and risk management process, plus support practitioners in their digital transformation efforts.
Panelists:
Mandy Catrett, CTP, is Vice President, Finance & Treasury at EBSCO, one of the largest privately held and family-owned US-based conglomerates that include information services, outdoor products, manufacturing, publishing services, and real estate.
She is responsible for EBSCO’s overall cash management, which includes leading the team that manages EBSCO’s debt, bank accounts, bank relationships, foreign exchange and hedging program, cash position and forecasting, investments, and letters of credit. Mandy and her team manage over 40 banking relationships and 250 bank accounts globally for both the parent company and its various subsidiaries.
Mandy has almost 20 years of treasury management experience at EBSCO, starting out as a Treasury Analyst. She has served on the Board of the Alabama AFP for many years. Mandy graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Financial Management and has a Masters of Business Administration from Samford University.
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Patricia (‘Patty’) Phillips Cobb, CPA , CTP is Vice President – Cash Management at Protective Life Corporation, which offers insurance and finance products in all fifty states, employs more than 3,800 employees and has annual revenues of $6.6 billion plus assets of $118.4 billion.
Patty Cobb has 30+ years of Accounting and Finance experience working in various industries, including public accounting, aluminum (Alumax Inc., now Alcoa), airline (Delta), wire and cable (Superior Essex), aggregate (Vulcan Materials) and insurance (Protective Life). Patty currently leads the cash management team at Protective Life and is responsible for cash operations, banking relationships, services and fees, short-term investments (MMKTs), cash management systems/Vendors, FBAR, SOX and compliance reporting, as well as being the liaison with all departments and lines of business regarding internal and external audits, acquisition integrations, fraud claims, etc. Patty has served on the Alabama AFP and Better Basics Boards and is currently serving on the VHCS Foundation Board.
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Ashley Ames, CTP, is Senior Vice President and Treasury Management Officer at Regions Bank since 2004. She is responsible for retention, expansion and acquisition of companies with revenue size ranging from $20,000,000 to over a billion. Experience working with publicly traded companies, privately held companies, city and local governments, not for profit agencies, school boards, and institutions for higher education.
Ashley graduated magna cum laude from the University of Alabama in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. She obtained her master’s degree in management, also from the University of Alabama.
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Kelly Wilson, CTP, is Senior Vice President, Treasury Management & Payment Solutions at SouthState Bank. She delivers professional, consultative sales of Treasury Management solutions through collaborative sales activities and relationship building, such as needs-based discovery meetings and providing highly skilled technical advice to business and commercial clients on financial supply chain optimization, information management, and financial fraud prevention and protection.
She has been with SouthState Bank, including several of its acquired entities, since 2007. Prior to that, Kelly joined BancorpSouth in 1994 after obtaining her BSBA degree in Banking & Finance from the University of Southern Mississippi. She has specialized in treasury management throughout her banking career.
Kelly is a founding member of the Alabama AFP chapter, created over 22 years ago and remains on its board today. She has presented at several AFP events in the past.
