Massimo De Padova graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan.
 

A consultant since 1985, he became a partner of BGP Management Consulting in 1992. Since 1988 he has been listed in the register of professional accountants. He is the technical consultant for the judge of the Civil and Criminal Court of Milan in the category of professional accountants. 
 

He has held courses at SDA Bocconi in the financial policy and management area and has participated as a spokesperson in numerous conferences regarding finance, treasury and the introductions of ERP systems.
 

Most of his experience concerns planning and creating information systems for financial business administration for the areas of cash management and treasury management. He has coordinated the implementation of treasury planning and control and financial/asset budgeting. He has significant experience in public utilities and insurance industries.

 
Arsène Demenga, Treasurer, EGL AG

Before joining EGL Group, Arsène worked for several banks. He has gathered profound know-how especially in the areas of trade finance and cash management. 

At EGL Group treasury, Arsène is responsible for bank guarantees, cash management and support of subsidiaries with regard to treasury activities. In his capacity as treasurer he recently managed the group wide liquidity planning project including the implementation of the SAP based Eprox LIQMANAGER. 

Stefan Eggli, Head of Cash-Management/Back Office, Swiss Federal Railways

Dr. Stefan Eggli, Head of Cash-Management and Backoffice, is responsible for the redesigning and centralizing of the cash-management processes for the whole Swiss Federal Railways SBB group. SBB is Switzerland’s largest transport operator and its fourth-largest employer. 

Stefan has a diverse treasury experience encompassing treasury systems, technology, compliance and risk management as he worked in various branches prior joining SBB in 2009. As Treasury Controller for Ciba Specialty Chemicals he globally introduced a financial risk management solution with SAP. He gained banking experience as Head of Market and Liquidity Risk within the risk office of a Swiss private bank and worked as project manager at UBS. 

Gerd Klevenz, Global Treasury – Treasury Operations and Processes, SAP

Gerd Klevenz joined SAP in July 1995 after working at a German bank for several years. His first responsibilities at SAP’s treasury were in cash management and global subsidiary support. From 2003, he was part of the middle office with responsibilities in intragroup financing, investments, bank relations and risk controlling.

Since May 2008, Gerd Klevenz has lead the team “Treasury Operations & Processes” which covers global payment and account management, back office functions and the in-house bank of SAP.

Elie Lasker, Head of Corporate and Insurance Market, SWIFT

Elie Lasker is Head of the Corporate Market at SWIFT. Mr. Lasker has worked for SWIFT for 18 years and has held positions in customer operations, sales and marketing.  Prior to SWIFT, he worked for Banksys, a Belgian electronic financial transactions and payments systems provider. A telecoms engineer, Mr. Lasker also holds a Masters Degree in Russian language. 

Magnus Lind, Chair, European Treasurers' Peer Group

Mr. Magnus Lind co-founded the European Treasurers' Peer Group (www.treasurypeer.com) in 2004 together with four large corporations. The peer group is a trade organization focusing on knowledge exchange, development of best practice and benchmarking with close to 300 corporate treasury practitioners. Magnus is also founder and managing partner of the NFS Group, a global treasury consultancy and solution provider. Prior to founding NFS in 1992, he was corporate treasurer at ESAB, and member of the executive management at DnB and Swedbank.

He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management and comments regularly on corporate treasury on www.treasurypeer.com/treasury-blog.

Christian Mnich, Solution Management, SAP

Christian Mnich works in the ERP Product Management Team for SAP ERP Financials at SAP AG, based out of Walldorf, Germany. He is responsible for the gl product management of SAP In-House Cash, SAP Bank Communication Management and SAP Integration Package for SWIFT. Furthermore, he is in charge of the developments around Single Euro Payments Area (lobaSEPA) for SAP ERP Financials.

Christian joined SAP in 2005 in the financials area as a Solution Manager for SAP Real Estate Management. Since the middle of 2007, Christian has taken responsibility for Bank Communications and Payments. 

Prior to SAP, Christian worked for Bosch and IDS Scheer AG in several capacities. Christian holds a B.Sc. in Business Computing from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Klaus Müller, Development Architect, ERP Financials

Dr. Klaus G. Müller graduated in Physics before joining SAP in 1996. Since then, Klaus has worked in the treasury and banking areas, focusing on risk management and analytical applications. His areas of responsibility to date, are development, product management and project management. In his current role as Development Architect, he deals with architecture issues in the treasury  solution with a focus on treasury and risk management.

Marco Pescarolo, Group Treasurer, Ferrero International

Since 2002, Marco Pescarolo has been the Group Treasurer at Ferrero International, holding company of the Ferrero Group, based in Luxembourg. Graduating in Economics at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), he previously worked at Falck (the Italian energy and steel producer), based in Milan. Here he covered different roles, eventually taking on responsibility for treasury and project finance.

In the early years of his career, he also worked for the Chase Manhattan Bank and for the Standard Chartered Bank as Relationship Manager.

He is currently a member of ATEL (Association of Luxembourg Corporate Treasurers).

Heike Ripp, Solution Management, SAP

Heike Ripp has been working at SAP since 1998. She was working as a Treasury Consultant, Project Manager and Business Consultant for IAS 39 implementations for SAP Consulting until the end of 2005.

From 2006 to 2009 Heike worked as Solution Manager for Treasury and Risk Management. She is now responsible as topic owner for all treasury applications from SAP.

Prior to SAP, Heike worked for an auditor as an Auditing Consultant. Heike holds a Degree in Business Management from Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Maarten Rust, Senior Director Treasury Operations, Phillips Electronics

Maarten Rust leads the treasury operations department in Philips. Treasury operations manages global payments, settlements and cash for the group. Maarten has worked for over 11 years in Philips, holding various roles within Treasury and IT. In his previous role Maarten led the SAP Treasury implementation in Philips. Maarten started his career in the SNS Bank as Assistant Treasury & Control.

Maarten holds a Masters Degree in Econometrics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and followed with the Treasury Management Post Graduate course at the Vrije University of Amsterdam.

Ralph Schöpfer, Director Business Development ERP Financials, SAP

Ralph Schöpfer is Director Business Development for business suite finance solutions in the EMEA+India solution business development organization. In this role, he is responsible for demand generation, sales & partner enablement, and deal support activities focusing on ERP financials edge solutions in 18 Market Units.

Before this, he headed the sales management work stream of the business object integration project and drove the go-to-market of SAP’s financing offering.

Ralph has more than 15 years of experience in the software, telecommunication, and insurance industry with focus on IT cost allocation and as an Assistant to the CFO before he joined SAP in 2000 in the sales controlling department. At the beginning of 2001, he took over the ‘service and travel accounting’ department before he changed to business development in 2004. 

Ralph has a diploma in Business Administration (BA) with a focus on Computer Science.

Mark Stapleton, Senior Solutions Engineer, SAP America

Mark C. Stapleton is a Senior Solutions Engineer with SAP America. Based in Dallas, Texas, Mark is a national resource supporting SAP’s treasury, in house cash, cash management, bank communication management and SAP integration package for SWIFT products. A frequent presenter at treasury and SAP conferences, Mark has over 24 years of industry experience including 15 years in the treasury software marketplace.

He joined SAP directly from PeopleSoft, where he was responsible for the company's suite of treasury products including cash, deal and risk management.  He also focused on the integration and coordination of cash management functions within the entire financials product line.  Prior to working at PeopleSoft, Mark spent time in banking at Bank of America (NationsBank) in Dallas focused on treasury management training and development. Mark is a Certified Treasury Professional with a Bachelor's Degree from Emory University, and a private pilot. 

Gary Throup, Vice President Treasury Control, Philips Electronics

Gary Throup leads the treasury control and operations department in Philips. The treasury control department consists of treasury operations, risk control, accounting, group treasury control and master data maintenance. He worked for 6 years in Philips before his current role mainly in Treasury.

Before joining Philips, Gary had various positions in the treasury department of TNT and prior to this held management and financial accounting roles within a British financial institution.  Gary is a Chartered Accountant and ACT Certified Treasurer.

Judith van Passen, Partner, Zanders Treasury and Finance Solutions

Judith C.M. van Paassen is Partner at Zanders Treasury & Finance Solutions, an independent consultancy firm specializing in treasury management, risk management and corporate finance. Zanders was founded in 1994 and currently employs over 100 professionals. The company has offices in The Netherlands, Belgium,  the UK and Switzerland. Among their clients are leading international multinationals, public sector entities, and financial institutions. 

Judith started her career with Zanders as Treasury Consultant. She lead numerous treasury systems implementations from different system vendors and advised on global cash management solutions. In 1999, Judith became Partner at Zanders and now heads the Operations, Processes and System advisory and implementation group within Zanders. Judith is amongst other things, responsible for the partnership between Zanders and SAP, which was set-up in 1998. Zanders has a successful track record of implementations of SAP Treasury functionality for its clients and was awarded with the best Client Satisfaction award from SAP.

Judith van Paassen holds a Masters degree (with honours) in Computer Science from Delft University. 

Joerg Wiemer is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Treasury at SAP. He is responsible for cash management, global financial risk management, financial asset management, financing, share buyback, and bank relationship management. He reports directly to the group CFO.

Prior to joining SAP, Joerg was Head of Treasury and Investor Relations at a listed German mid-cap company. Joerg started his career at Deutsche Bank where he worked as credit analyst and relationship manager for corporate clients