Globinar Global Chamber® New York City: Fraud: The Silent Assassin - Practical Defenses for Business Owners
- lGLOBAL losses due to fraud = $5.0+ Trillion Annually
- lUS losses due to fraud = $1.0+ Trillion Annually
- lBusinesses lose 5% - 10% of revenue each year to fraud
- lFrauds continue for 12+ months until detected
Speakers:
Kevin Brown - Managing Director, Commercial Banking at BMO
Kevin is a seasoned commercial banker who brings more than 30 years of experience to BMO Commercial Banking Team. He re-joined BMO (one of the Top 10 commercial lenders in North America -- with offices in 25 states and global reach via BMO Capital Markets) in 2010, after spending several years here earlier in his career. In his current role as a Managing Director of Commercial Banking, Kevin leads a team of commercial banking professionals that is focused on delivering customized banking solutions to privately held companies and non-profit organizations located throughout the Chicago Metropolitan Area (and BMO’s U.S. footprint) – helping these clients to expand their businesses, improve working capital efficiencies, enhance their bottom lines, and increase shareholder value.
With a consultative, relationship-oriented approach and a wide array of industry contacts, Kevin serves as a trusted advisor to his clients in the areas of C&I Lending, Treasury & Payment Solutions, International Banking / Trade Finance Services, Capital Markets Solutions, and Leasing. Current and past clients include manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, importers / exporters, professional service firms, contractors, transportation & logistics providers, and non-profit organizations.
Kevin holds a Bachelor’s degree with majors in Finance and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he was a recipient of a full athletic scholarship for football. He is also active in the community, having served as a past member of several local chambers of commerce, the school board and finance committee for a local private school, and the City of Geneva’s Master Plan Committee. He has also served as a youth basketball and football coach, and as a volunteer assistant football coach for North Central College (Naperville, IL).
Susan Gitenstein Assadi, Executive Director at Global Chamber® New York City
Susan leads GAPR, a PR firm with an emphasis on expert and thought leadership campaigns. She is a highly respected national media strategist who helps her clients to be promoted to the national media, weaving in compelling stories that resonate with top media outlets. Her campaigns have enabled her clients to have features and recurring citations in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg. As a result of her campaigns, her clients have been boosted into leaders of their respective fields. Susan has over four decades representing public and private companies in the financial services, corporate governance and the proxy industry, alternative energy, and those with an emphasis on responsible business practices such as ESG. Most recently she has been working with disruptors who are helping to build the domestic supply chain of rare earth materials. Susan also has represented some leading non-profits. She also co-founded Safed House, a non-profit, that provides a welcoming place for refugees and recent immigrants to share their stories.
Her firm’s campaigns are fresh, creative, tech savvy, and innovative, a cocktail that engenders powerful results.
Prior to founding her own PR firm, Susan was the publicist for PBS MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. She received a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from New York University, and obtained a Bachelor's Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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