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Introducing Ron Wells .....
Ron is a Certified Credit Executive, Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators. He has 22 years of commercial, corporate banking and trade finance experience; plus 16 years of experience in international corporate credit management. Ron has travelled widely in Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States (including Russia), China, Japan, Africa and the United States of America. Ron has met many credit professionals, including corporate credit executives and bank officers. Prior to joining a global integrated oil company in 1991, Ron Wells worked for various companies and commercial banks becoming a specialist in financial analysis, corporate credit management, trade operations management and trade finance-related marketing. In October 2007, Ron joined a globally active energy trading company to support Gas, Power (Electricity), Coal, Oil and Emissions Credits trading activities.
The National Association of Credit Management (NACM) is the premier association for professional Credit Managers, based in Maryland, U.S.A. The NACM Graduate School is conducted on the campus of Dartmouth College (Amos Tuck Business School) in New Hampshire. It consists of preparatory reading followed by two two-week semesters in following years, plus an inter-semester team-based project. The Certified Credit Executive (CCE) qualification is the most senior professional qualification accredited by NACM. It is a post graduate qualification attained by passing a written examination, which may only be written by those who have proven their relevant work experience and academic qualifications. In order to retain the CCE qualification all holders must obtain a certain number of Continuing Education Units (points) during each successive three-year period. Ron has studied Russian and French, and has learnt a little of several other languages. His experience with the integrated oil and the energy trading company covers all credit aspects of international cargo transactions (crude, liquefied petroleum gas and refined petroleum products), natural gas trading, power trading, emissions credits trading, lubricant marketing transactions (marine and inland) and technology marketing transactions. Ron’s in-depth understanding of structured and unstructured trade finance techniques, of banking law, regulation and practice, of commerce and business generally and his extensive network of professional relationships, have resulted in the completion of several unique and highly prized solutions to risk management and financing challenges. Ron has had several articles published in professional magazines. His paper on "The Use of Payment Undertakings and Risk Sharing Agreements as an Alternative to Letters of Credit" (published by Business Credit®) was particularly well received. He has also spoken at various professional seminars including an Annual National Congress of the NACM held in New Orleans. Ron addressed the subject "Credit and Market Conditions in Eastern Europe". Ron is an active member of FCIB (the Association of Executives in Finance, Credit & International Business) in Europe. He has been a Moderator, a Panel Member and a Speaker at FCIB Conferences and Workshops on several occasions. He presented his papers on "Practical Country Risk and Bank Risk Management" at a workshop in Vienna, moderated a lively discussion on "The Role of the International Credit Manager in the 21st Century" in Rome, and presented his "Generic International Trade Credit ScoreCard" for discussion in New York. Ron's presentation in New York was extensively reported by the Institute of Management & Administration (IOMA) in its "Managing Credit, Receivables & Collections" magazine, in January 2001 (Issue: 01-01). In June 2001, Ron presented his ideas regarding the future of international credit management to the annual conference of the International Energy Credit Association (IECA) in Dublin, Ireland. His related paper "There is a better way to manage your Credit Department, it just hasn't quite been invented yet ..." was subsequently published in the IECA Spring 2002 Journal. The same paper was also published by Cornhill Publications in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers, in Corporate Advantage Europe 2002 - Organic growth strategies for a brighter future, under the title "Vision, passion and persistence - Commercial credit managers should set aside time to think about what would make their jobs more meaningful, and start inventing the future". In March 2004 Ron led the Forensic Cash Flow Analysis™ and Strategy modules of the highly acclaimed Power of Credit 2004 course that provided inter-active lectures and hands-on syndicate projects, enabling participants to acquire practical skills and key knowledge from leading practitioners. In May 2006 Ron led the two and a half day Power of Credit 2006 workshop covering Strategy (predicting corporate failure by developing scenarios; also known as 'stories of the future'), Accounts Receivable Portfolio Management, and Forensic Cash Flow Analysis™. The Power of Credit workshops are recommended by FCIB and organised by Infospectrum Limited in association with BarrettWells Credit Research. Ron presented a paper on the subject "Credit Management in 2015" at a prestigious Conference held at the Kurhaus Hotel, Scheveningen (near Rotterdam and The Hague) in The Netherlands, on May 24, 2005. Three hundred credit management professionals and business executives attended. Follow this link to view the PowerPoint used during the presentation. In April 2007 Ron led a two day Forensic Cash Flow Analysis™ workshop, jointly organised with Exporta Publishing & Events Limited. Ron's book Global Credit Management - an Executive Summary is published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Click the icon below to order your copy ...
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