American Express Co.

Mary Charmian Uy, 38
Vice president for funding and exposure management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Uy joined $24.3 billion American Express last year as vice president of exposure management, and in her current role she is responsible for global funding as well as market exposure strategies and execution. Previously, she was assistant treasurer at Residential Capital Corp. and held treasury positions at General Motors Corp. and General Motors Acceptance Corp. While at GM, Uy was a lead manager on the auto maker's historic 2003 $17.9 billion debt offering, part of its effort to cover its underfunded pension plan.

EDUCATION
B.S. in management engineering, Ateneo de Manila University; M.B.A., Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Avis Budget Group Inc.

Rochelle Tarlowe, 35
Vice president of treasury

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Tarlowe is responsible for the financing of Avis' $8 billion domestic and international fleet. In 2005, she joined Cendant Corp., the former parent company of $18.2 billion Avis, after a five-year stint in the asset finance group of Moody's Investors Service. She played an active role in separating Cendant into four companies, including implementing a standalone bank facility, term loan and bank transaction for Avis. She also focused on securitizations and capital market transactions and was the primary contact for the credit rating agencies.

EDUCATION
B.A. in political science, Columbia University; J.D., Fordham University School of Law

Baxter International Inc.

Robert M. Davis, 39
Vice president, CFO and treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Davis joined Baxter as treasurer in November 2004 from Eli Lilly and Co., where he served as director of corporate financial planning. He held numerous positions at Lilly, including tax counsel and assistant treasurer. As assistant treasurer, he had responsibility for overseeing global treasury operations, including cash flow planning, capital markets, working capital management and affiliate funding worldwide. At Baxter, which had $9.8 billion in sales in 2005, Davis oversees the company's global financial operations.

EDUCATION
B.S. in finance, Miami University; M.B.A., Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management; J.D., Northwestern University School of Law

Celanese Corp.

Steven M. Sterin, 34
Vice president and controller

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sterin joined Celanese in 2003 as director of finance and controller of the chemicals business, but two years later was promoted to his current post. Today he is responsible for global accoun- ting, controlling, SEC reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for the $6 billion company. He also oversaw the company's move to Dallas from New Jersey and Germany as well as more than $1 billion in secondary offerings by its private equity ownership. Prior to joining Celanese, he was vice president of finance for the coating resins division and served as treasurer at Reichhold Inc.

EDUCATION
B.B.A. in accounting and M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin

Charter Communications Inc.

Kevin Howard, 37
Chief accounting officer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Howard joined the $5.3 billion cable operator in 2002 to run its financial reporting department and was later promoted to vice president of finance. Earlier this year he was named CAO. At Charter, Howard has participated in financing more than $13 billion in credit facilities and $9 billion in debt exchanges as well as the issuance of $2 billion in senior notes. He also had oversight of internal controls and corporate governance initiatives. Earlier in his career, he spent nine years in the audit division of Arthur Andersen LLP.

EDUCATION
B.S. and B.A. in finance and economics, University of Missouri at Columbia

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.

Charles Lischer, 36
Vice president, controller and chief accounting officer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lischer joined the $18.7 billion beverage distributor and manufacturer in June 2005. He is responsible for the company's Section 404 compliance as well as the accounting, budgeting, forecasting and reporting of financial information. Prior to Coca-Cola, Lischer spent 13 years with Deloitte & Touche in several roles, most recently as a partner in the firm's national office.

EDUCATION
B.A. in business administration and accounting, Mercer University

Constellation Energy Group Inc.

Jonathan (Jack) W. Thayer, 35
Vice president of corporate strategy and development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Thayer oversees strategic transaction analysis and strategic planning at the $17.1 billion electric and gas utility group. He joined in 2002 as director of investor relations. Earlier in his career, he held financial positions at Deutsche Bank Securities and SBC Warburg Dillon Read, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions within several healthcare sectors. Prior to his finance career, Thayer managed the Ugandan AIDS Project operations, including development and implementation of palliative AIDS care, during a two-year stint as a project officer in Uganda, beginning in 1994.

EDUCATION
B.A. in history, Middlebury College; M.B.A., Harvard University

Dynegy Inc.

Holli C. Nichols, 35
Executive vice president and CFO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nichols joined $2.3 billion Dynegy in 2000 and has held several senior finance positions at the company, including senior vice president, treasurer and controller. As CFO, Nichols is responsible for Dynegy's finance and accounting, treasury, risk management, internal audit and investor and rating agency relationships. Despite a serious decline in shareholder value related to the Enron Corp. collapse, Nichols has reinforced the company's financial profile to the extent that it is able to use its stock to help fund a recently announced acquisition.

EDUCATION
B.S. in accounting, Baylor University; Certified Public Accountant

eBay Inc.

Brent Bounds, 31
Assistant treasurer for the PayPal division

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bounds is responsible for managing the global infrastructure needed to support PayPal's payment processing capabilities, FX and interest and money market products. Prior to joining PayPal, a unit of $4.5 billion eBay Inc., Bounds spent nearly seven years at Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash., where he most recently was in charge of cash and investment operations within treasury. In that role, he was responsible for settlements related to Microsoft's more than $40 billion in securities, funds movement and securities lending program. Bounds supervised the implementation of an SAP treasury work- station at Microsoft. He also managed operations for Microsoft's $33 billion dividend payout.

EDUCATION
B.S. in finance, Arkansas State University; Certified Treasury Professional

eBay Inc.

George Redenbaugh, 38
Assistant treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Redenbaugh is responsible for leading the enterprise risk management and risk insurance programs and cash management operations at $4.5 billion eBay. He has responsibility for managing the corporate executive risk management committee, which identifies and evaluates key risks and appropriate management strategies to mitigate or transfer those risks. Prior to joining eBay, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Co., serving as director of risk management for its consumer direct subsidiary.

EDUCATION
B.A. in economics, University of California at Santa Cruz; holder of four business process and technology patents; Accredited Risk Manager

Fiserv Inc.

Joseph Gibson, 38
Senior vice president and controller

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In 1999 Gibson joined the corporate finance department of the $4.1 billion information management systems company based in Brookfield, Wis., and five years later, he was named CFO of Fiserv's insurance group. He has played an integral role in mergers and acquisitions activities for the group. Prior to Fiserv, Gibson spent eight years in financial management at Deloitte & Touche, Corporate Express and Midwest Airlines.

EDUCATION
B.A. in business administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Certified Public Accountant

General Electric Co.

Robert C. Green, 38
Senior vice president and CFO, GE Money, Americas

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
A 16-year GE veteran, Green was named CFO of GE Money, Americas in March 2006. GE Money, a unit of GE Consumer Finance, had revenues of $6.7 billion in 2005. Prior to this position, he served as CFO for the biosciences unit within GE Healthcare from April 2004 to March 2006. Earlier, he served in successive financial services finance roles, including manager of the GE Capital audit staff, CFO for European Equipment Finance and CFO for Americom. Green began with the company as a member of the financial management program and served six years in the GE Corporate audit staff.

EDUCATION
B.A. in finance, University of Maryland

General Electric Co.

Nancy S. Loewe, 39
Senior vice president and CFO of Consumer and Industrial, GE Industrial

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since August 2005, Loewe has been CFO for Consumer and Industrial, which last year had revenues of $14 billion. A 17-year GE veteran, Loewe has had a number of finance roles within GE Healthcare and GE Industrial. From 2002 to 2005, she was CFO of GE Plastic's Pacific region, which is based in Shanghai. Prior to that, she was CFO for healthcare services within GE Healthcare. In 2000 and 2001, she served as GE Healthcare's finance manager for the Americas. Loewe joined GE as a member of the company's financial management program and spent three years on the company's corporate audit staff.

EDUCATION
B.A. in business management, University of Massachusetts

General Motors Corp.

Sachin Mehra, 35
General director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In March, Mehra was appointed general director of the $192.6 billion auto giant's New York-based treasury office, where he oversees its Asia Pacific treasury activities and merger, acquisition and divestiture operations within the special projects group. Prior to that, he served as regional treasurer for GM's Asia Pacific region from 2004 to 2006 and director of capital markets at GMAC from 2003 to 2004. Mehra started his career with GM in 1996 in GM's treasury office, holding positions in domestic finance, overseas finance and capital planning.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of commerce, University of Bombay; M.B.A., University of Virginia's Darden Business School

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Damon J. Audia, 35
Assistant treasurer for capital markets

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Audia is responsible for all financing trans-actions and risk management activities for Goodyear globally. He joined the $19.7 billion company in December 2004 and was elected as an officer of the company in June of last year. Earlier, he worked in a variety of treasury and financial roles at Delphi Corp., including director of capital planning and structured finance and director of corporate finance and capital markets.

EDUCATION
B.A. in general studies, University of Michigan; M.B.A., Carnegie Mellon University

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Brenda Galgano, 37
Senior vice president and CFO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Galgano joined A&P in 1999 as director of corporate accounting and later served as assistant corporate controller. She was promoted in 2002 to corporate controller and in 2004 was named a senior vice president at the company, which had sales of $8.7 billion in the fiscal year ending February 2006. She was appointed CFO in November 2005. Prior to joining A&P, Galgano was senior manager in assurance and business advisory services for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, providing strategic and regulatory counsel to midsize and large corporate clients.

EDUCATION
B.S. in business administration, Bryant College

Hewitt Associates Inc.

Richard Westenberger, 38
Treasurer and vice president of corporate finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Westenberger manages corporate planning, treasury, corporate development and corporate strategy at the $2.9 billion human resources service provider. He joined Hewitt in March, following 10 years in senior roles at Sears Holdings Corp., most recently as senior vice president and CFO of Lands' End, the Sears subsidiary. While at Sears, Westenberger served as vice president of corporate planning and analysis, vice president of investor relations, and director of corporate finance. He has also held previous financial roles at Kraft Foods Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

EDUCATION
B.A. in accounting, University of Notre Dame; M.B.A., University of Chicago; Certified Public Accountant

H.J. Heinz Co.

John Jankowski, 39
Assistant treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jankowski began his career in 1990 at Bethlehem Steel Corp., where he worked as an engineer and production manager. Five years later he joined Heinz, which had sales of $8.6 billion in 2005, where he has held various analyst and manager positions in treasury and internal audit. He was promoted to assistant treasurer in 2002, where his responsibilities currently include capital markets, liquidity, pension investments, foreign exchange risk and interest rate risk management. Last year, he was given oversight of the company's North American treasury operations.

EDUCATION
B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Pittsburgh; M.B.A., University of Maryland; Chartered Financial Analyst

The Home Depot Inc.

Scott Bohrer, 39
Vice president of finance, southern division

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 2005, Bohrer has led the financial teams supporting $81.5 billion Home Depot's southern division and its supply division. Before joining Home Depot, he served as senior vice president and assistant treasurer at Cendant Corp., where he was responsible for areas of the global finance organization. Prior to that, he served as vice president and CFO of Lucent Technologies Inc.'s optical fiber solutions division, and earlier in his career, he was a manager of domestic finance in General Motor's treasury office.

EDUCATION
B.S. in business administration, Washington University; M.B.A., The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

The Home Depot Inc.

Mark Veeder, 35
Vice president of sourcing operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Veeder oversees $81.5 billion Home Depot's shared services organization, which provides financial leadership and support to the company's merchandising and sourcing organizations. The group provides strategic sourcing analysis, decision support and supply chain analysis for units of the company. Veeder, a Six Sigma Green Belt, earlier served as Home Depot's vice president of merchandising finance. Prior to joining Home Depot, Veeder was assistant corporate controller for S1 Corp. and a senior manager at KPMG LLP.

EDUCATION
B.S. in business administration, State University of New York at Buffalo; Certified Public Accountant

Lennar Corp.

Lawrence C. Somma, 39
Treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Somma joined $13.9 billion homebuilder Lennar from Sara Lee Corp., where he served in finance positions of increasing responsibility from 2000 through 2006. Most recently, Somma served as director of international treasury, where he was responsible for structured finance and foreign exchange. Prior to that, he was assistant treasurer responsible for risk management, including interest rate and foreign exchange rate risk. Before his stint at Sara Lee, Somma was director of treasury operations at Fisher Scientific International Inc. from 1997 to 2000.

EDUCATION
B.S. in mechanical engineering and M.S. in engineering management, Cornell University; M.B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Len Rinaldi, 39
CFO and financial vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
From his office in London, Rinaldi oversees all finance functions, including two shared service centers, for Lucent's $2 billion EMEA operation. He leads a team of 200 finance professionals across 20 countries. The finance group also leads budgeting and financial planning and analysis in support of Lucent sales teams. Prior to taking his current position in 2002, Rinaldi was CFO of Lucent's worldwide services business and had been the finance director for the Middle East.

EDUCATION
B.A., in business management, East Carolina University; M.B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University

MDU Resources Group Inc.

Doran Schwartz, 37
Chief accounting officer and vice president

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Schwartz joined MDU, a $3.4 billion utility and construction materials provider in September 2005 as assistant vice president of special projects and was promoted to his current position in March 2006. Previously, he served as director of the membership rewards controllership group for American Express Co.. Earlier, he was an audit manager for Deloitte & Touche LLP and senior audit manager for Arthur Andersen LLP.

EDUCATION
B.A. in accounting, University of Northern Iowa; B.S. in business administration, Minnesota State University-Moorhead; M.B.A., University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

MGM Mirage

Daniel D'Arrigo, 38
Senior vice president of finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
D'Arrigo has progressed steadily through the financial ranks since joining the $6.5 billion casino and resort operator in 1995. He began as manager of corporate finance, and in his current role, he oversees corporate financial analysis, including budgeting and forecasting, and investor and banking relations. D'Arrigo has also been heavily involved in the company's mergers and acquisitions efforts and capital markets transactions. A veteran of the gaming industry, D'Arrigo previously held financial executive positions with Lady Luck Gaming Corp. and the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

EDUCATION
B.S. in business administration, West Virginia University

Microsoft Corp.

Mark Creighton, 34
Director of worldwide credit services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Creighton joined Microsoft at its Ireland-based European operations center in 1998 as the Europe, Middle East and Africa senior credit analyst and was promoted to lead the region's credit and receivables management group a year later. For the next four years, he led an initiative that would consolidate Microsoft's business process outsourcing under Accenture manage- ment, saving money and improving cash flow. In 2003, he emigrated to the U.S. to oversee the EMEA group's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts and lead EMEA and North American credit teams. In 2005, he was promoted to his current role. Earlier, he worked for three years at BPO firm Heatherfield Ltd.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of business studies, Dublin City University; Graduate Diploma in economic science, University College at Cork

Navistar International Corp.

Heather Kos, 35
Director of investor relations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Kos joined the truck maker, which had $9.7 billion in sales in 2004, in 1997, serving most recently as director of truck group strategy at International Truck and Engine Corp., Navistar's principal operating company. Before that, she was director of finance for truck group reporting, where she led a number of successful operating programs involving the company's truck vehicle centers. She also served as plant controller at the engine plant in Melrose Park, Ill. Despite recent concerns over Navistar's plans to restate financials, Kos has helped to rebuild the company's shareholder value after it dipped following the restatement announcements.

EDUCATION
B.A. in accounting, Michigan State University; M.B.A., DePaul University

Owens-Illinois Inc.

Stephen P. Bramlage Jr., 35
Vice president and treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bramlage leads Owens-Illinois' global treasury, managing worldwide financial assets in the U.S. and overseas as well as banking and risk management for the glass and packaging company, which had sales of $7.2 billion in 2005. He began his career in finance with Ernst & Young and moved to Eli Lilly and Co.'s corporate finance and investment banking department. Before being named Owens-Illinois' treasurer in March 2006, Bramlage was PPG Industries Inc.'s assistant treasurer in global treasury.

EDUCATION
B.B.A., University of Dayton; M.B.A., Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management; Certified Public Accountant

Pitney Bowes Inc.

Helen Shan, 38
Vice president and treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Shan joined Pitney Bowes, a postage-meter company with sales of $5.5 billion, after 13 years in banking at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Salomon Brothers Inc. Most recently, she was managing director of diversified industries at J.P. Morgan, responsible for relationship management with a portfolio of Fortune 500 industrial and business services companies, including Pitney Bowes.

EDUCATION
B.A.S. from the School of Applied Science and Engineering and B.S. in economics, University of Pennsylvania; M.B.A., Johnson School of Business, Cornell University

Realogy Corp.

Christopher Cade, 39
Senior vice president, chief accounting officer and controller

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
In 2004, Cade joined Realogy's forerunner Cendant Corp. as vice president of corporate finance. In 2006, he advised senior management on technical accounting and compliance. Realogy had 2005 pro forma sales of $7.1 billion. From 2002 to 2004, Cade was director of corporate accounting and reporting at Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. and served at Pharmacia Corp. from 1996 to 2002.

EDUCATION
B.A. in management, East Stroudsburg University

RealNetworks Inc.

Michael Eggers, 34
Senior vice president and CFO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Eggers is responsible for RealNetworks' global finance operations, including planning and analysis, accounting and reporting, tax, treasury and internal audit. He joined RealNetworks, which had $325.1 million in revenues last year, in 1997 as a manager of finance. He was promoted to controller in 1999 and vice president of finance in 2003. Before joining the company, he worked at KPMG in the audit practice.

EDUCATION
B.A. in business administration, University of Washington

Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI)

Russell Paquette, 37
Assistant treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
As assistant treasurer of privately held REI, which has annual revenues of $1 billion, Paquette is responsible for all aspects of corporate treasury, including managing the company's $14 million short-term investment portfolio, foreign exchange and cash flow forecasting. Last year, the two-person treasury operation that he leads spearheaded two reverse online auctions for all REI depository and core treasury services, resulting in a 40%-plus savings in banking fees. Before joining REI in 2000 as its first cash manager, he served as senior treasury analyst at First Data Corp. and was a money market consultant at Aetna Inc.

EDUCATION
B.A. in economics, University of Connecticut

Schlumberger Ltd.

Howard Guild, 35
Chief accounting officer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Guild joined the $14.3 billion oil field services company in 2004 as director of financial reporting and last year was appointed chief accounting officer. He is responsible for Schlumberger's compliance with U.S. GAAP and all SEC reporting and works closely with the company's tax, internal audit, treasury, M&A and investor relations functions. Most recently, Guild oversaw the accounting- and tax-related public disclosures for the company's $2.4 billion purchase of a minority interest in its WesternGeco joint venture. Before joining Schlumberger, Guild was a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

EDUCATION
B.S. in accounting, State University of New York at Binghamton

Southern Co.

Kim Greene, 39
Senior vice president of finance and assistant treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Greene joined $13.6 billion Southern as a mechanical engineer in 1991 and progressed through various areas of responsibility in engineering, structuring and asset management and finance. Last year she was promoted to assistant treasurer. Greene is also senior vice president of finance and treasurer of the Southern Company's services division. In these roles, she is responsible for financial planning and analysis, enterprise risk management, capital markets and leasing, treasury and investor relations.

EDUCATION
B.S. in engineering science and mechanics, University of Tennessee; M.S. in biomedical engineering, University of Alabama; M.B.A., Samford University

Sprint Nextel Corp.

Scott C. Wagner, 38
Vice president of finance operations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ten years ago, Wagner joined Sprint PCS as its financial manager for affiliate operations, and he has risen steadily ever since. Following last year's merger that created $34.7 billion Sprint Nextel, he served as vice president of finance, supporting the consumer solutions operations. Last month he was appointed to lead finance for the company's customer management organization, where he serves as CFO for the customer management organization and leads financial planning, management reporting, decision support and financial policy and controls.

EDUCATION
B.S. in business finance, University of Colorado at Boulder; M.B.A., Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business

Sun Life Financial Inc.

Richard P. McKenney, 37
Executive vice president and CFO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
McKenney joined Sun Life Financial, a Toronto-based $20.2 billion financial services and insurance company, from Genworth Financial Inc., a publicly traded U.S. insurer, which had been part of GE Financial before being spun off from that company in an initial public offering in 2004. In his new position, McKenney will be responsible for Sun Life's enterprise-wide financial, actuarial, risk management, asset and liability management, capital management, taxation, planning, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations.

EDUCATION
B.S. in mechanical engineering, Tufts University

Technical Olympic USA Inc.

Russell Devendorf, 33
Vice president, treasurer and corporate secretary

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Devendorf manages treasury, risk management and structured finance for Technical Olympic USA, a $2.5 billion homebuilder, and serves concurrently as CFO for Transeastern Homes, a Florida homebuilding joint venture in which Technical Olympic is the managing partner. He joined Technical Olympic in 2002, at the company's inception, and helped create its treasury and finance departments. He led negotiations on its $600 million senior unsecured debt facility with Citibank. Prior to joining TOUSA, he was vice president and CFO of electronics distributor Resource International.

EDUCATION
B.S. in accounting and M.A. in accounting, Florida State University; Certified Public Accountant; Certified Treasury Professional

Yahoo! Inc.

Mike Gupta, 35
Vice president of corporate finance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Gupta is responsible for mergers and acquisitions valuation and financial due diligence efforts at $5.3 billion Yahoo!, as well as the capital markets and share repurchase programs. He also oversees its corporate real estate group, which manages the company's more than three million square feet of office space worldwide. Since joining Yahoo!, Gupta has been involved in more than $3 billion worth of M&A transactions. Prior to joining the company, Gupta was a vice president in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch & Co. and earlier was a senior auditor at KPMG.

EDUCATION
B.S. in accounting and economics, New York University; M.B.A., University of Chicago

Yahoo! Inc.

Cipora Herman, 32
Assistant treasurer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Herman directs tactical and strategic efforts for Yahoo!'s treasury operations. She led an indepth review of the company's historic and projected foreign exchange exposures that won the company an Alexander Hamilton Award in financial risk management in 2005. She recently secured executive sponsorship to overhaul the company's domestic cash management program. Herman is also the global leader for treasury's Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements. She has held other finance and banking positions at Hewlett-Packard Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

EDUCATION
A.B. in international relations, M.A. in international development policy and M.B.A., Stanford University.