View Live Update interviews from the floor of the SAS Forum International 2005 conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
Jeanette Slepian, President, BetterManagement
Jeanette describes the mission of BetterManagement and outlines briefly the topics that are covered in SAS Forum International. What are the hot topics and what is the current global business atmosphere?
Rowan Bosworth-Davies, Director of Money Laundering & Fraud Solutions, SAS EMEA
Rowan talks about recent developments in Anti Money Laundering legislation and how the financial institutions affected are rising to the challenge.
Commander William Ross Rennison, OBE, Analyst to the Second Sea Lord, The Royal Navy
Ross discusses the challenges and benefits of human resource planning in a large Defence department, the risks associated with poor planning and the difficulties with an unstable world environment.
Professor Riaan de Jongh, Director of the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI), North-West University, South Africa
Riaan talks about the award-winning work of the Centre for BMI and how they equip students for business life, including their placement work on risk management projects in the banking industry.
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SAS Forum International 2005 Interviews: Day 2
About Jeanette Slepian, Rowan Bosworth-Davies, Ross Rennison, Riaan de Jongh
Jeanette Slepian, President, BetterManagement
Jeanette Slepian has extensive experience in strategic business development, marketing and sales of Internet-based technologies. Since her arrival at BetterManagement, Slepian has provided vision and direction, establishing BetterManagement.com as the leading educational online resource for decision makers. The site reaches a worldwide audience of over 300,000 visitors monthly. BetterManagement currently partners with over 250 thought-leading organizations and major educational institutions to provide content on critical business management issues. Prior to joining BetterManagement, Slepian held executive positions at 800.com, Internet Travel Network and Orbit Network Inc.
Rowan Bosworth-Davies, Director of Money Laundering & Fraud Solutions, SAS EMEA
Rowan Bosworth-Davies is widely recognised as a leading international expert, educator and consultant in the field of fraud prevention and anti-money laundering awareness with over 25 years practical and theoretical experience of the investigation and prosecution of fraud and white-collar crime.
As well as being the former editor of the ‘Financial Times Fraud Report’, Rowan sits on the Money Laundering Editorial Board of Complinet. He is a legal consultant and a former Fraud Squad detective at New Scotland Yard, and ran the investigations division of one of the UK’s financial Self Regulating Organisations for two years.
He has provided training and compliance programmes for the Bank of England, the U.K. National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Police Staff College, Bramshill; as well as providing consultancy to the Money Laundering Steering Group of the British Bankers' Association.
Commander William Ross Rennison OBE, The Royal Navy
Ross Rennison works for the Second Sea Lord within the Directorate of Naval Personnel Strategy in the British Royal Navy.
Professor Riaan de Jongh, Director of the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI), North-West University, South Africa
North-West University is the winner of this year's Academic Excellence Award. Riaan de Jongh is the Director of the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI). He holds a B.Comm (University of Stellenbosch), M.Sc (University of South Africa) and a Ph.D (University of Cape Town).
Riaan spent 20 years in industry working for the Institute for Maritime Technology (IMT) and Deloittes Consulting before joining North-West University. He is the author and co-author of more than 20 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 project reports (which was completed for clients of IMT and Deloittes). In 1998 he was appointed as professor at the Centre for BMI and in 2002 he was appointed as Director of the Centre for BMI. He is a past president and fellow of the South African Statistical Association and currently serves as the South African regional director of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He also serves on the editorial board of Collective Insight, an investment supplement to Finance Week.
