Join us for a Webcast that will give you a clear understanding of how to focus your organization’s improvement efforts.
You will hear from Peter Turney, President and CEO of Cost Technology; Matthew Mitchell, Vice President and Cost Accounting Manager, First National Bank of Arizona and Jonathan Hornby, Director, Worldwide Marketing for Performance Management of SAS . All have key lessons to share from many years of experience.
Find out what works and which paths to avoid. Techniques and technology have evolved and made way for innovations that were previously considered unrealistic. Make sure your organization is not left behind.
About Peter Turney, Matthew Mitchell, Jonathan Hornby
Peter Turney, President & Chief Executive Officer, Cost Technology
Dr. Turney has been an entrepreneur and innovator in the field of business analytics for over twenty years. His accomplishments span foundational work in activity-based costing to designing today’s integrative business analytic solutions.
Formerly a faculty member at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and Portland State University, Dr. Turney has held positions at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, KPMG, and General Motors. He is a frequent presenter to management groups and has published numerous industry works on management including the best-selling book Common Cents. Published originally in 1991 and republished in 2005 as a second-edition, this seminal book is a classic in the performance management field. He has also written for the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and many other leading publications.
Dr. Turney is a graduate of Bristol University (BA) and the University of Minnesota (MS & PhD). He is also a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a member of the Board of Advisors and Contributors of Cost Management. In addition to his many academic awards, Dr. Turney has also received the Canadian Society of Management Accountant’s Distinguished Speaker Award, and CAM-I’s Marathon Award.
Matt Mitchell, VP & Cost Accounting Manager, First National Bank, Arizona
As VP & Cost Accounting Manager at First National Bank located in Scottsdale, Arizona, Matt is responsible for their activity based costing and multidimensional profitability reporting. He has over twenty years experience in the financial services industry including the design and implementation of cost and profitability systems on multiple software platforms. Matt has a Bachelor of Science in business administration from Franklin university in Columbus, Ohio.
Jonathan Hornby, Director, Worldwide Product Marketing - Performance Management, SAS
Jonathan is a visionary and thought leader around the field of Performance Management. He currently leads global marketing direction and has been involved with both strategy and product management of SAS' solutions in this space.
His experience comes from active hands on experience within the UK Banking sector, followed by extensive travel, dialogue and collaboration with customers, management consultants and respected thought leaders in academia.
Jonathan led the design and introduction of SAS Strategic Performance Management - a solution that supports the Balanced Scorecard, and was responsible for the acquisition of ABC Technologies in 2002 for improved profitability analysis. Between 2005 and 2007, he led both strategy and product management of SAS' Risk solutions. A key take away here was a deeper understanding of how behavior, culture and communication influences strategic outcomes.
Joining SAS in 1996, he brought 15 years business experience from the banking sector. This included activity-based management; process re-engineering; performance analysis and marketing. He has worked for SAS in the UK, Germany and America and visited customers across the globe.
He is a regular speaker at international conferences and delivers lectures on Performance Management at the University of North Carolina and NC State University.
