Effective Management and Opportunistic Growth: Getting the Balance Right

Today’s CFO is engaged in a complex balancing act. The domestic challenges of a tumultuous economy are amplified by a complex, often punitive tax structure, low returns, increasingly aggressive global competition, and the uncertain side effects of evolving government regulation. These issues clamor for attention against the backdrop of larger global concerns like the pursuit of international growth and major stressors arising from the European sovereign debt crisis.

US mid-sized firms are increasingly confronted with the fact of simultaneous, multi-dimensional priorities that must be juggled—not just satisfactorily, but with flourishing success. Global market competitiveness and corporate growth count on the ability to get the balancing act right.

What happens when the global economy is not growing while your company simultaneously is? How are the best CFOs innovating and making important cash deployment decisions? If you are the CFO of a firm looking to expand internationally through mergers and acquisitions, how do you engage and retain the best talent to help you succeed on the ground? How do you structure those global operations? What about the fact of global interconnectedness when it comes to risk management?

Institutional Investor Forums’ 2nd Annual Mid-Market CFO Forum will examine the issues that define the layered complexities facing key executive decision makers daily. Through guest presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and breakout groups, forum participants will explore the issues with consideration for the most challenging questions and their solutions.

Advisory Board

Mark D. Bergen, Chief Financial & Chief Operating Officer, W.P. Stewart & Co., Inc.
Cory Douglas, Chief Financial Officer, Medidata Solutions, Inc.
James B. Riley, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Ormet Corporation
Vikas Sinha, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Howard Sipzner, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Brandywine Realty Trust
Frances Spark, Chief Financial Officer, CYS Investments, Inc.