The Long Road to Recovery: Liquidity, flexibility, & risk management in the age of COVID-19
Nearly four months into the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across Chicagoland are finally beginning to reopen, as residents and workers readjust to daily life. But with infection rates spiking in other parts of the country and persistent concerns about the long-term economic outlook, companies everywhere are struggling to chart their path to recovery. In this session, you’ll hear from our panel of experts on tactics and strategies you can implement today to prepare for the uncertain road ahead.
Featured Speakers
Matthew Barden CTP
Managing Director, Team Lead, Specialty Sectors, Treasury & Payment Solutions, BMO Harris Bank NA
Matthew Barden serves as Managing Director and Team Leader for BMO Harris Bank’s Treasury & Payment Solutions national sales efforts. He oversees a team of cash and liquidity management consultants focused on advising corporate clients on optimizing their working capital and implementing more efficient payment processing solutions. He has been at BMO for the last 13 years, after starting his career at LaSalle Bank in Chicago.
Matt is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and an Indiana University graduate. He also holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and leadership certificates from the University of Chicago and Cornell University.
James J. Loughlin, Jr. CTP
National Business Restructuring Services Practice Leader & Managing Director, BDO
James Loughlin is a nationally-recognized restructuring professional with 30 years of financial and operational restructuring experience working with distressed companies, senior lenders, and other creditors.
Jim has led nearly 200 engagements and has successfully restructured more than $75 billion of debt, including several large and complex cases in a variety of industry sectors, including retail & consumer products, healthcare, manufacturing & distribution, energy, media, and telecommunications. He has served as an expert witness providing court testimony on valuation, plan feasibility, executive compensation, and other financial matters.
Chris Rafferty
Chief Operating Officer, Financial Services Group, Aon
Charlotte Timms MRICS
Director of Workplace Advisory Occupier Services, Americas, Colliers International
Charlotte is Director of the Colliers International Workplace Advisory Group, based in Chicago. She is passionate about innovation, property technology, the ever changing work environment and inspiring companies to create places that better enable business and people. She advises clients across multiple industry groups, throughout the US and globally.
Charlotte originally trained as a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) in London, and was recently appointed to the Board for the RICS in the Americas.
Prior to Colliers, Charlotte was the Tenant Advisory Lead for Hubble, a property technology platform, where she advised companies going through rapid change. Her extensive commercial real estate knowledge stems from her time with Deloitte, a global consultancy, where she worked as a Senior Surveyor specializing in tenant representation and brokerage.
This webinar is hosted through the Chamber’s Mid-Market Chicago program, which focuses on growing and supporting middle market companies (defined as $10mil – $1bil in annual revenue) across the Chicagoland region through educational programming, networking events, and other resources. Mid-Market Chicago is presented by BDO, BMO Harris, Aon, and Colliers.
Virtual Event
This event is a free online webinar.