Executive Insights

In the current environment, organizations are faced with many new challenges including better ways to manage cash flow, reduce cost, and protect against new risks. MRA is pleased to offer an Executive Insights to better equip business leaders to tackle these challenges. Please join us on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. for a complimentary 60-minute presentation including three topics.

Managing Working Capital to Improve Liquidity during the COVID Crisis

Presented by Marcos Vega, Sr. Treasury Consultant, BMO Harris Bank

In today’s COVID-19 environment, it is more important than ever to manage working capital to improve liquidity. In this presentation, BMO will focus on managing your payables and receivables and share analytical tools that quantify the impact from improving these components on your cash position, and strategies to materialize these benefits on your balance sheet.

Group Health Captives as an Alternative to Reduce Health Care Costs and Uncertainty

Presented by Jason Nordby, Partner and Director of Employee Benefits Captive Practice, M3 Insurance

With the prospect of fully insured medical insurance premiums likely to rise, employers are considering alternative funding models to control health care costs and gain access to data to drive strategic decisions related to plan design. This presentation will provide insight into why group health captives may be a good alternative in the current market, how they can provide cost savings and greater stability for medical insurance, and the process for evaluating this model.

Cyberattacks during COVID-19 and How to Avoid Them – Tales from the Trenches

Presented by Nathan Little, Partner and VP of Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Tetra Defense

Cyberattacks and data breaches continue to debilitate businesses large and small. Incident response teams deal with these attacks and breaches to get business operations back to normal as quickly as possible. In this presentation, you will learn the latest attacks Tetra Defense is seeing amidst COVID-19, including ransomware, wire transfer fraud, business email compromise, data thefts and more, and safeguards to avoid them in the first place.

Marcos Vega

Marcos is a Sr. Treasury Consultant - Commercial Banking at BMO Harris Bank. Marcos has extensive experience in helping corporate clients manage their working capital and liquidity strategy to maximize returns on cash. Marcos is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) and assists clients across a broad base of industries related to cash management, international transactions, and best practices for managing working capital.

Jason Nordby

Jason is a Partner, Sr. Account Executive, and Director of Employee Benefits Captive Practice for M3 Insurance. Jason has over 25 years of health care and insurance experience to assist clients in the design, implementation, and management of their benefit programs. M3 is a thought-leader in helping businesses find innovative, long-term solutions to their health care needs.

Nathan Little

Nathan Little is Vice President of Digital Forensics and Incident Response and Partner at Tetra Defense. Nathan leads the incident response and data breach investigation team which specializes in stopping ongoing incidents, finding the root cause of security incidents, determining the exact actions of malware and attackers, and getting businesses back online. Common cases encountered are related to ransomware, HIPAA security incident investigations, business email compromise, financial data theft, insider threat investigations, employee data theft, wire transfer fraud, and more. Tetra Defense provides cybersecurity, incident response, digital forensics, and data recovery services to legal and insurance professionals, corporate IT departments, in-house security teams, and law enforcement.

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