Sponsors/Exhibitors

Platinum Sponsors

EMB America LLC

EMB is the world's leading actuarial and business consultancy specializing in Property & Casualty Insurance. Our consultants bring deep experience across the full scope of ERM implementation:

Advice and governance on ERM committees
Risk identification
Development of internal risk models
Coordination of models across all spectrums of the enterprise (life, banking, property & casualty, pensions, etc)
Development and implementation of operational risk registers
Realizing benefit from strategic decision making under a consistent risk framework

We provide award winning software to assist clients improve business performance through management of their product, distribution, risk, financial and capital issues. Our software is developed with the benefit of practical experience. As such, our software development team consists of both programmers and senior insurance and actuarial staff.

Unlike other consultancies we see knowledge transfer as a key part of the consultancy process and we aim to provide sustainable improvement in our clients. With offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific we can support clients both locally and globally.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders. More than 146,000 people in 150 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice.

PricewaterhouseCoopers' advisory services professionals understand the fundamentals of creating value while helping clients anticipate, create, and manage change. Our professionals bring knowledge across all areas of operations, organizational strategy and structure, process improvement, human resources optimization, technology integration and implementation, risk mitigation and crisis management. Our experience translates to less complexity for our clients as we help them transform and effect sustainable change. For more information, contact us at (800) 639-7576 or visit us at www.pwc.com/us/advisory.

Towers Perrin

Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm that helps organizations improve their performance through effective people, risk, and financial management. The firm’s enterprise risk management practice offers clients the ability to understand the full spectrum of risks faced by their organizations and to create additional value by actively managing their key risks. Through its Tillinghast business, Towers Perrin provides consulting and software solutions to insurance and financial services companies and advises other organizations on risk financing and self-insurance. Tillinghast helps clients improve business performance in areas related to their financial, risk, product, distribution, and capital issues. The firm’s other businesses include HR Services, which provides human resource consulting, and Reinsurance, which provides reinsurance intermediary services. Together, these businesses have offices in 24 countries. More information about Tillinghast is available at www.towersperrin.com/tillinghast.

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Gold Sponsors

KPMG LLP

KPMG LLP is the audit, tax and advisory firm that has maintained a continuous commitment throughout its history to providing leadership, integrity and quality. KPMG turns its insurance industry knowledge into value for the benefit of its clients, people, communities and the capital markets. KPMG’s US insurance practice has more than 1,200 experienced professionals serving both public and non-public companies in the Life, Property & Casualty, Insurance Brokerage and reinsurance segments. Its professionals work together to provide clients access to global support, industry insights, and a multidisciplinary range of services. KPMG LLP is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have over 100,000 professionals, including 6,800 partners, in 148 countries.

Milliman

About Milliman
For more than 50 years, Milliman has pioneered strategies, tools, and solutions worldwide. One of the largest consulting and actuarial firms, we are recognized leaders who have helped shape significant changes in the markets we serve. Set apart by our independent ownership, we deliver unbiased advice based solely on what’s best for our clients.

Enterprise risk management services from Milliman
Milliman consultants are knowledge leaders in the emerging field of enterprise risk management (ERM). While many insurance companies continue to struggle to accurately value non-financial risks in their business, Milliman clients benefit from our ERM expertise.

We work with insurers and financial services firms at many stages of risk management. Some already have strong financial-risk calculations, but need to place a value on their operational and strategic risks. For other clients, we provide guidance in discovering all possible areas of risk in their businesses, building customized ERM solutions to meet their specific needs.

Milliman's expertise lies in consolidating all types of business risk into one coherent view. With concrete figures attached to operational and strategic risks, clients say it's easier to decide which path to take—they're able to see a holistic view of any decision's impact on the entire organization.

Teradata Corporation

Teradata Corporation is the acknowledged global leader in data warehouse innovation and analytical solution development. Every day we raise our customers’ intelligence to higher levels, making them more focused and competitive by gathering enterprise information and extracting actionable insight.

Teradata elevates enterprise intelligence by giving every decision maker the insight required for smarter, faster decisions. We add value and reveal opportunity across more dimensions than any competing solution.

In every industry and geography, our technologies and expertise make the difference. Simply put, Teradata solutions make companies smarter and give them the competitive advantage to win. To learn more, go to teradata.com.

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Silver Sponsor

A.M. Best

Best’s Ratings: Global Benchmark of Insurer Financial Strength

Founded in 1899, A.M. Best Company created the concept of insurance company ratings, and, for over a century, has specialized exclusively in quantitative and qualitative financial analysis of the insurance industry. A.M. Best rates more insurance companies on an interactive basis than any other ratings agency worldwide. By applying the same rigorous analytical process to each insurer, Best’s Ratings provide a level of financial transparency that ensures credibility. In an industry based on trust and fiscal responsibility, Best’s Ratings are the ultimate global benchmark of insurer financial strength.

DFA Capital Management Inc.

DFA Capital Management Inc. is the market leader in dynamic financial analysis software for the insurance and financial services industries. DFA’s software-based financial and risk management system is a foundation for competitive advantage for any insurance company with multiple business lines, reinsurance activities, rapidly changing business portfolios, and significant premium volumes. Using DFA’s advanced stochastic modeling tool, ADVISE™, and GEMS™ Economic Scenario Generator, companies benefit from greater accuracy in strategic decision-making, regulatory and ratings agency compliance, and in the allocation of capital and resources. Fully scalable and modular, DFA’s software enables enterprise-wide financial modeling with the ability to incorporate management decisions and business rules to better reflect real-world actions. Visit www.dfa.com to learn how DFA can help you uncover the risks you’ve been missing.^SM

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young’s Insurance Advisory Services provides insurers and other financial services firms with advisory services that help them assess and mitigate risk and improve their financial and operational success. Our team brings extensive experience in insurance company executive management, financial management, industry regulation, public financial reporting, auditing, risk management, internal controls, litigation, and actuarial science. We apply proven analytical methodologies to assess client needs and propose customized, actionable solutions. Our success is built on strong relationships and trust. We provide one face to each client and take an integrated team approach that is designed to provide clear communication and generate lasting value. Our extensive research and publication investment helps keep clients up-to-date about critical industry issues.

Microsoft

Insurers are under constant pressure--pressure to reduce the time-to-market for new products and to introduce new features that decrease risk; pressure to comply with government regulations; pressure to do more with less time. But compute resources haven’t kept pace with the demand.

With more computing power at their fingertips, actuaries can now run model projections in a fraction of the time it used to take. This means they are able to do more stochastic scenarios, sophisticated analysis and other types of modeling better, more efficiently and well within compliance, regulated timeframes.

The supercomputing power of high-performance computing (HPC) is now available on a Microsoft platform with Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS).

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 brings together the power of commodity x64 (64-bit x86) servers, the ease of use and security features of Active Directory service and the Windows operating system to provide a security-enhanced and affordable high-performance computing (HPC) solution.

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is available to order now. To see the power of CCS in your Enterprise, download the trial software today www.microsoft.com/hpc.

Platts

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world leader in providing energy information. For nearly a century, Platts has helped ever-changing global energy markets enhance their performance through such offerings as independent industry news and price benchmarks. From 15 offices worldwide, Platts covers the oil, natural gas, electricity, emissions, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical, renewable energy and metals markets. Additional information on Platts real-time news and price assessment services, publications, databases, geospatial tools, conferences, analytical tools, energy financial data and risk management solutions is available at www.platts.com.

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Exhibitors

Actuarial Resources Corporation

Actuarial Resources Corporation is a nationally recognized software and consulting firm with offices across the United States. ARCVAL is an integrated system for valuation, financial reporting, financial forecasting and earnings analysis for universal life, annuity, traditional life and health business. Actuarial Resources is the exclusive North American distributor of SunGard’s iWORKS Prophet actuarial projection and financial modeling system. ARC owns and maintains the US Library which contains the actuarial coding needed by US companies for liability modeling and provides complete Prophet support and implementation services.

Algorithmics

Algorithmics is the world’s leading provider of enterprise risk solutions. Financial organizations from around the world use Algorithmics’ software, analytics and advisory services to help them make risk-aware business decisions, maximize shareholder value, and meet regulatory requirements. Supported by a global team of risk experts based in all major financial centers, Algorithmics offers proven, award-winning solutions for market, credit and operational risk, as well as collateral and capital management. Algorithmics is a member of the Fitch Group.

Benfield Inc.

Benfield is the third largest reinsurance and risk intermediary in the world and a leading provider of sophisticated analytics and technology solutions for the insurance industry. Our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) practice develops quantitative approaches to analyzing and managing all aspects of risk within an organization including credit risk, underwriting risk, strategic risk, market risk and operational risk. ReMetrica® is Benfield’s award-winning dynamic financial analysis tool for ERM and capital modeling and the preferred choice among more than 75 of the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance companies and actuarial consulting firms. For more information, please visit www.benfieldremetrics.com.

Calypso

Calypso is a global application software provider that delivers an integrated suite of trading applications to the capital markets function within banks and other companies participating in the world’s financial markets. The Calypso Trading and Risk Management Platform is the industry’s first integrated application suite designed from the outset to be a front to back office, cross-asset platform for derivative and treasury products that readily adapts to change. With over 15,000 users at more than 80 top tier customers, including seven of the top ten global banks, Calypso has been recognized for its award-winning product innovations and strong customer service culture.

Cura Software Solutions

Cura provides smarter software solutions designed to enable businesses around the world to quickly achieve the bottom line benefits of enterprise-wide governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management, through fast implementation, easier configurability, coupled with true enterprise architecture. Cura has implemented its ERM solution on five continents with enterprises such as Allianz, Kellogg’s, Glaxo SmithKline, Standard Bank, Total, Westfield, several Governments and over 200 other entities.

DFA Capital Management, Inc.

EMB America LLC

EMB is the world's leading actuarial and business consultancy specializing in Property & Casualty Insurance. Our consultants bring deep experience across the full scope of ERM implementation:

Advice and governance on ERM committees
Risk identification
Development of internal risk models
Coordination of models across all spectrums of the enterprise (life, banking, property & casualty, pensions, etc)
Development and implementation of operational risk registers
Realizing benefit from strategic decision making under a consistent risk framework

MEGA International

MEGA International is a global leader in enterprise architecture, offering solutions to improve company performance and insure regulatory compliance. The company provides executives with the ability to understand, discover, align, and control information at the enterprise level through its prominent modeling software, proven methods, and expert consulting in business process analysis, operational risk management, and IT alignment.

Founded in 1991, with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, MEGA International has more than 45,000 software licenses worldwide and delivers more than 20,000 consulting engagement days per year. Clients include AT&T, Cox Enterprises, DirecTV, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, GeoEye, Morgan Stanley, NASA, National City Bank, NEXTEL, Nissan, Wyeth, and the US Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, and Transportation.

Microsoft

The supercomputing power of high-performance computing (HPC) is now available on a Microsoft platform with Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS).

Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 is available to order now. To see the power of CCS in your Enterprise, download the trial software today www.microsoft.com/hpc.

Milliman

MG-ALFA® - Milliman will be exhibiting MG-ALFA, the market-leading actuarial calculation platform for life, health, annuities, and assets. The system offers state-of-the-art enterprise risk management functionality, including nested stochastic capabilities for the calculation and projection of both VaR and TailVaR based econonomic capital values, as well as the ability to quantify the effects of aggregating results across the enterprise. Other risk management capabilities include dynamic DAC unlocking, principles-based reserves and capital requirements, and sophisticated investment strategy analysis.

In addition, MG-ALFA supports stochastic pricing applications, UL secondary guarantees and AXXX reserve calculations, variable annuity guarantees, and RBC C3 Phase II calculations. Multiple grid computing options provide for virtually unlimited speed and capacity. Please stop by to visit our booth to see what MG-ALFA can do for you.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Quantitative Risk Management, Inc.

QRM develops industry-leading risk management principles, practices and models and provides clients with the advice, knowledge, and tools necessary to adopt those practices, thereby enhancing clients’ risk-adjusted returns. With offices in Chicago, London, and Singapore, QRM has established over 200 long-term engagements with top financial institutions worldwide.

SAS

True enterprise risk management goes beyond striking an optimal balance between growth and return objectives – and the related risks – to actually embedding risk management in all everyday, organizationwide processes.

To this end, SAS delivers software and services that help risk executives and the business:

Improve financial performance by reducing losses, improving capital management and building a risk-aware culture across the enterprise.
Reduce time to, and cost of, compliance by efficiently and effectively managing all types of risk and lowering associated costs.

SAS® cost-effectively integrates data management, analytics and reporting into a robust environment without the added cost and complexity of cobbling together a multivendor solution.

By giving companies a current, credible understanding of their unique risks spanning all risk types (credit, operational, market, etc.), lines of business and other key dimensions, SAS also enables decision makers across the organization to integrate information from other functions (such as marketing, finance and HR) to support true, enterprisewide, risk-based performance management.

Teradata

Towers Perrin

Ultimate Risk Solutions

Ultimate Risk Solutions is a global company with offices in USA, London and Europe that is a leading provider of state-of-the-art Dynamic Financial Analysis software called Risk Explorer™ for insurance and reinsurance industries. The company also offers other risk modeling software products and various modeling solutions to insurance and financial industries.

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Exhibit & Sponsor Opportunities

Exhibitor and Sponsor Applications – SOLD OUT

With the exhibit hall sold out, we are inviting companies to display their literature on a shared table near the registration desk (up to 600 copies) for a fee of $1,000.

Please contact Leanne Wieczorek if you are interested in being a corporate sponsor or distributing your literature at the ERM Symposium. We look forward to your participation!

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