Manoj Ranaweera

  Anre Williams (previously, Executive Vice President of US Commercial Cards) will become head of global commercial cards at American Express, while Valerie Soranno Keating (previously, President of Travelers Cheques and Prepaid Services) will become executive vice president of Global Marketing and Source-to-Settle. According to the press release: “Anré and Val are two of the […]

  Gordan Smith, President of American Express company’s Global Commercial Card Group resigns from the company and joins JP Morgan Chase to head company’s Card Services group. Smith succeeds Richard Srednicki, who is retiring from JP Morgan Chase. Smith will report to Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase in addition to joining […]

ReadSoft UK, an established player of document capture and accounts payable automation employs approximately 31 people and reported revenues of £3.876m in 2005, a decline of 29% from £5.475m in 2004. Increased competition was given as a reason for the revenue decline. Since then changes have been brought to senior management and sales force has been […]

According to Susan Davies of Accountis, Brian Thumwood, e-billing Programme Manager Europe of DHL will deliver a speech titled “Delivering e-invoicing across europe” at the ExPP Summit on 11th September, covering  DHL, background, strategy and approach. Current status and plans. Issues faced and how these have been overcome. Opportunities. As far as I understand, DHL is […]

As planned, NW StartUp 2.0 event took place on 14th June 2007 at KPMG Manchester. Both Sam Sethi and Alain Falys were unable to attend due to personal and business reasons respectively. This did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the event, as Ajaz Ahmed and David Ingram easily filled the vacuum created […]

Just as humans go through mid-life crises from time to time, so do blogs – at least I am convinced! This blog could sit in the centre of everything I do with respect to professional life (i.e. excluding family life). I only came to this realisation yesterday (it should have been obvious, I know) after […]

Andrew Bartolini of Aberdeen Group and I had a phone conversation on past Monday to discuss UK and global trends in EIPP (Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment). If you do not know, Aberdeen Group regularly carries out research in to number of subjects including sourcing, e-payables and supply chain finance to name a few. Their […]

September 18 – 19, 2007 ·  Crown Plaza, Brussels, Belgium Why is that this event and ExPP Summit are held one week apart? Do the organisers not realise that they are splitting the audience in half? This always happens with mini events, but should not be the case for large European annual events. Or is this intentional? Competition […]

A very tired Sam Sethi and I had couple of pints at his local last night and discussed the forthcoming release of blognation. I now have a much more appreciation for the revenue generation capability of blognation. Managing approximately 100 blogers or so will be no mean feat. A lot of well know bloggers across […]

Another event on e-invoicing is taking place week after next in Germany. This is significantly over priced, and I am wondering to whom it is aimed at. According to the site, the target audience works (one assumes) in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Billing, Invoice Management, eComerce, eBusiness, Procurement, purchase, Sourcing, […]