Better Management of Business Risk through AP Optimization

For any modern business, accounts payable (AP) is one of the most high-stakes processes, especially in a financial organization. After all, every business needs to pay its invoices, maintain good relationships with its suppliers, and ensure there are no past due liabilities on the books.

Managing invoices accurately, and in a timely manner is key to keeping your supply chain intact, avoiding disruption and late fees, maintaining good relationships with suppliers and most of all, effectively managing cash and operating costs. An automated accounts payable process also ensures you don’t have the additional risks of fraud, regulatory violations and you maintain business continuity along the way. Fortunately, through AP Optimization, these risks can be mitigated. Please join us for an educational webinar to learn how to:

• Manage business risk via automation and achieve accountability, control, transparency, and business continuity.
• Optimize your AP and payments process to enable real-time visibility, better business decisions, lower costs, and better cash management.
• Implement electronic payments to add control, reduce fraud risk, and comply with AML/KYC.
• Create better business decisions with more timely, accurate data to manage cash flow and analyze spend.

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Stephen L. Pietrzak
Business Development Executive, Miria Systems

Stephen L. Pietrzak, CPA, leads business development for Miria Systems and their accounts payable & payments automation solution, ActiveOps. Steve has spent his 36-year career with financial institutions and financial operations processes either managing them or delivering solutions for them to his clients.  His most recent roles prior to Miria were with FIS, SunGard, and SEI Investments in solution delivery and with SEI & Delaware Investments in financial operations management. He started his career with EY with a focus on banks and investment management services. He graduated from LaSalle University - Accounting/Finance.

Bob Lastorka
Senior Account Executive, enChoice

Bob Lastorka has been selling content management solutions for 35 years as an experienced sales executive with significant operational expertise in sales strategy, business development, strategic alliance partners as well as extensive knowledge of Digital Transformation for large enterprise clients in the USA, Canada, and Europe. His career has evolved from operations and technical focus in the financial and transportation industries to a consultative sales role providing solutions across all vertical markets around the world. 

He is an accomplished public speaker in several industries and partner alliance topics. Bob lives with his family in Long Island, NY.