Executive Committee
Executive Committee Members
The IAFEI Executive Committee is composed of the following Officers:
Chairperson, Vice Chairman, Executive Director, Secretary, Treasurer and Area President each for Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa
Below are the curricula of the Officers for 2009:
Daniel Burlin (France)
Chairman
Daniel Burlin is a board member of the French Financial Institute DFCG (Association Nationale des Directeurs Financiers et de Contrôle de Gestion ) and is a member of its Nominating Committee. He is Past-President of this institute, which organized the IAFEI World Congress in Paris in 2008.
Aside from his Engineering degree, Daniel Burlin also holds a doctorate in Management. He started his career with Saint-Gobain then Schlumberger as controller, then joined the aerospace and defense company EADS, successively as Finance Director for the Aircraft Division, Senior Executive Vice-President for Corporate Finance, then CFO and General Secretary of Euromissile, the Franco-German joint-venture of EADS and Daimler-Benz.
Daniel Burlin joined the Technip Group in 1991 as CFO, Member of the Executive Committee, and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2002. Technip ranks among the top five corporations in the field of oil and gas and petrochemical engineering. It has more than 22000 employees worldwide and has first class industrial and naval assets.
In 1994, Daniel Burlin organized the successful IPO for Technip on Euronext then on NYSE in 2001.
Daniel Burlin is a member of the French Executive Committee of the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce). He is a board member of the French Foundation for Management (FNEGE) and the French "Institut de Hautes Finances "(IHFI) and a member of the French Institute of Board Members.
Hiroshi Yaguchi (Japan)
Vice-Chairman
Hiroshi Yaguchi helped establish the CFO Headquarters Co., Ltd. in 2000 and served as its president. He then co-founded the Japan Association of Chief Financial Officers (JACFO) where he served as a Member of the Board until he was appointed its Executive Director since 2003.
Mr. Yaguchi earned his degree at the University of Tokyo, Department of Economics. He joined Sumitomo Bank in 1989 and became the Deputy Chief of Personnel Department in 1996. He served as the Deputy Manager of Hibiya Branch and was selected as the Deputy Chief of Corporate Department in 1999.
Mr. Yaguchi was born in 1965.
Helmut Schnabel (Germany)
Executive Director
Helmut Schnabel has been actively involved in the Association of Chief Financial Officers Germany (GEFIU) since 1972. He has been and still is the Chairman of the Board of Management of GEFIU since 2002.
In 1969 Mr. Schnabel started his business career by working for a year in American Can Corporation in New York City, USA. He thereafter started his career in the Treasury of Hoechst AG. In 1985 he became Director Credit Secretariat as well as Deputy - Head of Treasury. From 1993 until 1999 he was Head of Group Corporate Finance and a member of supervisory boards of numerous companies and sub-groups of Hoechst Group. Parallel to that, he was member of the board of management for more than ten years of the pension insurance of the employees of Hoechst - Group in Germany, mutual insurance company, where he was head of asset management.
Mr. Schnabel is presently the managing owner of Asecuris Asset Management Advisory GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. This has been created in 2003 through a Management Buy Out from Swiss Re Asset Management Kapitalanlagegesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt am Main. Asecuris is a small financial services company. It advises on and markets external asset management for institutional investors. Its most important cooperation partner is the US-American financial services group Wells Fargo, for the asset management division of which Asecuris is doing the marketing and client service in central Europe. See www.asecuris-asset.com.
Alfredo B. Parungao (Philippines)
Secretary
Alfredo Parungao, a Certified Public Accountant, graduated summa cum laude from the Far Eastern University and attended the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School . He was President of the Financial Executives Institute (Finex) of the Philippines in 1983, and has continued to be actively involved in Finex projects and activities.
Mr. Parungao is a member of numerous boards, which includes the Insular Life Assurance Co., Ltd., the first and the largest Filipino life insurance company in the Philippines , where he also chairs the Budget and Audit Committee. He is the Chief of Staff of the Chairman of the Social Security Commission, the governing body of the Social Security System, the Government-run pension fund for workers in the private sector. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Philippine National Oil Company. He has extensive experience in various other fields, such as real estate, telecommunications, manufacturing and the academe. He is a member of the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards Council, the body that promulgates financial reporting standards in the Philippines, in harmony with the International Accounting Standards. He is actively involved and has taken leadership in professional and civic organizations like the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Management Association of the Philippines and the Rotary Club of Makati.
Mr. Parungao is President of his own company, the Ligaya Management Corporation, which is engaged in property development and investments.
Mr. Ronald Bunzl (Spain)
Treasurer
Ronald Bunzl is a member of the Board of the Asociación Espanola de Ejecutivos de Finanzas. At AEEF, Mr. Bunzl concurrently heads the committees on Technology, Media and Telecommunications and on Institutional and International Relations. He is also a Board member of CEDE, a major association of Spanish managers with some 83,000 members and which AEEF co-founded.
Mr. Bunzl is a Director and founder of the Instituto Cesing and of Spainsoft, which started in 1989 These companies specialize in software and service marketing mix with core client base of mainly public entities (universities, ministries, city governments) and big corporations (banks, insurance and enterprises). His business affiliations also specialize in information technology, communications technology, project management, and intangible assets and knowledge optimization.
Mr. Bunzl earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the IdeE Business School and his Law and Business Administration Degree from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, both in Madrid. He is very fluent in Spanish, German, English and French, while ha can fairly communicate in Portuguese and Italian.
Mr. Bunzl is involved in volunteer services. He is a co-founder and a Board member of the Pan-Europa Spain and helps raise funds for charity.
Mark Wei (Chinese Taiwan)
Area President for Asia
Armand Angeli (France)
Area President Europe
Paolo Bertoli (Italy)
Area President for the Middle East and Africa
Paolo Bertoli is the Chairman of ANDAF (Associazione Nazionale Direttori Amministrativi e Finanziari) the Italian Association of Chief Financial Officer. He is currently the CEO of Widar – Societŕ Fiduciaria e di Revisione, a significant trust and auditing company, and the Managing Partner of Bertoli & Associati. In 2006, he became a member of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pisa.
Mr. Bertoli earned his undergraduate degree and a master business administration specialising in accounting, finance and auditing from the University of Turin. He is a Certified public accountant, a consultant for the Court of Rome, and a registered journalist. He has lived and worked in Rome for over 30 years.