Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) - Implementing a Practical and Effective Solution, and Making ERM Part of the Fabric of Your Organization

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar will review the challenges of implementing an effective ERM program such as:

• How to prioritize the risks?
• What is the role of the board of directors, audit committees, and executive management?
• Who should own the risks identified?
• What are the inherent and residual risks?
• Who should be responsible for the mitigation plans?

Attendees will learn how to develop a common risk language and risk monitoring and reporting processes.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Common risk language
• Risk framework
• Developing and prioritizing a risk portfolio
• Management’s risk tolerance
• Who is responsible for the risk
• How to decide to avoid, accept, reduce or control a risk
• Risk monitoring and reporting processes

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable information to all companies that are thinking about implementing ERM, in the early stages of implementing ERM, and companies that want to benchmark their ERM process against best practices.

• Internal Auditors
• Finance Professionals
• Risk Management Professionals
• Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) staff
• Chief Compliance Officers
• Operational Risk Directors

Instructor Profile:

Robert Brewer, is currently associated with JPA International. Mr. Brewer served as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Office Depot from 2005 until the end of 2013. In this role, he had overall responsibility for compliance activities on a global basis for a retailer who provided supplies and services to its customers through 2,200 worldwide retail stores, have annual sales reaching $17 billion, employing 66,000 associates around the world. Office Depot provides more office supplies and services to more customers in more countries than any other company, and currently sells to customers directly or through affiliates in 59 countries. Among other functions, global internal audit, loss prevention, risk management functions and social compliance reported to him. He had direct reporting relationship with the Audit Committee of the Board with respect to audit and risk assessment matters. He also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Office Depot Foundation providing resources and product valued at over $12 million annually. He previously served as Vice President of Global Corporate Audit Services for six years.

Prior to joining Office Depot, he was Director of Audit for W.R. Grace & Co., Boca Raton, FL; Director of Audits/Security for Praxair Inc., Danbury, CT; and Manager of Audit Regions for Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury, CT. He holds a MBA from the University of New Haven, CT; a CPA from the State of West Virginia; and a BS from the West Virginia Institute of Technology, Montgomery, WV.

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