AMXi Overview

AMX International, Incorporated

Innovative and Comprehensive Risk Management Solutions

That Help You Outperform Your Competitors

2011

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We Help Our Clients Outperform Their Competitors.

AMX International, Incorporated (AMXi) is a management consulting firm specializing in improving performance, resiliency and growth through sustainable risk management solutions. Our objective is to help you improve your bottom line and increase the value of your organization. Our experts are proven leaders with the skills, knowledge and experience required to work with global cross functional teams and to collaborate with people at all levels of your enterprise. Our approach to risk management provides directors with a clear understanding of major risks faced by the organization, and enables senior executives and key decision makers to more aggressively pursue opportunities that maximize overall business performance and growth. We provide expertise gained from experience. Clients choose us because:

They want innovative and comprehensive risk management solutions that contribute to overall business performance and growth.

They need expert advice on enterprise risk management, business continuity management, business processes, methodology, governance, compliance, etc.

They want an independent, objective and uncompromised advice on risk management and business continuity products and/or services.



Solutions

We Provide Innovative & Comprehensive Risk Management Solutions.

AMXi provides innovative and comprehensive risk management solutions that improve bottom line performance, business resiliency and growth. Our professionals have the knowledge and real world expertise required to support your most demanding risk management needs. We have functional expertise in over 135 subject areas, across 14 industries including: banking, credit ratings, energy, environment, information technology, insurance, manufacturing, outsourcing, public accounting, regulatory compliance and supply chains; privately held and publically traded corporations; non-profit organizations; state and federal governments; and foreign governments. Risk Management Services

Enterprise Risk Management

ERM Program Reviews

ERM Tabletop Exercises

Risk Appetite Statements

Reports and Dashboards

Culture Transformations

Business Analytics

Education and Training

Business Continuity

Strategic Projects

IT Compliance



Enterprise Risk Management

Innovative & Comprehensive Risk Management Solutions.

AMXi has developed an innovative and comprehensive approach to Enterprise Risk Management that helps you outperform your competitors. It’s designed for high-growth organizations that want to drive business performance, while avoiding business, economic and compliance hazards. It provides directors with a clear understanding of major risks faced by the organization. It provides the agility needed by senior executives and key decision makers to aggressively maximize business performance and the scalability to support the integration of new business lines and acquisitions. Our professionals have the real world business experience needed to establish a practical and effective enterprise risk management environment that strikes a sustainable balance among quantitative methods, qualitative observations, hands-on experience and good business judgment. We Help Organizations

Establish a risk management dialogue and secure agreement among board members, senior executive and key decision makers on major risks faced by the organization.

Assess the current state of the risk management environment and establish a baseline to measure continuous improvement and value contribution.

Develop a future state governance and compliance solution that is less challenging by focusing on what's important, key stakeholder expectations, and the linkages among objectives, strategies and the associated major risks.

Review the organization’s existing investment in employees, methodologies, frameworks, industry standards, policies, procedures, and GRC, ERM and BCP infrastructure; retain and leverage where possible.

Implement a proven framework that meets the needs and capabilities of the organization, and complies with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Develop and articulate a corporate risk appetite statement that sets tone at the top, and business unit risk appetite statements for mission critical, major and high-visibility business functions.

Eliminate organizational gaps, overlaps and silos.

Identify, assess and inventory major risks faced by the organization that could impact: reputation, financial performance, business operations, intellectual property, human capital, infrastructure, facilities, outsourcers and supply chains.

Maximize performance through sustainable quantitative methods, qualitative observations, hands-on experience and good business judgment including: metrics, controls, triggers, key risk indicators, key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, escalation procedures.

Develop quality reports and dashboards that enable senior executive and key decision makers to more aggressively pursue opportunities that maximize overall business performance and growth.

Initiate a risk management culture transformation program to improve employee awareness, education, training and empowerment.



ERM Program Reviews


The recent financial crisis has resulted in new conversations and questions among board members, senior executive and key decision makers regarding the strengths and weakness of the organization’s risk management function. Board members want a clearer understanding of the major risks faced by the organization and senior executives and key decision makers want quality risk information so they can more aggressively pursue opportunities that maximize overall business performance and growth. We help our clients improve their current risk management program. We leverage your existing investments in employees, methodologies, frameworks, industry standards, policies, procedures, processes, and GRC, ERM and BCM infrastructure; where possible. We Help Organizations

Establish a risk management dialogue and secure agreement among board members, senior executive and key decision makers on major risks faced by the organization.

Assess the current state of the risk management environment and establish a baseline to measure continuous improvement and value contribution.

Review the organization’s key stakeholder expectations and linkages to objectives, strategies and major risks.

Identify mission critical centers, major business units and high-visibility business functions.

Evaluate the risk management function’s scope, objectives and organization structure.

Identify risk management gaps, overlaps and silos.

Review the risk management function’s leadership and staff qualifications, roles and responsibilities.

Review quantitative and qualitative methods used to drive performance including: metrics, controls, triggers, key risk indicators, key performance indicators and balanced scorecards.

Evaluate the quality and timeliness of risk management reports and dashboard information provided to board members, senior executives, managers and staff members.

Review risk management committee structure and effectiveness.

Assess the risk management communications process with board members, senior executives, key decision makers, managers, staff members, outsourcers, and third-party vendors.

Develop practical and effective risk management program improvements recommendations that meet board member, senior executive and key decision maker expectations.



ERM Tabletop Exercises


Boards of directors are increasingly focusing on the duty to understand and monitor the company’s risk profile. The need for independent board retained expert advice is becoming critical for many boards who seek to test assumptions and help them formulate, and answer, the “right questions”. Tabletop exercises will help the board understand the design and effectiveness of the risk management system, and provide independent guidance as to where additional inquiry or oversight may be required. AMXi professionals work with board members, executives, managers and key employees to develop realistic exercises that test and stress the organization’s corporate governance, risk management and compliance policies, processes, procedures, response, and recovery capabilities. Our exercises simulate events that could result in material or major damage to the enterprise and its stakeholders. In addition to peace of mind among board members and executives, tabletop exercises provide an excellent opportunity for business unit managers, risk process owners and key employees to practice working together in response to a single incident or a series of cascading events that unfold over time. Preparing for the exercise increases awareness of tone at the top, enterprise objectives and strategies, major risks, corporate and business unit risk appetites, key risk indicators, reports, decision making, and the organization’s risk culture. Exercise participants learn first-hand about the scope, magnitude and implications of the risks facing the organization, and take away enhanced risk management, event management and recovery skills. Executives gain valuable insight into the company’s risk management environment and continuous improvement opportunities. We Help Organizations

Develop tabletop exercise strategies ranging from common risk management failures, to cascading interdependencies risks, to global emerging risks, to black swans.

Plan tabletop exercises that validate the enterprise risk management program, corporate risk appetite statement, business unit risk appetite statements, and the organization’s ability to respond to an event and avoid material or major damage to the enterprise and its stakeholders.

Identify scenarios and develop exercises involving: corporate finance, internal controls, customers, supply chains, quality, reputation, shareholders, board members, executives, rogue employees, corporate governance, compliance, operations, environmental, data breaches, social media, communications, insurance, key risk indicators, reports and dashboards, interdependencies, global emerging risks, black swans, etc.

Lead tabletop exercises and facilitate meaningful dialog among participants through each movement.

Increase awareness: tone at the top, corporate risk appetite, business unit risk appetites, enterprise risk management, and their importance to business performance, resiliency and growth.

Determine strengths and weakness in the enterprise risk management program including: gaps, overlaps, silos, event management, communications, key performance and key risk indicators, GRC software, reports, etc.

Conduct confidential one-on-one lessons learned interviews with exercise participants and prepare tabletop exercise reports with continuous improvement recommendations.



Risk Appetite Statements


Risk appetite statements unlock the full potential of an organization. The corporate risk appetite statement formally establishes the amount of risk the organization is willing to take on or prepared to accept in pursuit of the organization’s strategies and objectives. It provides directors with a clear understanding of major risks and empowers senior executives to more aggressively pursue opportunities that maximize overall business performance and growth. Business unit risk appetite statements reflect the amount of risk business units are willing to take on or prepared to accept in pursuit of business strategies and performance objectives. Our approach is designed to make the development of risk appetite statements less challenging by focusing on key stakeholder expectations, corporate objectives, corporate strategies and the associated major risks. We Help Organizations

• Establish a risk management dialogue and secure agreement among board members, senior executive and key decision makers on major risks faced by the organization.

• Work with board members, senior executives and key decision makers to identify and prioritize key stakeholder expectations, objectives, strategies and the linkages to major risks.

• Define risk appetite boundaries, measurements, reports and dashboards.

• Articulate the corporate risk appetite statement across the enterprise and set tone at the top.

• Establish a risk management dialogue and secure agreement among business unit leaders from mission critical centers, major business units and high-visibility business functions. Echo tone at the top.

• Establish the ownership of major risks.

• Develop business unit risk appetite statements and aggregate risks across business units.

• Establish the foundation for implementing bottom-up and enterprise-wide business function risk controls and performance management.

• Articulate business unit risk appetite statements across mission critical centers, major business units and high-profile business functions. Echo tone at the top.

• Initiate a risk management culture transformation program to improve employee awareness, education, training and empowerment.



Reports & Dashboards


Are you comfortable with the timeliness, accuracy and uniformity of your risk management reports? If you answered No, you’re not alone. Based on a North Carolina State University survey, 75% of risks are reported on an ad hoc basis or at management meetings. Furthermore, 74% of organizations do not provide a report on the organization’s top risks to Directors. Our professionals average over 23 years of real world business experience; we know unfavorable risk information is often filtered-out long before it reaches key decision makers, senior executives and board members. Timely, accurate and uniform risk management reports and dashboards empower employees at all levels of the organization to make decisions that result in bottom line performance, resiliency and growth. We collaborate with business unit risk owners and information technology employees to develop automated reporting solutions that reflect what is actually happening; good or bad. It’s not what you know that hurts you. We Help Organizations

• Establish a risk management dialogue and secure agreement among board members, senior executive and key decision makers on major risks faced by the organization.

• Focus on what’s important, key stakeholder expectations, and the linkages among objectives, strategies and the associated major risks.

• Document board member, senior executive and key decision maker risk management reporting expectations and requirements.

• Review major risks that could impact: reputation, financial performance, business operations, intellectual property, human capital, infrastructure, facilities, outsourcers, supply chains, with business unit risk owners from mission critical centers, major business units and high-visibility business functions.

• Establish a sustainable balance among quantitative methods, qualitative observations, hands-on experience and good business judgment including: metrics, controls, triggers, key risk indicators, key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, and escalation procedures.

• Work with information technology employees to develop timely, accurate and uniform risk management reports, and dashboards with drill down capabilities.

• Initiate a risk management culture transformation program to improve employee awareness, education, training and empowerment.



Culture Transformation


For organizations to maximize bottom line performance, business resiliency and growth from enterprise risk management, it must make sure it is aligned with their culture else it will fail. In his book, Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Lou Gerstner said: “When I started at IBM I thought culture was important; when I finished I realized that it was the only thing that was important.” Our professionals recognize the importance of culture transformation and work closely with people at all levels of your organization to ensure enterprise risk management and employee empowerment initiatives such as knowledge transfer, awareness programs, education and training are successful. We Help Organizations

• Objectively assess and baseline the organization’s current culture.

• Develop a framework for the desired culture.

• Identify gaps, overlaps and silos.

• Prepare a vision of the desired culture.

• Prepare mission and value statements reflecting the desired culture.

• Prepare a strategy and plans with goals and objectives required to achieve culture transformation.

• Prepare roadmaps for culture transformation.

• Identify education and training requirements.

• Create culture adoption incentives.

• Launch the culture transformation process.

• Measure performance against baseline.



Business Analytics


AMXi professionals have the knowledge and expertise required to support the quantitative and qualitative analysis needs of our clients. We help our clients establish a risk management environment that strikes a sustainable balance among quantitative methods, qualitative observations, hands-on experience and good business judgment. This allows senior executives, key decision makers, management and employees to drive business performance while avoiding risks management failures. The old adage is true; the fastest cars have the best brakes.

We Help Organizations

• Analyze credit derivatives, credit risks, credit ratings, balance sheets and determine probability of default.

• Develop risk measurement and simulation tools, conduct back tests and stress tests.

• Improve data quality.

• Deconstruct complex risk models.

• Analyze foreign exchange structured solutions and indicative derivatives.

• Prepare pricing and modeling equities models including exotics, derivatives, structured and products.

• Perform hedge fund due diligence.

• Develop currencies and commodities volatility models.

• Develop econometric, economic capital and deposit models.

• Analyze fixed income bonds.

• Analyze collateralized debt obligations and collateralized loan obligations.

• Develop recovery rate, loss given default, and exposure at default models.



Education & Training


Finally, practical and jargon-free enterprise risk management courses for directors, executives, risk owners, risk management professionals and key stakeholders that want an effective enterprise risk management program that improves business performance, resiliency and growth. Our enterprise risk management courses are lead by our highly-experienced, top-talent professionals. Course leaders have over 20-years of practical hands-on experience with the Big-4, or as Fortune 500 executives, federal regulators or subject matter experts. We also maintain financial independence from public accounting firms, rating agencies, insurance brokers, standards organizations, framework providers and software vendors. Our presentations, discussions and advice are uncompromised. Enterprise Risk Management Courses

Half-Day Course – Learn about enterprise risk management and strategies to improve business performance, resiliency and growth.

One-Day Course – learn about enterprise risk management and strategies for implementing an effective enterprise risk management program.

Two-Day Course – Learn about enterprise risk management and how to successfully implement an effective enterprise risk management program.

Private Courses – We also provide private enterprise risk management courses, tailored to your organization’s specific needs, interests and industry requirements.



Business Continuity


Business continuity management is a business function that directly contributes to the survival of your organization and focuses on resiliency to a wide-range of natural and man-made events or disasters. Business continuity identifies potential risks to the organization; builds, exercises and maintains business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans and crisis management plans; establishes and maintains the emergency operations center; manages events; and initiates recovery. Our Certified Business Continuity Professionals can support all phases of the business continuity management process to ensure your organization’s resiliency during and after an event or disaster.

We Help Organizations

Identify potential natural and man-made risk to the organization including: arson, cyber attacks, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, labor strikes, power outages, terrorism, and workplace violence.

Develop business cases that determine business impacts including financial, operational and infrastructural.

Develop recovery point objectives, the maximum acceptable loss of business, processes and/ or information technology following an unplanned event or disaster.

Develop recovery time objectives, the period of time within which business process and/or technology capabilities must be restored following an unplanned event or disaster.

Eliminate gaps, overlaps and silos.

Identify continuous improvement opportunities in business unit processes, information technology, outsourcers and supply chains.

Prepare the organization’s emergency operations center and business unit operations centers.

Establish roles and responsibilities of business continuity planners, disaster recovery planners, crisis management planners, business unit executives and senior executives.

Develop end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Develop crisis management plans.

Design and develop realistic tabletop exercises that simulate natural and man-made events, and conduct exercises that test and stress business continuity, event management, communications and recovery plans.

Establish maintenance ownership, schedules, processes and procedures.

Conduct post event lessons learned reviews and prepare continuous improvement recommendations.



Strategic Projects


The timely completion of strategically important projects is critical to business performance and growth. Our professionals are highly experienced in the management of strategically important projects including airline computer reservation systems conversions, aircraft manufacturing, major labor strikes, software products, outsourcing, acquisition integration, etc. We have functional expertise in over 135 subject areas, across 14 industries including: privately held and publically traded corporations; non-profit organizations; state and federal governments; and foreign governments. We are prepared to help our clients successfully plan and complete, or turnaround strategically important projects. We Help Organizations

Establish a dialog with the project sponsor, senior executives, key decision makers and key stakeholders.

Define the project’s scope and objectives, and identify key deliverables, major milestones and expectations with the project sponsor, senior executives, decision makers, and key stakeholders.

Form an executive steering committee and working committees.

Complete or turnaround strategically important projects that are critical to the organization’s success, provide competitive advantage, represent significant new revenue streams, and have multi-million dollar price tags.

Work with global cross functional teams and collaborate with employees at all levels the organization, customers, partners, contractors, vendors, regulators, etc.

Define roles, responsibilities, accountabilities and ownerships for all project participants.

Develop project plans that contain thousands of tasks; multiple critical paths; involve mission critical centers, major business units and high-visibility business functions; hundreds of internal and external project participants; cost several hundred million dollars; and have a firm completion date.

Establish project related quality programs, risk management programs, change control programs, project communications, financial management, audit controls, conflict management, project metrics, status reports and dashboards, etc.

Identify and mitigate project risks.

Review strategically important projects including: scope and objectives, expectations, key deliverables, major milestones, executive leadership, project management, team members, deliverable owners, contractors, vendors, regulatory compliance, etc.

Leverage the organization’s existing investment in employees, project management tools, techniques, methodologies, policies, procedures, and infrastructure; where possible.

Initiate a culture transformation program to improve employee awareness, education, training and empowerment.



IT Compliance


AMXi can help address IT compliance requirements by implementing security monitoring for your IT infrastructure. The IT compliance monitoring system can be standalone or can be extended to cover end-to-end performance and availability monitoring of your full set of business systems. For those organizations that need to minimize the implementation and ongoing cost of monitoring, AMXi can rapidly establish IT compliance monitoring from a hosted cloud environment that has achieved SAS-70 Type II certification. We Help Organizations

Define strategies for IT compliance monitoring and performance/availability monitoring to optimize the ROI for monitoring expense.

Implement monitoring solutions that satisfy requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, ISO, COBIT, PCI DSS and FISMA.

Maintain your IT compliance monitoring solution as an ongoing managed service from a cloud environment.

Enhance the monitoring solution with ongoing changes that correspond to the changes in your compliance requirements and system/application changes.

Integrate the IT compliance monitoring system with your incident management system to deliver a comprehensive auditable solution.



About Us

We are Proven Leaders with Real World Business Experience.

AMX International, Incorporated was formed in 1991 as a top-talent management consulting firm composed of big-six and premier consulting firm alumni. In 1998, we became involved in business continuity management and quickly expanded into operations risk management. Since 2008, we have researched many of the risk management failures that occurred, identified root causes and developed an innovative and comprehensive approach to enterprise risk management. We also grew our firm to include senior executives with real world business experience and a wide-range of subject matter experts to provide our clients with the best risk management solutions available. Expertise

We provide expertise gained from experience. Clients choose us because:

They want innovative and comprehensive risk management solutions that contribute to overall business performance and growth.

They need expert advice on enterprise risk management, business continuity management, business processes, methodology, governance, compliance, etc.

They want an independent, objective and uncompromised advice on risk management and business continuity products and/or services.

Experience

Our professionals are:

Proven leaders with the skills, knowledge and experience required to work with global cross-functional teams.

Capable of collaborating with people at all levels of our client’s organization.

Drawn from a variety of backgrounds, including big-four alumni, senior executives and subject matter experts who have significant experience in complex projects and programs with global corporations.

Top-talent professionals with over 20 years of practical hands-on business experience.

Experts in over 135 subject areas, across 14 industries including:

Banking, credit ratings, energy, environment, information technology, insurance manufacturing, outsourcing, public accounting, regulatory compliance and supply chains.

Small businesses, mid-sized organizations, fortune 500 companies and global enterprises.

Privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Non-profit organizations.

State and federal governments.

Foreign governments.

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Independence

Our sole source of income is from the services we provide our clients.

We are financially independent from public accounting firms, rating agencies, insurance companies and software vendors.

Our advice is uncompromised.

We are uniquely positioned to evaluate our client’s existing risk management and business continuity programs, methodologies, processes, infrastructure, culture, and third-party products and services.

Service Philosophy

We are dedicated to improving our client’s business performance, resiliency and growth through sustainable risk management solutions.

We help our clients improve their bottom line.

We tailor our services and approach to meet our clients’ needs and capabilities.

We work closely with board members, senior executives, key decision makers, managers and employees to ensure client needs and expectations are satisfied and objectives are achieved on schedule and within budget.

Engagements

We structure our engagements to meet the needs and capabilities of our client’s environment.

We only assign the expert(s) needed.

In some cases the engagement may require one of our professionals to solve a specific issue or it may require a small team of professionals to pursue a larger initiative.

We tailor engagement staffing to meet the clients’ needs and budget.

We are seasoned road-warriors. We are prepared to travel national and internationally to support our client’s needs.

Superior Results

AMXi is a top-talent management consulting firm specializing in practical and effective risk management solutions. The depth and breadth of our functional expertise and industry experience, plus our independence, service philosophy, and structure allows us to provide our clients with demonstrable bottom line results.



Expertise

We Provide our Clients with Expertise Learned from Experience.

Our professionals average over 23 years of practical hands-on business experience in over 135 subject areas, across 14 industries, including:

Acquisition Planning Aerospace Manufacturing Agriculture Markets Airline Industry Alternative Investments Apparel Industry Asset & Liability Management Audit Procedures Automotive Manufacturing Balanced Score Cards Bank Executive Banking Basel II & III Brewing Industry Broker / Dealer Operations Business Analysis Business Continuity Planning Business Impact Analysis Business Interruption Insurance Business Process Improvement Capital Measurement Modeling Causality Insurance Change Management Chemical Industry COBIT Commercial Loans Commercial Mortgages Commodity Markets Compliance Audits Consumer Loans Core Deposit Analysis COSO Cost Accounting Credit Metrics Credit Risk Management Crisis Management Culture Transformation Director & Officer Insurance Data Verification Models Derivatives Disaster Recovery Planning Dodd-Frank Act Earnings at Risk eCommerce Technology Economic Value Analysis Economics Emerging Technology Energy Industry Energy Markets Enterprise Resource Planning

Environmental Audits Environmental Compliance Environmental Liability Mitigation Environmental Mgt. Systems Executive Meeting Facilitation FDIC Federal Bank Examination Federal Government Federal Reserve Financial Analysis Financial Audits Financial Executive Financial Market Management Financial Reporting Financial Stress Testing Financial Systems Management Floor Trading Executive Food Industry Foreign Currencies Foreign Exchanges Forward Curves Futures Global Enterprises Global Financial Markets Governance Solutions Health, Safety & Environmental Healthcare Hedge Effectiveness Testing Hedge Funds High-Risk Project Management High-Yield Debt Hospitality Human Capital Incident Management Information Security & Privacy Information Technology Insurance Industry Internal & External Audits Internal Controls International Banking IT Audits IT Executive IT Project Turnarounds Key Employee Insurance Key Performance Indicators Key Risk Indicators Labor Continuity Strategies Liability Insurance Liquidity & Gap Analysis Litigation Support

Local Government Logistics Manufacturing Merger Consolidation Metals Manufacturing Multilateral Development Banks Natural Gas & Oil Network Security Operational Risk Management Operations Executive Options Pricing Programs Organizational Consolidations Petrochemical Industry Pharmaceutical Industry Product / Branding Strategy Program Management Property Insurance Public Utilities Quality Quantitative Analysis Rating Agencies Refineries Regulatory Compliance Residential Mortgages Risk Assessments Risk Identification Risk Mitigation Risk Model Validation Sarbanes Oxley SAS Risk Management Scenario Testing SEC Securities Sourcing Strategies Sovereign Debt State Government Statistics Strategic Planning Structured Securities Analysis Supply Chain Risk Swaps Telecom Engineering Telecommunications Textile Trading Operations Treasury Management Trust Banker Wholesale & Retail Wired & Wireless Networks Worker Compensation



Join Us

Seasoned, Top-Talent Professionals Should Join Us.

AMXi seeks seasoned, top-talent professionals:

Big-4 and Premier Consulting Firm Alumni

Corporate Executives

Government Executives and Regulators

Subject Matter Experts:

o Corporate Finance

o Economics

o Governance, Risk Management, Compliance

o Health Care

o Information Technology

o Intellectual Property

o International Business

o Mergers, Acquisitions and Integrations

o Quantitative Analytics

o Supply Chain

Proven leaders with entrepreneurial spirit and over 20 years of successful experience should contact us.



Contact Us

Let’s Start a Risk Management Dialogue Today!

Glen Boyls, Washington, DC, 703-864-7046, [email protected]

Ted Dann, Research Triangle Park, NC, 919-606-7114, [email protected]

Warren Murdoch, Houston, TX, 281-529-5036, [email protected]

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