Today's best practice organizations have grasped the opportunity to eliminate risks through improved contracting. They are using the contracting process as a source of business intelligence that ensures improved alignment between market needs and internal policies and practices.\r
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This exciting development is elevating contract management and Legal groups as agents of change and innovation, as well as raising their business influence. Key enablers include the use of carefully designed contract management applications that collect data and allow effective analysis of trends and opportunities as well as thoughtful processes that ensure proper risk mitigation steps are followed. Learn how others have become more effective at the elimination of risk - and the added value this represents for today's contracts, procurement or legal professional.\r
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Panelists:Kennetha West-Pullins, Senior Contracts Manager, Equifax Inc.\r
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With twenty (20) years of professional experience in the field of Contract Management (which includes Procurement, and Compliance), Kennetha West-Pullins is customer focused, and results oriented with a strong understanding of the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance, and minimizing risk (i.e. adept at the following key business disciplines: Authoring and Negotiation, Baseline Management, Commitment Management, Communication Management, Contract Visibility and Awareness, Change/Document Management, and Business Growth).\r
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Rebecca Thorkildsen, Director - Legal Solutions, Pangea3\r
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Rebecca brings more than eighteen years of experience in legal management and technology consulting experience to Pangea3's clients. Rebecca serves as a strategic advisor to legal, operations and procurement teams considering outsourcing as a means to achieve mission critical business objectives such as cost savings, efficiency improvements and legal resource optimization in delivery of legal services. She helps clients to identify appropriate work to be outsourced, improve upon current work processes, utilize technology to support operations and measure performance of new solutions.\r
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Moderator: Tim Cummins, IACCM President and CEO
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