The liquidity challenge
8 November 2011FDE’s latest breakfast briefing challenged all those in attendance to think beyond the unthinkable.
Dr Brian Gilvary, then deputy group chief financial officer of BP (and now BP's CFO), was the keynote speaker at Finance Director Europe's most recent executive breakfast briefing. He was joined by 40 other finance directors and risk officers from a broad sweep of industries to discuss matters relating to financial liquidity and risk, and how companies must always be prepared to think the unthinkable.
The morning kicked off with an introduction by Brian Parrott, minister-counsellor and senior trade commissioner at the Canadian High Commission in London, an arm of Invest in Canada. Following Dr Gilvary's talk was a supporting address from Patrick Cogny, CEO for business process outsourcing specialists Genpact, before the floor was opened up for a Q&A session chaired by the head of equity advisory at REL, Daniel Windaus.
