Monday, November 22, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Mark Williams has substantial experience in risk management as both a practitioner, and as an academic. For more than two decades, he has worked as a senior trading floor executive, a trust banker, Fed bank examiner and as a business school educator. Since 2002, he has been on the finance faculty at Boston University specializing in banking, energy and capital markets related matters. Williams frequently appears in the national media and has been a guest columnist for Financial Times, Reuters.com, Forbes.com, and the Boston Globe. In 2010, his book Uncontrolled Risk, detailing the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers and root causes of the financial crisis was published by McGraw Hill. Outside academics, he conducts risk management seminars, has provided consulting to various fortune 500 companies, and has served as an expert witness on various risk-related legal cases. He also is a senior advisor at The Brattle Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based economic consulting firm and is on the board of Appleton Partners, a Boston-based private wealth management company.

The AMXi ERM approach minimizes cost and time to implement by leveraging the corporation's existing investment in employees, methodologies, frameworks, industry standards, policies, procedures, models and infrastructure. Training is incorporated in implementation to enhance the understanding of risks and leads to institutionalization of comprehensive risk management. The AMXi ERM Program facilitates the protection of Directors by providing an understanding of major risk, helping them become "actively engaged" in the independent validation of senior executive claims that is required by business judgment rules. Senior executives, managers and staff benefit from uniform, timely and accurate risk management reports and dashboards, with drill-down information. The enterprise-wide understanding and management of major risks significantly improves resiliency, agility, financial performance, growth, competitive advantage and augmentation of stakeholder value.

About AMX International, Incorporated

AMXi is a management consulting firm dedicated to improving business performance and resiliency through sustainable risk management solutions. Our objective is to help clients improve bottom line performance. AMXi principals and consultants 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 the enterprise. AMXi was founded in 1991; its principals and consultants have successfully served Global 25 to Fortune 1000 corporations across 15 industries. For more information on AMXi please visit: http://www.amxi.com



For more information please call Glen Boyls at 703-864-7046 or Mark Williams at 617-358-2789.