Monday, September 27, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Steve Lindo has over 25 years of experience managing risks in US and international portfolios comprising fixed income, derivatives, high-yield debt, foreign currencies, sovereign debt, commercial and residential mortgages, insurance, structured finance, commercial and consumer loans and leases. Mr. Lindo recently completed a two-year engagement as CEO of PRMIA – The Professional Risk Managers' International Association, a non-profit member organization with over 70,000 members in 198 countries. In this role, he led the association's programs providing online resources, thought-leadership, certifications, training, events and member services designed to promote higher standards of risk management practice and education globally. Previously Mr. Lindo was Head of Risk Capital Management at GMAC Financial Services LLC (now Ally Bank), responsible for the capital measurement and modeling of GMAC's automotive loan, lease, insurance and residential mortgage portfolios. Before that, he held a number of risk management roles in Cargill's proprietary financial trading group, which today operates as Black River Investments and Carval Investors. Mr. Lindo spent his early career as an international banking and credit officer with Lloyds TSB Bank and then First National Bank of Chicago (now part of JPMorganChase) in Brazil, London and Madrid. He has a BA and MA from Oxford University and speaks fluent French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

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 holistic 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 specializing in the implementation of transformational risk management and business continuity solutions for publicly traded corporations. AMXi principal 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 corporation. AMXi works in close partnership with directors, senior executives, managers and staff members to ensure an understanding the major risks and the reasons behind the risk management processes. AMX was founded in 1991, and its consultants have served Global 25 to Fortune 1000 corporations across 15 industries. For more information on AMX and the 2010 ERM Program, visit: http://www.amxi.com



For more information please call Glen Boyls at 703-864-7046 or Steve Lindo at 612-865-6647.