Monday, November 29, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Warren Murdoch to lead the Houston enterprise risk management and business continuity planning practice at AMX International, Incorporated
Warren Murdoch has extensive risk management experience in energy and financial markets. His core strengths and expertise include: energy markets, natural gas, power and oil; futures, swaps, options, caps, floors and exotics; foreign exchange, sovereign debt and agricultural markets; structure of commodity markets; verification of data inputs to models; operational scorecard design; selection and verification of ETRM, credit metrics including PFE, CVaR, and EE; market Value at Risk (VaR) and its limits; and stress and scenario testing. Warren has also developed option pricing programs and developed forward curves in liquid and illiquid markets. He has worked in the trading organizations of BP and Florida Power, served as a statistician with for Kaiser Permanente Health Care, and worked in foreign exchange for Bank of America. Warren is a recognized speaker at risk management events and is the Regional co-Director of the Houston chapter of PRMIA. Warren has a Master of Science degree in Financial Markets and Trading from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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 Warren Murdoch at 281-529-5036.