Adam Smith Awards 2020 | Treasury Today | 14 April 2020 | Plaisterers' Hall, One London Wall, 1 London Wall, Barbican, London EC2Y 5JU, UK

Launched in 2008, the Adam Smith Awards are now in their 13th year and are a globally recognised endorsement of corporate treasury achievement. Competition is fierce and winning an Adam Smith Award is a true accolade.

The Adam Smith Awards are firmly established as the ultimate ‘benchmark’ for true treasury talent and our highly respected judging panel will be looking for innovation, creativity, outstanding insight, thinking ‘outside the box’ and, of course, real business impact.

2020 Award Categories
• Treasury Today’s Top Treasury Team 2020
• Best Cash Management Solution
• Best WCM, AP/AR Solution
• Best Card Solution
• Best Trade/Supply Chain Finance Solution
• Best Funding Solution
• Best ESG Solution
• Best Risk Management Solution
• Harnessing the Power of Technology
• Best Fintech Solution
• Best Cyber-Security Solution
• Best in Class Treasury Solution in the Middle East
• Best in Class Treasury Solution in Africa
• Best in Class Treasury Solution in Latin America/Caribbean
• Best Liquidity Management/Short-Term Investing Solution
• First Class Relationship Management
• Best Foreign Exchange Solution
• Treasury Today Woman of the Year 2020
• A Rising Star 2020

2019 Winners

Treasury Today’s Top Treasury Team 2019
• Winner: Jim Colby and Marie-Astrid Dubois, Honeywell

Treasury Today Woman of the Year 2019
• Winner: Catherine Portman, Uber

Judges’ Choice
• Winner: Ken Bugayong, Expedia Group

Best Cash Management Solution
• Winner: IATA

Best Liquidity Management Solution
• Winner: Allison Rakitin, Ecolab

Best Short-Term Investing Solution
• Winner: Tomonori Kimura, Recruit Global Treasury Services

Best Working Capital Management Solution
• Winner: Gianluca Gubbini, Viacom

Best AP Solution
• Winner: Giancarlo Cicuttini, Sara Marcandalli, Riccardo Riva, Dario Ghislanzoni and Alessandro Marcarini, Brembo S.p.A

Best AR Solution
• Winner: Eyal Shechter, Global-e

First Class Relationship Management
• Winner: Hallvard Bokn Eikeland, Equinor ASA

Best Trade Solution
• Winner: Lynda McGoey, General Electric

Best Supply Chain Finance Solution
• Winner: Alexandros Diamantopoulos and Abdel Belkassem, Philips

Best Card Solution
• Winner: Lynda Johnson, Harley-Davidson

Best Funding Solution
• Winner: Jeffrey DeSilva, Toyota Financial Services

Best Sustainable Finance Solution
• Winner: Adam Richford, Renewi

Best Foreign Exchange Solution
• Winner: Michael Dawson, Shell

Best Risk Management Solution
• Winner: Jim Scurlock, Microsoft

Harnessing the Power of Technology
• Winner: André Van der Toorn, The Adecco Group

Best Fintech Solution
• Winner: Séverine Le Blévennec, Honeywell

Best Cyber-Security Solution
• Winner: Royston Da Costa, Ferguson Group Services

Best in Class Treasury Solution in the Middle East
• Winner: Rahul Daswani, Microsoft

Best in Class Treasury Solution in Africa
• Winner: Chinonye Nzewi, Flour Mills of Nigeria

Best in Class Treasury Solution in Latin America/Caribbean
• Winner: Rossana Novoa, Hochschild Mining

A Rising Star
• Winner: Gino Gude, Honeywell

Highly Commended Winners:

Treasury Today’s Top Treasury Team 2019
• Highly Commended: James Kelly, Pearson

Treasury Today Woman of the Year 2019
• Highly Commended: Anita Bubna, Flex

Best Cash Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Denis Bräuer, Element Solutions Inc.

Best Cash Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Martin Schlageter, Roche

Best Cash Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Dae Woo Lee, Doosan Bobcat Inc.

Best Liquidity Management Solution
• Highly Commended: John Arthur, Goldcorp

Best Liquidity Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Varun Wadhwa, Tian Song and Moda Abhishek, Baker Hughes, a GE Company (BHGE)

Best Working Capital Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Dageria Morgan and Elaine Wright, Linamar Corporation

Best Working Capital Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Toby Shore, Emirates Global Aluminium

Best AP Solution
• Highly Commended: Sunnie Ho, Microsoft
• Highly Commended: Paul Mason and Emma Thomas, Transport for London

Best AR Solution
• Highly Commended: Kevin Green, LoadDelivered

First Class Relationship Management
• Highly Commended: Pankaj Gudimella, Microsoft
• Highly Commended: Scott Swindler, Invista

Best Trade Solution
• Highly Commended: Hesham Abdullah Bukannan, Saudi Basic Industries Company (SABIC)

Best Supply Chain Finance Solution
• Highly Commended: Tyler Rehmert, Procter & Gamble Company
• Highly Commended: Nidhi Sharma, Flex

Best Card Solution
• Highly Commended: Stefan Vancampenhout, Ingersoll Rand
• Highly Commended: Ed Barrie, Tableau Software

Best Funding Solution
• Highly Commended: Temesgen Getaye, Ethiopian Airlines Group
• Highly Commended: Frank Boroch, Hyundai Capital America

Best Sustainable Finance Solution
• Highly Commended: Patrick Payet, Republic of Seychelles
• Highly Commended: Anne Lenaerts, Solvay

Best Foreign Exchange Solution
• Highly Commended: Hatem Soua, Solvay
• Highly Commended: Massimo Kast, Josiane Farronato, Cedric Petiot and Mariko Yashiro, Roche

Best Risk Management Solution
• Highly Commended: Stefan Windisch, Roche
• Highly Commended: Jay Lee, Toyota Financial Services

Harnessing the Power of Technology
• Highly Commended: Daniel Gramunt, Nokia
• Highly Commended: Steve Huse, Baird
• Highly Commended: Bilkay Rose, Avalara

Best Fintech Solution
• Highly Commended: Abraham Geldenhuys, Kongsberg Automotive

Best Fintech Solution
• Highly Commended: Shelly Valdez, Microsoft
• Highly Commended: Roger Biscay and Chris Newman, Cisco Systems

Best in Class Treasury Solution in the Middle East
• Highly Commended: Ahmed Moawad, Etisalat Group
• Highly Commended: Kata Pasztor, Etihad Airways
• Highly Commended: Elias Choufi, ASGC Group

Best in Class Treasury Solution in Africa
• Highly Commended: Jan Beukes, MultiChoice Group
• Highly Commended: Virginie Darbo, Nassima Meliouh and Imad Cheref, LafargeHolcim Algeria

Best in Class Treasury Solution in Latin America/Caribbean
• Highly Commended: Alejandro Radi Bolaño, Procaps
• Highly Commended: Martin Schlageter and Zampeta Fameli, Roche