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Financial Operations Networks
(FON) provides accounting and finance professionals with comprehensive, specialized resources for managing business processes.
With FON's robust database of original content, best practices, downloadable business tools, case studies and current business process optimization news from around the world, you'll have unrestricted access to critical information guaranteed to help you make smart business decisions.
Members of FON’s online communities tap into the best practices and benchmarking data needed to measure and improve business processes for optimum efficiency and cost-savings. You'll find management strategies, technological solutions and helpful tools to save you and your organization time and money and make you a more effective leader. Current business process optimization news and relevant articles bring a host of topics right to your fingertips, providing new insights and analyses, and keeping you on top of the latest business process developments.
Financial Operations Networks will help you avoid costly mistakes when selecting or implementing new technologies and suppliers. FON's tools help you compare vendor data, find new ways to streamline your operations, take advantage of educational opportunities, and best of all, gain an unparalleled opportunity to share problems and solutions with your peers "in the trenches" by joining the public and private forums and discussion groups.
Financial Operations Networks is completely independent and is not owned by or affiliated with any industry supplier.
Leadership
Phil Binkow, CEO
Phil Binkow is founder and CEO of Financial Operations Networks. Financial Operations Networks is an Atlanta-based specialized business-to-business publishing company that creates and operates Web-based business process management communities for executives and managers in finance, accounting and administration. Community members gain access to mission critical best practices, benchmarking studies, downloadable tools and interactive networking forums. Members include Johnson & Johnson, the Federal Reserve Bank, Novartis, Target, American Express, Starbucks, the University of Georgia, Harvard and other large, well-known firms and organizations.
The company's first Web-based business process community, The Accounts Payable Network (TAPN) has become the leading resource for individuals with management and oversight responsibility for accounts payable operations. More than 3,000 members use TAPN's best-practices libraries, case studies, research, analysis, technology evaluations, practical tips, discussion forums, continuing education programs and customizable tools for AP planning and problem-solving.
Prior to starting Financial Operations Networks, Phil founded and served as CEO of PayTECH, an electronic payables processing, disbursements and information services provider serving companies such as Oracle, Cisco, the Gap, Charles Schwab, Turner Broadcasting, NCR, Viacom and Wachovia. Under Phil, PayTECH grew to eighty-five employees processing over $2 billion and 100 million invoices annually. PayTECH was acquired by Profit Recovery Group [PRGX] in 1999.
Phil holds a B.A. in economics from Stetson University and an MBA in operations research from the University of Florida. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Specialized Information Publishers Association, the SIPA Foundation and as president of the Board of Trustees of Friends of North Springs High School, a non-profit 501(c)(3) foundation.
Mike Iverson, Chief Financial Officer
Mike brings to FON over 13 years of accounting and financial management experience with privately and publicly held companies including M&A activity, treasury management and SEC reporting. From 2000 to 2002, Mike was Vice President of Finance at ecHub, Inc., a business-to-business e-commerce company. From 1997 to 1999, Mike was PayTECH's Chief Financial Officer. Prior to PayTECH, he held senior financial management positions at Pediatric Services of America, Inc. and American Family Restaurants. Mike holds a BA in Economics from Furman University and an MBA in Finance from Emory University.
Rob Rogers, Vice President and Managing Editor
Rob joins FON after spending more than 20 years in the information industry. From 1990 to 2001, he was involved in design, development, writing, editing and publishing information for Construction Market Data (CMD). He developed new products, including two magazines for which he served as editorial director; published a national directory, and developed content for an online construction information resource. Prior to CMD, Rob held various roles at Nuclear Assurance Corporation, including resource analysis, writing, and publication of data-intensive status reports serving the commercial nuclear power industry. Rob holds a BA in Communications from the University of Delaware.
Richard Burke, Vice President Technology
From 1992 to 1999, Richard was CTO of PayTECH and was instrumental in designing and building the operating platform, Web site and IT infrastructure that handled over 60 million transactions annually. After the acquisition of PayTECH by PRG in 1999, Rich became Director of IT for PRG's Logistics Management Division. Prior to PayTECH, Richard held technical and technical support positions at Texas Instruments, NCR and C&S National Bank, now Bank of America. Richard graduated with a degree in Business from State University of New York at Geneseo, where he minored in computer science and accounting.
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