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Axentis President and Vice President to Participate in
Open Compliance & Ethics Group Webinar
Ted Frank and Brett Curran to Outline Personal
Information Management Best Practices
Press Cleveland, OH—May 14, 2007—Axentis, providers of the industry’s most comprehensive and widely deployed governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solution, announced today that Ted Frank, president, and Brett Curran, vice president of GRC and privacy practices, will share their insight and expertise at “Managing Personal Information: Compliance Practices throughout the Information Lifecycle,” a Webinar hosted by Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG) on May 16, 2007. During the Webinar, Mr. Frank and Mr. Curran will discuss how organizations can effectively collect, use, and protect the multitude of personal information they acquire from customers, employees, vendors, and contractors.
“Organizations can easily become overwhelmed when trying to collect, protect and manage the personal information collected in the course of conducting business,” said Mr. Curran. “Every company should implement data protection compliance practices to ensure all personal information is monitored, managed and secured. This Webinar will provide attendees with the necessary framework to integrate personal information management policies in order to avoid privacy breaches.”
Who: Ted Frank, President, Axentis and Brett Curran, Vice President of GRC and Privacy Practices, Axentis
What: OCEG Webinar, “Managing Personal
Information: Compliance Practices throughout the Information Lifecycle”
When: May 16, 2007, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
More Info: OCEG Events
“Managing Personal Information: Compliance Practices throughout the Information Lifecycle” will outline the process of personal information management, address the common privacy pitfalls companies frequently encounter and highlight the critical success factors to managing data effectively. Participants will learn how to combine technology tools and information management techniques to efficiently secure personal data throughout the information lifecycle.
About Ted Frank
As president and co-founder of Axentis, Mr. Frank has played a central role in establishing the company as the leading software provider in the governance, risk and compliance market. In addition to his responsibilities at Axentis, Frank has served as the chairman of the Compliance Consortium and currently serves on the Leadership Council and is Technology Council co-chair of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group. Prior to
joining Axentis, Frank was a general partner and executive vice president of PlanSoft Corporation and served in several senior management positions at a global banking firm.
About Brett Curran
Mr. Curran brings a wealth of experience in integrating governance and compliance processes and technology. Mr. Curran is also active in Open Compliance and Ethics Group and is a member of the IBM Data Governance Council. He has held top Information technology management roles at AEGON, Inc. and served as the Director of Imaging and Electronic Workflow at Insurdata. More recently, Brett was the chief compliance officer responsible for enterprise compliance at UICI, Inc. where he established a matrix compliance organization, processes and applied technology to address a myriad of legal, regulatory and operational requirements using a repeatable model. Earlier, he held a variety of technical and project management positions designing, developing and integrating sophisticated technological solutions to simplify and streamline complex business issues.
About Axentis
Axentis delivers the only on-demand business performance optimization environment that empowers companies to turn governance, risk and compliance initiatives into better business performance and competitive advantage. With its unique software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, Axentis Enterprise (Ae) Suite delivers a one-world view of the entire organization for better risk management, mitigation and compliance. Ae is easy-to-use and can be deployed quickly, delivering immediate impact and a quick return on investment (ROI). Axentis was recently named an industry leader by Forrester Research in its “Government, Risk and Compliance Wave Study™” and a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner, which also recognized Axentis in a report titled, “Adoption of Software-as a-Service Is Happening Outside of CRM.” Current Axentis customers include ADT and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Axentis is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with data centers in Boulder, Colorado and Basel, Switzerland. For more information, please visit http://www.axentis.com/.
