As Vice President of Marketing, Gordon Burnes is responsible for the company’s corporate and product marketing initiatives. Burnes also manages the company’s partnerships, alliances and corporate development initiatives. Burnes brings to OpenPages 15 years of experience working with high growth companies. Burnes comes to OpenPages from McNamee Lawrence, a boutique investment bank focused on the information technology sector, where for two years he provided strategic financial advisory services to mid-market software companies.
Prior to McNamee Lawrence, Burnes held a variety of marketing and business development roles in emerging technology companies. As vice president of marketing and business development at Wheelhouse, Burnes managed corporate and product marketing as well as ISV alliances and technology partnerships. Prior to joining Wheelhouse, Burnes was responsible for product marketing at GTE Internetworking’s IP Telecom division.
Burnes has an MBA from Columbia University and a BA from Harvard University.
With the passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, many companies are bracing for the regulatory onslaught.  The problem is that few of the provisions in the legislation take effect immediately, and what we’re really facing is much rulemaking from new (e.g. the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) and existing regulatory bodies.  This [...]
[Read More]The Supreme Court today issued a ruling in Free Enterprise Fund et al v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board et al and upheld the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
The court did take issue with the way PCAOB members could be removed, and ruled that board members could be removed “at will” by the commissioners of the [...]
In the Compliance Week 2010 panel Honest Experience with GRC Tools, Joann Sochor, VP Corporate Compliance at the Bank of Montreal Financial Group, spoke about their experience with OpenPages. Â See http://bit.ly/bMjFbl for slides that describe scope of implementation–40 different data marts, over 5K controls consolidated onto a single technology platform.
[Read More]Shelley Parratt of the SEC’s Corporation Finance Division gave the afternoon keynote on Day 2 of Compliance Week 2010.  She spoke about the Commission’s program of enhanced disclosure.
With 10K companies filing and SOX requiring the Commission to review every companies filing at least once in three years, she said that the SEC has to use [...]
US Rep and House Financial Services Committee Chair Barney Frank gave the opening keynote at Compliance Week 2010, day 2.  As usual, he was witty and insightful.  His remarks covered the conceptual underpinnings of  financial services regulatory reform.  He then took questions from the group.
He started out by saying that we needed to move quickly [...]
OPUS 2010 wraps up today. We closed the conference with lively roundtable discussions that covered risk management, risk assessment, risk tolerance and more. Great knowledge sharing going on!
“Ask the engineers” discussion, which was a chance for our customers to talk to our product visionaries and get some additional tips, as well as special insights into our product [...]
OPUS has been a tremendous success so far. We’ve heard from thought leaders and customers, had great dialog within sessions, and more great keynote presentations. Here’s a video with more highlights from Day Two of OPUS 2010.
[Read More]Here’s some highlights for day one of OPUS 2010.
[Read More]Mary Tuuk, EVP and CRO of Fifth Third Bank, spoke at Friday morning’s general session. US Banker Magazine has named her as one of the top 25 women to watch in banking, and she gave an interesting talk on the CRO perspective, “Leveraging Risk Management for Strategic Advantage.”
After discussing an historical perspective on the recent [...]
Former Federal Reserve Board Governor and PCAOB Chairman Mark Olson spoke during the general session this morning about the proposed legislation for financial services regulatory reform, the main point of which is to ensure systemic stability for the financial system. Â He made an interesting point, saying that in the US “we have a limited tolerance [...]
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