DURHAM, N.C., April 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Continuing education and other types of professional development are what keep careers thriving and make business and process improvements possible. However, training executives and their staff members at the same time and in the same place can be difficult due to differing needs, management responsibilities, and confidentiality concerns.
These concerns are the main reasons that the Insurance Accounting & Systems Association (IASA) designed the IASA Executive Education Program. This educational initiative provides content targeted specifically to the needs of senior financial and technology insurance company executives for peer-to-peer education and networking opportunities. The events presented through the Executive Education Program include executive level roundtables and other focused seminars open exclusively to specific executives from insurance companies.
"IASA has spent more than 75 years serving the education needs of all insurance industry professionals," said Joe Pomilia, Executive Director for IASA. "But in the last several years, our members have told us that they need more training for their top executives. Since IASA's mission has always been `progress through sharing knowledge,' no other organization is currently better positioned to help C-level executives respond to the challenges they face every day than IASA."
At the 2005 IASA Annual Conference & Business Show in Anaheim, California, the Executive Education Program will offer both a CFO and a CIO Roundtable event. These "by invitation only" events are open only to insurance company executives with the title of "chief financial officer" and "chief information officer" respectively.
"The initial IASA CFO Roundtable offering was a valuable and interesting day of topics targeted exclusively to CFOs," said Spencer L. Francis, CPA, CLU, ChFC, FLMI, Vice President & Chief Risk Officer - NGL Insurance Group. "In addition, it provided an opportunity to meet and network with a number of other CFOs that I had not previously encountered at other industry CFO forums."
For more information about IASA's Executive Education Program, the CFO Roundtable or the CIO Roundtable, please contact Margaret McKeon, IASA Conference Director via phone at 636-978-9328 or via email at mmckeon@iasa.org
About IASA
The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association, Inc. (IASA) is a non-profit, education association that strives to enhance the knowledge of insurance industry professionals, and participants from similar organizations closely allied with the insurance industry by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information. IASA is the insurance industry's largest, and most well represented trade association. IASA membership includes insurance companies of all types (Property & Casualty, Life, Health, Fraternal, HMO and others) as members, as well as companies serving the insurance industry, regulators and also organizations more broadly representative of the financial services industry, including banks and investment brokerage firms. Learn more about the IASA by visiting our website at www.iasa.org or by calling (919) 489-0991.