Linda E.

Wright
lewrightw@gmail.com 15 Tiburon, CA 94920 (415) 435-4342 Senior Financial Executive Award winning financial executive. Held Senior Vice President/Vice President, Treasurer, Chief Risk, Operating, Procurement and Credit Officer and Controller positions. Accomplishments in accounting and reporting, capital raising/structuring, cash management, credit, investments, policy setting, strategic planning, teambuilding, analytics and scorecards; M&A and enterprise risk management including safety and continuity. Experience in financial services and energy industries; service on non-profit boards. Managed 200 staff and $10 million direct budget at $5 billion property casualty insurance company and $10 billion life and annuity company (divisions of Allianz SE, the Munichbased financial services company).
WORK HISTORY

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING 2009 - present Consulted in cash management, investments, risk management, policy and organizational design. Advised law firm and environmental consulting firm on insurance buying. Created cash management and investment sweep strategies for law firms. Created a contract and pricing audit protocol for credit card company. FIREMAN'S FUND INSURANCE COMPANY/ALLIANZ OF AMERICA 1999 - 2008 Senior Vice President and Treasurer (2002 - 2008) Corporate Vice President (2000 - 2002) Assistant Treasurer (1999 - 2000) Managed budget, comp and benefit plan investments, capital, cash, credit, dashboards and metrics, divestitures, investment accounting & operations, IT governance, M&A, monetary policy, real estate & facilities, receivables and collections, reinsurance recovery, risk, SOX key controls, strategic sourcing, and treasury. Championed, transformed and managed shared services for FFIC and Allianz Life including sourcing assistance to other NAFTA entities, including Allianz Global Investors and Dresdner through regional centers. Led an initiative to leverage group buying power that produced $150 million in annual savings in 52 spend categories, winning award from Treasury & Risk Management magazine. Launched and led a "use of companies" project to reduce complexity and cost of legal structure; consolidated 40 companies to 24 under the Fireman's Fund umbrella. Assembled and led a team to divest Fireman's Fund of non-strategic businesses through six complex transactions, representing over $500 million in value. Re-engineered Allianz collection processes; dropped staff from 41 to 13, maintaining stable collection efficiency ratios, customer satisfaction, generating annual savings of $1.7 million. Centralized Allianz of Americas cash, banking, investment operations; moves generating approx. $0.5 million in annual cost savings and offering talent acquisition opportunities. Built and pitched performance-based leadership with scorecards and metrics; introduced the leadership principles and tools in Finance which led to knowledge transfer company-wide.

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Linda E.Wright, page 2 CHEVRON CORPORATION & SUBSIDIARIES 1980 - 1999 Enterprise Risk Management Consultant (1999) Retail Financial Services Vice President & Treasurer (1997 - 1999) New Business Acquisition Team Leader-- Lending Officer role (1996 - 1997) Managed treasury role at Chevron Finance Company as well as insurance buying and back-toback property, casualty/business interruption (BI) claims at the Richmond Refinery. Led the interrogatories of the insurers and reinsurers on each aspect of each BI claim, coordinating the forensic examinations and managing the broker relationships. Managed customer inquiry, billing and collection processes (annually 1.1 million invoices approx. $7 billion in credit sales with 98% collection efficiency ratio across 2,600 accounts). As Team Leader, established new, fully -performing loan portfolio to allow service station owners and operators to upgrade their facilities - total loan volume: $200 million; average loan size: $250,000. Formed, staffed and opened new special-purpose entity dedicated to the first ever origination and securitization of trade receivables. Participated in formation of non-bank bank. Spearheaded Chevron's credit card interchange fee project, following a careful interpretation of the Competitive Banking Equality Act, saving $2 million per year. Manager, Financial Reporting, Chevron Products (1995 - 1996) Controller and Manager of Accounting & Analysis Chevron Shipping (1992 - 1994) Manager, Financial Forecasts & Internal Controls Chevron Shipping (1990 - 1992) Managed business planning, financial forecasting, standard costing, certification of financial statements, profit analyses, risk assessments, internal controls and audits and corporate secretarial role for several large, domestic Chevron Operating Companies. Presented innovative alternative methods of establishing financial responsibility to U.S. Coast Guard; established new separate legal entity to meet requirements. Assumed role of Team Leader for Finance reorganization; designed new department cut costs 15%, while adding tax planning and internal controls. Applied organizational design principles to reorganize Chevron Shipping Company, an international transportation company with 2500 staff worldwide; delivered plan in 30 days. Appointed Finance Section Chief, Worldwide Spill Response Team; received CEO and Coast Guard commendations for emergency response preparedness. Trained by Red Adair. Negotiated multi-million dollar tax settlement with the IRS; tax issue turned on the appropriate Average Freight Rate Assessment to apply to marine transport. Created and delivered train-the-trainer program to introduce ocean-going and shore side staff to total quality onboard the vessels. Assistant Treasurer Bank Relations & Cash Management (1989 - 1990) Manager, Banking Operations (1987 - 1988) Manager, Cash Management & Systems (1986 - 1987)
EDUCATION and AFFILIATIONS

MBA, Finance, University of California, Berkeley Beta Gamma Sigma, graduating with highest honors BA, English and French, University of California, Santa Barbara Phi Beta Kappa, graduating with highest honors Chevron Federal Credit Union board member, 1991 -1993 North Bay Haas Alumni and FENG board member
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Treasurer Beta Gamma Sigma 2009-2010 Board member Haas Alumni, Proformative and FENG.

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