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| Jun 25, 2006 - Don Baldwin
and another key executive of Baldwin Aviation
met with insurance industry leaders in New
York City this past week. |
| Don presented detailed briefings about the
BAI programs. Highlighted were shared standards,
Safety Barometer, and progressive review concept
that BAI is using to assess trends and monitor
the safety culture. Baldwin updated insurance
leaders progress in obtaining IS-BAO registration. |
| Industry leaders were pleased with BAI's
unique program and stated that they would
view BAI clients favorably during the application
or renewal process. For more information,
call 888.222.2112. |
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| Orlando, Florida,
Oct 2005 — The 58th
annual NBAA (National Business Aviation Association)
conference was abuzz as Baldwin Aviation’s
new web-based shared services offering was
unveiled. Baldwin Aviation, run by Donald
Baldwin, former President of the NBAA and
Flight Department Manager for Texaco and Coca
Cola, engaged Clear Compliance, an Atlanta-based
compliance software firm, to take their proprietary
compliance software tools and develop a cost
effective, web-based application. The Baldwin
Aviation offering is an innovative shared
services program that enables smaller flight
departments to enhance and monitor their safety
culture while simplifying conformity to industry
best practices. |
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| “Our offering was very well received,”
said Baldwin. “We were a little bit
surprised by the overwhelming positive response
and it certainly gives us a level of confirmation
that the small flight departments are a ripe
market for our shared services offering.” |
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| Luke White, CEO of Clear Compliance™
beamed “we are very excited about the
way Don and his team customized our software
tools to suit their target market within the
aviation industry. Our software is designed
to help organizations manage rapidly changing
regulatory environments in a streamlined,
more cost effective manner. Don is quite a
visionary. He fully recognized the potential
of combining his expertise with our technology,
to create a high quality, web-based offering
that we feel strongly will provide a sustainable
competitive advantage in the aviation compliance
market.” |
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Baldwin Aviation (www.baldwinaviation.com)
provides the resources and services to companies
and individuals operating small flight departments
thereby enabling them to operate on a level
equal to Fortune 100 flight departments. Safety
is the primary focus. Through efficient sharing
of common resources, the Baldwin Aviation
program affords clients the recognition of
conforming to IS-BAO and ICAO standards and
practices. By raising the bar in small flight
departments, they give clients the security
they need to navigate an increasingly complex
operating environment.
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| ATLANTA, Georgia, November
7, 2005 — Clear Compliance, Inc.,
an Atlanta-based provider of enterprise compliance
management solutions, announced today that it’s
Director of Governance and Compliance, Ms. Deidra
DenDanto, has been invited as a guest speaker to
the 36th RIAS meeting (Representatives of Internal
Audit Services of the United Nations Organizations
and Multilateral Financial Institutions). The event
is being hosted by the European Investment Bank
in Luxembourg on November 9th, 10th and 11th, 2005.
Ms. DenDanto will represent the Independent Inquiry
Committee who recently released their final report
on the Oil for Food Investigation, which included
implications for oversight in the United Nations.
DenDanto’s presentation will include a general
update of the Committee’s final report, lessons
learned for oversight within specific United Nation
Agencies and the spirit of governance in the age
of Sarbanes-Oxley. |
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| Ms. DenDanto has expert knowledge of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act having provided delivery and advisory services
in all phases of company compliance, developing
and implementing turnkey solutions supporting compliance
for public companies. DenDanto most recently completed
the “Oil-for-Food” investigation as
a member of Paul Volcker’s Independent Inquiry
Committee (IIC), where she focused her efforts on
the United Nations internal and external oversight
areas. “It’s no surprise they invited
Deidra to speak at this event. She has a rare combination
of experience and skills in the realm of governance,
fiduciary responsibility and organizational oversight,”
said Luke White, CEO of Clear Compliance, Inc. “We
feel strongly that many of the ”best practices”
Deidra employs to efficiently address Sarbanes-Oxley
compliance may be rationally extrapolated to facilitate
transparency and enterprise compliance at non-profit
organizations and governmental entities”,
added White. |
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| MARIETTA, GA, October 31,
2005 — Clear Compliance, Inc., the
Atlanta-based provider of enterprise compliance
management solutions, today announced that Sarbanes-Oxley
and corporate governance expert Ms. Deidra DenDanto
has joined the company as Director of Compliance.
Ms. DenDanto is responsible for ensuring all of
the company’s software applications and service
offerings are of the highest quality and reflect
compliance best practices and her own, proven compliance
methodologies. |
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| DenDanto most recently completed the “Oil-for-Food”
investigation as a member of the Volcker Independent
Inquiry Committee, where she focused her efforts
on the United Nations internal and external oversight
areas. Ms. DenDanto has over fifteen years of audit
experience and has worked for Arthur Andersen, Sunbeam
Corporation and Ernst & Young as an external
or internal auditor. In addition, Ms. DenDanto was
a founder and President of 180Commerce Inc., an
Atlanta born software company. Ms. DenDanto has
expert knowledge of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act having
provided delivery and advisory services in all phases
of company compliance, developing and implementing
turnkey solutions supporting compliance for public
companies including Russell Corporation, Take Two
Interactive, ICF Communications, Knology Inc., NDCHealth,
National Vision, RPC Inc. and Theragenics Corporation. |
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| "We are excited to have Deidra join our team
and look forward to integrating her skills and experience
into our offerings”, said Luke White, President
of Clear Compliance, Inc. “With her deep understanding
of corporate governance and her experience running
a software company we expect to further distinguish
our compliance applications and services and gain
market share. I am confident she will take Clear
Compliance™ to new levels,” he added. |
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| ATLANTA, GA, August 17, 2005
— Clear Compliance, Inc., the
Atlanta based provider of enterprise compliance
management solutions, announced today that
it has signed an agreement with Baldwin Aviation,
Inc. to customize its enterprise compliance
management application, Clear Compliance™.
Under terms of the agreement, Clear Compliance™
will develop an interface to their core compliance
engine that is highly specific to suit Baldwin
Aviation’s compliance niche. The finished
product will provide many unique services
to Baldwin Aviation clients and deliver these
services via a web based application. Don
Baldwin, President & CEO of Baldwin Aviation
said he selected Clear Compliance™ because
“their software has robust functionality
that other software vendors could not demonstrate”
and because “I felt our aviation consultancy
could grow in many different directions from
the core Clear Compliance™ application
and respond quickly depending upon what our
clients desired and the market demanded.” |
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| The agreement between Clear Compliance™
and Baldwin Aviation is the first where Clear
Compliance™ licenses its software, provides
support and maintenance and provides customization
services for a specific compliance niche.
“We are firmly committed to providing
a platform for Baldwin Aviation that will
give them a clear and sustainable competitive
advantage in the market place,” said
Luke White, CEO of Clear Compliance™.
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About Baldwin Aviation (www.baldwinaviation.com)
Baldwin Aviation provides the resources and
services to companies and individuals operating
small flight departments thereby enabling
them to operate on a level equal to Fortune
100 flight departments.
Safety is our primary focus. Through efficient
sharing of common resources, the Baldwin Aviation
program affords our clients the recognition
of conforming to IS-BAO and ICAO standards
and practices. By raising the bar in small
flight departments, we give our clients the
security they need to navigate an increasingly
complex operating environment. |
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By JUDITH BURNS and SIOBHAN HUGHES
February
10, 2005 3:59 p.m.
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES |
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| WASHINGTON -- Securities and
Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson is
pressing ahead on reforming rules for U.S. stock
markets while going back to the drawing board on
another controversial proposal that would give shareholders
more input on naming corporate directors. "We're
getting pretty close to putting out a rule,"
to overhaul U.S. markets, Donaldson said in an interview
Thursday with Dow Jones Newswires. He said he would
like the SEC to vote on the matter sooner rather
than later, calling action "long overdue." |
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| While the SEC is coming to a consensus on market
reforms, it has failed to so with a plan to make
it easier for shareholders to nominate corporate
directors using the company's own proxy ballots. |
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| Donaldson said the SEC's original
plan to empower shareholders was "kind of Rube
Goldberg" in its approach. |
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| "It doesn't fly - it's too complicated,"
he acknowledged. |
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| The SEC chief isn't abandoning hope,
though. |
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| "It's not off my docket, I believe we need
to do something," he stressed. Donaldson said
he'd like the SEC to start over with "wholly
new thoughts" on how to tackle the subject. |
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| Market reforms have been contentious
as well. The SEC floated a revised plan last year
that would extend price protections that now apply
to exchange-listed stocks to the Nasdaq Stock Market
and other electronic trading venues, and asked whether
protections should limited to the best displayed
prices, or extended deeper into the book of trade
orders. |
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| The New York Stock Exchange, once headed by Donaldson,
opposes the "depth of book" approach,
saying it would not work on the exchange. |
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| Donaldson indicated the depth of book approach
might be too close to creating a central limit order
book, which could hinder competition and innovations
such as electronic trading. But he said price protections
afforded by the so-called trade-through rule that
now applies only to exchange-listed stocks should
be extended to the Nasdaq Stock Market and other
computerized markets. |
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| "In all the electronic markets, it's essential
to protect the best bid and offer," he declared.
"I think treating both markets the same is
part and parcel of what we should be doing." |
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| Donaldson, who arrived at the SEC almost two years
ago, said the agency has made progress on many fronts,
including rules to bring hedge fund advisors under
SEC oversight and to increase independence on mutual
fund boards. Amid complaints about stiff penalties
levied on wrongdoers, Donaldson said that the SEC
would not back down. |
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| "We're not in any way going to back off on
the enforcement side of things," he stated.
Fellow Republican commissioners have clashed with
the SEC chief over fines and new regulations even
after rules have been finalized, and Donaldson said
"it's kind of too bad" that people are
"still fighting the fight out there,"
suggesting that may be "the product of the
kind of political environment that we're all in." |
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| The SEC chief said the agency is still working
on rules to provide for greater disclosure of executive
pay, including criteria that corporate boards use
to set that pay. Although new rules won't be ready
in time to be disclosed in this year's proxy filings,
he hopes regulations will be finalized in time for
next year's proxy season. |
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| Donaldson also said the SEC remains committed
to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires companies
to provide an annual assessment of internal controls
over financial reporting, but thinks it makes sense
to review compliance procedures now that the SEC
has had time to learn about the work involved. |
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| "Don't get the idea we're backing off on
internal controls," he said. |
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| Donaldson avoided direct comment about an SEC
staff decision this week allowing three companies
- Halliburton Corp. (HAL), Qwest Communications
International Inc. (Q) and Verizon Communications
Inc. (VZ) - to exclude shareholders from voting
on resolutions sponsored by large investors, saying
he might have to hear appeals of the matter. Still,
"you can assume I have a lot of confidence
in what the staff is doing." |
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| On controversial votes, Donaldson often has sided
with the two Democrats on the five-member SEC, Harvey
Goldschmid and Roel Campos. Goldschmid's term has
expired and he has announced he will return to teaching
at Columbia University Law School this fall. |
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| "I hope that there will be a replacement
when Harvey retires sooner rather than later, but
I don't know who it's going to be," said Donaldson.
"It's going to be a White House decision." |
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| Campos's term expires in June, raising the prospect
that the Bush administration could replace two Democrats
at once. Donaldson said he has "a very high
regard" for Campos, but noted the appointment
process is up to White House. |
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| Donaldson welcomed the Bush administration's efforts
on Social Security reform, calling it "a courageous
attempt" to tackle a subject long seen as the
"third rail" of American politics. But,
he said he doesn't think the SEC will jump into
the fray. |
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| "As far as the debate, I want to stay out
of that except to say that I think it's a healthy
undertaking," he commented. |
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| - By Judith Burns, Dow Jones Newswires, 202-862-6692;
Judith.Burns@dowjones.com |
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| - and Siobhan Hughes, Dow Jones Newswires, 202-862-6654;
siobhan.hughes@dowjones.com |
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| Clear Compliance, Inc. is an Atlanta-based
provider of enterprise compliance management solutions
that helps corporations manage governance and compliance
issues through an enterprise wide solution, Clear
Compliance™ ECM. Clear Compliance™ ECM
is a secure, web-based application that intelligently
organizes and analyzes compliance data using Clear
Mapping™ technology to align a corporation’s
policies to regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
Additionally, Clear Compliance™ provides a
snap shot view of compliance exposure for an entire
organization via its centralized data repository
and customized reporting engine. Clear Compliance, Inc. is a subsidiary of BTG Enterprises. Learn more
about Clear Compliance, Inc. at www.clearcompliance.com. |
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| BTG Enterprises is a full service IT Solutions
firm headquartered in Atlanta with an additional
office in Chicago through their subsidiary
company, Braxton-Reed. Founded in 1990 by
a group of midrange computer consultants passionate
about solving their client’s problems
– on time and on budget, BTG continues
to offer services and products to meet their
customer’s needs by focusing on IT consulting,
rapid application development, web services
and regulatory compliance via the Clear Compliance™
product. BTG Enterprises is a certified woman-owned
business. Learn more about BTG Enterprises
by visiting their web site at www.btgenterprises.com. |
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