Three Reasons to Connect with Vertikal at CAPPO

We’re excited to announce that Vertikal will be attending the at the CAPPO conference in Pasadena, California on January 30–February 1, 2022.

CAPPO’s annual Conference and Supplier Exposition will feature Vertikal’s CEO Joe Sforzo, Sr. as a speaker as well as our Vice President of Sales, Allison Shearer.

Here is a list of incentives for you to stop by:

1. Attend one breakout sessions led by CEO Joe Sforzo, Sr. of Vertikal.

Joe Sforzo Sr is the founder and CEO of Vertikal and implanted many of the core values of the company that remain today. Creating an environment for the most talented staff, Vertikal is now recognized as an industry innovator and continues to push the value delivery of its systems and services.

In 1999, Mr. Sforzo developed a patented web-based secure process for executing surety bonds, Surety2000, which is used on a daily basis by virtually every major firm in the industry, including both brokerages and sureties. Within the business plan for Surety2000 was CertFocus, which is now the world's leading Certificate of Insurance management and vendor compliance improvement system. Joe is a graduate of Hofstra University holding a BBA in Finance.

The Vertikal team is speaking at the following session:

• January 31 at 2:45 pm: Certificate of Insurance Compliance – located in Ballroom B

2. Chat with Vice President of Sales Allison Shearer.

Allison is an experienced sales executive with documented successes in the certificate of insurance management, third party prequalification services and business process automation disciplines. She has a solution-oriented approach to understanding and resolving the challenges related to certificate management, insurance compliance, and third-party relationships across multiple industries. Her consultative and collaborative approach has continually turned new client relationships into long-term partnerships. She has worked in the vendor compliance management industry for over 14 years. Allison is a native Californian with a BA in education from the University of Southern California where she was a member of the women’s soccer team.

3. Learn more about CertFocus.

Tracking the Certificate of Insurance (COI) for an entire network of vendors, suppliers and third-party contractors is a tremendous burden on financial, time and resources. If you’re using more than one platform or system to access all the services your company needs from your certificate of insurance management software to verify COI compliance, CertFocus has the performance you need and the features you want.

One powerful platform provides a customized approach that enables greater efficiencies, results and value when it comes to monitoring and managing COI and related documents for contractors and subcontractors across the entire supply chain in any industry. Easily integrate CertFocus data with your critical business systems. Our dynamic COI tracking software leverages optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning (ML) technologies to organize, simplify and monitor vendor COI tracking and compliance.

Now even more user-friendly, CertFocus enables users to build custom reports and personalized dashboards, easily view coverage status and compliance details. Our new drag-and-drop feature facilitates easy uploads. Vertikal backs it all with premium support from certified industry experts.

We look forward to connecting with you!