GRC Summit 2015

Speakers

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Roger Bootle

Roger Bootle

Economist & Author




Lee Bradley

Lee Bradley

Chief Risk Officer
Thomas Cook

Dr. Bertrand Hassani

Dr. Bertrand Hassani

Group Head Of AAA Risk Methodology,
Santander



Nicholas Carter

Nicholas Carter

Head of Internal Audit, Colt Technology

Rob Halstead

Rob Halstead

Head of Risk Management,
Cross Rail



Michaela Ahlberg

Michaela Ahlberg

Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer
TeliaSonera

Alistair Craig

Alistair Craig

Head of Internal Audit,
Morgan Sindall plc



Michael Rasmussen

Michael Rasmussen

Chief GRC Pundit,
GRC 20/20 Research

Rory Conway

Rory Conway

Head of Compliance,
Metlife Western & Central Europe



Umar Zaman

Umar Zaman

Chief Administrative Officer - Global Risk and Control ,
AXA Investment Managers

Group Risk & Compliance Director - Vodafone

Cees Klumper

Chief Risk Officer
The Global Fund



Alex McDonald, SNIA Europe Board of Directors, NetApp

Alex McDonald

SNIA Europe Board of Directors
NetApp

Peyman Mestchian

Peyman Mestchian

Managing Partner,
Chartis



Umar Zaman

Mike Taylor

Head of Global Internal Audit
Experian plc

Jacqueline Barrett

Jacqueline Barrett

Group Risk & Compliance Director
Vodafone



Peter Armstrong

Peter Armstrong

Executive Director - Cyber, Willis Group

Charles Cai

Charles Cai

Head of Data Science Technology,
Leading Oil and Gas Trading Company


Eddy Ngoy

Eddy Ngoy

Group IT Process Lead
Mercuria

Silvio de Girolamo

Silvio de Girolamo

Chief Audit and Sustainability Executive
Autogrill


Ralph Zwierzina, CISO GBS&Corporate Centre, Deutsche Post World Net

Ralph Zwierzina

CISO GBS&Corporate Centre, Deutsche Post World Net

Pritesh Dattani

Pritesh Dattani

Thomas Cook,
Group Head of Internal Audit


Caroline AGLETINER

Caroline AGLETINER

AML Project Manager, Sr.Compliance Officer, Retail Banking France and International, Société Générale

David Herbinet

David Herbinet

Global Head of Audit, Mazars



Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

Director, CERT – UK


Renaud Di Francesco

Renaud Di Francesco

Director Europe Technology Standards, SONY


kenneth wainwright

John Joyce

Head of Enterprise Risk Management
ACMA SIRM

Dr. Gerhard Knecht

Dr. Gerhard Knecht

Global Head of Information Security Services, Unisys


Terence Greer-Kin

Terence Greer-King

Director, Cyber Security
Cisco

Renee Murphy

Renee Murphy

Senior Analyst,
Forrester Research


kenneth wainwright

Richard Flood

Managing Director – Head of Operational Risk, EMEA. StateStreet

kenneth wainwright

Kenneth Wainwright

Head of Operational Risk Management Audit, Citi


Alan Rodgers

Alan Rodgers

Senior Analyst,
Ovum

Mark Everard

Mark Everard

Global Head, Regulatory Affairs Risk Assessment, HSBC London



George Soulellis

George Soulellis

Managing Director, Decision Management, Barclays UK & Western Europe Retail Banking

Isabel Smith

Isabel Smith

Director of Internal Audit and eGRC Program, Johnson & Johnson



Peter Cox,  Director, Internal Audit, Barclays

Peter Cox

Director, Internal Audit, Barclays

David Ragan

David Ragan

Director of Risk Management & Compliance, Steamship Insurance Management Services


Thorsten Eidmann

Thorsten Eidmann (CISSP)

Information Security Officer
Styrolution Group GmbH

Bruce Mann

Bruce Mann

Executive Director of the Government Property Unit


Herman-Bulls

Lowell C. McAdam
Chairman & CEO, Verizon

Lowell C. McAdam is chairman and chief executive officer of Verizon Communications, with responsibility for the operations of Verizon, including all business units and staff functions. In addition, he is chairman of the Verizon Wireless Board of Representatives.

McAdam succeeded Ivan Seidenberg as CEO on Aug. 1, 2011 and as chairman on Jan. 1, 2012.


From October 2010 until he assumed his current position, McAdam served as president and COO and had responsibility for the operations of the company's network-based businesses -- Verizon Wireless and Verizon Telecom and Business - as well as Verizon Services Operations. He was also responsible for the technology management and CIO functions.

Before that, McAdam held key executive positions at Verizon Wireless since its inception in 2000 and built the company into the industry's leading wireless provider, with the nation's largest, most reliable wireless voice and 3G broadband data network. He was president and CEO of Verizon Wireless from 2007 until being named COO of Verizon, and before that served as Verizon Wireless' executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Earlier, McAdam was president and CEO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, a joint venture owned by Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch. He also served as PrimeCo's chief operating officer, responsible for overseeing the deployment of the new company's customer service operations and all-digital network.

McAdam has also served as vice president-international operations for AirTouch Communications and was lead technical partner for cellular ventures in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Korea and Japan. McAdam joined AirTouch as executive director of international applications and operations in 1993. From 1983 to 1993, he held various executive positions with Pacific Bell, including area vice president of Bay Area marketing and general manager of South Bay customer services.

McAdam is past chairman of the board of directors of the CTIA, the wireless industry trade association. He is a director of the National Academy Foundation, a partnership between business leaders and educators that helps high schools across the country establish and run technical and service academies to prepare students for college and careers. He is also co-chair of the CEO Council on Health and Innovation, which encourages the adoption of innovative strategies to improve employee health and the delivery of higher-quality, more cost-effective healthcare. In addition, he is a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.

He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell and a master's degree in business administration from the University of San Diego. He also spent six years in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps and became a licensed professional engineer in 1979.
Herman-Bulls

Herman Bulls
Chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle's Public Institutions
Board Director at USAA, Comfort Systems USA, and Exelis

Current responsibilities
Mr. Bulls is an International Director and the founder and Chairman of JLL's highly acclaimed Public Institutions business unit, which specializes in delivering comprehensive real estate solutions to federal, state and local governments, economic development and nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions. As a member of the Solutions Development team, he also works with the firm's largest corporate clients to devise and implement integrated real estate strategies to lower occupancy costs and increase productivity. Additionally he reviews merger and acquisition opportunities for all services provided by JLL.


Previous experience
During more than 25 years at JLL, Mr. Bulls has worked in the areas of development, investment management, asset management, facilities operations and business development / retention. He has developed relationships with many of the firm's leading public clients, including the General Services Administration, Department of the Army, Department of State, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Ohio State University, Georgia Tech, Port of Oakland and State of Tennessee. Other key client relationships include Kaiser Permanente and AARP. In each situation he provides thought leadership and strategic guidance to senior level executives for real estate issues. Mr. Bulls has also served as an expert witness on real estate matters in court as well as testified before Congressional committees on real estate issues.

Mr. Bulls co-founded and served as President and CEO of Bulls Capital Partners, a multi-family financing company under the Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing (DUS) program. His partners successively included SunTrust and Goldman Sachs. He sold the firm in 2010 and continues to have a non-executive interest in the successor firm. Additionally, he founded Bulls Advisory Group, LCC, a management and real estate advisory firm.

Prior to joining JLL, Mr. Bulls completed almost 12 years of active duty service with the United States Army. His last active duty assignments were working in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management at the Pentagon and as an Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance at West Point. He has completed the Army's Airborne, Ranger and Command and General Staff College courses and served overseas in the Republic of Korea. He retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves in 2008.

Education and affiliations
Mr. Bulls earned an MBA in finance from Harvard Business School and a BS degree in engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, an organization of senior African American business executives from Fortune 500 companies, Leadership Washington and the Real Estate Executive Council (REEC). Mr. Bulls is a founding member and served as the inaugural President of the African American Real Estate Professionals (AAREP) of Washington, D.C.
Linda Parker Hudson

Linda Parker Hudson
Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Cardea Group, former President and CEO of BAE Systems
Board Director at Bank of America and Southern Company

Linda Parker Hudson is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Cardea Group, a consultancy specializing in C-Suite transitions, organizational transformations and adaptive strategies. She retired as president and CEO of BAE Systems, Inc. on January 31, 2014. She led a global, U.S.-based defense, aerospace, and security company, wholly owned by London-based BAE Systems plc, with approximately 40,000 employees and $12.75 billion in annual revenue.


Hudson served as an executive director on the BAE Systems, Inc. and BAE Systems plc board of directors. She continues to serve as an outside director on the BAE Systems, Inc. board of directors.

Prior to becoming CEO, Hudson was president of BAE Systems' Land & Armaments operating group, the world's largest military vehicle and equipment business, with operations around the world. Before joining BAE Systems, she served for seven years as an officer and vice president of the General Dynamics Corporation and was president of General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products.

Hudson held a variety of senior management positions in engineering, production operations, program management, and business development during a period of significant consolidation in the defense industry. Beginning her career with the Harris Corporation and Ford Aerospace, she led organizations at Martin Marietta through the Lockheed Martin merger and a subsequent divestiture to General Dynamics.

Selected to receive the USO's 2011 Woman of the Year Distinguished Service Award, Hudson has received numerous accolades and recognitions for her professional accomplishments and philanthropic activities. Recognized as an innovative leader and trailblazer, she has been featured in numerous periodicals such as the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Forbes. The London Sunday Times proclaimed her "the first lady of defense."

Hudson is a director on the boards of the Bank of America and Southern Company. She currently serves on the non-profit boards of the University of Florida Foundation and Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank. She is a member of the International Women's Forum and C200, the premier global organization of women business leaders. Hudson received C200's 2011 Luminary Award for Corporate Innovation. She has been cited as one of Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and one of Washingtonian Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in Washington. Washington Business Journal has named her one of its Power 100 and one of the Most Admired CEOs. She was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame in December 2013. Hudson received the 2013 Association of the US Army's Dixon award for her industry leadership and contribution to national security.

A graduate of the University of Florida, Hudson received her bachelor's degree in systems engineering with honors. She remains active in the alumni and athletic associations and serves on advisory boards for the College of Engineering. Honored as a Distinguished Alumnus, she is a member of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Hall of Fame. She holds an honorary doctorate in engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has been selected to receive an honorary doctorate in science from the University of Florida in December 2014.
Margery Kraus

Margery Kraus
Founder and CEO, APCO Worldwide

Margery Kraus, founder and chief executive officer of APCO Worldwide, a global consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializes in public affairs, communication and business consulting for major multinationals. Ms. Kraus founded APCO in 1984 and transformed it from a company with one small Washington office to a multinational consulting firm in major cities throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In September 2004, Ms. Kraus led a management buy-out of her firm, making APCO one of the largest privately owned communication and public affairs firms in the world.


Throughout the years, her approach has been to fuse the best local experience with a global perspective, resulting in an international agency with a unique culture based on seamless teamwork. Ms. Kraus' achievements have been recognized over the years through a number of prestigious awards, including the PRWeek Hall of Fame (2014); U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress Corporate Statesmanship Award (2013); Volunteers of America (Greater New York) Spirit of the Founders (2012); the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations' Agency Mentorship (2012); Global Thinkers Forum Excellence in Leadership (2012); Arthur W. Page Society's Hall of Fame (2011); Institute for Public Relations' Alexander Hamilton Medal for lifetime contributions to professional public relations (2010); Washington Business Hall of Fame (2009); Enterprising Women Hall of Fame (2009); Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in the services category in Greater Washington (2006); Washington PR Woman of the Year (2006); and PR News Lifetime Achievement (2005). Ms. Kraus specializes in providing strategic counsel on issue-based communication, crisis management, market entry and corporate reputation across diverse industry groups. The range of her experience is reflected in APCO's industry practice groups. In addition, she pioneered one of the industry's earliest practices in corporate responsibility and the development of public/private partnerships.

Prior to starting APCO, Ms. Kraus assisted in the creation and development of the Close Up Foundation, a multi-million-dollar educational foundation sponsored in part by the United States Congress. Ms. Kraus continues to be involved with the foundation by serving on its board of directors.

Ms. Kraus is active on other institutional and corporate boards and committees. She is chairman of the board of the Women Presidents' Organization and a trustee of Northwestern Mutual Life, the Arthur W. Page Society, the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation and the Institute for Public Relations. Ms. Kraus is also on the advisory board of Enterprising Women magazine and is a past chairman of the Public Affairs Council and the board of directors of the Council of Public Relations Firms.

In addition, she serves as a trustee of American University and sits on the advisory board of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as the steering committee of the school's Center for Executive Women.

Ms. Kraus is the author of numerous articles in the fields of public affairs management and corporate reputation and has been a guest lecturer throughout the world. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in political science and public law from the American University.

John J. Brown - Group Managing Director, UBS Financial Services Inc

John J. Brown
Group Managing Director, UBS Financial Services Inc

John is a Group Managing Director of Wealth Management Americas (WMA) and Head of its Middle Markets Division & WMA/IB Securities Partnerships. John is also a member of WMA's Executive & Operating Committees.


Community involvement/Board mandates
The Executive Sponsor of the UBS Veterans Network, John holds prominent positions in a number of non-profit organizations, including: Chairman of the Board of No Greater Sacrifice. NGS is dedicated to children of our nation's fallen and wounded Service members by delivering scholarships and resources to improve their quality of life through the pursuit of higher education. John plays a strategic role in Veteran's Initiative programs for UBS, representing the Firm internally and with outside philanthropic and government organizations to promote the employment of Veterans within our industry and their re-entry in to civilian life. John is Chairman of the Capital Campaign, St. Francis Preparatory School in New York; and Board of Advisors, Mercy College, New York.

John joined UBS in 2009 as Head of Wealth Management Solutions. He has greatly enhanced WMA's open architecture platforms to include options from both inside and outside the firm, giving clients access to the best solutions-not just UBS's solutions. John's team has delivered clients a broader scope of investment choices-in alternative investments, structured products, annuities and insurance-in addition to tailor-made solutions. Smarter execution strategies are now literally at the fingertips of UBS Financial Advisors. The structured products group recently introduced a desktop tool available exclusively to Advisors, which gives them immediate access to structured products trading so they can quickly move on market opportunities.

Before UBS
Prior to joining UBS, John had a lengthy career at Merrill Lynch, from 1980-1995 and 2001-2009. During these periods, he held a variety of leadership positions throughout the firm, including: Global Convertible Securities Product Group (and a similar role at UBS Securities LLC, from 1995 to 1999); Chief Operating Officer of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer; Head of Institutional Operations in the Americas; CEO of Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp.; and Head of Global Securities Lending & Equity Financing. As Head of Global Markets & Investment Banking Services, Americas, he managed all institutional operations in the Americas. From 2001 to 2007, his responsibilities included the prime brokerage and swaps business, which during that time saw an increase in assets from $75 billion to $200 billion.
Doug Webster - President, Cambio Consulting Group

Douglas Webster
Former CFO, US Department of Labor and Board member and Chairman of the Enterprise Risk Committee, Pentagon Federal Credit Union

Dr. Doug Webster served a 21 year career as a US Air Force officer, after which he entered management consulting providing advisory services to federal agencies. In 2004 he temporarily reentered the federal government to serve with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, as the Principal Finance Advisor to the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation.

In this capacity, he functioned as the de facto CFO for a ministry of nearly 40,000 persons. In 2007, Dr. Webster was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Labor. In this capacity, he provided financial leadership to a department with a budget exceeding $54 billion. After leaving the Department of Labor at the end of the prior administration, he served as the Deputy Director of the DoD Business Transformation Agency. He currently serves as the founder and president of the Cambio Consulting Group, an organization focused on helping federal agencies improve stakeholder value through strategic planning, cost management, performance management, enterprise risk management, and organizational change management.

Dr. Webster also led the founding of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management, and the establishment of the annual Federal Enterprise Risk Management Summits beginning in 2008. He serves on the Board of Directors of Pentagon Federal Credit Union, an $18B financial services organization with over 1.2 million members, chairs the board risk committee, and serves on the real estate, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisitions committees. He also serves on the board of the PenFed Foundation, a 501(c)e charity focused on helping veterans and their families. He has a BS in Engineering, a MS in Systems Management, and a Doctorate in Business Administration. He is a co-author of the books Activity Based Costing and Performance (AMS, 1994), Chasing Change: Building Organizational Capacity in a Turbulent Environment (Wiley and Sons, 2009), and Managing Risk and Performance: A Guide for Government Decision Makers (Wiley and Sons, 2014).
Rini Fredette, SVP & Enterprise Risk Officer, PSCU

Rini Fredette
SVP & Enterprise Risk Officer, PSCU

As SVP and Enterprise Risk Officer, Rini Fredette provides the overall leadership, vision and direction for assessing, analyzing and holistically managing risk across PSCU's organization. Fredette leads the company's initiatives to develop processes that effectively manage risk within PSCU's tolerance thresholds and tightly align with PSCU's strategic objectives.


Fredette's primary responsibilities include strategic risk, enterprise risk management, internal audit, compliance governance, business continuity and disaster recovery, and incident handling/investigations.

Fredette has an extensive and successful background in managing security and risk and leading high-performing teams. Prior, Fredette served as senior manager of information security, where she led numerous enterprise-wide initiatives to strengthen the company's competitive and security position in the financial services industry.

Fredette served as director of IT security, compliance and auditing for Teleperformance Inc. and managed eight global security teams across disciplines.

Fredette received her M.S. in management information systems and B.A. in psychology from the University of South Florida. Fredette has earned several industry certifications, including CISM, CISA, CRISC and ITIL. Fredette has served as the president of the Tampa Bay Chapter of ISSA and has been a member of the board since 2008. Additionally, Fredette is a member of several other industry organizations.
Akira Ebisawa, VP, Internal Audit Department - Sompo Japan Nipponkoa America

Akira Ebisawa
VP, Internal Audit Department
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa America

Akira Ebisawa is a Vice President at Sompo Japan Nipponkoa America. Akira heads the internal audits department which conducts assurance activities on Compliance, Internal Control, Financial reporting and IT Governance. Akira is also a part of the company's Risk management committee which provides oversight for the ERM framework development.


Akira Graduated from Keele University in Newcastle under Lyme U.K. with a BA in Economics, Politics & Philosophy.

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Inez M. Tenenbaum - Attorney at Law, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Inez Tenenbaum
Attorney at Law
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Inez Tenenbaum is a partner in the Columbia, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C. offices of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. She practices with the Firm's Consumer Product Safety, Risk Prevention, and Regulatory Practice Group, where she advises clients on matters involving the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and other regulatory bodies, including product testing and certification, compliance programs, risk assessment and management, regulatory oversight, product reporting and recalls, and litigation. Ms. Tenenbaum also provides consulting services on education public policy to national and regional organizations.


Ms. Tenenbaum was appointed by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009, as Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and served until November 30, 2013. Tenenbaum established a leadership philosophy aimed at making the agency more accessible and transparent; making education and advocacy a priority; and being firm, but fair in enforcing product safety laws.


During her tenure, she fulfilled a key promise to the Congress and consumers by working closely with agency staff and industry and consumer stakeholders to complete all the major safety rules required by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), a law that reformed and empowered the CPSC. In implementing the Act, Ms. Tenenbaum advocated and the Commission supported


Prior to becoming Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Ms. Tenenbaum served as South Carolina's State Superintendent of Education from 1999-2007. During her tenure as State Superintendent, student achievement in South Carolina improved at the fastest rate in the nation, with scores increasing on every state, national, and international tests administered. At the end of Ms. Tenenbaum's tenure, the prestigious journal Education Week ranked South Carolina number one in the country for the quality of its academic standards, assessment, and accountability systems.

Tony Bailey

Tony Bailey
SVP, Corporate Strategic Procurement Officer
Umpqua Bank

Bringing eleven years of program design and implementation across multiple Corporate Products and Services sub-categories including Temporary Labor, Engineering Services, Recruiting, Consulting, IT/Telecom, Professional Services, Marketing, and HR Services for Umpqua Bank.


Tony provides consulting and industry experience in organizational development, procurement transformation, spend analytics, category management, strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, supplier management, supply chain performance and third party risk management.

Throughout his career, Tony has delivered wide-ranging category management and sourcing leadership across traditional and auction platforms, that have resulted in value delivery, sustainable results and improved supply chain resilience.

Malcolm Tarbitt
Executive Director Safety & Security, International Centre for Sport Security

Malcolm has over 30 years experience in major sporting events, law enforcement and security.

Major Sport Event Management He is a major sport event security management specialist. As a former senior police officer and member of major sporting event organising committees, he has a holistic understanding of safety and security requirements. He has played a key role in a range of major international sporting events which include:



Security Design of Sport Facilities
In addition Malcolm has also led the security design and security peer review of various sport facilities for National Olympic Committees, FIFA World Cup Organising Committees and world renowned football clubs.

Safety and Security Assessments
Malcolm has performed a variety of safety and security assessments for major sporting events in a variety of countries, sports and events ranging from Summer- and Winter Olympics to FIFA World Cups and others, which has assisted in keeping abreast of new technologies and practices.

Current Role
In his current role at the ICSS, he is responsible for the strategic positioning and management of the Safety and Security Directorate and the delivery of sport safety and security related advisory services for major sporting events, sport organisations and sport facilities on a global basis.

Teri L. Toth

Teri L. Toth
Director, Quality Operations, U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)

Ms. Toth has 25-plus years experience in leadership roles in Quality Systems and Regulatory Affairs. At USP she leads the Operational aspect of the Quality Management System. Prior to joining USP, she worked at Cylex Inc., Maxcyte Inc., Qiagen, Dexall Biomedical and KPL Inc., where she directed the development and implementation of Quality Management Systems for Medical Devices, Veterinary and Human Diagnostics (IVDs) and biotech products. Her experience includes managing FDA registration/clearance, USDA licensing and certification to ISO 9001 and 13485. She attended Bridgewater College where she studied General Science and is an ASQ certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence and has been certified as a Lead Auditor for ISO 9001.

Kathlyn L. Farrell - CRCM, CAMS, AMLP, Managing Director, Treliant Risk Advisors

Kathlyn L. Farrell
Managing Director, Treliant Risk Advisors

Lyn Farrell has worked in the field of Regulatory Compliance for financial institutions for over 30 years. She is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas and has functioned as in-house counsel and compliance officer to medium and large financial institutions. She has been in the field of consulting for the past 15 years and was previously the Managing Director of Risk Management Services for Sheshunoff Consulting + Solutions; an Austin, Texas-based financial services consulting company that provides services globally. At Sheshunoff she had oversight responsibility for the regulatory compliance, internal audit and loan review practices.

These practices included more than 60 risk management professionals. Her experience includes all areas of regulatory compliance, BSA/AML work, handling lending and real estate transactions, managing loans in litigation and bankruptcy, supervising enforcement action compliance and drafting and negotiating contracts.

Lyn is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and an Anti-Money Laundering Professional.

She is a frequent speaker at banking events and regularly publishes articles on a variety of banking-related topics. Her publications include:



Lyn is the recipient of the ABA 2012 Distinguished Service Award. She received her law degree from the University of Houston Law Center and her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.

Mark L Adams

Mark L Adams
CFE, CPA, Director of Internal Audit, Trimble Navigation Limited

As the Director of Internal Audit, Mark provides overall global leadership and guidance for all Internal Audit functions including Sarbanes Oxley Section 404. Mark teams with the external auditor, Audit Committee, CFO, and VP of Finance to actively manage Trimble's risk and control profile.

In addition, Mark plays a key role in recommending and overseeing improvements to the organization's financial processes, policies and system of internal controls for existing and newly acquired businesses.

Mark has as extensive and successful background ranging from his service in the U.S. Air Force to various accounting and finance roles.

Mark received his B.S. in accounting and finance from Wright State University, Dayton Ohio. Mark is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. Additionally, Mark is a member of several professional organizations.

Shari Breiten

Shari Breiten
Director of Operational Risk Principal Financial Group

Breiten joined the Principal Financial Group in 2012 to build the Enterprise Operational Risk Framework and Programs. In this role, Breiten is also responsible for the governance processes supporting business risk and the corporate risk insurance management function. Prior to her employment at The Principal®, she was vice president of Enterprise Risk Management at Wells Fargo where she directed the operational risk governance function for 12 consumer and wholesale business and shared service functions. During her 23 year tenure at Wells Fargo, she also held leadership positions in mergers & acquisitions, technology operations and branch management.

Breiten earned bachelor of arts degrees in Business Administration and Spanish from Wartburg College.

Mark Boileau
Global Trade Compliance Program Manager, W.W. Grainger, Inc.

Mark Boileau is the Global Trade Compliance Program Manager at W.W. Grainger, Inc. at the global corporate headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, where he has responsibility for export governance best demonstrated practices for all global business units.

Mark has held management positions spanning distribution, industrial, medical, aerospace, defense and high-tech technology industries. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a Juris Doctorate, and is a licensed attorney. He has been actively involved in trade compliance and exports for the past 12 years, and has had responsibilities for compliance application of various regulatory authorities. Additional responsibilities include participation in various merger and acquisition due diligence investigations, post-acquisition target business integrations, the institution of new trade compliance programs in other related businesses, and corporate third party risk assessment and monitoring.

Over his career, he worked and lived in Boston, LA, San Francisco, Denver, Baltimore, and has worked overseas in France and Sweden. He currently resides in the Chicago area.

A.E.Johnson
Security Consultant/Investigator, Independent Contractor

Ashley Johnson is a northern-Virginia based Independent Security Consultant and Investigator. Originally from Southeastern Michigan, Ashley holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Assurance from Eastern Michigan University. Her experience and education in the security studies has given her insight into not just the IT security space, but the physical and more traditional security spaces as well. Ashley formerly served as an IT Operations Security Administrator for an international corporation based in Illinois, and still serves as a Communications Director for a private security firm in Michigan, servicing entertainment venues that host NASCAR racing events, the Grand Prix, and music industry professionals.

Her passion for security, and her firm belief in a vertically integrated security model, has allowed Ashley to provide insight and guidance to members at all levels of industry and business; from the shop floor to the boardroom, she believes that everyone has a stake in security, and more importantly, she believes that open communication is key for making security work for her clients. This has allowed her to aid in compliance endeavors, legal matters, and more traditional tasks such as employee training and awareness.

Ashley is a licensed Private Investigator in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as a member of InfraGard, a partnership between the FBI and the Private sector, dedicated to sharing information and intelligence between its participants.

Deon Minnaar

Deon Minnaar
Partner, Americas GRC Lead, KPMG

Deon is a Partner in KPMG LLP's Risk Consulting practice. He is the Americas Leader for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) services. Deon is also the Americas representative on KPMG's GRC/ERM and Continuous Risk Assessment (CRA) steering committees and is instrumental in the development of KPMG's related methodology and deployment. In this capacity, Deon has assisted many organizations implement their risk management and broader GRC programs, including technology enablement. In addition, Deon is KPMG's delegate on the 21-member advisory group to update COSO's ERM Framework.

Zach Sokolski

Zach Sokolski
ERM Program Manager, Whitney Bank

Zach Sokolski has been a risk management professional in the financial services industry since 2005. Zach is the ERM Program Manager for Whitney Bank where his responsibilities include risk governance framework, GRC deployment, policy governance and risk methodology alignment throughout the organization. Zach leads Whitney Bank's participation in the ABA's Midsize ERM Peer Group and is a member of the Risk Management Association. Zach lives in New Orleans, LA, and graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 2005 with a BBA in Finance.

Kashif Latif

Kashif Latif
GRC Officer/Architect and Security Officer, Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)

Kashif Latif is the Global Security and GRC Officer working for FIS. He is currently running the GRC Strategic Roadmap program as well Security and GRC Architecture Program. He is a seasoned Information Security Officer, GRC Officer and Program Manager offering in-depth acumen in enterprise Security, Risk, Compliance, Governance and Architecture practices culled from over 18 years of experience spanning vital information security management, IT service management and GRC roles.

He has successfully Implemented security program based on modern security architecture principle like Innovation, Agile Architecture, Vendor Independence Products, Federated and Distributed Solutions supported by Agile Iterative Portfolio and Program Management approach using matrix organizations and supplemented by modern GRC tools. He recently received "The Face of GRC Industry Award" at GRC Summit 2014 for his contribution toward GRC industry specially for designing the first "Continuous Compliance solution" over Metric Stream GRC platform. He was also awarded "CISO of the Year" finalist by ECH Council in Sept 2014. Currently he is working with CIO-CISO Forum to prepare and present multiple case studies for Innovative and Agile Security and GRC solutions for CIO-CISO forums Summits for 2015-2016.

Michael Rasmussen, Chief GRC Pundit, GRC 20/20 Research

Michael Rasmussen
Chief GRC Pundit, GRC 20/20 Research

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) – with specific expertise on the topics of enterprise GRC, GRC technology, corporate compliance, and policy management. With 22+ years of experience, Michael helps organizations improve GRC processes, design and implement GRC architecture, and select technologies that are effective, efficient, and agile. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and advisor and is noted as the "Father of GRC" - being the first to define and model the GRC market in February 2002 while at Forrester.

Michael has contributed to U.S. Congressional reports and committees, and currently serves on the Leadership Council of the OCEG and chairs the OCEG Technology Council, OCEG Policy Management Group, and the OCEG GRC Architect Group.

Michael is quoted extensively in the press and is respected for his commentary on broadcast news channels. He is an Honorary Life Member in The Institute of Risk Management for his contributions to risk management and GRC. In June 2007, Treasury & Risk recognized Michael as one of the 100 most influential people in finance with specific accolades noting his work in "Governance and Compliance: Saving the Planet and the Corporation" and as a "Rising Star in Rocky Times: Corporate America’s Outstanding Executives."

Prior to founding GRC 20/20 Research, Michael was a Vice-President and ’Top Analyst’ at Forrester Research, Inc. Before Forrester, he led the risk/compliance consulting practice at a professional services firm, and prior to that has specific experience managing compliance and risk within commercial organizations.

Michael’s educational experience consists of a Juris Doctorate in law and a Bachelor of Science in Business. Michael is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with a research focus in ethics and church history. He is a GRCP (GRC Professional), CCEP (Certified Compliance and Ethic Professional), and a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). OCEG has recognized him as an OCEG Fellow for his contributions and advancement of GRC practices around the world.

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Christopher McClean, Principal Analyst, Research Director, Forrester Research

Christopher McClean
Principal Analyst, Research Director, Forrester Research

Chris leads a team of analysts covering topics including compliance and risk management, security management, security services, and metrics. He also leads the company's coverage of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). In this role, he helps clients around the world implement successful strategies, best practices, and technologies to support GRC programs as well as related functions such as enterprise risk management, corporate compliance, and corporate social responsibility. Chris is a frequent speaker on these subjects at vendor and industry events, and he has been quoted by top media outlets, including CFO Magazine, Compliance Week, and the Financial Times.

Previous Work Experience
His previous experience includes marketing and public relations for security, compliance, and risk management vendors.

Education
Chris has an M.S. in business ethics and compliance from the New England College of Business and Finance and a B.S. in marketing from California State University, Fresno.

Frank Santora, First Vice President, Hudson City Savings Bank

Frank Santora
First Vice President and Head of the Operational Risk Management Group, Hudson City Savings Bank

Frank Santora is a senior level risk management executive at Hudson City Savings Bank, the largest thrift in the country. Headquartered in New Jersey, the bank serves customers throughout the surrounding metropolitan area with branches across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

In his current role, Frank has management responsibility over the Operational Risk Management Group, which consists of the Operational Risk Management, Vendor Risk Management, Information Security, IT Risk, and Business Continuity Planning departments. Prior to joining Hudson City Savings Bank, Frank spent eleven years at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, where in his last role; he served as Director and Head of the Operational Risk Management Group.

Frank brings over 18 years of experience in the banking industry designing and implementing risk management frameworks, and throughout his career he has spearheaded multiple large-scale projects to reduce inefficiency, minimize risk exposure, and comply with regulatory requirements. Frank received the distinction of Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) from the Association for Financial Professionals and obtained the Certification in Control Self-Assessment (CCSA) from the Institute of Internal Auditors. Frank graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in Economics, and received his MBA from the City University of New York, Zicklin School of Business.

Richard Bistrong, Owner, Richard Bistrong FCPA Blog, CEO, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC

Richard Bistrong
Owner, Richard Bistrong FCPA Blog, CEO, Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC

Richard Bistrong spent much of his career as an international sales executive and currently blogs and consults on FCPA and anti-bribery compliance issues from that perspective. Mr. Bistrong was the Vice President of International Sales for a large, publicly traded manufacturer of police and military equipment, which included residing and working in the UK.

Prior to that, he was the Executive Vice President (and founding family member) for one of the largest global manufacturers of bullet resistant armor for the police and military markets.

In 2007, as part of a cooperation agreement with the United States Department of Justice and subsequent Immunity from Prosecution in the UK, Mr. Bistrong assisted the United States and other governments in their understanding of how FCPA violations occurred and operated in international sales. Mr. Bistrong's cooperation, including covert cooperation, and as a cooperating witness, which covered five years, was one of the longest in US white-collar criminal investigations. In 2012, Mr. Bistrong was sentenced as part of his own Plea Agreement, and served fourteen-and-a-half months at a Federal Prison Camp.

Richard now blogs at www.richardbistrong.com about current FCPA and anti-bribery compliance issues, drawing from his own perspective to discuss trends and compliance challenges, especially as they might impact overseas business executives and groups. Richard consults with organizations via his consulting practice Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC where he looks at organizational messages, including "unspoken messages," as well as individual ethics as potential red-flags of corruption. He asks the question: Are individual and corporate ethics, strategy, compensation and behavior all aligning with the programs of anti-bribery compliance? Richard also delivers a very powerful and emotional message that bribery is a real world crime with real world consequences to those in the field.

Mr. Bistrong has a BA from the University of Rochester and an MA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, including studies at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Mr. Bistrong resides in the New York Metropolitan area with his wife and has two children.

Richard can be reached via his blog, LinkedIn, or at Richardtbistrong@gmail.com. He frequently tweets about #compliance and #fcpa topics at @richardbistrong.

David Harris, Global IT Trade Control Focal, The Boeing Company

David Harris
Global IT Trade Control Focal, The Boeing Company

David Harris joined The Boeing Company in 2000. In his tenure he developed the IT security architecture for the 787 airplane program, enterprise services oriented architecture, enterprise trade control requirements for all IT systems and now leads the IT Compliance Trade Control and Intellectual Property groups within Enterprise Engineering Operations and Technology, Business Operations and Governance.

Dave was embedded in the Office of Internal Governance Global Trade Controls Organization for 6 years as a Sr. Trade Control Specialist with responsibilities for IT requirements globally. Dave has received multiple company-level awards while at Boeing, including both the Atlas and CIO awards. Dave is a married father of 7, lives in Olympia WA, operates a family farm and enjoys his family above all.

Peter C. Chatel, Former Director, Global Liquid Food Supplier Development, The Coca-Cola Company

Peter C. Chatel
Former Director, Global Liquid Food Supplier Development

Over his 22 years with The Coca-Cola Company 1992, Mr. Chatel held a number of leadership positions including: Director, Environmental Assurance; Director, Global Quality Audit; Vice President, Quality & Analytical Services; Vice President, Operational Quality; and most recently served as, Director, Global Liquid Food Supplier Development.

In his last role, Peter and the team he led worked closely with other business partners to grow, protect and sustain the Company’s business by assuring the safety and sustainability of the global liquid food ingredient supply (juice, coffee, tea & dairy ingredient supply). This work included assisting with the authorization, governance and development of over 600 supply points around the world.

Mr. Chatel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Technology with a minor in Agronomy from Cornell University. He obtained his Masters of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering from Northeastern University. As he completed graduate school, Peter accepted a position with Arthur D. Little, Inc. (ADL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his seven years with ADL, Peter was recognized with this firm’s prestigious Presidential Award for his leadership in significantly growing the EHS Auditing and Training business. He also was elected Director and asked to lead the EHS Auditing practice before departing for The Coca-Cola Company.

David McClure, Chief Strategist, Veris Group, LLC

David McClure
Chief Strategist, Veris Group, LLC

As Chief Strategist of Veris Group, Dave works closely with federal and state agencies to implement cloud strategies and technologies to secure and modernize IT, enhance business performance, and achieve high performance results. He is responsible for corporate strategy and business growth and develops joint solutions with leading industry partners in GRC, cyber automation/CDM, advanced threat protection, and security engineering and operations.

Dave served as the Associate Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies from August 2009 until May 2014. As a leading political appointee for the Obama Administration in charge of federal IT innovation, he transformed his office into a powerful engine for making government operations more open, transparent, and participatory.

Through the use of innovative technologies, his office connected the public to government information and services through the Internet, collaborative Web 2.0 and public dialogue tools, call centers, and other emerging new media and citizen engagement technologies. His office created several award-winning web sites, including USA.gov, Data.gov, Challenge.gov, USABusiness.gov and several others. In addition, his office housed the PMOs for the Federal Cloud Computing and Federal Cloud Credential Exchange, the GSA FedRAMP program (currently the world’s largest implementation of how to efficiently and continuously evaluate cloud services provider security/privacy), and the Presidential Innovation Fellows projects, including GSA’s "18F" innovation project teams and portfolio.

Dave’s career spans nearly three decades with diverse IT roles inside and outside of government, including Managing VP for Gartner Inc.’s government research team, where he managed the global government research agenda and analyst support, and contributed to worldwide events and consulting; VP for e-government and technology at the Council for Excellence in Government, where he established the pioneering CIO SAGE mentoring activity for incoming government CIOs; and Director for Information Management Studies at the Government Accountability Office, where he conducted wide-ranging reviews of IT management capabilities throughout the federal government, founded GAO’s "best practices" reports, and helped write landmark IT reform legislation such as the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act and the 2002 eGovernment Act. He also served on the Federal CIO Council Executive Committee, IAC/ACT Executive Advisory Board, Institute for Innovation for IAC/ACT, and the Executive Advisory Committee for AFCEA/Bethesda.

During his career, Dave has been recognized as an influential IT leader, including the following achievements: the 2014 AFFIRM Career Leadership Award, 2014 National Association of State CIOs Technology Champion Award, Executive Mosaic’s 2013 Washington 100 List for driving value to the American public through strategic vision, innovation and achievement, 2013 FedScoop 50 Federal IT Leader Award, 2013 American Council for Technology (ACT) John J. Franke Award for high impact, long-term leadership in the federal government, 2012 Fed100 Government Eagle Award recipient as the most significant individual affecting federal IT, 2012 FedScoop 50 Golden Gov Leadership Award, and a four-time winner of Federal Computer Week’s "Top Federal 100″ (1998, 2001, and 2004, 2012) for impact on government IT directions and improvements. Additionally, under his leadership, GSA received the 2013 Innovation in American Government Award from the Ash Center and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for the Challenge.gov web platform used by 59 federal agencies to run challenges and prizes to crowd source for innovative solutions for tough government problems.

Dave has a Bachelor of Arts and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Texas, and a doctorate in public policy from the University of North Texas. He also completed post-graduate work in IT management at Harvard and George Washington universities.

David M. Solomon, Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs

David M. Solomon
Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs

David is co-head of the Investment Banking Division. Prior to assuming this role in July 2006, he was the global head of the Financing Group, which includes all capital markets and derivative products for the firm’s corporate clients. David is a member of the firm’s Management Committee and the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee and he co-chairs the Investment Banking Division Executive Committee.

He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1999. Prior to joining the firm, David worked in various capacities at Irving Trust Company, Drexel Burnham, and Bear Stearns.

David is a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College and serves on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation.David earned a BA in Political Science from Hamilton College.

Kurt Lenhart, Vice President and Corporate Compliance Officer, CareSource

Kurt Lenhart
Vice President and Corporate Compliance Officer, CareSource

Kurt Lenhart is Vice President and Corporate Compliance Officer at CareSource in Dayton, Ohio. Kurt, appointed in 2013 leads the organization in achieving responsible and effective corporate risk management and compliance programs. In his role, Lenhart formulates an organization wide integrated approach to governance, risk and compliance including strategy, process technology and people.

Lenhart’s CareSource career includes leadership positions in Internal Audit and Special Investigations, and the Finance department. In Finance, he was responsible for strategic department growth in line with corporate goals. Kurt has more than 16 years of experience in building and implementing a risk management culture through coordination and educational activities. Early in his career, Kurt was an Information Technology auditor at Deloitte.

Kurt earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and management information systems from Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio. He has also achieved a Certification in Health Care Compliance Designation from HCCA in 2014.

Lenhart resides in the Dayton, Ohio area with his wife and four children. He enjoys golf, landscaping, coaching children’s sports and generally all outdoor activities.

Robert J. Gerden, Global Risk Management Expert

Robert J. Gerden
Global Risk Management Expert

Rob is a risk management expert with extensive international and multi-industry experience across large organizations where he led multi-national risk teams in banking, telecommunications, Fortune 500 consulting and government. These organizations included Wells Fargo, PNC, Nortel Networks, Kroll Consulting, and Canada’s National Security Directorate and Military.

His previous roles ranged across the full risk spectrum including governance, forensic investigations, cyber security, operations, protective teams, compliance, financial exposure, business continuity, assurance etc. While working with the Canadian Federal Government, Rob was actively involved in National Crisis Management Planning including the coordination of Counter-Terrorism scenarios involving Prime Ministerial Cabinet officials and heads of military special forces as well as law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

He is a published author and frequent speaker on leading enterprise governance and operational risk management best practices, including Oprisk & Regulation North America / Europe, Risk Management Association (RMA), Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He has also served in executive positions on industry boards, including the Conference Board of Canada’s inaugural Chief Security Officer Council, and the U.S. Chief Information Security Officer Forum (ISSA).

Born in Toronto, Rob has an MBA from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management as well as a degree in Criminology & Public Policy from the Universite d’Ottawa. He has also actively continued his education through various risk training and executive programs (e.g. Harvard Business School, University of Washington Graduate Banking School, Center for Creative Leadership, Queen’s University – Finance, Certified Information Systems Security Professional - CISSP).

In addition, as a 2X full Ironman triathlete, Rob has shared his learning experiences with professional and youth audiences on overcoming adversity and building personal and team resiliency to achieve their goals. Rob has also coached youth sports and has been involved in various community volunteer and fund raising efforts.

He now lives in Charlotte with his wife and two children.

Alfred E. Furrs, Director, International Trade Compliance BAE Systems, Inc.

Alfred E. Furrs
Director, International Trade Compliance BAE Systems, Inc.

Alfred Furrs is the Inc. Director, International Trade Compliance at BAE Systems, Inc. Prior to assuming this role in August 2013, Alfred was responsible for leading the international trade licensing and compliance program for The Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory (APL’s) in Maryland (USA). In this role, Alfred was APL’s primary Empowered Official for interacting with the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce, and other U.S. Government international trade regulators on matters related to international program activities and international compliance issues.

In addition, Alfred previously worked at Headquarters BAE Systems, Inc. from 2006-2011, as a Manager within the International Trade Compliance function.

Alfred’s current responsibilities at BAE Systems, Inc. include working in partnership with the Business Sector Senior Export Directors and the International Trade Licensing professionals to effectively manage the company’s international trade compliance posture through internal audit, new acquisition assessments, investigations, disclosure reporting, training and regulatory awareness programs throughout the corporation by providing education to its U.S. owner or managed non-U.S. companies plus international affiliates and field offices.

Alfred has also held positions as a Program Manager with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement on matters directly relating to export enforcement. To include, Alfred served twenty-three proud and honorable years in the U.S. States Air Force wherein he concluded his career with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

Alfred received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Maryland and his Masters of Business Administration from National Louis University. From 2012 to 2014, Alfred has served as an active member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group. Alfred has also served as a Conference Director or Committee Chair for several Society for International Affair Conferences, and as a Guest Speaker of Panel Speaker on several industry-wide conferences.

Thomas H. Garrubba, Senior Director of Programs, The Santa Fe Group

Tom Garrubba
Director, International Trade Compliance BAE Systems, Inc.

Thomas Garrubba (CISA, CRISC, CIPT, CTPRP) is senior director with The Santa Fe Group, whose focus is developing and leading risk management, vendor risk, privacy, and security issues and programs. He also serves as program director for the Shared Assessment Program, where he leads the Development Committee, and is responsible for the development and management of key initiatives for the Program.

Previously, Tom was senior privacy manager at CVS Health, where he established the policies and work procedures that govern the company’s vendor assessment program. This included designing the risk methodology for assessing vendors and the methodology for re-performing vendor assessments. He also oversaw all assessments for existing and potential third party service providers that in any way use or access proprietary PII, PHI, card holder (PCI), and proprietary data. Tom is a respected subject matter expert on third party risk, and was on the Steering Committee for the Shared Assessments Program; the founding organization for standardized and objective vendor management assessment methodologies, and the trusted source for third party risk assurance. He is also an active blogger for the Huffington Post’s Business section on risk and has had blogs published on various industry websites such as Shared Assessments, Government Health IT, and ISACA.

Edmund Green, Managing Director, KPMG LLP

Edmund Green
Managing Director, KPMG LLP

Edmund is a Managing Director in KPMG LLP’s Risk and Controls Advisory practice with more than 25 years of cross-functional experience, including over ten years in Big Four consulting, primarily with Fortune 500 financial services companies. His main area of focus at KPMG is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), where he is a member of the firm’s ERM leadership team. His expertise spans operational, financial and technology risk management as well as commercial credit, treasury operations and internal audit. He contributed to the development of the KPMG’s ERM framework, methodology and related service offerings.

Joseph E Schmitz, Former Inspector General of the Department of Defense

Joseph E Schmitz
Former Inspector General of the Department of Defense

Joseph E. Schmitz served as the fifth Senate-confirmed Inspector General of the Department of Defense from April 2002 to September 2005. As such, he was agency head of the most expansive Inspector General organization in the world, with statutory policy oversight responsibility for roughly 60,000 auditors, investigators, inspectors, law enforcement officers, and oversight professionals throughout the Department of Defense.

For his service as Inspector General of the Department of Defense, he was awarded the Depart-ment of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the highest honorary award presented by the Secretary of Defense to non-career federal employees.

Prior to his service as Inspector General of the Department of Defense, Mr. Schmitz was a Partner in the international law firm of Patton Boggs LLP and at the same time a Captain in the United States Naval Reserves, serving as Inspector General of the Naval Reserve Intelligence Command. He has extensive experience in overseeing compliance with various international and security-related laws, including but not limited to the Inspector General Act, Intelligence Oversight laws, the Posse Comitatus Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and laws administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Mr. Schmitz co-founded the law firm of SCHMITZ & SOCARRAS LLP in October 2014. Before that, he served as CEO of JOSEPH E. SCHMITZ, PLLC, a veteran-owned small business law firm that he founded in 2008. From September 2005 through 2008, Mr. Schmitz served as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of the Prince Group in McLean, Virginia. From January 2009 through April 2010 he served as Managing Director in the Washington D.C. Office of Freeh Group International. His pre-Inspector General public service included: twenty-seven years of naval service, first on active duty and then as a reserve officer; law clerk to the Honorable James L. Buckley, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, the Honorable Edwin Meese III.

Mr. Schmitz has published numerous articles and has testified as a constitutional expert before U.S. Senate committees, and before various state legislature committees. From 1995 until 2002, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he developed and taught a seminar on advanced Constitutional Law. He is an alumnus of the American Council on Germany Young Leaders Program, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and the International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspectors General.

In May 2013, the Center for Security Policy Press published Mr. Schmitz’ latest book, "THE INSPECTOR GENERAL HANDBOOK: FRAUD, WASTE, ABUSE, AND OTHER CONSTITUTIONAL ‘ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC’," as the first-ever practical handbook that answers the questions, "By what authority?" and "For what purpose?" American Inspectors General do what they do. This new Inspector General Handbook is designed to be useful both to IG professionals and to other military, civilian government, and corporate leaders, including general counsel, who sooner or later will need to work intelligently with an Inspector General.

Mr. Schmitz graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978, and received his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Stanford University in 1986. He is a Senior Fellow for the Center for Security Policy, and a regular Newsmax "Insider" on constitutional issues under the banner, "Support and Defend." In 2010, Mr. Schmitz was selected by the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition as one of 28 Community Leadership Awardees, and in 2013 he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Virginia Chapter) as an "Outstanding American."

Edmund Green, Managing Director, KPMG LLP

Preston D. Pinkett III
Chairman and CEO, City National Bank

Preston D. Pinkett III serves as Chairman and CEO of City National Bancshares Corporation and the City National Bank of New Jersey. Previous positions held by Pinkett include vice president of social investments at Prudential Financial and senior vice president of community development at PNC Bank and Chemical Bank, New Jersey. Pinkett’s former experience in the public sector includes senior vice president of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and senior planner with the Council on Affordable Housing.

Mr. Pinkett serves in a leadership capacity as chairman of the National Bankers Association and vice chairman of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. He serves on the board of directors/trustees for Montclair State University, Lead New Jersey, Global Impact Investment Network, Gil St. Bernard’s School and University Ventures. He also serves on advisory committees for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Minority Depository Institutions and the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research.

Pinkett holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from Cornell University as well as Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

John Noto, Executive Director - Head of Operational Risk/ SOX / BCP
Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.

John Noto
Executive Director - Head of Operational Risk/ SOX / BCP Mizuho Securities USA, Inc.

John Noto is an accomplished Operational Risk Management (ORM) Officer responsible for the identification, management, measurement, mitigation and control of operational risk and for directing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance requirements at Mizuho Securities USA. John serves on the Risk Management Committee, IT Management Committee, Operational Risk Management Committee, Liquidity Crisis Management Committee and reports to the Deputy President.

John and his ORM Department staff members interacts with all business and support functional areas as well as other control functions such as Market Risk, Credit Risk, Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Finance, and Internal Audit within Mizuho and regulators. John partakes on global ORM and SOX initiatives together with Mizuho’s parent company and its’ subsidiaries management team.

Prior to joining Mizuho, John has extensive financial services operational, regulatory and audit experience with a concentration in the capital markets and broker-dealer industry. He has held several high-ranking positions in Internal Audit at financial service firms, including investment banks, broker/dealers, on-line securities trading companies and banking institutions and has established first time internal audit and ORM departments for organizations. John’s professional experience includes PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, NatWest Markets, N.A., Datek Online Holdings Corp., Fortis Financial Services, and Friedman Billings Ramsey Group. John serves on the Executive Committee of The Risk Management Association – New York Chapter and was the President of The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association – Internal Auditors Society for 2013. John has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University, is a Certified Financial Services Auditor of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and has Series 99 and several GARP SOX Certifications.

Tony Chapelle, Senior Reporter, Agenda Newsletter - Financial Times

Tony Chapelle
Senior Reporter, Agenda Newsletter - Financial Times

Tony Chapelle is a Senior Reporter with Agenda. He previously covered stockbrokers, individual investors and brokerage companies as a senior editor for On Wall Street magazine. In the late 1990s, he and his wife Carla ran a newsletter called Securities Pro, which reported on African Americans in the financial services industry. From 1989 until 1993, Tony produced television programs at CNN Business News in New York. Tony earned a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School. He lives with his wife and two children in Harlem.

David Bohm, Managing Director and Global Co-head of Compliance Testing, Citigroup

David Bohm
Managing Director/Global Co-head of Compliance Testing, Citigroup

David has been with Citi for 28 years. He began his career in retail banking where he spent the first 10 years in sales as a branch manager. The next 10 years were in various Operations and Technology leadership roles, including US back office operations, US Branch Operations and for 3 years as the Head of Operations and Technology for Citibank Japan, a locally chartered bank headquartered in Tokyo. The remainder of his career has been in Compliance and internal control. He has served and the head of Compliance Control, as well as Control and Emerging Risk for Citi’s North America consumer businesses. He now serves as Managing Director and Global Co-head of Compliance Testing for Citigroup, as well the Compliance testing head for Citibank NA. He is responsible for all compliance testing policies, activities and programs. In addition, he co-leads the global implementation of the Regulatory Control Matrix (RCM), a repository across for all key regulatory requirements, controls and relevant assessments across Citi’s global businesses, including the systems, programs and technology as well as regular regulatory interactions.

Beth Thurman, Senior Audit Manager/Corporate Audit, Bank of America

Beth Thurman
Senior Audit Manager/Corporate Audit, Bank of America

Beth Thurman leads the Practices and Innovation Tools team which is responsible for the implementation and operational model of the core suite of tools for Bank of America’s Corporate Audit Department. She also chairs the Audit Change Governance committee that drives operational efficiency and consistency across the organization.

Beth has held several leadership positions since joining Corporate Audit in 2004. During this time she has led the Automation Team, developing automated testing and continuous monitoring of key controls. From 2009 through 2011, Beth was the Business Support lead for the Corporate General Auditor.

Prior to joining Corporate Audit, Beth held several key positions in Global Treasury Services (GTS), including serving in a Business Support role for the GTS Product Solutions Executive. She was instrumental in the design and implementation of an integrated data repository for a variety of GTS clients around the world, all of whom were previously on multiple systems after several mergers and acquisitions. This cutting-edge solution resulted in significant cost savings and improved work efficiency.

As head of technology strategy for GTS, she spearheaded the introduction of personal computers to the sales organization. She also was the first person to develop operational and sales reporting, earning special recognition for leadership and innovation from Bank of America Chairman and CEO Hugh McColl.

Beth joined Bank of America in 1985 and is located in Charlotte, NC. She resides with her husband Glenn in nearby Gastonia, NC. Beth is certified in Six Sigma Greenbelt, Lean Process, and Change Process & Capability Maturity Model. She attended Lee College in Cleveland, TN, with a concentration in Business Education and a minor in Biblical Studies.

Kaivan Rahbari, Chief Risk Officer, North America and Head of Global Business Continuity, FIS

Kaivan Rahbari
Chief Risk Officer, North America and Head of Global Business Continuity, FIS

Kaivan Rahbari is chief risk officer for North America and head of global business continuity for FIS. He is charged with leading the strategic development and implementation of FIS’ transformational security and risk initiatives, as well as oversight of regulatory exams, response management and supervisory affairs.

Kaivan has more than 29 years of risk, security, technology and banking industry expertise, and he has enjoyed a career spanning over 19 years with FIS. Kaivan has served in several leadership roles at FIS, including senior vice president of technology, responsible for all internal systems at FIS; GM community banking; CIO community banking; product development/professional services; and facility management account manager.

Prior to joining FIS, Kaivan spent eight years at Bank of Smithtown, a commercial bank in Smithtown, N.Y., where he began as a computer systems analyst and ended his tenure as EVP of operations. Before that, he worked as a computer systems analyst at Lawrence Aviation, a company that created military aircraft components. Kaivan holds a master’s degree in business administration from Adelphi University. He also received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the State University of New York.

David M Stautz, Executive Vice President, Risk Information Management, TCF National Bank

David M Stautz
Executive Vice President, Risk Information Management, TCF National Bank

David M. Stautz is Executive Vice President, Risk Information Management for TCF National Bank. Previously he was Chief Risk Officer on an interim basis and prior to that was Executive Vice President, Controller and Managing Director of Corporate Development overseeing accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, financial analysis, financial stress testing, income taxes and corporate development. Mr. Stautz joined TCF in 1999 as Controller and Assistant Treasurer and has also held responsibilities for employee benefits and payroll.

Prior to joining TCF, Mr. Stautz was with Norwest Corporation for 15 years.

Mr. Stautz holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois and is a certified public accountant with an inactive license to practice public accounting.

Michael Cover, Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Michael Cover
Manager, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Michael Cover is a Manager within the Compliance Technology & Support department at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. Michael and his team are responsible for designing and implementing GRC solutions to support regulatory compliance efforts. Prior to joining BCBSM, Michael spent 8 years at Ernst & Young within their IT Risk and Assurance practice. While at E&Y he focused mainly on application implementations and business process redesign. He earned his Master of Business Administration from Wayne State University, his Bachelor of Science in Finance from Michigan State University, and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Robert D Rodriguez, Chairman & Founder of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET)

Robert D. Rodriguez
Chairman & Founder of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET)

Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman & Founder of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) www.security-innovation.org an International community builder whose mission is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. Each year SINET hosts programs in Silicon Valley, New York City, London and Washington DC which are supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T).

The SINET model is designed to advance innovation by connecting the ecosystem of the entrepreneur; academia, science, private industry, investment banking, system integration, policy, innovators, law enforcement, venture capital and the Federal Government to include the civilian, military and intelligence agencies. In 2001, Robert spearheaded the development of the U. S. Secret Service’s first public-private partnership Cybersecurity initiative in the Western Region of the United States. Since 2005 he has been advising and coordinating the public private sector outreach for the DHS S&T and SRI International.

Robert has served on the US Air Force Cybersecurity Advisory Board and has been called upon numerous times by Federal Government Agencies and universities such as Stanford and UNC Charlotte to help coordinate their private sector outreach to the venture capital community and both large and small businesses. In his previous career Robert served twenty-two years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service where he held a number of executive leadership positions within the Presidential Protection, Protective Intelligence, Inspection, Criminal Investigation Divisions and the Counter Assault Team. His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton and numerous Heads of State.

He serves on the Board of Advisors for The Chertoff Group, as Director Emeritus for the San Francisco Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame Board of Directors and is a certified graduate of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service Program.

Alistair Craig

Alistair Craig
Head of Internal Audit, Morgan Sindall plc

Alistair is a Chartered Internal Auditor and has worked in Internal Audit since 1997. He has worked in a variety of large businesses, mainly in the Construction sector and this has included spells with Interserve, Carillion and most recently Morgan Sindall plc.

Alistair has led the Internal Audit function at Morgan Sindall plc since 2008. Morgan Sindall plc is a large a UK construction, infrastructure and design business and works for private and public sector customers on projects from £50k to over £500 million.

Alistair has a particular interest in risk management in Construction businesses and has recently been awarded an MSc in risk management and also holds the Certification in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) qualification.

Peyman Mestchian

Peyman Mestchian
Managing Partner, Chartis

Peyman Mestchian is Managing Partner at Chartis overseeing research strategy, key commercial relationships and advisory services. His special area of interest and research is the application of information technology to risk management, and he is an established thought-leader and writer on the subject. Previously, Peyman was a Director of the Business Risk Consulting Practice at Ernst & Young and Global Head of the Enterprise Risk Management Practice at SAS Institute. Peyman is a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management (FIRM).

Alistair Craig

Michael Rasmussen
Chief GRC Pundit, GRC 20/20 Research

Michael Rasmussen is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) – with specific expertise on the topics of enterprise GRC, GRC technology, corporate compliance, and policy management. With 18+ years of experience, Michael helps organizations improve GRC processes, design and implement GRC architecture, and select technologies that are effective, efficient, and agile. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and advisor and is noted as the "Father of GRC" - being the first to define and model the GRC market in February 2002 while at Forrester.

Michael has contributed to U.S. Congressional reports and committees, and currently serves on the Leadership Council of the OCEG and chairs the OCEG Technology Council, OCEG Policy Management Group, and the OCEG GRC Architect Group.

Michael is quoted extensively in the press and is respected for his commentary on broadcast news channels. He is an Honorary Life Member in The Institute of Risk Management for his contributions to risk management and GRC. In June 2007, Treasury & Risk recognized Michael as one of the 100 most influential people in finance with specific accolades noting his work in "Governance and Compliance: Saving the Planet and the Corporation" and as a "Rising Star in Rocky Times: Corporate America’s Outstanding Executives."

Prior to founding GRC 20/20 Research, Michael was a Vice-President and ’Top Analyst’ at Forrester Research, Inc. Before Forrester, he led the risk/compliance consulting practice at a professional services firm, and prior to that has specific experience managing compliance and risk within commercial organizations.

Michael’s educational experience consists of a Juris Doctorate in law and a Bachelor of Science in Business. Michael is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with a research focus in ethics and church history. He is a GRCP (GRC Professional), CCEP (Certified Compliance and Ethic Professional), and a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). OCEG has recognized him as an OCEG Fellow for his contributions and advancement of GRC practices around the world.

Michaela Ahlberg

Michaela Ahlberg
Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, TeliaSonera

Michaela Ahlberg currently works as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at the Swedish telecom operator, TeliaSonera. She joined the company in September 1st 2013 to establish an Ethics & Compliance office, as the company had gone through a period of media and prosecutor attention on alleged corruption, reporting to the CEO and the Sustainability & Ethics Committee of the Board.

Michaela has some thirty years of international experience working as a legal and general counsel in both privately held and publically traded companies. During the past five years she has focused her carrier towards Ethics & Compliance and is especially interested in anti-corruption.

Before joining TeliaSonera she worked as Chief Ethics & Compliance at Volvo Cars mainly focusing on their rapid expansion in China. Michaela also spent 5 years with Nokia Siemens Networks, whereof 3,5 years based in Dubai, UAE as head of legal & compliance for Middle East and Africa and 1,5 years based in Dallas as head of legal & compliance for North America. During these years she travelled extensively and spent most of her time working with compliance matters.

She has also worked as a general counsel with responsibility for Legal and IPR at Nobel Biocare, a medical device company which at the time was listed on the Swiss and Swedish stock exchange and as general counsel for EHPT (a joint venture of Ericsson and HP). She holds a Master of Law from Lunds University in Sweden.

Michaela currently lives in Stockholm and likes spending time with her daughter as well as travelling to visit her friends which are spread across the globe.

Rory Conway

Rory Conway
Head of Compliance, Metlife Western & Central Europe

Rory joined Metlife in July 2014 and is Head of Compliance for Metlife Western & Central Europe.

A qualified Barrister, Rory has worked in legal, risk and compliance roles in the financial services arena for over eighteen years. Prior to joining Metlife, he was Chief Risk Officer for Standard Life International and head of Compliance for Aviva Europe.

He also lectures on Corporate Governance and other legal and compliance matters at the law Society of Ireland.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Best-Selling Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Best-Selling Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosopher, scholar of randomness, essayist, risk-management expert, and former trader. He is known for a multidisciplinary approach to the role of the high-impact rare event.

He is author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, the revelatory book that explains everything we know about what we don’t know. In it, he defines a "black swan" as a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: it is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. He concludes that black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. He offers surprisingly simple tricks for dealing with black swans and benefiting from them, and changing the way we look at the world.

Previously, Taleb has held senior positions with major banks focusing on the trading and risk management of complex derivatives, and worked independently on the floor of the Chicago exchanges. He went on his own in 1999 and, until 2008, specialized in protecting portfolios against extreme events.

In addition to his other books and scholarly papers, Taleb is the author of the extremely popular Fooled by Chance: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, which was named by Fortune as one of The Smartest Books of All Time. His books have more than a million copies in print, and are translated into 27 languages.

He is currently a visiting professor at the London Business School. He held among other positions that of the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and taught derivatives modeling at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has an MBA from Wharton and a PhD from the University of Paris.

The London Times has described Taleb as a "giant of modern thought… The hottest thinker in the world," and GQ calls him "the most prophetic voice of all."

Topics:
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- Fooled by Chance: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life & in the Markets

Kevin Trilli, Vice President of Product Management, TRUSTe

Kevin Trilli
Vice President of Product Management, TRUSTe

Kevin has successfully developed multiple leading-edge privacy management product solutions over his 7 years at TRUSTe, including the Data Privacy Management Platform, a SaaS-based platform which helps enterprises manage their privacy landscape across the entire organization from a single interface. He also led development on the award-winning TRUSTe Privacy Mobile App, which enables consumers to control the types of ads they see.

Kevin brings over 20 years of high-tech product management and entrepreneurial experience to TRUSTe and is an industry thought leader, entrepreneur and visionary on privacy, online identity, reputation and trust. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences including the IAPP Data Protection Congress, Online Media Marketing and Advertising (OMMA), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Compliance Week Europe, Cannes Lions, Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and the Application Developer Alliance.

Prior to TRUSTe, Kevin founded AssertID, a technology company that provides parental consent services to address the COPPA regulatory space in protecting children’s privacy online. Previously, Kevin spent eight years at VeriSign, including as director of product management for the SSL, authentication and security services business units. Kevin holds multiple patents and patent applications in online identity.

Kevin has a Masters of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he is a Sloan Fellow. Kevin also holds a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he concurrently served as a lab administrator for the University Computer Services Organization.

Craig Isaacs, CEO, Unified Compliance

Dorian Cougias
Lead Analyst and Compliance Scientist, UCF

Dorian Cougias is the co-founder of Unified Compliance and the primary architect of the Unified Compliance Framework® and the new SaaS portal, the UCF Common Controls Hub™. Dorian serves as an adviser or working group member to the Payment Card Industry Council, Financial Technology Forum, and other industry organizations. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor of Technology, lecturing and serving on the board of advisers for the University of Delaware; College of Human Services, Education, and Public Policy. Cougias has written and spoken extensively on all areas of information technology and has won numerous writing and speaking awards.

Alma Cole, Vice President of Cyber Security, Robbins Gioia

Alma Cole
Vice President of Cyber Security, Robbins Gioia

Alma Cole joined Robbins Gioia following a distinguished career in government service. He held high-ranking cyber security positions in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), most recently serving as Chief Systems Security Officer for the largest law enforcement agency in the country, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Alma was also director of the DHS Security Operations Center, where he led the agency's defense in the face of persistent and targeted cyber attacks. He has been recognized with the Rising Star Award for his efforts to provide greater insight into ongoing cyber threats at DHS through cross-agency sharing of cyber attack information.

Sudheesh Babu, Global Head - Risk, Compliance & Data Privacy Enterprise Security Solutions, Wipro Technologies

Sudheesh Babu
Global Head - Risk, Compliance & Data Privacy Enterprise Security Solutions, Wipro Technologies

Sudheesh Babu is the global head of Risk, Compliance & Data Privacy practice at Wipro Technologies. He has more than 20 years of Governance, Risk and Compliance Consulting experience. His areas of expertise and experience include Enterprise Risk Management, IT Risk Consulting, Internal Control Assessments, Business Continuity Management, Information Security Management, Application Risk Assessments, Data Privacy Assessments and Regulatory Compliance Assessments.

Sudheesh has helped many customers in implementing GRC convergence framework and Risk Management Frameworks. He conceptualized and implemented many innovative solutions including Risk Intelligence Framework, Integrated GRC Framework, Unified Control Framework and Control Automation solution. His experience includes:



Sudheesh has work experience in multiple geographies including North America, Europe, South East Asia and India. Prior to joining Wipro, Sudheesh worked with Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Risk Management & Audit Management domains.

Sudheesh is a Chartered Accountant by profession and has many security & project management certifications to his credit including CISA, CISM, CGEIT, CRISC, ISO 27001 LA and Stanford Certified Program Manager.

Sara Hurley, Director - Compliance, Integrys Energy Group, Inc.

Sara Hurley
Director - Compliance, Integrys Energy Group, Inc.

Sara Hurley is Director - Compliance for Integrys Energy Group, responsible for directing the company’s compliance organization of more than 4600 employees nationally and the company’s global business ethics efforts.

Hurley joined Integrys’ power generation non-regulated business in 2000, served as Interim Controller in 2003, and later became the Director of Portfolio Management and Planning for all non-regulated business. In late 2009 she moved to the compliance department as the selected Director - Compliance.


Prior to joining Integrys, Hurley was a consultant for Jefferson Well’s accounting and financial practice and served over 4 years with Schneider National working in Corporate Accounting and Tax.

Hurley has an undergraduate degree in accounting from University of Wisconsin – Green Bay. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional. She is a member of Wisconsin CPA, American Institute of CPAs and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. She has presented on the topic of gamification in compliance training at an international Ethics and Compliance conference.

She is a board member of Brown County Junior Achievement and the Treasurer for Ashwaubenon Youth Baseball. Previously Hurley served as the president of the Northwest Brown County Thrivent Financial Chapter assisting members in the foundation’s unique approach of blending faith, finances and generosity.

Subhasis Bandyopadhyay, General Manager, BFS Practice Head, Mindtree Ltd.

Subhasis Bandyopadhyay
General Manager, BFS Practice Head, Mindtree Ltd.

Subhasis heads the BFS practice within BFSI IG in Mindtree and is responsible for Domain Enablement, Sales Support and Solutioning. He brings about 22 years in BFS space and is responsible for offering leadership and direction for BFS solutions, domain consulting, alliance management, domain competence building and pre-sales for BFS. He is instrumental in setting up GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) COE within BFS practice and built up solutions in Dodd Frank. EMIR, FATCA, Basel III, MiFid II and AIFMD and engaged in offering services as strategic and process consulting.

Philip T Gledhill, Supervising Examiner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Philip T Gledhill
Supervising Examiner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Phil has over 30 years of experience in bank operational risk management and treasury/capital markets operations management. Since joining the FRBNY in September 2011, Phil has been heavily involved in the collection and analysis of internal loss data from major financial institutions within the US, examining the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) stress test loss projections, and evaluating Recovery/Resolution Plans ("living wills") mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act.

As a former industry consultant and practitioner, Phil brings extensive hands-on experience to the FRBNY and promotes proven yet practical approaches for identifying and managing operational risks, improving workflow efficiency, and maintaining high internal control standards within financial institutions.

Before joining the FRBNY, Phil directed the Operational Risk practice at the International Management Advisory Group (IMAG) NY, and served as Vice President and Manager of Operational Risk at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ NY. Previously he headed Operations and Compliance at Leonia Bank plc, NY Branch and held several management positions in the financial control and banking services groups at IBJ Schroder, NY.

Phil holds a BA degree in Economics from Colby College and a MBA degree in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. For several years he chaired the International Financial Services Association (IFSA) Risk Management Committee. Phil is an active speaker on current topics in operational risk management and risk self-assessment and has published articles on risk management in Operational Risk/Regulation magazine and the Risk Management Association Journal.

Jonathan J. Rusch, Senior Vice President and Head of Anti-Bribery & Corruption Governance, Wells Fargo

Jonathan J. Rusch
Senior Vice President and Head of Anti-Bribery & Corruption Governance, Wells Fargo

Jonathan J. Rusch is Senior Vice President and Head of Anti-Bribery & Corruption Governance at Wells Fargo. Before joining Wells Fargo in 2015, Mr. Rusch served as a federal prosecutor for 26 years in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., most recently as Deputy Chief for Strategy and Policy.

In addition to overseeing international and national strategic initiatives on financial crimes, including foreign bribery, cyberfraud, and identity theft, he led successful corruption-related prosecutions of two former Members of Congress, a former United States Treasurer, a former House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms, and ringleaders of mass-marketing fraud schemes. Previously, he served as Director of the Office of Financial Enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Counsel to the President’s Commission on Organized Crime, and an associate with a leading Washington, DC law firm.

Mr. Rusch received numerous awards for his work in law enforcement, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention, the Chief Postal Inspector’s Award, and the United Kingdom Serious and Organized Crime Agency Director General’s Commendation. He also is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches Global Cybercrime Law, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Virginia Law School, where he teaches Cybercrime.

Toby Shore, Chief Risk Officer, Dubai Aluminium

Toby Shore
Chief Risk Officer, Dubai Aluminium

Toby joined DUBAL in August 2008 just prior to the full impact of the Global Financial Crisis took hold as the Senior Credit Risk Officer with the remit of articulating, implementing and managing DUBAL's credit risk philosophy. In July 2010, Toby's portfolio was expanded to include the Corporate Treasury responsibilities of Cash Management, Treasury Operations, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Credit Risk Analysis and Corporate Insurances. In late 2011 Toby's portfolio was further expanded to incorporate the portfolio of Chief Risk Officer responsible for implementing and managing the enterprise risk management framework within DUBAL. Prior to joining DUBAL, Toby held the position of Executive Manager at Atradius Credit Insurance NV in Sydney, Australia where he was responsible for the credit risk underwriting, claims assessment and insurance debt recovery for Atradius' operations in AustralAsia and South East Asia. He has a Bachelor Of International Business, an MBA and successfully completed the Association of Corporate Treasurers MCT Programme in 2012.

Toby Shore, Chief Risk Officer, Dubai Aluminium

Toby Shore
Chief Risk Officer, Dubai Aluminium

Toby joined DUBAL in August 2008 just prior to the full impact of the Global Financial Crisis took hold as the Senior Credit Risk Officer with the remit of articulating, implementing and managing DUBAL's credit risk philosophy. In July 2010, Toby's portfolio was expanded to include the Corporate Treasury responsibilities of Cash Management, Treasury Operations, Accounts Receivable, Credit Control, Credit Risk Analysis and Corporate Insurances. In late 2011 Toby's portfolio was further expanded to incorporate the portfolio of Chief Risk Officer responsible for implementing and managing the enterprise risk management framework within DUBAL. Prior to joining DUBAL, Toby held the position of Executive Manager at Atradius Credit Insurance NV in Sydney, Australia where he was responsible for the credit risk underwriting, claims assessment and insurance debt recovery for Atradius' operations in AustralAsia and South East Asia. He has a Bachelor Of International Business, an MBA and successfully completed the Association of Corporate Treasurers MCT Programme in 2012.

Cees Klumper - Chief Risk Officer

Cees Klumper
Chief Risk Officer, The Global Fund

Cees joined The Global Fund in April 2012 to establish the Risk Management Department. Prior roles include Managing Director of Internal Audit at the GAVI Alliance, Vice President Internal Control of a large multinational; partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in its external audit practice; and partner with KPMG in its risk management and internal audit advisory practice.

Cees has also been CFO of a medium-sized retail company and corporate controller of a large scientific research institute. He was a member of the COSO Advisory Council for the update of the Internal Control - Integrated Framework that was published in May 2013.

A native of The Netherlands, where he has spent most of his career, Cees also studied, lived and worked in the Unites States, for ten years. He is a Dutch Chartered Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor.
Rob Halstead

Rob Halstead
Head of Risk Management,
Cross Rail

Rob Halstead has been Head of Risk Management for Crossrail since 2009. During that period he has led the development and implementation of a comprehensive risk management framework, developing the policy, process, systems and tools required to effectively manage risk on this infrastructure mega-project.

Prior to joining Crossrail, Rob worked in various risk management roles at London Underground and Network Rail. Rob has an engineering background, is a member of the Institute of Risk Management and a regular speaker on risk management and quantitative risk assessment and its use in the financial appraisal of major projects.

Crossrail is the largest infrastructure project currently being delivered in Europe. From the early stages, risk management was identified as being critical to the success of the project and throughout its development and delivery, senior management has promoted and championed a proactive approach to dealing with uncertainty and risk
Jacqueline Barrett

Jacqueline Barrett
Group Risk & Compliance Director
Vodafone

Jacqueline Barrett is the Group Compliance Director at Vodafone, reporting to the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary. Ms. Barrett is part of the Group’s central legal function and is responsible for compliance with the company’s policies across its global footprint (including subsidiaries in 24 countries), as well as being directly responsible for anti-bribery, competition law, privacy, and patents.

Ms. Barrett has worked at Vodafone for nine years, and during that time has managed legal teams looking after Internet services, the procurement of mobile phones, sponsorship agreements, and IPR.

Ms. Barrett studied law in Australia and originally specialised in IP law (through roles at Clayton Utz, the Australian Copyright Council, and the Federal Attorney-General’s Department) before branching out into general commercial legal roles as a precursor to the move into compliance

Lee Bradley

Lee Bradley
Chief Risk Officer, Thomas Cook

Lee Bradley joined Thomas Cook Group plc in 2012 and brought with him a deep knowledge of embedding the culture and practices of sound risk management, gained from working within organisations such as Manchester Airport Group plc, Co-op Group, Kwik Fit plc and Thames Water plc. Lee reports directly to the Board and leads a multi-discipline team across the Group.

Highly skilled Director of Enterprise Risk and Audit with extensive international experience in PLC organisations. Experienced in designing and implementing Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance frameworks. Thrives in developing robust financial and operational control environments and delivering Corporate restructure in organisations undergoing strategic change, wide ranging business experience includes business transformation, programme management, M&A, data protection and information security, Health and Safety and financial control. Undertaken interim and permanent positions in a number of sectors, including retail, utilities, manufacturing, travel and FSA regulated businesses.

An experienced public speaker, recently presenting at Institute of Risk Management, Reuters and Daily Telegraph Business Reporter Summit

Roger Bootle

Roger Bootle
Economist & Author

One of the City of London’s best-known economists, Roger Bootle runs the consultancy, Capital Economics, one of the world’s largest independent economics consultancies, which he founded in 1999. Roger is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called "Wise Men". In July 2012, it was announced that Roger and a team from Capital Economics had won the Wolfson Prize, the second biggest prize in Economics after the Nobel.

Roger Bootle studied at Oxford University and then became a Lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Most of his subsequent career has been spent in the City of London.

Roger has written many articles and several books on monetary economics. His latest book, The Trouble with Europe, published in May this year, has been widely acclaimed. It follows The Trouble with Markets, which analyses the deep causes of the recent financial crisis and discusses the threats to capitalism arising from it. Like his previous book, Money for Nothing, which correctly anticipated the financial crisis, it has been widely praised. It followed the success of The Death of Inflation, published in 1996, which became a best-seller and was subsequently translated into nine languages. Roger is also joint author of the book Theory of Money, and author of Index-Linked Gilts.

Roger appears frequently on television and radio and is also a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. In The Comment Awards 2012 he was named Economics Commentator of the year.

Alex McDonald, SNIA Europe Board of Directors, NetApp

Alex McDonald
Alex McDonald, SNIA Europe Board of Directors, NetApp

Alex joined NetApp in 2005, after more than 30 years in a variety of roles with some of the best known names in the software industry. With a background in software development, support, sales and a period as an independent consultant, Alex is now part of NetApp’s CTO Office that supports industry activities and promotes technology & standards based solutions.

Alex, amongst other industry leader positions, is currently on the board of SNIA Europe, is chair of the SNIA’s CSI (Cloud Storage Initiative), and a member of the DMTF’s Open Software Defined Data Center (OSDDC) Incubator. He has written about and spoken on a wide range of IT storage topics and regularly speaks at conferences and seminars throughout Europe & the US.

Mike Taylor - Head of Global Internal Audit, Experian plc

Mike Taylor
Head of Global Internal Audit, Experian plc

Mike has been Head of Global Internal Audit for Experian, the FTSE 100 listed global information services company, since August 2012. Experian provides data and analytical tools to clients around the world with approximately 17,000 staff operating out of 39 countries.

He has responsibility for all aspects of internal audit planning and execution, the strategic development of the function and the maintenance of sound and effective audit practices. The role extends to working with senior management to strengthen risk management and internal controls and to ensure the effective operation of sound corporate governance. He is also a member of the Group’s Executive Risk Management Committee.

In some 22 years in the internal audit, risk management, compliance and corporate governance world, Mike has been engaged in the:

Mike holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bath and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, having qualified initially as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand (PwC). He has had extensive experience of the financial services sector working in general management and operational transformation roles as well as in governance functions. He has held leadership posts in Finance, Risk Management, Compliance, Security and Internal Audit. Mike places great importance on building effective relationships between audit and senior management and on co-ordinating assurance activity in order to optimise the value and relevance of audit execution.

Peter Armstrong

Peter Armstrong
Executive Director - Cyber, Willis Group

Peter joined Willis Group in 2014 to lead the development of the Global Cyber Practice. Peter’s background is largely in the Cyber Security, Security and Defence sectors where he led consulting and services businesses: most recently, prior to joining Willis, Peter led the Thales Cyber Security Business. Peter is a leading thinker and influencer in the cyber security sector: he sits on the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) a joint UK Government-Industry body where he leads the development of the standards and measurement framework mandated through contracting in the UK MoD supply chain from 2015. He is a representative on the UK Cyber Growth Partnership and sits on the TechUK Cyber Management Committee. In addition to the more usual Enterprise Cyber expertise, Peter also has particular expertise in Industrial Control Systems cyber security within the Critical National Infrastructure Environment including the nuclear sector.

For much of his career prior to Thales, Peter led cyber and security activities for one of the UK Government’s sensitive agencies in the UK and overseas working with Defence, Home Affairs and Treasury Departments as well as leading Finmeccanica’s Global Battle space Business and the Unisys European Commercial technology services business. Peter’s early career was spent as an officer in the Royal Navy where he served in Nuclear Submarines: his first degree is in Economics and he holds a Master’s Degree in IT & Management from Sheffield in the UK and is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.

Charles Cai

Charles Cai
Head of Data Science Technology,
Leading Oil and Gas Trading Company

Charles Cai has more than two decades of experience and track record of global transformational programme deliveries - from vision, evangelism to end-to-end execution- in global investment banking, and energy trading companies where he excelled at designing and building innovative, large scale, Big Data systems in high volume low latency trading, global Energy Trading & Risk Management, and advanced temporal and geospatial predictive analytics.

As Chief Front Office Technical Architect and then Head of Data Science at a major Oil and Gas trading company, and previously at Investment Banks, he has earned a reputation of a leading expert, true innovator, disruptor and intrapreneur in Front Office commodity trading and risk management; in recent years, he has been an evangelist and practitioner in Big Data and Data Science practices. Charles brings in a huge experience and expertise in designing and implementing Data Science platforms with software-defined data center open source projects and data scientist tooling. He’s a frequent speaker at Google Campus, Big Data Innovation Summit, Cloud World Forum, Data Science London, QCon London and MoD CIO Symposium etc, promoting knowledge and best practice sharing with audience ranging from developers, data scientists, to senior executives from both IT and business background.

Over the last 3 years, he has been leading projects like distributed machine learning of global energy flow prediction, scalable and secured on-Prem and Cloud Big Data architecture, Big Data / Data-Science-as-a-Service. He also advises CXO level in Retail, Commercial & Investment Banking, Asset Management, Publishing, Media, eCommerce, Insurance, and Telecommunications on disruptive technologies and business models and hands-on machine learning practices. He was a co-founder to have built a global private bank which went public in HKSE in 2013. In his spare time, he attend and won a few hackathons awards. He also helps organize meetups and hackathons for Data Science London, a non-profit-organization with 5000 data scientists registered in UK and Europe, with recent ones like Xbox Gaming Hack at Microsoft campus, Urban Air Quality Hackathon at Future Cities Catapult and Urban City Innovation Centre. He aims to provide this crowdsourcing model with a state-of-the-art data science platform capable of serving 800-1000 data scientists globally in 8-10 cities to tackle life science challenges later this year, partnered with Alzheimer Society.

He has advanced knowledge and experience in Scala, Python, C# / F#, C++, Java, R, Haskell programming languages. He's a certified TOGAF9 architect, certified EMC Associate data scientist, and certified CNE4 Novell network engineer. Charles holds a BSc Hons in Electronic Engineering, EIS (Electronics and Information Systems), from Fudan University (Shanghai, China).

Silvio de Girolamo

Silvio de Girolamo
Chief Audit and Sustainability Executive
Autogrill

Silvio de Girolamo is in charge as Group Chief Internal Audit & CSR Officer of Autogrill Group since 2000. Autogrill is the world’s leading provider of food & beverage for travellers.

He is also Member of Supervisory Board (D. Lgs 231) Autogrill S.p.A. and Member of Supervisory Board Autogrill Austria and AC Holding Nederland.

Silvio holds various positions within professional organizations: European Confederation Internal Auditing Institutes (E.C.I.I.A.) Board Member; Italian Association Internal Audit (A.I.I.A) Vice President (Italian Chapter); CSR Manager Network Board Member; Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Stakeholder Council Member.

Prior to that Silvio worked in a wide variety of multinational organisations, including the Italian energy oil company ENI S.p.A. and the American company 3M Minnesota Manufacturing developing more than twenty years of experience in the field of Sustainability, Corporate Governance, Internal Auditing and Risk Management. Silvio is speaker in various international conferences on the above mentioned matters.

He is author of the book "Profession Auditor: yesterday, today and tomorrow" – Egea 2015, and co-author of the following books concerning Corporate Governance: "A trip of values" – Egea 2008 and Sustainability: "Good for Companies good of society" Franco Angeli 2012. He also teaches I.A. and Corporate Governance themes in the main italian universities.

Pritesh Dattani

Pritesh Dattani
Thomas Cook,
Group Head of Internal Audit

Pritesh Dattani is the Group Head of Internal Audit at Thomas Cook Group plc. Previously, he worked in Abu Dhabi for five years with Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC) and Etihad Airways. His expertise is in Governance, Risk Management and Compliance having created an Internal Audit function at easyJet plc, started Etihad Airways’ anti-fraud framework and established Enterprise Risk Management at ADNEC. Pritesh began his career in the UK with Ernst & Young in External Audit.

Kirsty Rutter

Kirsty Rutter
MD, Head of Operational Risk: Finance, Treasury, Operations & Technology

Kirsty Rutter is a Managing Director and Head of Operational Risk across Global Finance, Treasury, Operations and IT, based in London; shaping and challenging the management of operational risk through transparent governance, tools and processes. She partners with the Investment Bank and Private Bank & Wealth Management to align objectives and risk appetite to strengthen financial and operational performance and inform strategic decision making.

Kirsty joined Credit Suisse in August 2012 from Barclays, where she was more recently the Global Head of Strategy & Planning for the Corporate Bank. She has more than 18 years of broad experience in financial services with a strong change background and a disciplined approach to planning and portfolio management. Prior to working for Barclays, she held positions in business planning and analysis, product control, treasury finance and operations at JP Morgan and Cargill.

Kirsty holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics with Management from the University of Liverpool and is a Chartered Management accountant.

Eddy Ngoy

Eddy Ngoy
Group IT Process Lead, Mercuria

Eddy Ngoy is the Group IT Process Lead at Mercuria Energy Trading. Previously, he worked with Roche, UBS and Philip Morris International in Switzerland. His expertise is in IT audit, IT risk management and IT process management.

With Roche Diagnostics International Ltd.’s headquarters in Switzerland, Mr Ngoy, as IT auditor, reviewed design controls inspectional objectives and key products deliverables, ranging from IVD products to applied sciences products (with P&L impact of above USD 600 million in 2013).

Mr. Ngoy’s first degree is in computer sciences and he holds a Master’s Degree in Business information systems from the University of Lausanne. Mr Ngoy is also a certified IS auditor (CISA), certified risk professional (CRISC) and certified project manager (PMP).

Ralph Zwierzina, CISO GBS&Corporate Centre, Deutsche Post World Net

Ralph Zwierzina
CISO GBS&Corporate Centre, Deutsche Post World Net

Ralph Zwierzina holds a degree in theoretical Physical Chemistry from Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf. He was 2 years Project Manager global (build and run) for TELESET datacentres for one of global leading postage meter companies. After 5 years as a Senior Consultant with an international Management Consultancy in Banking/Finance he became Chief Information Security Officer for Global Business Services&Corporate Centre division and held other Information Risk Management positions within Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL). Ralph currently works as an interim manager Information Risk and Compliance for customer product within Parcel eCommerce and Post division within DP DHL and other clients within financial industry.

Ralph Zwierzina, CISO GBS&Corporate Centre, Deutsche Post World Net

Caroline AGLETINER
AML Project Manager, Sr.Compliance Officer, Retail Banking France and International, Société Générale

Caroline Agletiner is managing the AML Project for Retail banking France and International. She was before responsible for leading the "Compliance Risk Assessment" (CRA) worldwide project at Société Générale in Paris.

Her primary areas of focus include banking and financial compliance risk assessment, global banking compliance subjects and Audit.

Before leading this project, Caroline was Compliance Officer, fixed rates dealing room at Société Générale in Paris.

Prior to that experience, she was Internal Audit Manager, Compliance Officer and Internal Controller at HSBC Securities Services, Bank of Bermuda and Fairbank (a member of PPR group) in Luxembourg.

She started her career 18 years ago as an Auditor by PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Luxembourg.

Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson
Director, CERT – UK

Chris Gibson spent over 12 years working in the CERT world at Citigroup and was on the board of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) for 10 years; with 2 years as Chair. Together these have allowed him to work with colleagues from both inside one of the world’s largest global financial institutions and also with colleagues from the incident response community – ranging from Microsoft and Oracle through to the national CERT’s of Azerbaijan and Indonesia.

At Citigroup he was responsible for the global digital forensic program and strategy, including all operational aspects of investigations into Cybercrime in Citigroup’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. This included overseeing both the digital forensics and investigation as well as reporting to senior management on on-going cases, trends and threats.

Within FIRST he implemented the Fellowship program. This was created to fund national CERTs from UN designated “Least Developed Nations” (LDCs), allowing them to join FIRST and attend conferences and training, thereby starting to create the relationships that bring the most benefits to the incident response community.

He is a former member of the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) Cyber Advisory Panel.

Chris joined CERT-UK in November 2013.

Renaud Di Francesco

Renaud Di Francesco
Director Europe Technology Standards, SONY

Renaud Di Francesco, PhD is an engineer who has started his career as a researcher in real time signal processing and detection, and then managed teams in research, technology and business development, in areas such as Enterprise Satellite Networks and Services (VSAT), International Core Networks, Multimedia technologies for Media and Devices, the Internet of Things and Big Data, in organisations such as operators (AT&T, Orange), the European Commission, and Sony.

Nicholas Carter

Nicholas Carter
Head of Internal Audit, Colt Technology

Nicholas Carter is Head of Group Internal Audit for Colt Technology Services. Nicholas has significant background in Business and Technology Audits, Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity. Nicholas is a CA(SA) chartered accountant, having qualified with Deloitte in South Africa. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

John Joyce

John Joyce
Head of Enterprise Risk Management
ACMA SIRM

John is a chartered accountant (ACMA) and Specialist Member of the Institute of Risk Management (SIRM) with over 25 experience in financial services with HSBC, Nat West and Allianz. His Risk Management career began in 2006 when he was asked to design and implement a risk management framework for the Allianz global operating entity (Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty). His current role as Head of Enterprise Risk Management for Allianz Insurance Plc includes all elements of ORSA, regulatory and Group interaction and the implementation of SII Pillar 3.

John is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Operational Risk Insurance Consortium (ORIC International).

Terence Greer-Kin

Terence Greer-King
Director, Cyber Security
Cisco

Terry Greer-King is director of security for Cisco UK&I, and having been at the forefront of the industry for the last ten years, is an acknowledged leader and authority on cyber security. Terry regularly engages at senior level with CIOs, major partners, service providers and other key vendors in the IT Security space, and is a key spokesperson at both industry events and in the press. Prior to Cisco, Terry was managing director of Check Point Software’s UK operation.

Mark Everard

Mark Everard
Global Head, Regulatory Affairs Risk Assessment, HSBC London

Mr. Mark Everard is the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs Risk Assessment for HSBC London. In his role, Mark is helping establish a Global Regulatory Affairs & Policy function to manage risk across HSBC’s Regulatory Engagement, Regulatory Development, and Policy Governance functions globally across the HSBC Group . Prior to joining HSBC, Mark worked on the set-up of the Financial Conduct Authority, which was established to replace the Financial Services Authority in April 2011

Mark has significant other experience working with large global financial services businesses both directly and also through 10 years of consulting experience at Booz Allen Hamilton (6 years) and Accenture (4 years).

Mark educational credentials include a Law Degree from Lancaster University.

Isabel Smith

Isabel Smith
Director of Internal Audit and eGRC Program, Johnson & Johnson

As Director of Internal Audit at Johnson and Johnson, Inc, Ms. Smith is the eGRC (enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance) Program Lead. Her background comes from multi-disciplinary experience in multiple compliance roles, Audit, IT delivery and Supply Chain. In her multiple roles she has acted as a change agent with strengths in identifying collaboration and integration opportunities.

Prior to J&J, Ms. Smith worked as a consultant in the ERP areas for Coopers and Lybrand. Prior to consulting, she moved through areas of increasing responsibility in the Consumer OTC arena including General Management, Operations, Quality / Regulatory and Sales Development in both local and global assignments.

Ms. Smith has her MBA in International business from Rutgers and did graduate and undergraduate work in Biology and Biochemistry. She and her family live in North Eastern Pennsylvania where she has served 12 years as Board member for her local School district and also the Board for the Northeastern PA Special Education Organization.

Bruce Mann

Bruce Mann
Executive Director of the Government Property Unit

Bruce became the Executive Director of the Cabinet Office's Government Property Unit in 2012, responsible for ensuring the effective utilisation of the government’s land and property portfolio, and the release of surplus or under-used estate for more productive use. In this role, he has led the Strategic Land and Property review, identifying up to £6bn of central government assets that could be released by 2020, and is overseeing the development and implementation of a new commercially-driven approach to land and property asset management across the central government estate, as announced in Budget 2015.

Bruce joined the Ministry of Defence in 1979. He worked in policy roles including nuclear, the Falklands and Gulf conflicts, and Private Secretary to the MoD’s Permanent Secretary. He was appointed Director for Defence Policy in 1994, then Director for European Policy, leading on NATO enlargement and developing work on EU defence policy and capabilities. He later took up the post of Director General for Financial Management. He was seconded to the Cabinet Office in February 2004 to act as Secretary to Lord Butler’s Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction, before moving on to be Director of Civil Contingencies in the Cabinet Office, leading on work on the UK’s preparedness for and response to major emergencies. In 2009 he became Finance Director of the Cabinet Office, stepping down from this role in 2015 to focus solely on the property agenda.

David Herbinet

David Herbinet
Global Head of Audit, Mazars

David has over 20 years’ auditing experience. He has been the client service partner for some of Mazars’ largest international and strategic audit clients.

He has significant experience of auditing organisations across a range of sectors including media, technology, property and construction, aerospace and defence, and waste management.

Clients include global advertising giant, Publicis, leading defence contractor Thales and Hachette UK, a top three UK book publisher.

He is a member of the Audit Faculty Committee of the ICAEW and also Mazars’ representative with EcoDa, the European voice of Board directors. David has played a critical role in the launch and development of two major Mazars initiatives: the Centre for Audit Committee and Investor Dialogue and Business in Society. He continues to lead these ground-breaking initiatives.

David Ragan

David Ragan
Director of Risk Management & Compliance, Steamship Insurance Management Services

David Ragan has 15 years' experience at the cutting edge of global insurance regulatory compliance and risk management. After degrees in modern languages and law he began his career with Barclays Bank before moving to small generalist insurer Sterling Insurance in 2004. From there he went to ACE Europe as P&C Compliance Officer before joining French mutual Groupama Insurances as Head of Group Compliance and Company Secretary in 2008.

Remaining in the mutual insurance sector, David is now Director of Risk Management & Compliance at marine liability specialist Steamship Mutual.

Most recently he has piloted his firm through the turbulent waters of Solvency II and is on the cusp of going into production with Steamship's MetricStream-based GRC platform.

George Soulellis

George Soulellis
Managing Director, Decision Management, Barclays UK & Western Europe Retail Banking

George Soulellis is Managing Director of Decision Management for Barclays Personal & Corporate Bank. Currently based in London, he has responsibilities for the areas of Capital & Credit Risk Modelling, Pricing Optimisation and Operational Risk Modelling. Prior to joining Barclays, George held analytic leadership positions with CitiGroup, General Electric, JP Morgan Chase and TD Bank. His particular areas of expertise reside in price elasticity modelling/optimisation and advanced analytic techniques within the model development space.

Peter Cox,  Director, Internal Audit, Barclays

Peter Cox
Director, Internal Audit, Barclays

Peter is a Director in the Internal Audit function at Barclays. He has worked in Internal Audit since 1999. Peter began his career in the UK as an IT consultant with Andersen Consulting.

For the past five years, Peter has managed Barclays Internal Audit’s technology and finances. He has a particular interest in new and emerging GRC technologies, and how these technologies can be used to enhance the working experience for auditors, risk managers, and compliance officers.

Thorsten Eidmann

Thorsten Eidmann (CISSP)
Information Security Officer
Styrolution Group GmbH

Thorsten Eidmann is an Information Security Officer at Styrolution with over 10 years of experience in Information Security Management, IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.

He holds the CISSP certificate and studied Business Information Systems at the Dual University of Mannheim, Germany. His skills and expertise include developing and implementing the IT Security Management from scratch, covering the creation and implementation of IT security policies, security processes and guidelines, implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery procedures, investigating IT security related incidents, and performing internal and external audits. Just to name a few.

He is a big science fiction fan of Star Wars and Star Trek.

Thorsten Eidmann

Umar Zaman
Chief Administrative Officer - Global Risk and Control,
AXA Investment Managers

Umar has over 15 years international experience in Asset / Wealth Management, working with and advising executives on strategic initiatives including setting up new businesses, managing acquisitions, post-merger integrations, defining corporate strategy, designing operating models and leading strategic change.

During his 10 years at AXA Investment Managers, Umar has held various roles and spearheaded a number of global strategic initiatives across the organization including the design and implementation of AXA investment Managers Global Risk and Control Framework. More recently, Umar has set-up and managed a Global Regulatory Change department to address the challenges created by the raft of new regulation which is radically reshaping the financial services industry.

Prior to AXA Investment Managers, Umar joined the founders of a financial solutions start-up company during its infancy stages and successfully secured $20M from JPMorgan to launch a European Fund Supermarket. Umar started his career as a consultant at BT; bidding for, designing and launching mobile networks across Europe.

Umar holds a BSc in Computer Science & Physics, MSc in Telecommunications and an MBA from Warwick Business School.