Eyvind Aven, Master in business administration, joined Statoil in 1992. He has experience from shipping, corporate planning and economic analysis both in Statoil and in banks. He is now heading the Enterprise Risk Management of Statoil's Performance Management and Risk.

Aven has more than 15 years of experience within the ERM approach and has been one of the key contributors in building up Statoil’s ERM. The ERM comprises both risk contribution to the Strategy work, financial robustness, risk assessments at group level including both risks with monetary and no financial impact. He has also the responsibility for the Risk management process in Statoil including functional and working requirements.

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).

Oliver Dieterle, is the Chief Audit Executive of Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit, Nuremberg, the Public Employment Service of Germany. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Government Auditing Professional and holds the Certification in Risk Management Assurance. Mr. Dieterle studied Business Economics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, where he obtained his master degree in business administration ("Diplom-Kaufmann") in 1989. He worked in group accounting before joining the Bundesagentur in 1992 to take up different management functions. He has been Chief Audit Executive of Bundesagentur’s internal audit department since 2003, a department with a nationwide staff of 200 which is responsible for the German Social Code II and III. Mr. Dieterle is a member of the Board of Directors of the German Institute of Internal Auditors (Deutsches Institut fuer Interne Revision), a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Internal Auditors, USA, and a member of the Public Sector Committee of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Mr. Innerhofer, CISA, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, has many years of experience in the analysis, assessment and management of risks and security aspects of modern information and communication technologies. He is an independent advisor and supports companies from various sectors – with a strong focus on the financial industry – in the fields of governance, risk management and compliance. He is author of numerous publications on the subject, and is a lecturer for IT Governance at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Applied Sciences Stralsund.

Massimo Cregut is the Head of Global Methodology in Unicredit SpA, one of the largest European banks employing 148,000 staff and 1,300 auditors.

With 35 years of experience in banking and asset management, of which the last 12 spent in Audit, he has gained broad competencies in auditing international, highly complex financial companies. He is responsible for defining the audit methodologies for the whole UniCredit Group and for developing and organizing the internal training for auditors with different level of seniority. Massimo has also a long experience in training, having run in the last years several classes on audit subjects and designed a number of eLearning courses.

Formerly, he was Global Head of Internal Audit in Pioneer Investments, the investment arm of Unicredit Group, responsible for the activities of 9 international audit teams. Prior to entering the audit family, Massimo had long experience as COO in banks in London and Switzerland, where he was assigned the responsibility of opening a Private Bank Unit for an Italian Banking Group.

Rudi Hex has more than 20 years of internal audit experience with several major Belgian financial institutions. Currently Rudi is audit program manager at the Brussels based KBC Group and is responsible for developing the audit methodology within KBC group worldwide. Rudi is also secretary to the KBC Group Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee.

Rudi is past president of the IIA Belgium chapter which represents more than 1500 audit professionals. He obtained the CIA and the CFSA certifications.

Rudi regularly speaks on trainings, conferences and seminars on topics related to internal audit, internal control and corporate governance.

Rose Chapman is the Global Head of Compliance and Ethics at Travelport, Inc. In her role, Rose is responsible for enterprise-wide development, management and delivery of Global Compliance & Ethics policies, processes and training, as well as carrying out investigations. Rose’s collaborative style encourages engagement with governance functions and the business across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific to ensure consistent application of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Until February 2013, Rose was Chief Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer of Towers Watson Capital Markets Ltd, and travelled extensively as Global Regulatory Compliance Manager for entities in the Towers Watson corporate group. Rose also lectures for the International Compliance Association and is a committee member of the UK’s Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers.

Rose holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law, gained at the University of London’s Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She also has various postgraduate qualifications, including Management Studies from Middlesex University, and diplomas in Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Services Regulatory Compliance from the International Compliance Association.”

Philip has specialised in providing risk management solutions to the global financial services industry for his entire career, first as an insurance broker and latterly as an enterprise and operational risk management specialist. He established and managed HSBC’s Operational Risk Consulting practice in 1994 and ran it for 10 years before establishing Enterprise Risk Advisors Ltd. During this time he worked with financial service companies in 42 countries around the world. Philip specialises in the design, implementation and embedding of Enterprise and Operational Risk Management Frameworks and assisting companies develop appropriate risk management strategies. In recent times Philip assisted RBS Insurance separate its activities from the RBS Group resulting in a successful IPO and is currently assisting the Rainbow project at RBS create a new bank in order to divest 300 branches. Philip has lectured extensively around the world and is a regular contributor to trade magazines. He is a Past Chairman of the Council of the Institute of Operational Risk where he was elected a Fellow in November 2005.

In January 2009, Philip was elected one of the “Global top 50 faces” in operational risk management by OpRisk & Compliance Magazine.

Donna has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry and has worked as an operational leader for the last 15 years. Currently the UK Sourcing Manager for Zurich Insurance Company Ltd, she is responsible for UK supplier assurance management and reporting of over 400 suppliers. Donna joined Zurich following her role as Head of Collections for Aviva’s UK General Insurance business where she was responsible for 500 employees and key offshore suppliers managing the end to end collection process. Since joining Zurich in 2012, Donna has taken up a number of roles in the Sourcing arena; initially as Offshore Manager, before becoming an Operations Manager for the Personal Lines area of the business, where she was again responsible for the oversight of the key outsourced providers, before moving into her current role in 2013. Donna spends her working week in Southampton before returning home to Norwich for the weekend where she lives with her partner Kevin and her dog Molly.

Chartered Accountant, Certified Treasury Professional and Certified Forensic Accountant, having more than 15+ years of experience in Treasury, Risk Management, Financial Reporting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Compliance, Taxation, Management consulting, Business process re-engineering and IT System implementation domains.

Areas of Expertise
- Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Governance & Compliance
- Financial Risk Management - Fx, Interest Rate, commodity, Credit & Liquidity Risk Management
- Corporate Finance & Invest Management
- Banking & Treasury Management
- Strategies and Restructures
- Audit & Internal controls
- IT systems implementation & Business Process Re-engineering

Philippa has been Director of the IBE since 2001 after 25 years of business experience in a number of UK and international companies, having started her career at Citibank. She speaks widely on business ethics issues, encouraging high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values.

She currently sits on the Boards/Advisory Boards of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, and RAND Europe. She chairs the Antarctic Place Names Committee and is former chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.

Philippa was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours 2006 for services to the Ministry of Defence, in July 2008 was awarded the BITC Marks & Spencer Sieff Award and in January 2014 a CBE for services to Antarctic Heritage.

Mike is the Chief Strategist for Enterprise Security Services and has responsibility for the EMEA Cyber Security strategy for the Public Sector. His interests include EU Governmental relations and the Cyber Security Digital Agenda. He is a commentator on the evolving cyber threat landscape and the impact that the rapid growth of the internet has on society and organisations.

Prior to this role Mike was the CEO of a Cyber Security Group and co-founder of Executive Risk Magazine – Cyber Security & Risk for Executives. Mike has also served as UK Managing Director for an IT Global Services organisation where he ran teams of ethical hackers, CLAS, CHECK, Risk management and ISO27001 Consultants prior to this being aquired by KPMG.

Mike is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (C|CISO) and security practice leader with over 30 years’ experience as a retained adviser and consultant to a number of corporates and organisations. He is also an Executive Director for the ISSA (UK) and is an executive member on pan government advisory boards and technology forums on digital security-related matters. He is Chairman of The Cyber Stratagist Forum a group of industry professionals that provides a thought leadership perspective on the bigger issues that affect government, business and society.

He has developed and delivered professional services and education security programmes as a senior director on large secure implementations at national level for household names and FTSE 100 organisations as well as into central government, criminal justice, policing and specialist security services on cyber security initiatives aimed at making the internet a safer place to work and conduct business.

Mike is a regular commentator and public speaker with the media. Previously as an Interim Senior Civil Servant Director (SCS Grade 2 – Military 2* General equivalent) he has worked into ministerial and programme board level in central government on large and complex government initiatives.

Mike was educated in the British Military where he spent the first ten years of his career as a communications technician working in international high security environments. He has worked with a range of government agencies and teams including; CEOP/SOCA, NPIA, MoD, MoJ, special forces, police, Big 4 consultancies and as managing director for a List X GCHQ accredited CLAS and CHECK facility.

Mike is an advisor to industry and government on Cyber Security Next Generation Design including big data analytics, threat monitoring and defence, VOC, SOC and CERT Initiatives and has conducted cyber breach audits on high profile compromised and hacked organisations. He is also an NLP Practitioner and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management and is a MENSA Top 1% member.

Mike is available to comment and provide a HP ESS View Point on strategic matters relating to Digital (Cyber) security and the impact of breaches, threats and solutions to help defend the Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), Government and Industry.

Michael has over 10 years intensive professional work experience, gained in the financial sector in areas of; Internal Audit and Controls, Anti-Money Laundering, Corporate Governance and Enterprise Risk Management. He is currently the Group Head of Risk and Compliance at Chase Bank (Kenya) Ltd responsible for the Group’s full spectrum of Enterprise Risk Management including Anti- Money Laundering governance. Previously he worked at The Co-operative Bank of Kenya in various control functions, last being in the Internal Audit function.

Michael is fiercely Passionate about Enterprise Risk Management, Controls & Good Corporate Governance.

Abeed Hossain is an international technology leader with over 21 years of experience in managing IT operations, service delivery, and programmes across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, he has multi sector experience in chemical manufacturing, professional services, software manufacturing, international relations, TV media, internet security, e-Commerce, and market research. He did his B .Sc. in industrial engineering at the University of Arkansas, USA and is an enthusiast in current affairs, music, travelling, and world arts & cultures.

His skills and expertise include developing and implementing global IT strategy, financial management and ROI, technology and vendor selection, business relationship management 24/7 Global IT operations management and enterprise governance, risk, & compliance (eGRC) just to name a few.

Caroline Agletiner is 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 and global banking compliance subjects. 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.

Sukhi Gill is the HP Enterprise Services chief technologist for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) where he is responsible for overall technical direction, innovation and leading the senior client facing technical leaders and key Account Chief Technologists in HP’s second-largest market. Gill is also an HP Fellow in Enterprise Services, a title awarded to the corporation’s most innovative thought leaders in recognition of their exceptional achievements.

Gill has 27 years of experience in the IT industry. For the last ten years, he has held a range of chief technologist and enterprise architect roles, establishing successful partnerships with key business sponsors, influencing strategic and architectural direction, and ensuring organizations gain significant business advantage through the strategic deployment of technology and process innovation.

Gill moved to the HP Office of Strategy and Technology in 2008 from his role as the HP led ATLAS Consortium chief technology officer where he was responsible for technical strategy and innovation for the UK Ministry of Defence’s Information Infrastructure (DII) program. DII is a service based infrastructure outsourcing program with 150,000 seats and more than 300,000 users across all of the UK armed forces.

Prior to his return to the UK in 2004, Gill was the chief engineer on the Navy and Marine Corps (NMCI) account, based in San Diego, California. NMCI is the largest U.S. federal government outsourcing contract in history, providing the U.S. Department of Navy a service-based infrastructure contract for a user community of approximately 800,000.

Before working on NMCI, Gill was infrastructure technical director at the UK Inland Revenue account. Gill transitioned to EDS from the UK Inland Revenue Agency in 1994.

Dr. Modestus currently serves as the Director of Risk Management at Bank of Tanzania where he has led the development of Corporate Risk Management Framework, Policy, and Guidelines for Bank of Tanzania. He has also participated in drafting the EA-MAC Harmonized ERM Framework. In the past, he has worked in IT and been a lecturer in the same field. He obtained his PHD in Computer Science and has had vast experience in the risk management and IT space.

Manoj Chawla has served as General Manager, Risk of ENBD since September 2013. Prior to joining ENBD Manoj worked in risk management with a large global bank and was based in Thailand, Singapore and most recently as Chief Risk Officer, UAE with the Bank. Manoj is a seasoned risk professional with over 20 years of experience in risk management across various risk disciplines with key expertise in building risk infrastructure, portfolio restructuring and management, managing merger and acquisition risk. By background Manoj is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Lawyer, Company Secretary and a Certified Islamic Finance executive.

Andy is a serial entrepreneur having founded his first company at 23 years of age. He has over 30 years of experience focused on building great companies and taking products and services to market and is now on his 6th company as Chief Executive Officer. Currently Andy is CEO and Chairman of Boardwalktech, Inc. a Silicon Valley based software company with operations throughout the United States, a wholly owned subsidiary in India and customers around the world. Boardwalktech has developed a patented collaboration platform focused on Enterprise Spreadsheet Data Management and is a partner with MetricStream. Andy also is on the Board of Directors and is an investor in several Silicon Valley based companies. Prior to Boardwalktech, Andy served as President and CEO of Advanced Data Exchange, The EC Company, and Buena Vista Software.

Grace leads the EMEA Information Governance Practice within the Analytics & Data Management organisation; part of Enterprise Services and is recognised as a worldwide competency lead for Records and Information Management. Grace joined HP through the TOWER Software acquisition and has over 15 years of Information Management experience together with over 10 years of Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) experience. Grace’s previous roles include UK&I Autonomy Practice Lead and ECM Programme Manager; Grace has in this time successfully managed and delivered enterprise wide Information Governance solutions in a diverse range of sectors. She is now responsible for evangelising both the business and technology messages therein across HP, partners and customers.

Gareth Martin is HP’s Big Data Analytics lead for EMEA. He has been working at HP on innovative solutions in the Analytics and Data Management space for four years and took over the ownership of the Big Data Analytics portfolio for EMEA in 2013. Gareth’s team works on a variety of solutions for our customers in spaces such as; machine and sensor data analysis, social media analysis, eDiscovery, event and streaming data analytics, and image, voice and video analytics to name a few. Prior to joining HP, Gareth worked in the Business Intelligence consulting space for 7 years with particular focus on Utilities, FSI, Retail and Professional Services.

Mike is Head of the UK’s Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) practice based in London. He has 23 years of experience and has been seconded from the US firm in the past year. Prior to joining the US firm, Mike also spent time with both the Canadian and Australian member firms. Additionally, he leads the Energy & Natural Resources sector for the UK’s Risk Consulting practice.

Mike has global experience across various industries including energy & natural resources, consumer markets, industrial markets, financial and professional services. His experience includes evaluating and designing risk management and GRC programs, conducting best practice/benchmarking reviews, leading board effectiveness assessments, conducting enterprise risk assessments, and helping companies implement GRC and risk management programs.

- In addition to client service responsibilities, Mike has served as a lead Advisory partner supporting the implementation of ERM within KPMG LLP in the U.S. firm as well as KMPG International.

- He has designed and instructed ERM and Governance, Risk and Compliance training programs throughout North America, Latin America, and Europe – to clients, their Boards and internally to KPMG personnel.

- Mike is a frequent panelist and speaker on ERM and related subjects for organizations such as KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute.

Rafael has more than 15 years of experience in risk management and analytical consulting in financial institutions and large corporations in USA, LatAm, Europe and South Africa. Project experience expands in capital adequacy evaluation process, operational risk management and quantification, risk based pricing, leasing residual value modelling, credit risk management and economic capital. Also, he has defined RAROC frameworks including its integration into marketing decisions. Partculartly, Rafael has recently focused on implementing operational risk capital models and helping the institutions to obtain their regulatory approval in Africa, USA, Europe, and LatAm