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Helping the best beer company to fight against corruption and bribery. Angel Corbacho, Law Graduate and registered member of the BAR, is currently Compliance Officer in Anheuser Busch-InBev, the world’s largest brewer. With great international knowledge, he is responsible for the European and Middle East region. In addition, he teaches Intellectual Property and Civil Law at Prague Film School. A consolidated public speaker with a life-long experience in Legal and Compliance in various industries, he can provide an insight into why compliance matters.

Andy joined Dow in 2011 as Corporate Investigations Manager for Europe, Africa and Middle East. He later also assumed responsibility for India and Asia Pacific. While his primary engagement involves the detection, deterrence and prevention of fraud and corruption, he also supports the Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC) and the Regional Ethics and Compliance Committees (RECCs) in outreach and the promotion of awareness and provides investigative support and guidance to other functions.

Prior to joining Dow, Andy can look back on a long career in the public and private sector. He worked for Zurich Financial Services and Swiss Life, among others as Key Account Manager for Special Corporate Life Solutions, Product Manager Group Life Insurance and Employee Benefit Solutions, and Account Executive for Asset & Liability Management.

After qualifying as a corporate lawyer at international law firm Clifford Chance, Romny has travelled the world working as a General Counsel, operating at the C Suite and Board level in many different sectors including professional services, manufacturing, technology and fashion. For the past 6 years she has been the General Counsel of a  telecoms infrastructure joint venture,  where she heads up a team of 20+ lawyers and governance professionals. Applying her experience of operating as an Executive Director and as a Non Executive Director in many different types of organisations ( from start ups to SMEs,  JVs and listed companies), she brings considerable insight into governance, risk and compliance, reporting on these to the Board and the Audit and Risk Committee, internal audit and whistleblowing.

He graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 1997 and received his Ph.D. in law from the Institute of State and Law of Russian Academy of Science. Mr. Alferov has been involved in the management of international development and local self-government projects activities. His areas of expertise include project management‚ contract administration‚ grants management‚ logistics‚ financial management‚ contract negotiation‚ creation of branch offices‚ administrative systems design and implementation‚ etc. Mr. Alferov is responsible for implementation of the Halliburton compliance program in countries of Western and Eastern Europe, Caspian and Africa‚ including but not limited with revision of contracts in terms of compliance to FCPA‚ UK Anti-Bribery Act‚ domestic legislation‚ conducting Due Diligence on vendors‚ assure compliance with legislation on IP‚ personal data protection‚ labor law‚ etc.

Michael is a compliance executive, communicator, and lawyer.
He has a 25+ years career in the US, Europe, and MEA with a compliance and risk focus in pharmaceutical, financial services, and automotive sectors. He has experience in Fortune Global 500, mid-sized, and start-up companies. He has MBA / JD degrees (admitted to practice law in California)

Jeppe is Group Compliance Manager with FLSmidth, a multinational mining and cement equipment supplier headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. His areas of responsibility covers anti-corruption, trade compliance, human rights and competition law as part of the Group Legal team. FLSmidth's compliance priorities are guided by regular risk assessments and most key capabilities are developed in-house, including due diligence research and data analytics. Over the last couple of years, we have completed more than 1,000 due diligence screenings in-house based on an AI platform, as well as several hundreds of internal investigations. Previously, Jeppe worked with public sector and civil society anti-corruption efforts in Africa, the former Soviet Union as well as compliance in the medical device sector.

In 2017, Sandrine joined Hexagon Geosystems, part of Hexagon, as Divisional Compliance Officer, a Division of 6000 employees based in Switzerland. Early 2021, Sandrine took over the role as Group Compliance Director for Hexagon. She is responsible for a seamless continuation of the advancement of Hexagon  compliance programme and assist also with ESG related initiatives. Sandrine brings more than 10 years expertise in compliance in international  industrial companies at strategic and operational level.

Patrick Wellens, CCEP-I, CFE, CIA, CRMA, MBA is a Global Compliance Business Partner for a division of a multinational pharma company, based in Switzerland. He has extensive experience in the implementation of a compliance management framework and has conducted numerous compliance investigations around the Globe. He is also a Board Member and co-chair of life science working group of Ethics and Compliance Switzerland, a not-for-profit organization promoting the development and sharing of compliance best practices and member of editorial Board of Society of Ethics & Compliance. He teaches Compliance Management at Fachhochschule Northwest Schweiz.

Simon is internationally recognised for his credentials and vast experience having successfully led, directed and managed investigations across the world, delivering results with commensurate preventative and remedial measures.

Simon is a published author and commentator, having appeared amongst others on the BBC & CNN and has been widely published in media, journals and scholarly articles over the past 20 years. His expertise in major investigation management, Integrity / Ethics / Compliance related practices together with his relationship and stakeholder management activities are a clear demonstration of his proven ability to facilitate consensus through negotiation and collaboration with senior management teams and stakeholders across global regions and geographies.

Keith is an award-winning thought leader and expert in compliance, ethics, culture, bribery, supply chain and risk management. He was formerly the Group Director of Compliance and Ethics for BT (British Telecom) with responsibility for compliance, ethics and regulatory risk management, covering 150,000 employees and contractors operating in some 176 countries. He is a past winner of the Compliance Register’s Best Compliance Officer Award, when he also won the Best Compliance Company award; he was subsequently the subject of a full-page Daily Telegraph national press article – ‘Compliance and Science’.

He has an innovative and practical approach to compliance and governance, using techniques such as ‘Compliance not Complacence’ – whilst recognising the ‘Cost of Compliance’. His Whitepaper – ‘The Compliance Covenant’ – takes a new & highly original approach to the challenge facing all compliance officers; that of changing the significant ‘push’ needed to deliver & maintain an effective compliance programme into employee ‘pull’.

Neil started his career in marketing in the tech industry, spending three years at Amazon before getting his first taste of Customer Success with Facebook in 2016. He joined Convercent as a Senior Customer Success Manager in 2019 and is now the Head of Adoption. Today, he helps ethics and compliance teams and their organisations create meaningful Speak-Up programmes.

Ashu Sharma has over 18 years experience in investigation and financial crime risk management. He has worked in various roles in the UK and abroad in banking, law enforcement and the regulatory sector, including at HSBC and the UK Serious Fraud Office. Ash is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Financial Crime Specialist.

Stephen has multi-industry experience of implementing compliance, ethics and anti-corruption programmes.  He sits on the Cabinet Offices cross sector advisory group and has a commendation from the UN Ambassador to NATO for his anti-corruption work. His interest is in producing ethical and cultural frameworks based on value based models. Stephen has an MBA and is a published author.   

With 20 years’ experience across 50+ countries (inc high risk/regulated products) Stephen's previous leadership roles include: CECO for Rio Tinto, deputy head of ethics & integrity/head of operations (Rio Tinto), global co-head of investigations/whistleblowing (Rio Tinto) and EMEA manager, business integrity (BP). In-house, Stephen has led and overseen significant cross jurisdictional matters (UKBA, FCPA etc) and compliance programme remediation including matters involving DoJ, SeC, ASIC, AFP, NCA, FCA and SFO;

Stephen is currently Group Head of Ethics & Compliance for Compass Group Plc (500k employees, 45 countries) responsible for continuing to strengthen the Group’s risk based compliance programme/control framework.

Andy’s role as Commercial Director at FACT360 is to deliver the Global GTM and Sales function driving growth globally.

He has held a number of roles building out sales organisations and growing company revenues in both UK and across EMEA. Most recently, as the VP and MD EMEA,  he built out the revenue model and drove significant growth in the EMEA business at Actifio Inc, a US start up based out of Boston focusing on Data Availability and Business Agility.

Jeff focuses on all aspects of compliance program design, roll-out and implementation, including training, risk assessment, due diligence on third parties, and monitoring/audit protocols. He has extensive experience in the compliance-related issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in post-merger compliance integration, and is adept at devising solutions to both the strategic and tactical compliance-related issues faced by companies, especially in high risk markets.

Olivia Allison is a senior managing director in the Investigations and Risk Advisory practice for K2 Integrity, resident in London. In her practice, Olivia assists international clients with managing risk and finding strategic solutions in challenging circumstances. She has extensive expertise leading anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) reviews for publicly listed companies; leading large-scale fraud investigations, asset search and recovery, internal investigations, and misconduct investigations.

Joanne Taylor, a senior managing director at K2 Integrity, has 20 years of legal, investigations and financial crime compliance experience, which includes fraud risk management, anti-bribery and corruption, regulatory enforcement and fraud investigations experience working within the financial and legal services industries. Joanne joined K2 Integrity from Deutsche Bank, where she served as managing director, global deputy head of anti-fraud, bribery, and corruption

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