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Elke Baumann joined Novartis in 1998. Since joining Novartis, Elke has held various leadership positions in United Arb Emirates and Switzerland.
Today, Elke is leading Novartis’ enterprise-wide Ethics, Risk and Compliance related awareness and training program by embracing role-relevant, risk-based and innovative approaches to training. Furthermore, Elke and team are developing change management strategies on ERC’s enterprise-wide projects like Novartis’ new Code of Ethics. ore than 25 years of industry experience, in various commercial and compliance related roles, across different geographies enabled Elke to understand the challenges organizations face, when
operating across diverse cultures and the importance of ethical business practices.

Anh is an experienced Financial Services Executive with special concentration on Finance and Risk Management: well-versed in global business services, working across diverse backgrounds with proven results, bolstered by turnaround leadership strengths. She holds various risk management and audit certifications, and has a solid background in internal controls and governance related topics.

Cristian is a well-rounded Financial Services Executive with solid track records in several 1st and 2nd line of defense roles across diverse continents. Appointed as Board Member of several insurance entities in the last years, he also enjoys his role as visiting professor at Master programs specialized in Insurance, Finance, and Risk Management.

Cristian holds several Master certificates and has a strong background in valuation and finance related topics, as well as in business development.

Carmelo is legal and compliance counsel with 20+ years of experience in private practice in Italy and abroad. He has worked for international law firms and for multinational pharmaceutical/medical device companies. His experience in the pharmaceutical world includes patented drugs, generics, OTC products, vaccines, medical devices and diagnostics.

He takes care of day-to-day activities and of M&A and extraordinary transactions. His current area of responsibility is Compliance but he worked also within the Legal and Governance Department.

Dragana Radišić is finance and audit professional with a broad experience in accounting, financial auditing, internal auditing, internal control, corporate finance advisory, fraud investigation and implementation of a new way of working through digitalization, robotics and AI.

Her focus(es) and strenghts are identifying process improvements with an emphasis on financial controls, process-level controls, compliance, data integrity, and efficiency. Her expertise is providing an independent and objective assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of a company’s operations, specifically its internal control structure and mitigations of company’s risks. Throughout her career, Dragana has been overseeing multiple gepgraphic regions, including North America, South America and Europe.

Ursula recently created her own company to share her very broad experience in everything "Internal Audit, Compliance and Anti-Fraud" with her clients internationally. She was previously was Head of RTL Group Internal Audit since June 2004. She joined the Group in 2000 where she held several functions in Strategy and Controlling. Before joining the Group she worked for the European Commission (Eurostat) in Luxembourg.

Carl has more than 20 years of experience in improving business processes, especially in process and project driven companies such as construction and installation technology. His way of working is to professionalize organizations in close cooperation with the employees, in such a way that changes stick. This enables companies to make a next step and employees to focus on their core tasks.

He also has extensive experience in the entire area of Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Internal Control. From Sarbanes Oxley to for example Third Party Screening.

Jaap Gerkes is a managing director at Protiviti The Netherlands. He is leading the ESG initiative and is part of the global ESG team.

Camelia Gardot is Senior Compliance manager at Airbus (Defence and Space Division). Practicing as in-house counsel for international companies for more than 15 years, she has extensive experience in the areas of contract law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and intellectual property. She holds a Master’s degree in international business law from the University of Toulouse (France) and a “Mergers and Acquisitions” Diploma from the College of Law of England and Wales.

Pascal has more than 30 years of experience contributing to build success in the Software Industry in Europe including 20 years in the GRC world. For Diligent, as European Sales Director, Pascal and the Diligent team have contributed to support internal audit, internal control, compliance and risk departments in their goals and objectives with Diligent solutions. The Diligent vision from the Board to the operational is unique and meets the future technology challenge for all companies.

Beatriz has served as Nextclinics International’s group head of compliance, quality, and risk since May 2020. Bottner joined NextClinics from Diaverum, a Swedish healthcare business, where she had been global head of risk, compliance, and sustainability. 

Helene is a Global Risk and Compliance Director for Centrient Pharmaceuticals, a Netherlands-based world class pharmaceuticals company which is the global business-to-business leader in sustainable, enzymatic antibiotics, next-generation statins and anti-fungals. Her main responsibilities include implementing the compliance program and overseeing and managing regulatory compliance issues within Centrient. More specifically she focuses on compliance education, advice on competition law, trade controls, anti-bribery/corruption, privacy and cyber security matters.

Nazif is a Senior Corporate Risk Manager in Vattenfall. He brings over 15 years of experience in Energy and Automobile industries. Prior to Risk Management he has executed Strategy/ Business/ Product Development roles with international scope. He recently led development of a Cyber Risk program from risk assesment to insurance.

With nineteen (19) years of experience in the computer security and telecommunications industry with knowledge in aspects of business development, new service creation, service management, network design, software development and security architecture for global companies. His security, application and networking background is complimented with business management and legal studies.

Marleen Oberheide serves as an ESG Solutions Engineer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and trust technology platform. In her role, Marleen advises companies large and small on ESG Program Management and Reporting, following common frameworks such as SASB, GRI or TCFD. She also has a background in Data Privacy and strong knowledge of the world's privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programmes. Marleen is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM) and earned a Master’s in Management with Corporate Governance & Ethics from the Birkbeck School of Business, Economics and Informatics.

Elbert Hidding is an Internal Audit and Risk Management Professional at CGIAR, the most prominent research for development platform in the agricultural sector working on finding solutions to transform food, land and water systems in a climate crisis. Currently, he is leading the CGIAR Internal Audit Community of Practice, providing coaching and capacity building guidance to support the CGIAR's Internal Audit Functions to support reliability, consistency, and effectiveness of internal audit activities across the 6 CGIAR Internal Audit Entities. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant in the Netherlands, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Fraud Examiner and has a certification in Risk Management Assurance. Before CGIAR, he worked as an Internal Audit Head for a Large Dutch International NGO and EY in the Netherlands and Australia.

Peggy has In-depth experience in (Operational) risk management, internal audit including the financial reporting risk framework She established a governance concept to increase transparency and to pro-actively manage risks, controls, issues, applied company wide. Her functional areas of expertise include Finance, Treasury, and Asset Management. She has been Lead/member of strategic and regulatory projects (on behalf of Group CFO, Group CRO and Head Asset Management) and implemented global methodologies.

Anton Lissone is responsible for managing the development of SAI360’s products, including the integrated GRC Platform and the supporting solutions. He is also a thought leader in the area of GRC convergence and integrating different Governance, Risk and Compliance activities in one software platform. He has an extensive background in GRC implementations, IT-Auditing and Software Engineering. Previous responsibilities included Solution Development, Data Analytics and design and prototyping of new solutions. His previous career was with one of the Big Four companies as a Senior IT Advisor, where he had a leading role in their Continuous Monitoring efforts and consulted senior management of multiple multinationals in the area of ERP-Control and Assurance.

Andrea is currently responsible for the PayPal Internal Audit function in the international markets. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services in Italy, USA, Switzerland and Luxembourg.  Prior to PayPal, Andrea was at JPMorgan for 10 years where he held various positions, including Head of Internal Audit Luxembourg and Senior Leader of the Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) EMEA Finance projects management practice.  Andrea has a BS in Economics and Business Studies and has an MBA in Finance and International Business.

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