Lila Acharya Partner

Crawford and Acharya

Lila Acharya is an experienced compliance and investigations attorney with a unique skillset developed from private practice, the public sector, and in-house compliance roles in the life sciences and manufacturing sectors.  In her roles as an in-house compliance attorney at Rolls-Royce plc and Pfizer, she investigated significant matters across EMEA and Asia, developed policies and procedures, trained employees and third parties, and led the implementation of an automated third-party due diligence platform.  Before going in house, she was an associate at Ropes & Gray LLP and a state prosecutor in Massachusetts.  She is based in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Elizabeth Ames Contract Attorney in Ethics and Compliance

Delta

Elizabeth is experienced ethics and compliance counsel, who uses innovation and technology to create compliance programs to meet business needs while minimizing frustrations to operations.  In addition to overseeing corporate policies, hotlines, training, communications, and investigations, she has provided legal advice on a wide array of subject matters including antitrust, bribery, international trade, mergers and acquisitions, third party due diligence, and data privacy.  

Amii Barnard-Bahn Partner

Kaplan & Walker LLP

Amii is a partner at the law firm of Kaplan & Walker LLP, a law firm specializing in advising organizations on compliance and ethics programs. She advises clients on the development and implementation of compliance and ethics programs that are tailored to each client's legal risks and business needs and that conform to applicable government requirements and pronouncements regarding effective compliance programs.  

In addition to her legal work, Amii has been recognized by Forbes as "one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives." A former Fortune Global 50 executive, Amii Barnard-Bahn is a consultant to the C-Suite and leaders at global companies like Bank of the West, Adobe, AbbVie, and The Gap. She is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches. Amii guest lectures at Stanford and UC Berkeley, is a contributor to Harvard Business Review, ACC Docket and Compliance Week, and a Member at the Harvard Institute of Coaching.  

Amii earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her BA from Tufts.  

Erin Brown Vice President, Third-Party Risk Operations Manager

MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Erin Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a focus on economic development in the Middle East and North Africa, and a double minor in Arabic and Anthropology, from Emory University, and her law degree from the University of Georgia.  She is currently a Vice President of Operational Risk Management at Mitsubishi UJF Financial Group (MUFG), providing second line-of-defense governance and oversight for Third-Party Risk and Change Risk Management. 

Erin is an active member of various professional organizations, including the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA) and Mediators without Borders. She also serves as a Law School Alumni mentor, volunteers with the Georgia Radio Reading Service (GaRRS) and is a member of the Dogwood City Chapter of the Links, Inc.  In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends, and pups, as well as cooking, kickboxing and traveling.   

Stephanie Cherny Director, Global Enterprise Compliance

Intuit

Stephanie Fleischman Cherny is a fourth-generation Arizonan born and raised in Tucson. She is the Associate General Counsel, Legal Compliance for Intuit. Prior to her current role, she was Chief of Staff and Special Counsel at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Stephanie spent the bulk of her career representing some of America’s largest companies and most prominent individuals in a wide variety of white-collar prosecutions and government and internal investigations, including export control, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption investigations, as well as designing and implementing legal and ethical compliance programs.

Stephanie graduated from the University of California, San Diego (B.A. in History) and the University of Southern California School of Law (Juris Doctorate). Stephanie is admitted to practice law in Arizona, California, and Washington, D.C.

Chris Collin Senior Manager, Ethics & Compliance

General Mills

As Senior Manager, Ethics & Compliance at General Mills, Chris Collin was hired to build the General Mills’ Ethics & Compliance Program and continues to be accountable for managing its operations, including development of training and communications, leading a policy governance team, managing Ethics Line investigations, and ensuring program effectiveness.  

Chris currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Program in Organizational Ethics & Compliance at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. She also serves on the board for the Cammack-Marshall Fund, a Minnesota non-profit providing support to improve the lives of children under state guardianship. 

Angela Crawford Partner

Crawford and Acharya

Angela Crawford is an experienced legal and compliance professional who has spent over two decades advising clients in a number of sectors, including life sciences, healthcare, food and beverage, retail, technology, and manufacturing. She regularly conducts investigations for clients based on allegations of compliance and regulatory violations, corruption, bribery, fraud, and employee and third-party misconduct, and advises clients on the development, implementation and enhancement of compliance programs, policies, and training. Angela has led well over 100 investigations, compliance reviews, risk assessments, and trainings in over 20 countries around the world.  Before starting her own law firm, Angela was a partner at two global law firms and a federal prosecutor. She earned her law degree from Northwestern University Law School and a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University. She is based in Miami, Florida. 

Michelle L. Davis Founder

Artemis Advisory, LLC

Michelle Davis CPA, CFE, CCEP is the founder of Artemis Advisory, a boutique consulting firm that focuses on helping business leaders accomplish their strategic compliance and risk management goals. Michelle founded Artemis Advisory to provide a nimble, cost-effective solution to address what she observes as a growing gap between the pressures on the legal, compliance and risk management departments at organizations to accomplish more, with less. Michelle’s professional background includes over 16 years experience in PwC’s Forensic Investigations consulting practice and on Cox Communication’s Ethics & Compliance team. Michelle’s diverse experience as an outside consultant and in-house advisor to business and legal teams allows her to share unique perspectives on strategy, evaluating risks and processes, and solving organizations’ most pressing problems. 

Michelle is active in the Atlanta business and legal community as a frequent speaker and thought leader. She is passionate about giving back to her community and spends her time supporting organizations that promote the arts and public education. Michelle is a proud wife and mother of two young children and one sweet puppy. She loves tennis, yoga, and any excuse to be out on the water. 

Jachyn Davis Senior Director, Corporate Compliance & Employment

CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer

Jachyn Davis is the Senior Director of Corporate Compliance & Employment at AAA (CSAA Insurance Group), a $5B company, one of the top 20 personal lines property & casualty insurance groups in the U.S., and a trusted household brand.  Jachyn is responsible for corporate compliance & ethics, privacy, and employment law. She is also a member of the legal department leadership team. Prior to her work at AAA, Jachyn was a Deputy County Counsel for 10 years at the Contra Costa County Counsel’s Office, advising departments on labor and employment matters.

Jachyn earned her JD from Boston College Law School and her bachelor’s degree in U.S. History and Political Science at U.C. San Diego. Jachyn previously served on the board for the Contra Costa County Crisis Center and Girls Inc. of Alameda County.  Jachyn believes in giving back, and has volunteered at organizations such as Legal Access Alameda, the Election Protection Hotline and Habitat for Humanity.  She is admitted to practice law in California.

Colleen Dorsey Director, Organizational Ethics & Compliance

University of St. Thomas School of Law

Colleen Dorsey spent over 17 years working as in-house counsel. She spent almost 16 years at Land O’Lakes, Inc. and also served in the legal department at Syngenta Seeds, Inc. Colleen has significant experience in all aspects of business representation including antitrust, compliance and ethics, mergers and acquisitions, production and supply, intellectual property protection, general commercial contract matters, marketing and advertising law as well as training on various substantive legal topics.   

In her current role, Colleen has built a graduate degree program wherein she is responsible for several degree offerings in the compliance and ethics discipline – two of which are housed 100% online (a first for the university). In this role, Colleen has built consensus around the direction and curriculum of the program – both within the universities involved in the program (the law and business schools) as well as with the corporate Advisory Board members of the program (of which there are 23 comprised largely of the CCO’s of these organizations).  

Colleen also has experience teaching at the graduate level and has co-created and co-taught a completely online course entitled The Effective Ethics and Compliance Professional and Investigations. Colleen leads the Compliance Externship program at the law school and teaches law students the basics around compliance and ethics. In her current role, Colleen regularly exhibits or presents at conferences, as well as hosts events to promote the program.  

Noreen Fierro SVP, Global Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer

Principal Financial Group

Lisa Fine Senior Counsel & Director, Global Compliance

Pearson

Lisa Fine is Sr. Counsel and Director, Compliance for Pearson Education, the world’s leading learning company.   She is involved in all aspects of the ethics and compliance program, including trainings and communications, risk assessments and leading and managing global investigations.  

Lisa started her legal career at an international law firm, where she was a litigator and also ran the Washington, D.C. pro bono program.  She also worked in public interest law and advocating on behalf of persons with disabilities as part of a state protection and advocacy organization.  Those roles brought her to work in the area of compliance as it allows her to help shape practices to support ethical decision-making.

Lisa also co-hosts the "Great Women in Compliance" podcast with Mary Shirley.  This weekly podcast focuses on the diversity of the compliance community and the accomplishments of women in our field (and others who support women in compliance).   They are also the authors of Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance (CCI Press 2020), where women share their stories of their careers and experiences.

Lisa received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate agree from Tufts University.   She grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., and as the daughter of an attorney and a librarian, she feels fortunate to work in a role at Pearson that combines learning and being able to use her legal background.  She lives in Washington, D.C.

Ingrid Fredeen Vice President, Online Learning Content

NAVEX

Ingrid Fredeen, J.D., vice president, online learning content, has been specializing in ethics and legal compliance training for more than ten years. She has been the principal design and content developer for NAVEX’s online training course initiatives utilizing her more than 20 years of specialization in employment law and legal compliance. Prior to joining NAVEX, Ingrid worked both as a litigator with Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest employment law firm, and as in-house corporate counsel for General Mills, Inc. a premier Fortune 500 food manufacturing company. 

Melanie Gallagher Head of Third-Party Risk Management

Intuit

Melanie Gallagher is the Head of Third Party Risk Management at Intuit. She has a passion for GRC and building programs that are both effective and efficient – managing risk and delivering for regulators while enabling the business to be nimble and innovative. She has spent her 20+ year career in high tech companies in Silicon Valley beginning with KPMG where she worked with clients that included Apple, Acer, and Network Computing. Prior to Intuit, Melanie worked for Visa International, Apple, and a start-up, Riffage.com. Melanie is a CPA, CFE, CIA, and CISA. Melanie loves music, hiking, and animals. In her free time, you can find Melanie enjoying wide open spaces, listening to her husband playing his guitar, and petting any animal that will let her.

Kristy Grant-Hart Founder & CEO

Spark Compliance Consulting

Kristy Grant-Hart is an expert at making compliance officers in-demand business assets.  She's the author of the best-selling book, “How to be a Wildly Effective Compliance Officer” and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Compliance Week, and on the cover of Compliance and Ethics Professional Magazine. She is CEO of Spark Compliance Consulting, and a former professor at Delaware School of Law, Widener University, teaching Global Compliance and Ethics. 

Before launching Spark Compliance, Ms. Grant-Hart was the Chief Compliance Officer at United International Pictures, the joint distribution company for Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures in 65+ countries, where she was shortlisted for the Chief Compliance Officer of the Year at the Women in Compliance Awards.

David Huntley Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer

AT&T

David was appointed to this role after serving as Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel - AT&T Services. In this role, he oversaw a nationwide team responsible for providing legal support to the Home Solutions and Global Marketing organizations. He was also responsible for Legal administration. Previously, David served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Advertising Solutions and Interactive Operations. He also has served as Senior Vice President - Mobility Customer Service Centers, where he led a team of more than 30,000 employees. In addition, David has served as Senior Vice President of E-commerce, Direct Mail and Customer Information Services and has held significant positions in External Affairs, wireless operations, M&A and data operations.

David currently serves on the boards of Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc., AT LAST!, the Baylor Scott & White Dallas Foundation, the Dallas Citizens Council, and the National Urban League and Methodist Health System. In addition, he is a Trustee of the Southern Methodist University Board, a public trustee for Dallas Medical Resources, a Member at Large and on the Executive Committee of the Texas Business Hall of Fame, and a member of the Executive Leadership Council and the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) Executive Steering Committee. He is also a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

David previously served on the executive committee of the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast and the government relations committee of the Greater Houston Partnership. He also served as a board member of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau and the 2004 Houston Super Bowl Host Committee, as well as on the board of trustees of the Texas Bar Foundation.

David holds a law degree from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York and a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Boon Kim Fam Senior Director, Compliance and Risk Management, Asia Pacific

PVH Corp.

Kim is the Senior Director, Compliance and Risk Management for Asia Pacific at PVH Corp., the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. Her career spans across Europe and Asia gained in US law firms, US and China listed companies, and privately held multinational companies, as well as the UK and Malaysian central government. Using her cultural sensitivity and sound international outlook she has seamlessly harmonized global compliance programs and empowered leaders of diverse backgrounds to nurture and cultivate organizational ethical behavior. Kim is also the current Vice-Chair of the Legal Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. Her past speaking engagements include being a guest on the award winning “Great Women in Compliance” podcast, a guest speaker to MSc students at the NYU, Shanghai campus as well as to MBA students at Webster University, China campus. She was the winner of the Rising Star in Compliance, Excellence in Compliance Award in 2022 by Compliance Week, and a finalist for the Compliance Officer of the Year Award by C5 Communications in 2020. Kim is qualified both the UK and Malaysia and speaks four languages. She is part of the core committee of PVH’s flagship Empowering Women business resource group.

Holly K. Kulka EVP, Global Chief Compliance and Risk Office

S&P Global Ratings

Holly Kulka is Global Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for S&P Global Ratings. Based in New York, she leads our globally integrated risk and compliance teams, including the criteria and model validation groups. Holly’s group works with senior leadership to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations, as well as with internal policies and industry best practices. Holly and her team manage relationships with more than 20 regulators around the world, including the SEC, ESMA, FCA, HKSFC and the JFSA. She is a member of S&P Global Ratings’ Executive Committee. Holly is also Chairman of the Board of CRISIL Ratings.

Previously, Holly served as Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel for Intercontinental Exchange Inc., which acquired NYSE Euronext. As a member of the executive leadership team, she was responsible for regulatory strategy, litigation, investigations, antitrust, insurance, privacy and human resources legal matters. Before that, she was a partner at the law firm of Heller Ehrman LLP, representing and advising companies and individuals in state and federal commercial and regulatory investigations, corporate governance questions and litigations through trial. Earlier in her career, Holly was a federal prosecutor.

Holly holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. from Williams College. She is admitted to the bars in New York, New Jersey, California and Washington, D.C.

Angelique Lee Vice President, Global Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer

Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Angelique Lee, Esq. is currently VP, Global Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer (CCEO) for Jazz Pharmaceuticals. She previously served as Global CCEO for GW Pharmaceuticals PLC, US General Counsel and Global Compliance Officer for Greenwich Biosciences and GW, and VP Legal and Compliance for Spectrum Pharmaceuticals.  She started her career in R&D at Diagnostic Products Corporation, which was acquired by Siemens AG.  Angelique held various positions, attending Loyola Law School in the evenings, eventually finding her passion in life sciences law and ethics. 

Angelique is a life sciences lawyer and CCEO with strategic business and relationship-minded approach to compliance and ethics.  As Director of Compliance at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics during a major corporate corruption scandal, Angelique honed both her skills and professional philosophy, particularly given the impact to patients and healthcare systems. 

At GW, Angelique created her I-CARE approach (Integrity, Compliance, Accountability, Respect and Ethics) enabling ethical decisions and demonstrating that doing the right thing is good for business.     

Angelique is a boy-mom, lives near the beach in Southern CA, and enjoys traveling, experiencing new cultures, food, music, languages, talking about healthcare and ethics, and trying to find ways to make the world a little better than we found it. 

Bets Lillo Executive in Residence

Texas Christian University

Bets Lillo is an Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor for the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, teaching Global Supply Chain, Global Business Ethics, and Sustainable Business. She is a patent holder and advisor to technology companies in cyber, software and hardware sectors, serving on the board of directors for River Logic, and the advisory boards of Entara, Skylark Wireless and LOOMIA.  

A sought-after speaker on supply chain and the boardroom, her 2022 audiences included the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance, Women Corporate Directors, the Private Directors Association and the German Marshall Fund. Her civic leadership includes board service for the World Affairs Council of Dallas Ft. Worth and the International Women’s Forum.  

Ms. Lillo’s corporate executive career included finance, operations and technology leadership roles at IBM, AT&T, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie. As the Vice President of Global Purchasing Systems, Operations and Compliance at AbbVie, she oversaw compliance and global operations for over one million transactions and $15B in spend across 100+ countries.  

Recent professional accolades include Chairman’s Awards for M&A at Abbott Laboratories and business transformation at AbbVie, and the Global Innovation Award from the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals.  

Katharine Manning President

Blackbird DC

Author of The Empathetic Workplace

Katharine Manning is the author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job (HarperCollins Leadership 2021) and the President of Blackbird DC. She has worked on issues of trauma and victimization for more than 25 years. As a Senior Attorney Advisor with the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, for fifteen years Manning guided the Justice Department through its response to victims in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation. Some of the cases she advised on include the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina AME church shootings, the uprising in Charlottesville, the Madoff investment fraud, and the federal case against Larry Nassar, doctor for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team. 

Manning now uses her expertise to help organizations prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving employees and clients who may be in trauma. A member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and California, Manning also served as an attorney with the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where she represented Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases. She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches at American University and in the Master’s in Trauma-Informed Leadership Program at Dominican University. 

Alyson McDevitt Data and Research Journalist

Compliance Week

Aly McDevitt is a data and research journalist at Compliance Week. Previously, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported on private equity and venture capital activity in emerging markets and edited content on international business, legal, and regulatory news. For six years, she was an English educator and writing coach of middle and high school students. She earned an AB from Harvard University and an EdM from Harvard Graduate School of Education.  alyson.mcdevitt@complianceweek.com | @McdevittAly

Amy Mertz Brown Chief Compliance Officer

Gurstel Law Firm, P.C.

Amy Mertz Brown has over 30 years of experience as a leader, lawyer, and compliance professional. Amy currently serves as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) at Gurstel Law Firm, P.C., a creditors’ rights law firm headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota and practicing in nine states. Amy leads both the Firm’s regulatory compliance with federal and state law concerning creditors’ rights and consumer rights, as well compliance with operational requirements for the Firm such as business and attorney licensing. 

Prior to joining Gurstel in 2020, Amy was CCO at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), leading a team of compliance attorneys and professionals to oversee government ethics compliance for all SEC employees and managing several large dollar value IT projects. Amy developed and implemented the enterprise ethics and compliance program at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a financial services federal agency. She joined CFPB in 2010 in its start-up phase and over the course of eight years helped establish and build CFPB’s in-house legal department. Amy also has served in legal department management positions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).  

Amy is a national public speaker on compliance program and risk management, regulatory compliance, and creditor’s rights, for groups such as National Creditors Bar Association (NCBA), Receivables Management Association International (RMAI), Compliance Week, and Great Women in Compliance Podcast. Since October 2022, Amy has served on the NCBA Board of Directors and co-chairs NCBA’s Advocacy Committee. Amy also is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and Chief, a private network of executive women. 

Amy is a graduate of Washington College of Law, The American University, in Washington, DC, and is licensed in California. She holds a Leadership Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC) Certification from the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI), and an individual Certified Receivables Compliance Professional (CRCP) certification from RMAI. 

Shaun Miller Director, Ethics and Compliance

Southwire Company

Karen Moore Adjunct Professor

Fordham University School of Law

Karen Moore is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where she teaches a foundational
course in corporate compliance for MSL and LLM students. She has held senior legal,
compliance and privacy positions in multinational companies, including Philip Morris
International, Nasdaq and Inchcape Shipping Services.  Most recently she served as the
Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at Unisys, a global technology service and solutions
company, responsible for the design and implementation of the company’s global compliance
program and oversight of the cross-functional privacy program. Prior to moving in house, Mrs.
Moore served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr. at the US Court of
International Trade, and in private practice with Baker & McKenzie.

Currently based in the Washington DC metro area, Mrs. Moore has also lived and worked in
Moscow, Russia, and Lausanne, Switzerland.  A member of the New York Bar, she holds a BA
from Middlebury College, a JD from Emory University, and a certificate of European legal
studies from Leiden University (Netherlands).

Mrs. Moore is a frequent speaker on compliance and privacy matters. An avid skier, she teaches beginner level skiing at a local resort during the winter season.

Ling-Ling Nie Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance & ESG Officer

Aura

Ling-Ling Nie is Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance & ESG Officer, and Head ofGovernment Affairs at Aura, a leading provider of proactive all-in-one digital safetysolutions for consumers. She previously served as General Counsel and Vice Presidentfor Ethics and Compliance at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and prior to that wasthe Chief Compliance Officer & Assistant General Counsel at Panasonic Corporation ofNorth America.In 2021, she received the General Counsel award from the Atlanta Business Chronicleand the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. In 2019, she wasselected as a “40 Under 40” honoree by both the Atlanta Business Chronicle and theUniversity of Georgia, and was the recipient of the Women’s Leadership Award from theGeorgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association (GAPABA). She is a former divisionPresident of Panasonic’s Women Connect and served as a Global Mentor for the SportIntegrity Global Alliance (SIGA). Ling-Ling serves on the Board of Directors for GAPABA,the Board of Trustees for the Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation, and is anAdvisor to Cloud Court, Inc. She is a former Board member of the Georgia Lawyers forthe Arts, the Atlanta Bar Foundation, and the Actor's Express Theatre.

Vera Powell Counsel

King & Spalding LLP

Vera Powell is Counsel in King & Spalding’s Special Matters & Government Investigations group in Atlanta.  She focuses her practice on white-collar criminal defense, internal corporate investigations, corporate compliance reviews and program assessments, and compliance counseling.  Vera has over 15 years of compliance and investigations experience acquired through working in senior legal and compliance roles at several Fortune 100 companies.     

Vera rejoined King & Spalding after serving in senior legal roles at two Fortune 100 companies—Delta Air Lines, Inc. and Uber Technologies, Inc.  At Delta, Vera was Senior Corporate Counsel in the company’s Ethics & Compliance group where she had global responsibility for a wide array of corporate compliance topics, including anti-corruption, sanctions, and U.S. government contracts compliance.  At Uber, she served as Senior Corporate Counsel, Global Compliance, where she was responsible for anti-corruption compliance, including third-party risk assessment and due diligence and compliance monitoring.  Vera began her compliance career at Siemens, shortly before the company’s historic 2008 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act settlement, where she designed and operationalize a best-in-class compliance program pursuant to the terms of the settlement and subsequently served as Corporate Compliance Officer.   

 Vera frequently speaks at compliance conferences on a wide variety of topics.  She serves on the Advisory Board of Compliance Week and is the recipient of Compliance Week’s 2020 “Rising Star in Compliance” award.   

Dr. Hemma Ramrattan Lomax VP, Associate General Counsel, Compliance

Zendesk

Dr. Hemma R. Lomax is a passionate ethics and compliance professional who is intrigued by the role of integrity in the context of corporate social responsibility. She is VP, associate general counsel, compliance, at Zendesk. Previously, she was a senior corporate counsel in the Integrity & Compliance team at Snap, Inc. Hemma formerly worked in a similar role in the Global Ethics and Compliance Management team at the Walt Disney Company. Hemma has a passion for designing innovative global compliance programs and is a fan of co-creative design, behavioral science, and coaching for compliance. She ran a Regional Risk Assessment Program and a Kind Business Ambassador initiative at Snap. Prior to moving in-house, Hemma served for just over a decade prosecuting financial fraud and corruption with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Hemma is also a British trained barrister (trial attorney) and has previously worked as Parliamentary Counsel for the UK government and as an advisor at the United Nations for the government of Guyana. Hemma is a strong advocate for integrity at work, active bystandership and diversity, equity, and inclusion, and she has a Ph.D in human rights and the laws of war. She lives in Maryland with her husband and her two daughters. 

Mia Reini Director, Corporate Compliance and Ethics

The Home Depot

Mia Reini is Director of Corporate Compliance and Ethics for The Home Depot. Mia manages three compliance teams: Compliance Program Effectiveness (compliance assessments, compliance data monitoring, and internal compliance consulting), Corporate Compliance and Ethics (global Compliance Leads program, associate and supplier reporting hotlines, conflict of interest, Business Code of Conduct & Ethics, compliance & ethics communications and training, records management, standard operating procedures for stores, and corporate policy governance), and Global Trade Audit (ongoing auditing of Home Depot’s international customs compliance). Mia received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and her law degree from American University. She is admitted to practice law in New York and Massachusetts. Mia is the Vice Chair of the Board of the Atlanta Compliance & Ethics Roundtable. 

Junna Ro Former General Counsel, Compliance Officer & Corporate Secretary

Metromile

Junna Ro most recently served as general counsel, compliance officer, and corporate secretary at Metromile (NASDAQ: MILE), a publicly-traded insurtech offering pay-per-mile auto insurance. She was also head of people, responsible for people operations, total rewards, recruiting, and diversity equity & inclusion. In 2022, she helped lead the company through a successful acquisition. 

Prior to Metromile, Junna spent 15 years at AAA (CSAA Insurance Group), a $5B company, a top 20 personal lines p & c insurance group in the U.S., and trusted household brand. She was vice president, chief ethics and compliance officer and associate general counsel. Previously, she was corporate counsel at Symantec and VERITAS Software.  

Junna earned her JD from Santa Clara University School of Law, her BA from UCLA, and a certificate at UC Berkeley Law’s General Counsel Institute. She sits on the Asian Pacific Fund’s advisory council, and was co-chair for the National Association for Diversity in Compliance, and board member for Bay Area Ethics and Compliance Association and the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California. Junna is a member of Chief, TechGC, HiPower, Bay Area Asian American General Counsel Network, and the Women’s General Counsel Network. She is admitted to practice law in California. 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junnaro/ 

Keesa Schreane

Author of Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance Among Revenues, Reputations, and ESG

Keesa C. Schreane is author of Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance among Revenues, Reputations, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) (Wiley, September 2022) and Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Wiley, 2021). She is a business strategist, commentator, and speaker whose expertise includes ESG, risk analysis, sustainable finance, and corporate reporting. 

She is a livestream, television, and digital contributor, who has appeared in outlets including Black Enterprise, Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS, Essence, FinTech TV, and Latina. She is also co-founder of London Stock Exchange Group's Sustainable Growth Podcast (formerly Refinitiv Sustainability Perspectives Podcast). She serves on numerous boards and committees, including Ceres President’s Council. Schreane is a Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) credential holder and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). She holds a B.A. from Salem College, an M.A. from New York University and received an Executive Education Certificate from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Investment Strategies and Portfolio Management. 

Mary Shirley Head of Compliance

Masimo

Mary Shirley is a New Zealand-qualified lawyer with 18 years of ethics and compliance experience that includes working for data privacy and antitrust regulators, in-house and private practice/consultancy across five countries and four regions of the world.
Mary co-hosts the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, which aims to create a platform for the outstanding achievements of women in the field and sharing ideas and provide learning opportunities for everyone in compliance.
She co-authored the book, “Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance” (CCI Press, 2020) and has a second book highlighting trail blazing and innovative ideas to level up Compliance programs coming out later in 2023.

She has been bestowed the honors of being named a Compliance Week Top Mind 2019, Trust Across America 2020 Top Thought Leader in Trust and Excellence in Compliance Awards 2022 Mentor of the Year.

Cricket Snyder Chief Compliance Officer

Jefferson County Commission

Cricket Snyder is the Chief Compliance Officer for the Jefferson County Commission located in Birmingham, Alabama. Cricket’s role implements the very first compliance office function within Jefferson County Commission. She oversees all compliance activities, including establishing, implementing, and monitoring policies, procedures, regulations, laws and support systems.  Her team is responsible for conducting internal investigations of alleged violations of the organization’s ethical standards for the employees who work within the Merit System at the county.  In addition to her compliance functions, she also leads the organization’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives.    

Cricket has more than 18 years of professional experience in compliance, customer service and supplemental staffing in various industries and organizations including Southern Company, Southern Nuclear, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama. She has led compliance initiatives in both the utility and healthcare insurance industries. In August of 2022, she was recognized by the Birmingham Business Journal as a Top 40 under 40 honoree for her work accomplishments within the Magic City.  

Cricket earned her Bachelor of Arts in Educational Services from Birmingham-Southern College and her Masters in Business Administration from Strayer University.  She is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP).    

Melanie Sponholz Chief Compliance Officer, WCP Healthcare

Waud Capital Partners

In Melanie's compliance role, she serves as a strategic resource to the firm’s healthcare portfolio companies to support the mission of creating and maintaining a strong culture of ethics and compliance within WCP-affiliated entities. She works in tandem with the WCP investment teams and portfolio company leadership teams throughout the life cycle of every investment to build best-in-class compliance programs, provide effective risk assessment, guide compliance team development, coordinate with legal and outside consultants, provide guidance on due diligence and integration efforts, and prepare for future transactions.

Prior to joining WCP, Melanie served as Chief Compliance Officer at BioScrip, Home Solutions, and Fox Rehabilitation. She is a frequent speaker on healthcare compliance and strives to support the compliance profession by mentoring and creating networking and development opportunities for her team and others in the field. Melanie holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Drew University and an MS, with honors, from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as numerous credentials from the Compliance Certification Board.

Outside of her professional career, Melanie enjoys spending time with her husband and three daughters, cooking, doing Peloton everything, and daydreaming about her future life on an organic farm with many, many rescue dogs.

Brennan Stewart Director, Compliance & Privacy

Rheem Manufacturing Company

Rheem is a manufacturer of heating, cooling, water heating, pool/spa heating and commercial refrigeration products and is the largest manufacturer of water heating products in North America.  Charged with oversight of the global corporate compliance program, Brennan provides counsel, guidance, and advice with respect to the development, implementation and maintenance of Rheem’s policies, procedures, training, Ethics Helpline, and investigations.  She also provides legal guidance on privacy, data security and consumer protection laws and regulations.  She directly collaborates with the Information Technology department with implementing preventative safeguards for compliance and provides legal advice and counsel on implications and exposure resulting from privacy requirements.   

Prior to joining Rheem, Brennan was Senior Legal Counsel, Director of Compliance & Privacy at Aaron’s, Inc.  She provided legal guidance on privacy, data security and consumer protection laws and regulations, with a focus on technology, mobile and online practices. She provided counsel on compliance with COPPA, GLBA, HIPAA, FCRA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM Act, and state privacy and security laws. 

Before her role at Aaron’s, Brennan was Senior Legal Counsel at Fiserv where she was responsible for providing legal advice and counsel regarding privacy and data security. In addition, Brennan was Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Reliance Trust Company from 2003 to 2011, where she was Reliance’s principal compliance officer, with responsibility for the administration of Reliance’s Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act policies, procedures and training programs.  

Brennan received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Juris Doctor from the UNC School of Law. She is a member of the North Carolina Bar, State Bar of Georgia and the American Bar Association.  Brennan is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).    She served as Chair of the Better Business Bureau serving Metro Atlanta, Athens and NE Georgia (BBB) from 2017 to 2019 and currently sits on the Board of the BBB.  She also currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Compliance & Ethics Roundtable.    

Tobi Tanzer SVP, Integrity, Compliance and Employee Health, and Chief Compliance Officer

HealthPartners

Tobi Tanzer, Senior Vice President, Integrity, Compliance and Employee Health, Chief Compliance Officer HealthPartners Tobi Tanzer is Senior Vice President, Integrity, Compliance and Employee Health, and Chief Compliance Officer for Minnesota-based HealthPartners, the largest consumergoverned, nonprofit health care organization in the nation. Ms. Tanzer is responsible for overseeing and implementing HealthPartners' Integrity and Compliance Program, which includes the compliance, privacy and ethics activities of all HealthPartners organizations and products: its health and dental plans; its care system; and its institute for research and education. Ms. Tanzer also leads Employee Health Services, which promotes safe and healthy work environments across the HealthPartners system. She previously served as an associate counsel for HealthPartners and was an attorney in private practice in Minneapolis. Ms. Tanzer holds a law degree from Boston College Law School and a bachelor's in philosophy from Wellesley College. She has written and lectured on corporate compliance and ethics, privacy, health care fraud, physician-industry relationships and discrimination and bias in health care.

Donna Vitalie President

3 Great Questions LLC

Donna Vitalie helps clients navigate and mitigate risk through innovative corporate programs in  Ethics & Compliance, Information Management, and ESG Reporting.  Before starting the consulting firm 3 Great Questions in 2019, she served as Senior Director, Ethics & Compliance for Verizon Media.  She also led client-serving teams for several top accounting and professional services firms, and served as an in-house practitioner. 

Donna has designed, implemented, and led global enterprise-wide programs across industries.  She has a passion for operating in high-change, highly collaborative environments. Her leadership of cross-functional award-winning teams and initiatives received awards for outstanding team performance, collaboration, and controls. 

Donna received her MBA in 2017 from Temple University’s Fox School of Business.  She holds certifications with the Society for Human Resource Management ("SHRM") as a Senior Certified Professional ("SHRM-SCP") 2019-2022, and as a Certified Records Manager ("CRM"), and holds a certificate in Corporate Sustainability Management from Yale School of Management (2022). 

Rebecca Walker Partner

Kaplan & Walker LLP

Rebecca Walker is a partner in the Santa Monica, California office of Kaplan & Walker LLP.  Rebecca has practiced exclusively in the area of compliance law for over twenty years. She has helped hundreds of companies design compliance programs that are tailored to their legal risks and business needs and that conform to applicable government standards. She has also served as a monitor for the Department of the Air Force and as an independent consultant reviewing programs for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the World Bank. 

Rebecca chairs the Practising Law Institute's Compliance and Ethics Essentials Institute in New York and co-chairs PLI’s Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop. She serves on the Advisory Board of Compliance and Ethics Professional magazine and the Editorial Board of the Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual. She is a member of the faculty of SCCE’s Compliance and Ethics Essentials workshop. For seven years, Ms. Walker served on the Advisory Board of the SCCE.   

Rebecca is the author of Conflicts of Interest in Business and the Professions: Law and Compliance, published by Thomson West.  Rebecca received her B.A. (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Georgetown University and her J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School.   

Anita Woodhouse Chief Compliance Officer

V-Square Quantitative Management

Anita Woodhouse is the Chief Compliance Officer of V-Square Quantitative Management, LLC, an ESG focused global asset manager. Anita maintains the Firm’s compliance program; designing, implementing and monitoring processes in line with the SEC and other regulatory standards. Anita has significant Financial Services experience, starting her career in London, England before relocating to Chicago, United States. In her previous role at Northern Trust Asset Management, Anita was focused on building global investment compliance programs across four advisor entities totaling $1.3 billion assets under management. There, Anita led a global team in portfolio compliance, advertising compliance and digital investment advice. Anita was also responsible for the Annual Compliance Report along with other regulatory obligations under the SEC. She received her MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg Business School with a double major in Strategy and Managing Organizations and received her BSc (Hons) in Business Studies from Bayes Business School, City University London.