Meet our Speakers and Panellists
Day 1
Monday, 16 November 2020
Leadership - Transforming Compliance
Sylvia Enseñat is Executive President of the Spanish Compliance Association (ASCOM), the first association of Compliance professionals in Spain, which has more than 1,100 members and whose main mission is the professionalization of the function in Spain. She is also the Chairperson, representing ASCOM, of the International Federation of Compliance Associations (IFCA), an international federation formed by Compliance associations from 12 countries around the world. Sylvia was for ten years, from 2004 to 2013, Director of Compliance at Barclays Bank in Spain and, subsequently, until April 2017, she was Director of Regulatory & Compliance at Deloitte. She is the author of the book "Compliance Officer Manual", published by Thomson Reuters Aranzadi in April 2016. Sylvia is a member of the UNE subcommittee that prepared the international standard UNE-ISO 19600 Compliance management systems - Guidelines and the ISO 37001 Anti-bribery Management Systems- Requirements with guidance for use, as well as the reduced work team that developed the UNE 19601 Compliance Management Systems - Requirements with guidance for use. She currently participates in the UNE subcommittee that prepares the international standards ISO 37301 Compliance management systems - Requirements with guidance for use, ISO 37000 Guidance for the governance of organizations and ISO 37002 Whistleblowing management systems - Guidelines. Before 2004, she was a Member of Madrid Regional Parliament since 1999 and Vice minister of Environment and Regional Development in Madrid Regional Government from 1995 to 1999. Previously, she worked in different positions at Banco Zaragozano, in the Brussels delegation of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) and the National Confederation of Farmers and Ranchers (CNAG). Sylvia is an Agricultural Engineer from the Madrid School of Agricultural Engineers (ETSIA).
Michael F. Munro has worked within global companies for over 30 years having leadership roles focused on transforming corporate compliance functions and efforts. For some of the organizations, the need for transformation was brought on by significant internal or external events. For others, the need was driven by the organization’s desire to be at the forefront of compliance for the purpose of reducing business risk. Mike’s legal and compliance leadership roles include Deputy Director Global Compliance at Dow Chemical; Global Director of Compliance at Baker Hughes Oil and Gas; Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Transocean Offshore Limited; and Chief Compliance Officer and Board Advisor at Odebrecht Engineering & Construction Company after Odebrecht began cooperating with worldwide investigations into corruption. Mike helped lead these organization through compliance transformation in response to well-known litigation and compliance related matters such as the BP/Transocean Deepwater Horizon incident (Transocean was the owner/operator of the drilling rig) and the Odebrecht corruption scandal. Mike has been involved in numerous compliance related government settlements including non-prosecution agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, plea agreements and consent decrees. Mike has worked closely with two government appointed compliance program monitors, two independent auditors and other parties appointed to oversee compliance efforts. In addition to working for global organizations, Mike has been a leader in the global anti-corruption agenda for over 15 years speaking on anti-corruption issues around the world with a focus on working in high compliance risk jurisdictions. Mike is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the OECD Trust in Business Initiative and a principal in the GCMR (Global Compliance Management & Response) association. Mike graduated from the U.S. University of Michigan and holds a Juris Doctorate and a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame. Mike has also completed post-graduate studies at INSEAD, Fountainebleau, France.
Steve Scarpino is a Director of Ethics & Compliance for BP plc. He is responsible for BP’s Global Program’s team within the Ethics & Compliance (E&C) Function. Prior to Steve’s current role, he was the liaison between BP and the Independent Ethics Monitor appointed under a Plea Agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and an Administrative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Steve played a key role in the negotiation of the ethics and compliance terms of the Administrative Agreement with the EPA, which resulted in the lifting of BP’s suspension from entering into US government contracts. Prior to his liaison role, Steve was the Director of Ethics & Compliance for BP’s Refining and Marketing (R&M) business in the western hemisphere. In addition to his R&M responsibilities, he was (and still is) responsible for leading BP’s International Trade Regulations (ITR) Compliance Program within E&C. Steve also served as the Deputy Chair of the Global Legal and Ethics & Compliance Diversity & Inclusion Steering Team. Steve joined BP in London in January 2009 and is now based in their Houston office. Prior to joining BP, Steve worked at NCR Corporation for over 18 years, in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility. Steve spent his last five-plus years with NCR as the Ethics & Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer, and was responsible for leading the company’s Corporate Responsibility initiatives. Steve is currently the Board Chair of the Ethics & Compliance Association, a Senior Fellow with the Ethics & Compliance Initiative, a member of the Advisory Board for the Sam Houston State University Graduate School and a past Board Member of the National Association of Contract Managers (NACM). Steve is a graduate of the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa.
Ramiro Cabrero - Global Compliance Officer at OFS, Baker Hughes and President AAEC
Anais Louison is the Compliance Officer of Iberdrola Generation Spain, the wholesale and retail business of the global energy leader IBERDROLA. The company focusses on the production of electricity and selling electricity/gas and other energy services to customers. She joined the IBERDROLA GROUP in 2007 working initially in Risk Management in Glasgow. After moving to Madrid in 2011 to join the Internal Audit team, she was appointed Compliance officer in 2019. She is a graduate from Audencia Business School in France with a master degree in Management, and obtained an MBA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio (USA). A Certified Fraud Examiner and Chartered Management Accountant, she also holds certifications in Risk Management Assurance, Internal Audit and COSO Internal control.
Femi Jaiyeola is a Big 4’ trained Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience in the Financial Services Industry of which over 6 years was with global financial institutions (CitiGroup and Barclays Bank) based in the UK. His experience covers Risk Management, Banking Operations, Business Advisory, Internal Audit, External Audit and Compliance with exposure to the financial services industry across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is currently a General Manager and the Chief Compliance Officer of Sterling Bank Plc with responsibility for establishing and maintaining the Bank’s Compliance Management Program and providing independent and objective advice on compliance issues/concerns across the Bank. Prior to joining Sterling Bank, he was the Head of Audit for Nigeria and West Africa Cluster at Standard Chartered Bank where he was responsible for providing oversight, guidance and leadership to the Nigeria and West Africa audit function. Also, Femi was a Vice President in the Internal Audit function of Citigroup, London where he was responsible for the direct supervision of internal audit activities in Citibank businesses across West Africa, and managing assurance activity across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also worked in the internal audit function of Barclays Bank, London where he was responsible for the executing and managing assurance activity for Barclays Corporate Bank and Barclays Group Support Functions. Prior to relocating to the UK in 2005, Femi was the Head of Internal Control and Compliance at Bond Bank, Nigeria and also worked with Arthur Andersen (now KPMG), Citibank Nigeria and United Bank for Africa, Nigeria. Femi is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a member of the Board of Audit, Investigations and Forensic Accounting Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Masters degree in Finance and Investment from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has a proven track record in providing best in class assurance services, stakeholder management and developing talent. Femi is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence stakeholders
Valerie Haliburton serves as the Vice-President of Global Ethics and Compliance for the Colgate-Palmolive Company at their corporate headquarters in New York. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring that the Company maintains sufficient internal controls to detect and address suspected incidents of improper conduct and to reinforce an organizational culture that fosters ethical leadership as well as a commitment to compliance, resulting in a positive image to all stakeholders. Valerie joined Colgate as Associate Director, Shared Services in Piscataway, New Jersey. Valerie was promoted to Director, Global Employee Relations at Colgate’s corporate headquarters in New York. She was appointed Director of Human Resources for Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals (COP), a subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive Company in Canton, Massachusetts. Valerie served as the Director of Human Resources for Hill’s Pet Nutrition U.S. Sales in Topeka, Kansas. Subsequently, Valerie was based in the United Kingdom as Director of Human Resources for Hill’s Pet Nutrition Europe/Middle East & Africa division. Hill's Pet Nutrition is a division of Colgate-Palmolive Company and the makers of Science Diet® and Prescription Diet® brand pet foods. Valerie is a two-time recipient of the Company’s “You Can Make A Difference” award.
Prior to joining Colgate, Valerie was employed by Bristol-Myers Squibb in various Human Resources positions of increasing responsibility. Valerie is a native Texan who grew up in Waco, Texas and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc,
Prior to joining Colgate, Valerie was employed by Bristol-Myers Squibb in various Human Resources positions of increasing responsibility. Valerie is a native Texan who grew up in Waco, Texas and earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc,
Greg Keeling - For over two and a half decades Greg has worked in project management, strategy development, program delivery, relationship management, information management and policy governance in both the public and private sectors. He is comfortable with ambiguity and adept at creating order from chaos. Greg is Director, Ethics & Conduct in BMO’s enterprise-wide Ethics & Conduct Office where he helps build awareness of the strategic value of ethical business conduct and integrates business integrity practices into business processes consistent with BMO’s values, Code of Conduct and regulatory expectations. Previously, he was Director, Compliance Management for BMO’s global Volcker Rule Compliance Office. Greg has held a number of other roles at BMO including: Senior Manager, Compliance (BMO Capital Markets); Senior Business Consultant (Legal & Compliance); Senior Manager, Strategic Planning & Infrastructure (Procurement); and Consulting Manager in Information Management (Governance and Quality). Prior to joining BMO in 2003, Greg was Executive Assistant to the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and Head of Communications & Technology Services. Greg also held a variety of roles in the Government of Ontario where he helped network public libraries to enable public access to information and online services, managed the province’s corporate internet and intranet sites, integrated three levels of government telephone book listings (the Blue Pages) and advanced the use of IT for the province-wide Green Workplace environmental program. Greg holds a BA (Hons) in History and Political Studies, an MA in International Political Studies both from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario), an MBA from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and a Certificate in Media & New Technology Management from the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. He has taken management and leadership training programs through BMO’s Institute For Learning and the Schulich School of Business at York University (Toronto, Canada). He is a Fellow, Institute of Canadian Bankers, Fellow, 21st Century Trust and the inaugural George Bell Fellow in Strategic Studies at the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies. He is Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (ISACA) and a member of the CXO Advisory Council for the Digital Value Institute.
Vanina Caniza is a Partner at Baker McKenzie’s Buenos Aires office and the Global Chair of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Group. She advises a range of multinational, Latin America and Argentine clients in a variety of corporate and commercial law matters, with extensive experience in corporate compliance, commercial agreements and mergers & acquisitions. Vanina has extensive knowledge in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device sectors. She completed postgraduate courses on Biotechnology at Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Buenos Aires) and on Health Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires. was previously the Latin America Leader of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Group and also sits on the Steering Committee of the Firm’s Latin America Corporate Compliance Group. She is currently a professor in the CEC Compliance & Ethics Certification (AAEC-UCEMA). Vanina is Client Service Director for Biogen, IQVIA ad Boston Scientific. She holds a certification in Ethics & Compliance (AAEC-IFCA) and is currently a professor in the CEC Compliance & Ethics Certification (AAEC-UCEMA). Vanina advises clients on transactional, general commercial, compliance and regulatory matters. She has conducted several compliance investigations and has trained Argentine subsidiaries of global companies in compliance matters (client industries: healthcare; energy, mining & infrastructure; technology, media & telecoms; financial institutions; industrials, manufacturing & transportation; consumer goods & retail). She focuses her practice on Healthcare Industry and has extensive experience on M&A transactions on regulatory law and specialized knowledge of legal issues related to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Patricia Harned is chief executive officer of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), America’s oldest nonprofit in the ethics & compliance industry. ECI’s mission is to empower organizations to build and sustain high-quality ethics & compliance programs. For fifteen years as CEO, Dr. Harned has overseen all of ECI’s strategy and operations. In that time ECI has become recognized as the leading provider of independent research about workplace integrity, the drivers of organizational culture, and effective compliance programs. Dr. Harned is a recognized expert on culture change, ethical leadership, and workplace reporting/retaliation. She leads ECI’s consulting practice: clients have included 195+ prominent organizations working to recover from significant matters of misconduct. Dr. Harned has been invited to provide ethics training to a number of boards of directors, and she has participated as a member of several monitoring teams as a part of organizational settlement agreements with federal enforcement agencies. Dr. Harned also directs outreach efforts to policymakers and federal enforcement agencies in Washington, DC. She has provided ethics & compliance briefings to officials in the US Department of Justice, testified before Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and she has personally briefed U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the OSHA Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, and the Federal Bar Council on strategies to increase effective reporting of suspected misconduct. Dr. Harned is the only female CEO among the leading providers in the US ethics & compliance industry. She was selected by Ethisphere Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics in 2007, 2014 and 2015, and was named one of the Top Thought Leaders in Trust in 2010, 2011, 2018 and 2019 by the nonprofit organization Trust Across America. She was a member of the PCAOB Standing Advisory Group, and she currently serves on the board of the U.S. Center for SafeSport as well as the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM). Dr. Harned holds a bachelor of science degree from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, a masters of education degree from Indiana University, and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.
Leonardo Etchepare graduated as a lawyer in Buenos Aires University and is certified in ethics and compliance.
He specializes in ethics, compliance and anticorruption matters in Argentina for a diverse group of clients from different industries. He also has led investigations involving allegations of bribes and kickbacks as well as FCPA and anti-corruption assessments across Latin America.
Before founding Legal & Ethics, he worked for eight years for YPF (one of the biggest Argentine companies and FCPA compliance) where he acted as the Ethics and Compliance Officer.
Alumni of the International Anti Corruption Academy (IACA), member of the Committee for Academic Excellence and professor of the International Certification in Ethics and Compliance, among other universities.
Currently, he is Director of Legal & Ethics, a firm specialized in ethics and compliance.
He specializes in ethics, compliance and anticorruption matters in Argentina for a diverse group of clients from different industries. He also has led investigations involving allegations of bribes and kickbacks as well as FCPA and anti-corruption assessments across Latin America.
Before founding Legal & Ethics, he worked for eight years for YPF (one of the biggest Argentine companies and FCPA compliance) where he acted as the Ethics and Compliance Officer.
Alumni of the International Anti Corruption Academy (IACA), member of the Committee for Academic Excellence and professor of the International Certification in Ethics and Compliance, among other universities.
Currently, he is Director of Legal & Ethics, a firm specialized in ethics and compliance.