Meet our Speakers and Panellists
Day 4
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Sustainability - The long term business view
Tom O'Connor is Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for HedgeServ Limited, an independent fund administrator based in Dublin, where he is responsible for leading the Compliance agenda and overseeing implementation of the Compliance framework. Tom has over fourteen years of experience working in Financial Services regulation and Compliance across banking, payments and fund administration, both in Ireland and overseas. Prior to joining HedgeServ Limited, Tom worked as a Compliance Specialist with EY (formerly ‘Ernst & Young’) in both Dublin and London, supporting clients, including Systemically Important Financial Institutions, in enhancing their Compliance and Risk frameworks, particularly in the areas of Financial Crime Prevention and Risk Assessment. Prior to that, Tom worked for the Banking & Payments Federation of Ireland where he was responsible for the analysis and industry responses to regulatory and legislative consultations, and for the delivery of mortgage market publications. Tom is a member of the AML Working Group for Irish Funds (industry lobby group) and chairs the Data Protection & Information Security Working Group of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland.
Nicole Gillespie is KPMG Chair in Organisational Trust and Professor of Management, The University of Queensland
Nicole is a leading international authority on trust in organisations, and an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at the University of Oxford. Trained as an organizational psychologist, her research and consulting over the past 20 years has focused on developing and repairing trust in organisations, leading with trust, developing cultures of trust, and helping organisations understand, measure and benchmark stakeholder trust. Her most research research examines trust in emerging technology, including an international survey of public trust of artificial intelligence systems. Nicole is experienced in developing and validating measures of trust including measures used by the U.S. Army and the National Canadian Trust Survey.
Nicole has written commissioned reports and case studies on building and repairing stakeholder trust for the UK Institute of Business Ethics and a policy note for the UK Parliament on restoring trust in the financial sector after the global financial crisis. Her most recent reports with KPMG are Trustworthy by Design: A practical guide to organisational trust and Trust in Artificial Intelligence. Nicole has worked with clients across the public and private sectors to develop and use evidence-based insights to inform trust building and repair, including in the Finance and Banking, Natural Resources, Health, Defence, Higher Education, R&D, and Not-for-Profit industries. In 2019, Nicole was made an Academic Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government for outstanding contribution to public management. She is a regular speaker at industry, government and academic round-tables and conferences, and her research is regularly featured in international and national media outlets.
Nicole is a leading international authority on trust in organisations, and an International Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Reputation at the University of Oxford. Trained as an organizational psychologist, her research and consulting over the past 20 years has focused on developing and repairing trust in organisations, leading with trust, developing cultures of trust, and helping organisations understand, measure and benchmark stakeholder trust. Her most research research examines trust in emerging technology, including an international survey of public trust of artificial intelligence systems. Nicole is experienced in developing and validating measures of trust including measures used by the U.S. Army and the National Canadian Trust Survey.
Nicole has written commissioned reports and case studies on building and repairing stakeholder trust for the UK Institute of Business Ethics and a policy note for the UK Parliament on restoring trust in the financial sector after the global financial crisis. Her most recent reports with KPMG are Trustworthy by Design: A practical guide to organisational trust and Trust in Artificial Intelligence. Nicole has worked with clients across the public and private sectors to develop and use evidence-based insights to inform trust building and repair, including in the Finance and Banking, Natural Resources, Health, Defence, Higher Education, R&D, and Not-for-Profit industries. In 2019, Nicole was made an Academic Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government for outstanding contribution to public management. She is a regular speaker at industry, government and academic round-tables and conferences, and her research is regularly featured in international and national media outlets.
Isioma Gogo-Anazodo has over twenty-seven (27) years cognate experience in auditing and compliance. She has been involved in a number of discussions at various fora to promote compliance culture in the financial sector. She has been in the recent past the Chief Conduct and Compliance Officer, Retail in Access Bank Plc and Head, Regional and Subsidiary Compliance, Diamond Bank Plc. Prior to this, she was the Acting Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Compliance, and has also worked in the Corporate Audit and Internal Control Divisions in Diamond Bank Plc. She also worked in Coopers & Lybrand now PricewaterhouseCoopers (Chartered Accountants). Isioma is one of the founding members and Trustees of the Compliance Institute, Nigeria and the Chairman of the Program Education and Examinations Committee of the Institute. She was also one of the Pioneer members of the Association of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria (ACCOBIN) first as a participating Compliance Officer and later as an Acting Chief Compliance Officer. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. An Alumnus of the Lagos Business School (Senior Management Programme), she is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), a Fellow of the Compliance Institute, Nigeria, an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, a certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).
Jeff Oak is a Senior Advisor at the Ethics and Compliance Initiative (ECI). He is also Adjunct Professor at Fordham University Law School, and Founder and Principal of AnchorPoint GRC Advisory LLC. He previously served as the Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the US, and as Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer for Bon Secours Health System (BSHS), one of the predecessor organizations to BSMH. Under his leadership at BSHS, the ethics and compliance program was recognized nationally for innovation, and in 2017 it was recognized by Ethisphere Institute as one of the “world’s most ethical companies.” With nearly 30 years of experience in the ethics and compliance field Dr. Oak has served as: the first Chief Compliance and Business Integrity Officer for the Veteran’s Health Administration, the largest public health safety net in the US; as Lecturer and Research Assistant in Ethics at Yale University; and Senior Vice President at the Council of Ethical Organizations and Compliance Resource Group. He is an Expert Review Panel Member for Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmarks; Advisory Board Member at the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University; Advisory Council Member at the Cintas Center for Business Ethics at Xavier University; and Independent Member of the Board’s Organizational Integrity and Audit Committee for Trinity Health. He previously served as Board Chair for Blumont, Inc., an NGO engaged in global development in over 40 countries, and on fiduciary boards in healthcare, higher education, professional associations and insurance. He holds a PhD in ethics from Yale University.
Bartosz Makowicz is a university professor at the Faculty of Law of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). He is the initiator and director of the Viadrina Compliance Center, the first intra- and interdisciplinary scientific research organization on governance, risk and compliance. Bartosz is also a member of various scientific advisory and advisory boards of compliance associations, such as the German Institute for Compliance. He is the author of many specialist publications in national and international journals. He is also the author of textbooks and monographs on compliance issues. In total he published over 100 titles on the interdisciplinary research field of Governance, Risk and Compliance. As a compliance expert, he has held over 100 specialist lectures at national and international conferences and congresses and works worldwide as a professional compliance trainer. He leads the German delegation for the preparation of the standards ISO 19600 Compliance Management Systems and ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems on a global level and chairs the national mirror committee "Governance and Compliance Management" at DIN e.V. In these functions, he will be responsible for the newly established TC 309 for the development of a global ISO standard for governance and whistleblowing. He advises national and foreign governments in compliance issues. He is also an academic adviser at the Compliance Academy, which is based in Münster and specializes in compliance training. He speaks fluently German, English, Polish and good French.
Naomi Burley is the current Managing Director of the GRC Institute. Based in Sydney Australia the GRCI’s vision is that all organisations have access to suitably qualified compliance risk managers. GRCI was formed in 1996 by a group of professionals in roles undertaking compliance, a new role concept at the time. Over the following twenty years these dedicated individuals contributed to building a career pathway for themselves and their peers, which has evolved into an accreditation and education framework with options for those entering the profession and those desiring to increase their professional development. Working with compliance and risk management professionals closely over the past fifteen years and participating in numerous industry discussion groups looking at issues and resources needing to be built, Naomi is passionate about the value of compliance and those undertaking the work to build and embed compliance frameworks in organisations. Part of her role with the GRC Institute is to advocate on behalf of members with their organisations, regulators and government to help them understand this inherent value and how to better achieve their desired strategic and operational outcomes by harnessing the talents, skills and knowledge of our GRCI members.
Pattison Boleigha is the Chief Conduct and Compliance Officer of Access Bank Plc, one of the top three banks in Nigeria with presence in over 10 countries in Africa, Europe and Middle East and Asia. He has over 29 years of banking experience with 16 years in AML/CFT, regulatory compliance, internal controls, Financial Controls and Audit. He worked for thirteen years in Citibank Nigeria covering, Internal Control, Internal Audit, Operations and Financial Control. Pattison has a Bsc Accounting, University of Nigeria; Nsukka, Executive MBA, RSUST, Port Harcourt Nigeria; an Alumnus of INSEAD, Harvard Business School, London Business School and IMD Executive programmes. Currently the President of Compliance Institute, Nigeria, President of Compliance Officers Forum of GIABA Member States (COFGMS) and a former Chairman of the Association of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria (ACCOBIN), Pattison represents Access Bank Plc in the International Banking Security Association (IBSA, the U.N Global Compact on Anti-Corruption Working Group and AML/CFT Working Group of Institute of International Finance (IIF).
Leida Lukyanova Governance, Risk and Compliance (#ICAQualified, MICA) and Vice-President, Business Ethics & Compliance at MTS PJSC where her focus is on setting and overseeing standards for MTS Group Entities’ full-scale compliance activities across all of the Company’s operations, including defining and executing MTS’ anti-corruption strategy, maintaining processes to strengthen culture of integrity, hallmarks of the effective corporate compliance program. Building and developing a team of ethics and compliance professionals, collaborating with leaders across the business to instill and reinforce a culture of high ethics and compliance. Having a strong commitment to the achievement of excellence in the sphere of ethics and compliance among MTS Group Entities’ staff.