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PJ Di Giammarino

CEO
JWG
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Seasoned blue-chip executive and entrepreneur who works with executives in top financial institutions, their regulators and suppliers to bring practical insights to implementing global regulatory reform. Able to build agendas and communities to manage business, technology and legal change in fast moving, innovative environments. Communicates equally well with board-room and technologists and is able to bridge their issues and gaps with strategic insight.

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JP Rangaswami

Chief Data Officer
Deutsche Bank
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JP is the first-ever Chief Data Officer at Deutsche Bank, and is a non-executive director of Ribbit – "Silicon Valley's first phone company". Prior to this he was Chief Scientist at Salesforce and the BT Group, after having been the MD of BT Design (responsible for innovation at the Group) and orginally joining BT as CIO of the Global Services supporting large businesses and organizations across the globe. He was named to silicon.com's "Top 50 Agenda Setters in technology" in 2007 and 2008 and was ranked 18th in Wired Magazine's 2009 first UK100 list of Britain's "top digital power-brokers."

Regarded as something of a maverick and an innovator, JP Rangaswami is an outspoken advocate of open source and using emerging and disruptive technologies to improve information sharing, education and collaboration. He is also a keen blogger on his own Confused of Calcutta website. Rangaswami actually started his career as a financial journalist in his home city of Calcutta. He only switched to IT when he ?rst moved to the UK in 1980, writing technical manuals.

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JEFFREY AVINA

Citizenship and Community Affairs Middle East and Africa
Microsoft
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Jeffrey Avina, Director of Middle East and Africa, Microsoft Citizenship and Community Affairs. Jeffrey is responsible for setting Microsoft's corporate social responsibility strategy in 79 countries, linking activities to government and donor expenditures in health, education, governance, and disaster management. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jeffrey was director of operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna from 2006 to 2008. For two years previously, he was deputy director for Africa and deputy assistant secretary general of the United Nations Development Program. In other assignments with the U.N., he was resident coordinator for four years in Honduras, deputy resident representative for five in Laos and assistant resident representative for five in Bhutan. Jeffrey earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and holds an MPA from HKS and a JD from Harvard Law School. Jeffrey will conduct the CSR Happy Hour Workshop and Discussion.

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LUKA LU

LLM
Capital Associates PRC Lawyers
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Luka Lu, obtained her law degree from Peking University and worked for an American law firm for more than two years and C&C Law Office - the first Chinese law firm specializing in international legal services. She has cutting edge legal knowledge and experience in banking and finance law, company law, government law, joint venture laws, tax law, labour law, etc. She has helped to establish many foreign invested companies including joint ventures, wholly-foreign-owned companies, as well as holding companies, in the fields of telecommunication, media, mining, medical care, beverage, media, aviation, etc.. She has worked on many power projects; she has represented many banks and financial institutions in their lending in China and launching their new financial products in China; and she has worked on many listing project; she is also on the long-term retainers appointed by many international companies and organizations to handle their daily corporate matters in China. In the recent years, Luka Lu has worked on many merger and acquisition projects for foreign companies, and she was invited to deliver speeches in various conferences including conferences in London. Luka Lu has been chosen to be including conferences in London. Luka Lu has been chosen to be included in the 2002 edition of AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, which is the only authoritative published book on leading Asian lawyers.

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Lady Olga Maitland

Chairman
Copenhagen Compliance UK Ltd.
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Is the Chairman of Copenhagen Compliance UK Ltd. Lady Olga has wide experience in all major Governance, risk Management and Compliance issues in general and global Fraud and Corruption problems in particular. She is a special adviser to a number of dignitaries and a widely sought after speaker at all Major Conferences on several Corporate Governance issues. Lady Olga is a former British MP for the Conservative party. Prior to her political career she was a reporter for the Fleet Street News Agency, a columnist in the London.

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Hans Henrik Berthing

Partner
Verifica
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Hans Henrik have many years of experience for IT Assurance & Governance. Currently he is associated professor at Aalborg University. Hans Henrik research in the areas of Auditing, Risk Management & Compliance. Furthermore he teach master students in IT Governance and Auditing. Hans Henrik have his own IT Assurance firm, where he perform GDPR, IT Assurance, IT Governance and IT Security work for various clients. Every year he issue several ISAE 3402/ISAE 3000 Audit reports related to IT Services and GDPR. He also perform ISO27001/27002 compliance and advisory work. Hans Henrik facilitate IT Risk Management Workshop.

Hans Henrik also gives CISA, CRISC and CISM review courses, where his students have high passing rates. Hans Henrik is involved in several ISACA initiatives/Working Group like Future for the IT Audit, ISO Subject matters expert, IT Assurance Task Force, Expert reviewer of Cobit for SOX and Internet of Things.

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KERSI F PORBUNDERWALLA

Secretary General
Copenhagen Compliance
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Kersi Porbunderwalla is a Corporate Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) consultant with extensive experience in analysing, documenting, structuring, processes and procedures, risk assessment and project management. He is also a recognized speaker and GRC expert on operational and IT issues throughout Scandinavia and Europe. His consultancy, courses and development of compliance tools is based on over 30 years of accounting & finance experience as CFO/CEO in Blue Chip corporations. After his early retirement as Business Controller from ExxonMobil in 2005, Kersi has solved governance, risk, compliance and IT issues with several major multinationals like IBM, Shell and Volvo. During his professional career in GRC related activities, he has also;
  • Custom-made Compliance, Risk and Governance, ISO20000 and ITIL presentations for management of IBM, Danish Financial Analyst Association, Shell, Ängpannaforeningen, Resouces Global Professionals, Lundin Mining, NetCompany, Encore, Software Innovation, US Embassy, Skanska and several others
  • Acted as Principal Keynote speaker on Compliance, Risk and Governance conferences in Warsaw, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo

Kersi is graduate in Accounting and Finance, member of the Danish Financial Analyst Association, Confederation of Danish Industries, Danish Management Council, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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FREDERICK D. LIPMAN

President
Association of Audit Committee Members, Inc.
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Frederick D. Lipman is a founder and the President of the Association of Audit Committee Members, Inc., a non-profit association dedicated to developing best practices for audit committees, with approximately 500 members, including several international members. Mr. Lipman is a partner in the Philadelphia, PA office of Blank Rome LLP, a U.S. law firm with offices in Shanghai, and a graduate of Harvard Law School. He is an internationally known authority on business law and has authored 17 books, including 4 books on corporate governance, namely "Audit Committees” (Bloomberg/BNA – 2015), "Whistleblowers: Incentives, Disincentives and Protection Strategies" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. – 2012), "Executive Compensation Best Practices" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. – 2008, and "Corporate Governance Best Practices (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. – 2006). Mr. Lipman has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Chinese television and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, and other publications. He has lectured in China, Thailand, India, Australia, and at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Lipman taught in the MBA program at the Wharton School of Business and at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for a combined total of 13 years, and at Temple University Law School for 5 years.

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Jonathan Wallis CA

Head of China Outbound & Financial Reporting Advisory Group member
Grant Thornton UK LLP
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CARLOS MORENO

IT Manager
Configit Inc
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Carlos Moreno is a global researcher on Enterprise Risk Management and its adoption on organisations. He collaborates with the Management Engineering department of the Danish Technical University (DTU), where he wrote his MSc. Thesis. Additionally, he holds an Engineering Diploma on IT and Telecommunications by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).

Currently, he is the IT Administrator of Configit A/S, a Danish software company. There he applies his Risk Management approach to the IT field, being responsible for cyber security and data protection among other areas. He has previous experience in the Danish industry both as an entrepreneur and as part of a big company, Dong Energy.

During his period as IT and Telecommunications student, Carlos organised and participated in several conferences as member of the Board of Governors of the Spanish National Council of Telecommunications Students.

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Meredith Gibson, LLM,

ex Head of legal, MiFID and Regulatory compliance
CiTi, Santander, HSBC
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Alissa Knight

Group Managing Partner
Brier & Thorn Inc.
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Chris Smith

Partner
Grant Thornton UK LLP
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Simon Scales

FCMI MIPI MSyI, Head of Investigations (EMEA)
BP
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Javid Cante

Group Financial Controller
CLS Group, BCom, MBA, ACA, MCSI
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Javid is the Group Financial Controller for the CLS Group (including CLS Bank). His specialties are : Financial Control, Business Partnering, Risk Management, Change Management, Regulatory issues resolution, Operational Risk Management, Audit,Mergers/Acquisitions, Statutory Reporting -- IFRS,UK GAAP & US GAAP, Controls & Internal Audit, Budgets/ Planning, Policy, Client Money, Management Accounting, Compliance, Corporate transactions, consolidations, vendor due diligence, MBOs, real estate transactions for listed /privately owned companies. VAT, Corporate Tax, transformation, building teams.

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Jiri Kram

Cloud Architect
Tata Consultancy Services, Silicon Wharf Consulting Ltd
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Jiri is a seasoned cloud architect who specializes in helping companies in heavily regulated industries such as banking, insurance, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals in their journey to the cloud. His passion is cloud security and data integration. He is also among the first round of students world-wide who have been awarded the Fintech, Future Commerce certificate issued by the Massachusetts institute of Technology in 2016.

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Frank Hailstones

Partners
Candor Acceleration Partners Ltd
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Frank Hailstones is internationally recognized as a spokesperson on major Enterprise Risk Management topics. His experience in fighting fraud, embedding risk management and the focus on continuous monitoring/auditing are the fundamentals in his approach that he has converted in trade oriented IT programs. He has conducted over 350 successful risk management facilitations and has extensive experience on Consulting (Strategic and Operational) and Internal Audit. Frank was a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he led and ran the Government practice, Internal Audit, development of information technology & support for Business Risk Management practices.

Frank brings to the Charter's Advisory infinite experience on the entire range of Fraud, Bribery and Corruption issues based on his experience as a PwC partner and auditor in EMEA, with the primary focus on IT development.

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Andy Agathangelou

Chairman
Transparency Task Force
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Andy is the Founding Chair of the Transparency Task Force, the campaigning community dedicated to driving up the levels of transparency in financial services, right around the world. We believe that higher levels of transparency are a pre-requisite for fairer, safer and more efficient markets delivering better consumer outcomes.

Furthermore, because of the correlation between transparency and trustworthiness, we expect that our work will help repair the self-inflicted reputational damage the pensions and investments sector has suffered for decades. www.transparencytaskforce.org

Andy is also:-
  • Governor, the Pensions Policy Institute
  • Member, the Independent Advisory Board to the Investment Association
  • Founding Chair, Friends of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees
  • Founding Chair, Friends of Automatic Enrolment
  • Chair of Pensions BIB

All of Andy's work revolves around the idea of 'enlightened self-interest' – the business ethics philosophy that by doing good you can do well.

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Nevena Krstic, LLM,

Henley Business School
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Nevena Krstic is a foreign qualified lawyer with extensive experience in EU law in a wide range of areas. She has been advising and representing trade associations and businesses in their dealings with the European Commission and governments. Nevena holds an LL.M degree from the University of Cambridge where she researched the complex relationship between the law of the World Trade Organisation and EU Regulations. She is currently specialising in data protection law and preparing a training course for certification of Data Protection Officers at Henley Business School.

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Simon Collins

Managing Director - Regulatory Compliance
Eversheds
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Simon is Managing Director of the FS Regulatory Practice within Eversheds Consulting.

Over the past 20 years he has been advising financial services firms on regulatory matters specialising particularly with culture, governance, systems and controls, risk and control frameworks and conduct areas. Simon has experience of assisting firms with compliance and regulatory projects such as Senior Manager and Certification Regime, Skilled Person, past business and remediation reviews. He is a skilled person on the FCA/PRA panel for Governance and Conduct matters.

Simon focusses on providing clients with practical compliance advice on a variety of issues which can impact our clients immediately or in the future.

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Stephen Booth

Co - Director
Open Europe
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Stephen is Acting Director and Director of Policy and Research at Open Europe. While at Open Europe he has written on EU regulation, justice and home affairs and EU aid policy. Stephen holds an undergraduate degree in political science and was awarded the Jean Monnet Prize for his master's degree in European studies from the University of Sussex. Stephen's professional interests include democracy and transparency in the EU, the interaction between domestic and EU law and European cooperation in crime and policing. He is half Dutch.

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Prof. Dr Emmanuel Fragniere, CIA

University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais)
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Dr Emmanuel Fragniere CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), is a professor of Service Design and Innovation at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais). He is also a Lecturer in Enterprise Risk Management at the University of Bath, School of Management . Previously, he was a Commodity Risk Analyst at Cargill (Ocean Transportation) and a Senior Internal Auditor at Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, the fourth largest bank in Switzerland. His research is focused on the development of risk management models for decision makers in the service sector. He has published several papers in academic journals such as Annals of Operations Research, Environmental Modelling and Assessment, European Journal of Operational Research, Interfaces, Management Science as well as Service Science. He is the author (with Sullivan) of the book entitled Risk Management: Safeguarding Company Assets, Fifty-Minute Crisp Series, November 2006 (2015 new edition).

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Mark Babington

Deputy Director
Audit Policy, Financial Reporting Council
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Barry Vitou

Head of Corporate Crime, Investigations & Enforcement
Pinsent Masons LLP
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Barry Vitou heads the firm's tier 1 ranked global corporate crime team and leads the broader Regulatory & Investigations and Administrative law group.

Described as "A font of knowledge when it comes to the UK Bribery Act”, Barry is a regular speaker on corruption, money laundering and the UK Bribery Act on TV & radio. He writes www.thebriberyact.com the leading resource for the UK Bribery Act.

Barry advises corporates and individuals complying with or defending investigation and prosecution by law enforcement under criminal law as prosecutors increasingly place corporates, business owners and executives in the cross hairs.

Highly recommended in the Legal 500, Chambers and Who's Who Legal? directories for white collar and corporate crime.

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