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Andrea Gisle Joosen

Chairman of the Board/Non-Executive Director of
ICA Gruppen AB, Teknikmagasinet AB, Dixons Carphone Plc, James Hardie Industries plc.
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Andrea Gisle Joosen Is one of the top Nordic non-executive directors. Her long list of global board of directors positions include: Non-Executive Director, ICA Gruppen AB, Chairman of the Board, Teknikmagasinet AB, Non-Executive Director, Dixons Carphone Plc, Non-Executive Director, James Hardie Industries plc. Andrea was the CEO of Boxer AB and before that Managing Director Nordic of Panasonic Nordic AB.

Andrea is an excellent coach and develops her network and the area of responsibility to be real professionals. Her management qualities include how to liberate true performance potential with her colleagues. Her inspiring management style and result-oriented attitude provide deep insight on marketing, brand building and employee development. Her substantial expertise and experience range from a variety of different industries. Andrea holds an MSc, in Business Administration & Marketing.

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Per Lekvall

Member
Swedish Corporate Governance Board
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Per Lekvall is a Board member of the Swedish Corporate Governance Board, the body within the Swedish self-regulation system responsible for the Swedish Corporate Governance Code. He holds a masters degree from the Gothenburg School of Economics and Management and has performed studies as a guest student in the doctoral programmes of the Carnegie-Mellon and Standford universities.

After a career in international business and management consulting, he has devoted most of the last decades to corporate governance, first as CEO of the Swedish Academy of Board Directors and during the last ten years in key roles for the development, monitoring and management of the Swedish Code.

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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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Christina Malmsten

Lawyer, Nordic Underwriter Financial Lines
Zurich Global Corporate
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Lady Olga Maitland

CEO
Money Transfer International
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Is the CEO of Money Transfer International with wide experience in all major Fraud and Corruption problems throughout the world. 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 Sunday Express (1967-1991). In 1998 she became a contributor to the Daily Mail.

Lady Olga brings together a remarkable amount of first hand international knowledge on Fraud, Bribery and Corruptions issues to the Copenhagen Compliance and their respective tangible solutions, that are based on her experience and understanding of politics and political issues.

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Hanna Danwall

Head of Competition Law, Legal Director
Carlsberg Breweries A/S
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Anne-Louise Thon Schur

Director
PwC
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Hans Henrik Berthing

Partner
Verifica
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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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Henrik Frössling

Senior Advisor
RiskMaturity Nordic AB
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Henrik Frössling has extensive experience in the areas of Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) He has had several of managerial positions during decades such as risk manager, project manager, internal control manager, management consultant and CFO; in different sized corporations, global/local and different businesses. His experiences from different businesses combined with local as well global practical operational/strategic deliveries and pedagogical trainings in many different cultures; such as within e.g. Volvo Group and earlier in Stena Sphere, as a senior advisor he drives the RiskMaturity’s GRC-agenda forward with visions.

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RALPH BENGTSSON

Head of Internal Audit
Aalborg Portland
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Ralph has 15 years in management, risk management, change management, internal audit, and governance. He has experience in defining and implementing risk management on a group wide basis, establishing new departments and make effective adjustments to organizations. The companies he has worked for have been in very different situations such as growth, turnaround and growth.

Ralph has a solid understanding of the business as a whole and the customers’ central role for the future of a company and experience from very different production and service industries, where the customers are operating in both B2B and B2C market, nationally as well as globally. The corporate strategic challenges were very different, ranging from increased profit and competitive improvement to real business development.

Ralph has a strong educational background with three graduate degrees from leading European universities.

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LUC BRANDTS

Nasdaq - CTO and
Founder, BWise
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Luc Brandts is responsible for managing the development of BWise products. In his previous career as a business consultant, he managed projects in information technology, systems implementation, change management and business process optimization. His experience extends to industries that include financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications and government. Mr. Brandts obtained his PH.D. Doctoral thesis on the Methodical Design of Industrial Systems as an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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ANDREW HENDERSON

General Manager, EMEA
The Red Flag Group
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Andrew, General Manager for the EMEA Region, has been involved in the development and implementation of compliance risk assessments, developing compliance programmes for multinational companies and conducting due diligence background screening. Andrew has also been involved in conducting health checks, audits, reviews, IntegrityCircles™ and other compliance assessments in multiple countries with a focus on FCPA compliance, gifts and entertainment, and general regulatory enforcement.

As the General Manager for the region, Andrew is responsible for all operations including business development, advisory, client services and due diligence operations.

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JESPER LYNG JENSEN

Chief Risk Advisor
DONG Energy
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Jesper Lyng Jensen, Chief Risk Advisor at DONG Energy is an experienced risk professional with experience from several engagements.

As a Risk Manager he is responsible for supervising the design and implementation of the risk management process for several large projects, from a € 2 bn hospital construction larger wind mill projects.

Jesper is a risk researcher, focused on expanding the ability to predict the cost of risks, consequences of huge risky decisions, pinpoint large future productivity losses, but above all how to avoid them.

As a game designer he undertakes the challenges and knowledge on how risk affects organizations in an engaging and insightful way.

Jesper also advises organizations, both public or private, on how to optimize projects or organizations in the presence of risk. This can be through structuring and facilitating risk management workshops at project level or by designing the risk management system and establishing the link between risk profile and capital reserves.

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OWE LIE-BJELLAND

CEO
Xait
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Owe is a partner of Xait. He has technical background from the print, press and publishing industry. Owe helps companies optimize and revolutionize their reporting and document creation, co-authoring, automation, publishing and information management processes.

Owe is an expert in enterprise content management, information governance, security, business process optimization, innovation, leadership, human resources and risk management.

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BENGT GUSTAVSSON

Vice President, Head of Market Network Management and Group Legal Affairs
Saab AB
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ANDREW BREAKWELL

Business Development Director, EMEA
SAI Global
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