Meet the Speakers

Mr. Abboud is the Chief Executive Officer of H7b1, the firm pioneering litigation technology services and headquartered on the European continent.

For several years, Rafik has provided direct technology support and data advisory services for various legal matters, such as M&A due diligence, SEC/DOJ investigations, international arbitrations, MLAT requests, regulatory compliance matters, internal compliance investigations and cross-border litigation.

As such, Rafik has developed an organization that is unique in continental Europe, and he is viewed as a precursor to a European’s litigation technology practice by many among law firm partners, general counsel and legal technology professionals both in Europe and the United States. Prior to entering the legal industry, Rafik held various positions in the European technology industry. He graduated, with highest honors, from the Geneva School of Applied Sciences in 1988.

Enrique joined Nokia Siemens Networks in March 2009 as Chief Compliance Officer. He is based in the company's headquarters in Finland and is responsible for the implementation of the Compliance Program worldwide. Between May 2005 and January 2009 Enrique was Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Counsel, Europe, Middle East & Africa for Tyco International, being in charge of Compliance in the region. He was also a member of the Tyco EMEA Legal Leadership Team responsible for the development of the new legal services model that Tyco implemented in EMEA known as ‘SMARTER’ (Segment and Subject Management, Regional Teams and External Resources). Enrique is a dually qualified lawyer in Spain and England and Wales. He earned a Master of Arts in International & Comparative Business Law in 1993 and obtained a Business Management Program certificate (PDD) at IESE in 2002. Previously, he worked as Western European Regional Counsel at Dell Inc. (Madrid, 2000-05), Senior Associate at Freshfields (Madrid, 1997-2000), Solicitor at the Office of the General Counsel of Price Waterhouse (London, 1994-97) and Tax and Legal advisor with Arthur Andersen (Barcelona, 1989-92).

Patrick J. Donovan, is the Chief Compliance Officer for Airbus S.A.S., a leading manufacturer of civil and military aircraft (from January 2008). Prior to assuming his new duties he served as Vice President, Trade Controls & Counsel since April 2004. Before coming to Airbus, Mr. Donovan was the Director, Import/Export Controls at Intelsat Global Service Corporation, Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Intelsat, he served in a variety of international trade related positions at Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, and NASA. From 1994 –2006, he served on the Defense Trade Advisory Group (“DTAG”), a statutory advisory body to the U.S. Department of State. His service on the DTAG included the position of Vice-Chair of the Commercial Communications Satellite Committee in 2000-2001, where he was one of the principle architects of the resultant regulation 22 CFR 123.27. Mr. Donovan earned his Juris Doctor, cum lade, from the Washington College of Law, The American University, where he served as Senior Critical Essays Editor of the American University International Law Review. He also received a Masters of Public Administration from George Mason University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Catholic University of America.

Philippa has 20 years of business experience, having begun her career at Citibank. Following 9 years at Bowater, leaving as group treasurer, she became group finance director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation, then joined Thorn EMI in 1993 as group treasurer until 2000. She was appointed Director of the IBE in 2001.

In connection with her IBE role she served on the Woolf Committee 2007/8 looking at ethical business practice in BAE Systems plc; and has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Centre for Corporate Reputation at the Said Business School at Oxford University and consequently as a Visiting Fellow of the University.

She sits on the Board of the Institute of Directors and their Professional Accreditation Committee and in 2007 was appointed to the board of the Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust Hospital, where she chairs the Audit Committee. She is also Chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.

Philippa was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours 2006 for services to the Ministry of Defence where she was a NED and chaired the Defence Audit Committee from 2002-2007. In July 2008 she was awarded the Marks & Spencer Sieff Award.

Marianne Klausberger is an English lawyer and Europe-based professional in legal, ethics and compliance, currently at German DAX company Merck KGaA, in the Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals sector. She specializes in conceptual approaches for compliance programmes, their fit within a company’s structure and allocation of responsibilities for different aspects of a Compliance programme to different functions and entities within an organization. She also focuses on companies’ commitments under UN Global Compact and contributes to the IBA’s Anti-Corruption Committee. Prior to joining Merck, Ms Klausberger trained and practiced as an English lawyer with two major international law firms, specializing in litigations, arbitrations and investigations. Her previous work with European clients on FCPA-related issues, together with her current work at one of Germany’s DAX 30 companies in heavily regulated industries, naturally puts her focus on comparing different regional compliance approaches and turning company mission statements into specific advice for the operational business. She has contributed to Practical Law Company and presents regularly internally on different Compliance initiatives. As a dually qualified lawyer (civil law and common law) she focuses on differences in enforcement cultures, and, in view of her in-house position, on management and communication issues surrounding compliance topics, and in particular management training on compliance issues and incentivisation of compliance.

Dirk-Stefan Koedijk is the Corprate SVP & Chief Compliance Officer for Henkel AG & Co KGaA based in Dusseldorf, Germany. Dirk started the role of CCO 2008 and has held strategic senior positions in Henkel since 1982, across HR and Business strategy units. Previously he worked for Unilever.

Chandrashekhar Krishnan joined TI-UK in September 2004. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director for Strategic Planning at the Commonwealth Secretariat. From 1993 to 2000, he led the Commonwealth Secretariat’s environmental work, which included climate change, several ministerial-level meetings on environment and support for the Iwokrama International Rainforest Programme in Guyana. He was also involved in several meetings of Commonwealth Finance Ministers and Senior Finance Officials during that period.

He has expertise in international economic and sustainable development issues, including the challenges of good governance, combating corruption and poverty reduction, gained over twenty five years of experience at Transparency International, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations. He has worked closely with governments, international development partners, the private sector, civil society organizations and the media.

He co-ordinated the work of a Commonwealth Expert Group on Combating Corruption in which TI participated as an Observer and contributed to its report, which was endorsed by the 1999 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

He is a member of the Crown Agents Foundation Council and the expert Advisory Panel of the United Nations Association of the UK.

Jean-Daniel Laine is SVP Ethics & Compliance at Alstom. Engineer in mechanical and electrical and graduated in Finance at Sorbonne University. Started his career at Compagnie Electro-Mécanique in France. Joined Alstom in 1983 with different operational positions in power generation and transportation activities, and then had various functional positions in strategic development, International Network in charge of Europe and USA, Finance and Human Resources. Appointed Vice President Chairman’s Office in 1999 and then Vice President Compliance for Power sectors in 2004. He is in his current position as Senior Vice-President Ethics & Compliance for the Group ALSTOM since January 2006.

Vincenzo LaRocca is the General Counsel of legal Compliance at Eni Spa based in Italy. Vincenzo has worked for Eni for 24 years and started his legal career within the company in 1986 as a legal attorney. He has held various senior positions including General Counsel for Refining and Marketing and most recently General Counsel for Italian Industrial Activities. Curently Vincenzo has been tasked with setting up Eni’s compliance unit and will be discussing his experiences and the rationale behind key decisions he has made.

Nieves Liste is the Global Director of Business Compliance at Covidien, a nearly $9 billion global leader in medical devices.

In this position she has worldwide responsibility on distributor compliance and internal investigations involving fraud, bribery, whistleblower allegation, ethics and conflicts of interest. She has conducted numerous international investigations and has substantial expertise in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Prior to joining Covidien, Ms. Liste spent eight years at Tyco International, a $40 billion US conglomerate which separated into three independent public companies in June of 2007, where she held various positions of increasing responsibility in Internal Audit and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Prior to joining Tyco, Ms. Liste spent two years in Arthur Andersen as a Senior Auditor.

Ms. Liste earned a Bachelor in Business Administration and a Master in Business Administration degree from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. She speaks four languages and is a Certified Fraud Examiner since May 2005.

Georg Matiaska is the General Counsel of Valora. Valora is an independent retail and trading company, operating on a Europe-wide scale. It is headquartered in Muttenz, Switzerland, with about 6,500 employees, and listed on the SIX Swiss Stock Exchange.

Georg is head of Corporate Legal Services with overall responsibility for all legal matters and compliance in the Group. He is also secretary to the board. Georg has joined Valora in March 2009 and has since then written a new Code of Conduct, several compliance related Directives and is currently rolling out a whistleblower hotline.

Before joining Valora, Georg was the Chief Compliance Officer of the ABB Group. During the nearly 4 years in that position he built up a team of 9 compliance professionals at ABB headquarters and was functionally leading the global compliance organization with 65 Full Time Equivalents. He has introduced a Code of Conduct, a Whistleblower Hotline, various compliance processes and a global training program. He further participated in representing ABB in front of local and foreign authorities, such as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).

Before he worked as Senior Legal Counsel at ABB headquarters and as Legal Counsel at Roche, a healthcare company.

Georg has a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Basel and is an Attorney at Law with Bar Exam at the Courts of Appeal, Basel, Switzerland.

Stephan Mechnig is the Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Group Compliance for Nestle, a position newly created upon his arrival in the Company. Stephan is in charge of establishing the global corporate compliance program which provides guidance to all employees, responds to pressures from third party stakeholders, and mitigates the risk of compliance shortfalls. Stephan leads the Corporate Compliance team at Nestle's headquarters, chairs the cross-functional Group Compliance Committee (including department heads of all non-financial risk areas) and provides functional leadership to compliance officers worldwide. He is also responsible for selecting, implementing and monitoring key compliance initiatives globally (e.g., roll-out of first-ever Group-wide Code of Business Conduct, antitrust e-learning program, anti-corruption program).

Starting a career in Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Freshfields, Stephan has has held numerous Senior Legal Counsel roles across EMEA and the US for The Coca Cola Company and The Wrigley Company.

Mrs. Evdokia Moise-Leeman is senior trade policy analyst in the Trade Policy Linkages and Services Division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Trade and Agriculture Directorate in Paris. She is responsible for regulatory issues affecting market openness and trade and for the OECD work in the area of trade facilitation. She has joined the OECD in 1990 and has worked on a variety of international trade policy issues in support of WTO discussions and negotiations, including trade and environment, intellectual property protection, regional trade agreements, or technical barriers to trade. Before joining the OECD she worked in a private law firm in Athens. She holds a Masters of Law Degree from the University of Athens and a DEA of International Law from Paris II University.

In the context of her work on regulatory issues she has contributed to the elaboration of the OECD Guiding Principles for Regulatory Quality and Performance and of the APEC-OECD Integrated Checklist on Regulatory Reform; and conducted the review of regulation and market openness in several OECD countries, including France, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In the context of her work on trade facilitation she has identified and analysed good governance practices adopted by OECD and non-OECD countries in implementing trade facilitation and conducted an assessment of costs and challenges incurred by developing countries in implementing trade facilitation measures under negotiation. She has organized a number of OECD policy-dialogue-type conferences on trade facilitation and participated in WTO technical assistance workshops in developing countries.

Klaus Moosmayer is since 12/2007 the Compliance Operating Officer of Siemens AG and Chief Counsel Compliance and Investigations with the responsibility for the Compliance Helpdesk, Compliance Legal, Compliance Investigations and Compliance Disciplinary Sanctions departments of the Siemens Compliance Organization. Before entering Siemens he was in private practice. He has published to Compliance and white collar crime topics and speaks frequently on national and international conferences on Compliance topics.

Kylie is Legal Director, Competition & Compliance at Anheuser-Busch InBev NV/SA, where she has worked since 2006. In her role, she is responsible for advising A-B InBev’s European business units on all aspects of competition law relating to operations, as well as M&A activity and coordination of compliance initiatives globally. She is based at A-B InBev’s global headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

Kylie started her career at the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, before moving to private practice in Australia and then working in the Brussels office of Clifford Chance for nearly four years. Kylie has a BA and LLB from the University of Adelaide, as well as completing a Post-Graduate Diploma in EU Competition Law at King’s College, London.

Joost Wiebenga is the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Europe of Tyco International, #192 on the 2008 Fortune Global 500 ranking of world’s largest corporations. Tyco‘s business encompasses fire & security systems, valves, controls and safety products. Joost operates as in-house lawyer since 1975 and was previously employed by the Ministry of Justice (Surinam), Philips, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and FMO (Dutch Development Bank). Tyco’s global legal department is functionally organised and supports the business, in close cooperation with the Eversheds network, in every market where Tyco is active. Joost graduated at the Groningen University Law Faculty, is a NMI licensed mediator and is currently enrolled in the Compliance Master’s Program at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Joost worked and lived with his family 3 years in the USA. As a member of Tyco’s legal division, Joost and his colleagues focus on balancing legal coverage & compliance, client satisfaction, internal headcount and cost (i.e. outside counsel and related legal spend) in an optimum manner.