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.

Robert Amaee practises from the London offices of Covington & Burling LLP and specialises in the handling of corporate compliance issues. This includes designing compliance programmes, analysis of existing programmes to ensure compliance with international measures such as the UK Bribery Act 2010 and investigating possible wrongdoing.

Mr. Amaee is the former Head of Anti-Corruption and Head of Proceeds of Crime at the UK Serious Fraud Office. He also served as the SFO Head of International Assistance during his tenure. At the SFO, he was responsible for the operational delivery of anti-corruption cases from acceptance through to prosecution and confiscation. He was also responsible for the development and promotion of the SFO anti-corruption strategy regularly meeting with Boards of Directors and senior officers of companies as part of the SFO active engagement policy. He acted as the point of contact for corporates approaching the SFO to voluntarily disclose instances of potential wrongdoing and directed negotiations aimed at reaching an equitable resolution. Mr. Amaee represented the SFO on the UK Foreign Bribery Strategy Board, the Attorney General's Working Group on the Prosecutors' guidance to the Bribery Act 2010 and the Prosecutors’ forum at the OECD.

Prior to joining the SFO, Mr. Amaee practised as a criminal barrister in London. Mr. Amaee holds a Ph.D. in medical research and a degree in life science and has a wealth of business experience having worked for over seven years in the commercial sector in Europe, Middle East and Africa in a business development capacity for two US headquartered organisations.

Helen Ashton was appointed as Director of Compliance in 2010 and reports to the Company Secretary of BT Group plc. Helen joined BT’s Group Secretariat in 2001 following 3 years as Head of Compliance in the Ernst & Young Company Secretarial Department. She has been involved in many of BT’s restructuring phases, including setting up and running the £5.9bn Rights Issue data room, the sale of Yell, and the disposal of O2.

Her role covers leading BT’s Compliance Programme including: BT’s Anti-Corruption & Bribery, Ethics and Whistleblower Hotline. She is also responsible for managing global logistics compliance in each jurisdiction and the Quality ISO audit teams for BT. Her Team is also responsible for Ethics, Integrity, DP and IRP. She has a global team which is located in; UK, Italy, USA, India, Hungary, and Singapore.

Helen is the author of The Company Secretary's Handbook (Kogan Page) 5th edition and articles in the Company Secretary’s Review and AOB Magazine.

Helen gaining a Politics degree at Exeter University in 1983 and qualified as an ACIS in 1993. She was appointed FCIS in 1996 following a CPE from De Montford University in 1995.

Luc Brandts is responsible for managing the development of BWise products and the company's vision. 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, government, manufacturing, healthcare and telecommunications. Mr. Brandts graduated with honors from Eindhoven University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on systems design and optimization. He obtained his PH.D. doctoral thesis on Methodical Design of Industrial Systems as an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Philip Bramwell is the Group general Counsel for BAE Systems. Before joining BAE Systems in 2007, Philip spent more than 20 years as an international corporate lawyer, specialising in mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceuticals, IT and telecommunications industries.

From 1998 to 2001 he was Chief Counsel, Mergers and Acquisitions for BT plc, prior to which he served as European General Counsel of Atlanta based BellSouth Corporation. He served as the General Counsel and Secretary of mobile phone company O2 plc from 2001 to 2006.

He has spent much of his career living and working overseas, undertaking major corporate transactions throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East.

Tom Brophy manages Wolseley’s head office legal department and is a member of the Wolseley Group Heads of Legal team. Reporting to the Group Company Secretary and General Counsel, Tom is responsible for managing the provision of advice on corporate legal affairs, for coordinating Group legal projects and for the coordination of the provision of legal advice in European businesses where there is no in-house Counsel.

Tom also has responsibility for coordination of Group wide programmes, such as supporting the Group’s responsible business objectives, including the anti-corruption programme, competition law compliance, the Group’s code of conduct, and the product liability and corrective action procedure. The Wolseley Group head office legal team recently won The Lawyer’s In-house Commerce and Industry team of the year award 2010.

Prior to joining Wolseley, Tom was an assistant solicitor in the corporate department of the international law firm Lovells LLP (now Hogan Lovells LLP) where he worked on a wide range of UK and cross border corporate transactions involving UK and international listed companies, private companies, institutional and other corporate clients.

Mr. Brown is a Partner of BTG GRP and has more than 28 years experience in corporate security, protection, investigations and law enforcement. He serves as a Board Director on the World Association of Detectives (WAD) and a Council Member of the Association of British Investigators (ABI). In 2007 he was voted Investigator of the Year by the ABI and Security Professional of the Year by WAD.

Mr. Brown’s work has included working with a major multi-national organisation providing corporate intelligence for their worldwide operations. An example of this work was FCPA supply chain due diligence for a major Extraction Company in Afghanistan and Pakistan through the transport of these goods through the Middle East and into Europe. Mr. Brown has also conducted major FCPA operations and Lifestyle Assessment work for clients on the Indian Sub- Continent.

Prior to BTG GRP Mr. Brown was Senior Managing Director of a global Consulting and Investigations business from 2007-2009. During this time Mr. Brown led an FCPA compliance exercise for a Scandinavian company, one of the largest Oil and Gas companies in the world. This involved Corporate Compliance, Due Diligence and Monitoring.

Previous to his position, Mr. Brown was co-founder and CEO of GSS Global, a leading European risk consulting firm. There he specialised in internal controls and compliance, banking safeguards and threat mitigation, white collar crime, due diligence, employee screening and IT investigations.

Prior to this Mr. Brown served for 13 years at Scotland yards Metropolitan Police.

Raja is the Global Head of the Anti-Corruption Group in the Legal and Compliance Division at Morgan Stanley. Raja created the Anti-Corruption Group and implemented policies and procedures to provide guidance to the Firm on compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and relevant anti-corruption laws and regulations around the world. Raja advises both legal and business colleagues on transactional issues involving state-owned or controlled entities. He regularly conducts and evaluates anti-corruption due diligence for business intermediaries and investment transactions considered by the Firm. Raja is involved in a variety of firm-wide initiatives including the Franchise Risk Committee, global business conflicts review, cross-border legal survey, and training programs on a variety of subjects.

Prior to this position, Raja worked in the Litigation Department, primarily on regulatory and law enforcement matters globally and across the Firm’s business lines. In the Litigation Department, Raja was also involved in formulating policies, procedures and training, as well as advising on various legal and regulatory issues, including the FCPA, internal investigations, and insider trading.

Raja joined Morgan Stanley as a member of the Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Group. During his time in the AML Group, Raja was directly involved in the Firm’s suspicious activity reporting and global OFAC compliance efforts. He supervised FinCen reporting and was the Group’s primary liaison with law enforcement authorities.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Raja was a prosecutor for ten years, most recently at the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section, in Washington, DC. Raja also served as an Assistant District Attorney at the New York County District Attorney's Office. During the course of his career, Raja has prosecuted a wide variety of cases ranging from violent offenses to sophisticated white-collar crimes. Raja has also worked extensively with the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and other regulatory and law enforcement agencies, both in the U.S. and overseas.

Ranjeev C Dubey, B.A. (Hons), Economics, Delhi University, LL.B., Admitted to the Bar in 1981, he is extensively experienced in main stream corporate commercial legal practice including strategic and general corporate advise, M&A, corporate contracting, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital. He has long years of experience in infrastructure law. He advises domestic clients on acquisition of companies and properties overseas.

As the Managing Partner of the Firm, he is the team leader on many of the firm’s leading assignments, rendering advice and steering the strategic input at the pulse of the commercial bargain.

He has been the principal speaker at many corporate communication initiatives undertaken under the umbrella of IALLM , a not for profit organization offering legal workshops for the business community. He is a columnist for India’s leading magazine Business World.

He has authored the pioneering litigation strategy book for business executives “Winning Legal Wars” (Macmillan, 2003).

The International Association For Contract & Commercial Management is a non-profit foundation with more than 14,000 members worldwide. In his role as CEO, Tim works with leading corporations, public and academic bodies, supporting executive awareness and understanding of the role that contracting competence increasingly play in 21st century business performance and public policy. Prior to IACCM, Tim's business career included executive roles at IBM and a period on the Chairman's staff, leading studies on the impacts of globalization and the reengineering of IBM's global contracting processes. His earlier career involved the banking, automotive and aerospace industries, initially in Corporate Finance and later in commercial and business development. He led negotiations up to $1.5bn in value and his work has taken him to over 40 countries. Tim has been extensively published by international media and he has acted in an advisory capacity to government bodies in countries that include the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Wolf Frenkel is the General Counsel of BearingPoint Management and Technology Consultants, an independent management and technology consultancy operated and owned by its 120+ Partners. BearingPoint has a 110 year heritage, currently employing 3,200 employees in 25 offices located throughout Europe. In this role, Wolf is responsible for providing comprehensive legal and business support to the senior management team, and manages a legal staff of ten lawyers and two paralegals.

Prior to joining BearingPoint, Wolf had a ten plus years career at Sun Microsystems, as Deputy General Counsel, for the Europe Region, and Senior Legal Director for EMEA, managing a group of more than 25 attorneys spread out over 15 countries. Before relocating to Europe in 2003, Wolf was based in the Bay Area, providing legal support to the Microelectronics and Software divisions, in technology acquisitions, inbound licensing and other intellectual property related areas.

Previous to joining Sun, Wolf was an Associate Counsel with Robert Half International Inc. (RHI), NYSE listed, and located in Menlo Park, supporting RHI’s world-wide intellectual property initiatives, M&A activities and general corporate governance and development matters. Prior to joining Robert Half, Wolf was a Senior Attorney with The PMI Group, Inc. NYSE listed, and located in San Francisco, where he supported PMI’s wholly-owned subsidiaries in numerous complex IP initiatives with most of the top Fortune 50 financial institutions.

Before relocating to the Bay area in 1994, Wolf was in private practice in Montreal, Quebec, where, for more than 10 years, he represented numerous start-up and mid-sized technology and manufacturing concerns in mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic licensing arrangements, joint ventures and real estate development projects.

Wolf is a graduate of McGill University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, 1980 and a graduate of the University de Montreal Law Faculty, earning his LL.B. in Civil Law, 1983. Wolf was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1984 and is currently an active member of the California State Bar since 1992.

Scott Giordano is an attorney who is both a Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) with more than 14 years legal, technology and risk management consulting experience. As Mitratech’s Corporate Technology Counsel, he is a subject matter expert on the interaction of law, technology, and business requirements for the company. Previous to Mitratech he maintained his own law practice and has also held positions as a Senior Manager at Fios Consulting and a risk management consultant for LexisNexis. Scott is a member of the Bar in California and in the District of Columbia.

Susanne Gropp-Stadler is the Head of Compliance Legal of Siemens AG.

During her career and professional experience of more than 15 years, Ms. Gropp-Stadler has been a legal counsel in different areas. Ms. Gropp-Stadler´s experience covers the full range of legal variety being valuable for worldwide acting companies as Siemens AG. Susanne Gropp-Stadler´s professional experience covers amongst others legal experience regarding operating business, licensing law, outsourcing business, as well as M & A, Joint Venturers, capital markets and Compliance.

Steve Hagner is responsible for Oracle’s Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He leverages his 20+ years of software industry experience to help customers maximize the business value to be gained from new technology solutions. Steve has worked with some of the largest companies in EMEA to help them secure compliance and reduce risks, while at the same time reducing costs. Steve lives in Germany and has a Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois.

Susan Jones is Head Corporate Legal Antitrust at Novartis, based in Basel, Switzerland. Susan leads the Antitrust Practice Team within Novartis. Before joining Novartis, Susan worked in the Brussels office of Allen & Overy LLP, where she was a Senior Associate, specialized in EC competition law. Prior to this, she worked as a Senior Investigator in the Enforcement Branch of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Susan is an Australian qualified lawyer and holds an LLM from the Queensland University of Technology.

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.

Monika Kuschewsky is a partner at Van Bael & Bellis, a leading independent law firm headquartered in Brussels.

Monika heads the firm’s European data protection law practice and is supported by an international team of lawyers from more than 15 different countries. She is qualified as a company data protection officer (Betrieblicher Datenschutzbeauftragter (GDDcert.)) and has extensive experience managing pan-European data protection law projects and audits for multinationals and small and medium-sized companies established in Asia, Europe and the USA. Monika develops and implements tailor-made compliance programmes and regularly provides data protection law training to clients. She also represents clients before the national data protection authorities in Europe and oversees multi-jurisdictional filings.

Monika advises on all questions of data protection law with a particular focus on international data transfers, outsourcing and HR as well as on data security and other data protection issues, which are relevant to global companies, such as outsourcing and cloud computing. She constantly provides hands-on practical advice regarding the data protection divide between the EU and the US, be it in the field of whistleblowing, e-discovery or others, as well as dealing with the challenges for data protection compliance raised by new technologies and practices, such as social networks, RFID, biometrics and behavioural advertising.

Monika has published articles on data protection law and regularly speaks at conferences. She is a member of the editorial board of PDP’s Privacy & Data Protection Journal as well as of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the Digital Economy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD e.V.) and the French Association of Data Protection Correspondents (AFCDP). Monika obtained her law degree from the Free University of Berlin in Germany and an LL.M. in Legal Studies from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. She is a member of the Bar of Berlin, Germany.

Tim Langton is VP Compliance & Ethics Exploration, Development & Production, which covers all of BP’s upstream operations. He is also responsible for Compliance and Ethics strategy within BP.

Within BP Tim is responsible for ensuring that:

• BP’s Exploration, Development and Production business is aware of, understands and manages effectively, all its compliance and ethical risks.
• Individual discrete group level compliance and ethics risks (for example bribery and corruption) have adequate and effective tools to manage and mitigate the risk, which can be used by all parts of BP.
• The network of compliance and ethics leaders embedded across BP is functioning efficiently to support the management of compliance and ethics risks on a day-to-day basis.

Tim joined BP in January of 2008 from the Linde Group (formerly the BOC Group) where he was General Counsel - Global Compliance. He was also Global Head of Anti Trust law, Trade Regulation, and ran the group Helpline on a day to day basis.

Whilst at the Linde Group he drafted and issued a new Group Code of Ethics for the Linde Group following its takeover of BOC. He was also responsible for the maintenance of a programme to proactively manage all compliance and ethics risks - including bribery, data protection, anti trust and trade regulation.

Prior to working at BOC, Tim worked for Reuters managing their litigation and compliance within the EMEA region. Tim also worked as a private practice litigator at Simmons & Simmons in the City of London and at the Bar.

Tim is qualified as a barrister and solicitor, has lectured widely on legal and compliance risks and their management.

Tim is also a member of the:

• International Chamber of Commerce UK Anti Corruption Committee;
• Transparency International Steering Committee for the Business Principles for Countering Bribery;
• United Nations Global Compact Working Group on the 10th Principle.

Richard has been based in Budapest since 1992 and is one of the founding partners of leading independent firm Lakatos, Köves and Partners. Richard trained at Burges Salmon in Bristol. He worked for 5 years with Clifford Chance in London (1987-1992) and joined Köves & Társai Ügyvédi Iroda in Hungary in 1992 as a secondee from Clifford Chance. Clifford Chance opened an office in Budapest in 1993 and Richard became a partner of Clifford Chance in 1996.

Richard focuses on mergers & acquisitions in Hungary and the wider Central Europe region and has been involved in many of the major privatisation and post privatisation transactions of the recent years, and has particular experience in public company take-overs and financial services sector M&A (working for clients such as KBC, Budapest Bank, Citibank, ING, Borsodchem, APV Rt., Warburg Pincus, Deutsche Telekom, Mondi, Kraft, Aegon, Suez). In August 2009 Clifford Chance agreed with Richard and his Hungarian partners that they should continue the practice of the Budapest office independently, although maintaining a “best friends” relationship.

Donald Maciver is Chairman of compliance management specialists Gael Ltd whom he founded in 1992. Gael are headquartered in East Kilbride and have operational bases in the UAE and the US to support over 2500 organisations in the Aviation, Healthcare and Supply Chain sectors that currently use their software and services to manage Quality, Safety and Risk effectively.

Having initially developed the Q-Pulse product to overcome his own personal frustration with the bureaucracy in early compliance management systems; he has over the last 20 years helped shape how organisations get real business benefit from the disciplines of compliance management.

He has a particular interest in cultivating an environment and culture where all employees engage and positively contribute to their management systems; where operational objectives and change are intelligence led, and where there is more emphasis on Oversight and less need for Command & Control dictates.

Esteban Maqueo Barnetche is Senior Partner & CEO of Maqueo Abogados, S.C. “Litigation Advisory Firm of the Year in Mexico” Corporate International Magazine 2010 Legal Awards. The firm is invited as the sole Mexican Form to attend to the Corporate Counsel Exchange Europe 2011. Esteban is an expert in litigation, court procedures and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): in Mercantile and Civil National & Multijurisdictional matters for High Profile and Complex Litigation.

Maqueo has several publications in national and international media and is an affiliate, member and often an associate of a number of legal societies and foreign bar associations and committees such as, amongst others: International Bar Association (IBA) Public and Professional Interest Division (PPID); Anti-Corruption Committee; Legal Practice Division (LPD); Arbitration Committee; Consumer Litigation Committee; Litigation Committee; Mediation Committee; Insolvency, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Section); Latin American Regional Forum; North American Regional Forum; (FDN) – IBA Foundation, Inc; (HRI) – Human Rights Institute. Esteban is also a member of The Law Society of England & Wales International Division; Association for International Arbitration (AIA); AIJA- International Association Of Young Lawyers; and (AAA)’s ICDR Y&I- International Centre for Dispute Resolution Young & International Associate."

Jean-Claude Najar is a senior lawyer with GE where has practiced for 21 years. He is the General Counsel for France and has Corporate legal and compliance responsibilities for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. He is also GE Lead Lawyer for Turkey. He represents GE on Transparency International’s Principles for Countering Bribery (BPCB) Steering Committee, and occasionally on the OECD Anti-Bribery Working Group. Jean-Claude Najar served previously as Senior Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer for GE Capital EMEA; as worldwide group General Counsel of GE Oil & Gas in Florence, Italy; and as Vice-President & General Counsel of GE Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) EMEA in Paris. He started his career in the Paris office of Coudert Brothers, where he specialized in international arbitration.

Jean-Claude Najar is the Honorary Founding President and a member of the Steering Committee of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group (CCIAG). He is a past Senior Chair of the IBA’s Corporate Counsel Forum, and a past Vice-President of the LCIA Court.

Jean-Claude Najar teaches Compliance at the Law School of Sciences Politiques in Paris. He publishes and lectures extensively on international commercial arbitration, ADR, compliance, corporate governance, and the role of in-house counsel. He read law at the Universities of Lausanne, Switzerland; the Sorbonne (Paris-I); and the London School of Economics, from which he holds an LL.M. He speaks French, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Turkish. He is married and has two grown-up sons.

Geoff Nicholas is head of the international commercial disputes group and co-head of the global investigations practice. He has wide ranging experience representing international clients in major multi-jurisdictional disputes, including in the US, Europe and the Middle East. He has been a partner since 1994.

Geoff's practice covers a broad range of disputes, including both common law and civil law disputes and regulatory and criminal investigations. He has represented clients in large scale fraud actions, including Lloyd's in one of the largest pieces of litigation in the Commercial Court. He has managed multi-jurisdictional disputes for clients such as WPP and JTI. He has advised on major investigations, including by the DOJ in the US. He recently advised one of the leading online gaming companies on the successful resolution of a DOJ investigation. He has also advised clients on multi-jurisdictional criminal, regulatory and extradition risks. Other major clients include Microsoft, Rolls-Royce and Accenture.

Geoff was seconded to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York in the early 1990s. He spent two years in the late 1990s on secondment to a client in New York, where he was the US head of litigation handling securities litigation and a major criminal investigation.

Anne Riley joined Shell in September 1992 and is Associate General Counsel Antitrust in Shell International Limited, leading Shell’s global Legal Antitrust Team (LAT). Anne is also Shell’s global head of Antitrust Compliance and is a member of Shell’s Group Global Compliance Office. Anne’s team advises Shell companies on antitrust law across the globe.

Anne has practised exclusively in the antitrust law field since qualifying as a solicitor in 1985 (more years than she likes to remember), both inside Shell and outside (in private practice: Linklaters in London and Bell Gully in New Zealand; and industry: Rio Tinto and Shell), and has lectured a Masters course in law at Auckland University (1990 -1992). Anne is qualified as a Solicitor in England and as a Barrister in New Zealand.

She speaks on antitrust law at a number of external legal conferences. Her interests are in antitrust compliance strategies and international antitrust policy. Anne has recently co-authored a paper on Antitrust Compliance Programmes which will be published in the Competition Law Journal in 2011.

In 2008, Shell’s Antitrust Team won the European and Global In-house “Competition Law Team of the Year” awards (ILO and ACC awards).

In May 2009, Anne became Chair of the ICC UK Committee on Competition. In February 2011 Anne will become Rapporteur of the ICC global Competition Commission. Anne is also on the Editorial Board of the of the PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook.

Vivian Robinson QC, was appointed as the first General Counsel at the Serious Fraud Office in the spring of 2009. The appointment was prompted by the de Grazia Report which was published in June 2008.

Previously, Vivian was in practice at the criminal bar from QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers, acting for both prosecution and defence; he also undertook regulatory work for the General Medical Council. Vivian is a noted specialist in all aspects of criminal legal work, and particularly in the field of commercial fraud.

Vivian was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield; The Leys School, Cambridge and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Career Timeline:
• 1966: Graduated from Cambridge with a Law Degree
• 1967: Called to the Bar by Inner Temple
• 1986: Took Silk, and became Recorder of the Crown Court
• 1991: Master of the Bench, Inner Temple
• 2004-2007: Head of Chambers at QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers
• 2008: Reader, Inner Temple
• 2009: Treasurer, Inner Temple and appointed first General Counsel at the Serious Fraud Office

Rossen Roussev has 25 years of international experience in corporate planning, business operations, ethics and compliance, enterprise restructuring and HR, and reputation management. His career path includes positions at the United States Information Agency, Apple, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, and the United Nations. From 1999 to 2010, he worked with Royal Dutch Shell, most recently as Head of External Intelligence (2007-2008) and Head of Policy and External Relations (2009-2010). Achievements include establishment of a strategic intelligence unit providing global compliance and reputation management. Resulting company-wide process optimization saved Shell more than $14 million. Mr. Roussev speaks six languages.

John P. Rupp is a partner in the London office of Covington & Burling LLP and specializes in the handling of corporate compliance issues. His work has included designing compliance programs for individual companies and investigating possible wrongdoing. He also has conducted compliance GAP analyses for a variety of companies, with the goal of identifying deficiencies in the policies and procedures intended to ensure compliance with measures such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, UK Bribery Act 2010 and companion measures in other countries. Before relocating to Europe in 1995, Mr. Rupp practiced for more than 20 years in the Washington office of Covington & Burling. He also has spent time in the Solicitor General’s Office at the US Department of Justice. In addition to publishing many articles on corporate compliance issues, Mr. Rupp has taught courses on corporate compliance and other issues at American University, Georgetown University, University of Iowa and the Ecole de Formation Professionnelle des Barreaux de la Court D’Appel de Paris.

Daniel Sandmann is responsible for Compliance Policy, Communications & Regulatory Affairs at Allianz SE. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences. Prior to joining Allianz Group Compliance, Daniel spent six years with Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at Deutsche Bank, with roles including coordination of regulatory affairs, MiFID implementation, training and policies. Daniel is educated as a lawyer and has been Research Fellow at Universities of Barcelona and Muenster.

Simon Scales has over 30 years experience within both private and public sectors, having conducted major investigations all over the world. Recently, his experience has been concentrated within the emerging markets of South America, India and China, reinforcing operations also conducted in Europe, the USA, Africa and the Middle East.

Having previously worked within Financial, Public Utility and MNC environments, he also served as a Detective with the Metropolitan Police Service (New Scotland Yard) and also studied with the National Crime Faculty. Simon is an experienced Financial Investigator, an Advanced Investigative Interviewer and was the former Deputy Director Global Security & Compliance for TNT.

Simon is now the Director Global Investigations at TNT, holding a pan-Global responsibility for investigations into Fraud, Governance Compliance, eCrime, Intellectual Property Rights and Identity Theft matters (incorporating legal and regulatory authority liaison). Simon has been instrumental in developing robust investigative practices which have proven to be successful in many global jurisdictions and are now seen to be “best in class”, and has resulted in successfully attaining several awards and external recognition from external / public bodies. Additionally, Simon has developed “pre” and “post” specialist internal M&A Due Diligence services which ensure that the organisation acquires and retains sustainable and compliant added value, locally, regionally and internationally.

Educated in the UK, Simon is a Graduate of the University of Nottingham (Business School). Holding numerous management qualifications, he is a member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI), the Security Institute (MSyI), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), ASIS, European Institute of Corporate Security Managers (EICSM) and Conference Board (Corporate Security Network).

Simon has had articles published in leading global journals, newspapers and other international media, including The Times (UK), The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France), Washington Post (US), and has also appeared on the BBC and CNN.

In demand for his knowledge, experience and unique approach, he has spoken at many conferences and seminars for IIR, MIS, Jacob Fleming, Lexis Nexis, Informa, Conferences-Asia and Marcus Evans on the subjects of Fraud, Risk Management & Internal Control, Intellectual Property Rights, Identity Theft and eCrime.

The 40-year-old lawyer, Olaf Schneider, worked at Linklater after completing his bar exam.

After moving to the US company General Electric, Schneider took over various management positions, and thus served as CEO and as Head of Compliance in a part of GE Capital.

Since January 1, 2010, Olaf Schneider is the Chief Compliance Officer of MAN SE. He reports directly to the CEO.

David Symes qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1987 with a Top 20 Audit firm also gaining useful fraud experience in retail & shipping, then after a year as an Internal Auditor in both the Banking & Leisure sectors joined Guardian Royal Exchange (then a FTSE 100 Group now part of AXA) to create their first Compliance Department. There he was responsible for creating Standardised Compliance Audit Programmes across the Group & 3rd Party Affiliates (including the Nationwide Building Society), led Fraud Investigations and became Deputy Head of Group Compliance.

In 1997 he set up CRS, now with offices in the City of London and on Wall Street (also represented in Chicago, Dubai, Hong Kong, Qatar & Sydney), employing only former Compliance staff and specialising in placing Audit & Governance professionals as well as Compliance & AML staff. In 2008 CRS sponsored and attended their first Anti Bribery & Corruption conference in Europe and since have attended several others as well as advised and run assignments in this area for various clients both in Financial Services and Industry & Commerce.

David also acts himself as a Management Consultant including assessing the adequacy of structures & staffing of Compliance Departments and directly setting up all procedures & controls for several firms. He has spoken on technical Compliance issues as well as staffing related topics at conferences & seminars both in the UK and overseas (USA & Middle East). In addition David is Vice President of the London Chartered Accountants and chairs their Compliance Group he co-founded in 1988, in which capacity he has organised & chaired Parliamentary debates on Regulation as well as currently a debate on the Bribery Act itself.

Dianne Thomas is the Vice President & International Compliance Leader for NBCUniversal, a joint venture between Comcast Corporation and General Electric (USA). From the headquarters of the international operations based in London, Dianne provides compliance oversight and support for operations in Europe, MEA, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Dianne joined GE Money Australia in 1996 and has held management roles in business development and marketing as well as compliance prior to taking up her current role in 2005. She is a qualified accountant and a member of CPA Australia.

In his function Roeland leads the roll out of Johnson &Johnson’s International Health Care Business Integrity program and heads up a team of regional and local Compliance officers for EMEA, and Canada, for all sectors across Johnson &Johnson( Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices &Diagnostics, Consumer)..
He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1987 as a Medical Representative for Janssen Pharmaceutica nv a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. He held various positions of increasing responsibility in both sales and marketing, national as well as international.

He joined the Worldwide Office of Health Care Compliance & Privacy in May 2005 in a strategic role for the EMEA region with expansion to Asia, Latin-America and Canada in 2008 and has his current positions since March 2010. Roeland is Chairman of the EUCOMED compliance network and an active member of the IFPMA Code Compliance Network. He worked with the INSEAD business school to initiate the Health Care Compliance leadership program, and contributed to the joint Seton hall/ Science Po Health Care Compliance certification program in Paris.

Ronald van Vuure has been working with ZyLAB since 2001, focused primarily on evangelising the benefits of eDisclosure, eDiscovery and Litigation Readiness and the benefits and rewards ZyLAB solutions can provide in these areas.

Ronald’s experience at ZyLAB has taken him from specialising in dealing with Information management concerns through to understanding and dealing with both Law Firms and In House Legal Counsel to support their needs in terms of eDiscovery/eDisclosure and litigation readiness. Ronald holds a bachelor degree in Business Management. Most recently he has been concentrating on educating commercial organisations in the UK about the implications of the soon to be released UK Bribery Act in terms of getting your house in order and the very real dangers of being unprepared.

Joost Wiebenga is the Deputy General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Europe of Tyco International, a diversified, global company that provides vital products and services to customers in more than 60 countries.

With more than 100,000 employees worldwide, Tyco is a leading provider of security products and services, fire protection and detection products and services, valves and controls, and other industrial 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 as a shared service centre all Tyco business segments in every market where Tyco is active, in close cooperation with the Eversheds network.

Joost graduated at the Groningen University Law Faculty, is a NMI licensed mediator and recently successfully completed the Corporate Compliance & Integrity 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, capabilities & compliance, client satisfaction and cost (i.e. outside counsel and related legal spend) in an optimum manner."

Suzanne Wise is General Counsel and Company Secretary at Premier Foods Plc having joined the Group in early 2008. Premier is the UK's leading food producer and manufacturer of some of the nation’s favourite foods including Hovis bread, Mr Kipling cakes, Sharwoods Asian foods, Brantson pickle, Bisto gravy and OXO stock amongst others. Premier has an annual group turnover of over £2.7bn and employs over 16,000 people in more than 60 sites across the UK. Suzanne is responsible for the Group's Legal, Company Secretarial and Trade Mark functions and also sits on the Group Executive Committee, Chairs the Policy Steering Group, the Risk Review Group and sits on the CSR Committee. In addition to her Legal and Company Secretarial role Suzanne also has responsibility for the Internal Communications team and Group Internal Audit function.

In 2010 Suzanne was selected as one of only 13 in house lawyers in The Lawyer magazine’s Hot 100.

Prior to Premier Foods Suzanne was Group Head of Legal at Gallaher Group Plc, the world’s fifth largest tobacco company and was responsible for the Group’s legal and trade-mark functions of c30 managers which were based across eight countries.

In her early her career, Suzanne worked in private practice, undertaking her training contract at Lewis Silken followed by two years at Crossman Block & Keith (now Crossman Block) as an IP specialist, focusing mainly on trade marks.