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Michele C. Lee is a prominent figure in technology law, specializing in the intersection of online behavior and continually changing legal frameworks. Her expertise encompasses youth safety, privacy, artificial intelligence, and the evolving regulatory landscape governing online platforms.

Lee's contributions have garnered significant recognition. She was distinguished as one of the "2023 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business" by the San Francisco Business Times, honored as the "2020 Woman Leader in Tech Law" by The Recorder, and recognized as a "2021 Thought Leader" by Corporate Counsel's Women, Influence, and Power in Law.

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Noreen Fierro is Senior Vice President, Enterprise Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Principal Financial Group She joined Principal in 2022. Prior to joining Principal, Noreen has had a 30- year career in the financial services industry both in-house in legal and compliance roles and as outside counsel. Most recently, Noreen served as the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Guardian Life (2016-2021). Prior to her time at Guardian, Noreen spent 10 years at Prudential Financial in various senior compliance/legal roles. She started her career in private legal practice doing defense and regulatory work for large broker-dealers and insurance companies.

Connect with Noreen on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/noreen-fierro-09a5228

Norm Ashkenas is Chief Compliance Officer of Robinhood Markets, joining in 2020. He has been in the financial services industry for 30 years in a variety of legal and compliance roles, including as Chief Compliance Officer for large retail brokerage and investment advisory firms. Norm is a leader, committee member and frequent speaker for a number of industry and regulatory groups including SIFMA, FINRA, NSCP, FSDA and FMA. He holds a B.A. in European History & American Culture from Northwestern University, a J.D. from Fordham Law School, and FINRA Series 7, 14, 24, and 63 licenses.

Dan has been an effective business partner for leading BPO firms for nearly 15 years and has expertise in transactions, complex litigation, real estate, human resources, international legal matters, compliance and corporate governance. As Alorica’s Chief Legal Officer Dan is a member of the Operating Committee and leads the Transactions, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Dispute Resolution, and Intellectual Property functions for Alorica as well as its corporate secretary. Dan has been with Alorica for nearly seven years, previously serving as Deputy General Counsel.

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Bill Ryan is responsible for leading AT&T’s compliance’s organization and supporting AT&T’s compliance with legal and regulatory requirements of the countries and jurisdictions where AT&T operates. Bill also leads legal support for AT&T’s Operations organization under Jeff McElfresh and for AT&T Latin America and Global Marketing organization led by Lori Lee, including support for AT&T Mexico.

Before taking his current position, Bill provided legal support for the Consumer organization, including sales, products, marketing, advertising, digital, retail and care operations. Prior to that role, Bill was vice president and associate general counsel responsible for providing legal support for Content strategy and execution, including negotiating programming agreements entered into by DIRECTV and U-verse, acquiring rights necessary to develop new technologies and providing legal support for key strategic transactions.

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Fabiana is the Embraer Chief Compliance and Governance Officer since January 2025. From June 2016 to December 2024, she was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer of the Company. Prior to joining Embraer, she worked at DuPont in Brazil from September 2002 to June 2016 as Legal Director for Brazil and the Andean Region, responsible for the legal aspects of all businesses of DuPont in Brazil and Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. From June 1998 to December 2001, Fabiana was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

Fabiana graduated from the University of São Paulo School of Law in 1993 and has an LL.M degree from Cornell Law School, Ithaca, USA, 1998. She specialized in corporate law, corporate finance, capital markets, antitrust, international trade and compliance.

Jacquelyn Pruet - Driving change in challenging environments to achieve desired outcomes. Your solution to corporate content strategy, creation, program implementation, and oversight.

A corporate "McGyver" that gets your organization to the moon with scotch tape, bubble gum, and a toothpick.

A change management specialist, legal expert, and strategist that helps organizations achieve measurable outcomes for behavioral modification goals by creating award-winning programs which are cost effective and impactful.

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Anitha is recognised as a global ethics, risk, compliance and internal audit leader with proven experience and expertise in establishing Centres of Excellence at GCCs across industry verticals.
A passionate professional, she has over 23 years of service in leading and developing high performing teams across India, Europe and US markets. Her engagements include - internal audit, risk management, compliance, business process and financial compliance, data privacy, SoX, GRC program management, digitisation.

Mr. Pat Poitevin is an internationally recognized expert in anti-corruption, corporate ethics, and compliance. He is the co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Anti-Corruption (CCEAC). He is also co-founder & CEO of the boutique advisory firm Active Compliance and Ethics Group (ACEG). Mr. Poitevin is a 35-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and retired in October 2017, where he was the RCMP's anti-corruption and compliance expert. He has also been an investigator and expert on drugs, organized crime, and financial crime. He is in demand as a speaker, university lecturer, and trainer at the international level and has extensive experience in program development and capacity building. Mr. Poitevin has been advising and helping public and private organizations to improve their ethics, compliance, and anti-corruption measures. Mr. Poitevin has also worked on research, consultative, and advisory projects with the G20, UNODC, and the IMF. He was a member of the Canadian Project Committee (PC278) involved in the development of the ISO 37001 Anti-bribery and ISO 37002 Whistleblowing Management systems standard as well ISO 42001 AI Management systems. He is a member of the Transparency International Expert Network, ACFE, IAFCI, AACI, and several other professional associations. He also has the CACM and TASA professional designations. He is a member of Transparency International Canada and a Certified Anti-Corruption Manager (CMAC-USA).

Connect with Pat on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patpoitevin/

Elizabeth is a barrister by training, who started her legal career as a regulator, in the Office of Telecommunications and the European Commission. She has over 20 years’ in house experience of advising companies in the UK and internationally, including at Digicel, du and Royal Mail. Elizabeth is passionate about making compliance simple, and empowering all to make ethical decisions every day. In 2017, her team in Royal Mail was awarded “In House Compliance Team of the Year” by Women in Compliance. In 2018, as compliance lead for the Ritz Hotel Casino, the company was awarded “Socially Responsible Operator of the Year”, for their innovative work with a clinician and economist, to proactively identify those who may develop problematic play. She joined Carlsberg in 2019, and during her tenure her team worked to embed and enhance compliance in over 100 markets, many of which are high risk. Elizabeth is a lifelong learner. She has master’s degrees in international business law, economics and a distinction in the psychology of behaviour change.

Connect with Elizabeth on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-wilks-wood-46b0b448

Michael Levin has a proven track-record of developing strategies and tactics for reducing compliance and ethics risks and has designed best-practice compliance programs for more than 100 companies.

Michael spent 10+ years overseeing Compliance and Ethics at Freddie Mac, leading a team of compliance professionals and corporate investigators, and setting the strategy to manage and mitigate Ethics, Culture and Conduct risk across the enterprise. This includes the Compliance Helpline, the Code of Conduct, employee trading controls, corporate investigations, and enterprise risk and compliance training. Levin was the founder of and also served as Secretary of Freddie Mac’s Conduct Risk Committee.

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Mark Jaffe leads the Rivian ethics, compliance and privacy program which includes ethical culture, compliance oversight, privacy, and investigations. He leads a team of 16 people which includes privacy professionals, lawyers, compliance professionals, and investigators responsible for developing and implementing Rivian’s ethics, compliance and privacy programs and to investigate allegations of employee wrongdoing. Mark and his team work on issues related to privacy, information governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data ethics.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjaffe/

Ken Myers is a global strategic business executive of global product compliance turned regulatory and business consultant with a passion and history of building organizations, relationships, practices, and cultures aimed at defending and emboldening omni-channel brands following a cross-functionally collaborative, risk-managed, data-driven, decision-making approach. Ken has over 20 years of experience lifting Supplement, Functional Food, OTC, Cosmetic, and Beauty/Medical/Electronic Device brands to achieve their goals. He is presently the Executive Director of Regulatory Avenues Consulting.

Connect with Ken Myers on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-myers-4b56235

Matt Fawcett is general counsel for DXC Technology. He serves as principal counsel and advisor to senior leadership and the DXC Board of Directors. He has global responsibility for all legal, privacy, contracting, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and compliance activities, as well as government and regulatory affairs.

Connect with Matt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattfawcett/

Guido Palazzo is a professor of business ethics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and a sought-after adviser on ethics and compliance. His work has been published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Review and the Academy of Management Journal.

Guido, along with Ulrich Hoffrage, authored the book The Dark Pattern - The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals. The book is set to release on June 3rd, 2025. In the book, Guido and Ulrich reveal why good people in organizations do bad things and how entire organizations can fall off a moral cliff.

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Jay Cohen has a wealth of experience as an architect of comprehensive legal compliance and risk management programs that identify and prevent fraud, promote ethical business practices, and ensure compliance with global legal mandates. As both Chief Compliance Officer and independent consultant, he has proven effective at identifying and interpreting applicable regulations and then crafting and communicating required organizational responses, motivating individuals at all levels of an organization, and collaborating with business leaders to advance compliant business strategies.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-cohen-legalcompliance

Todd Gower serves as the Chief Compliance Officer at L.A. Care Health Plan, bringing a distinctive blend of Big 4 consulting, finance, technology, and healthcare governance expertise to one of the nation’s largest publicly operated health plans. In this role, he leads a broad portfolio that includes corporate and regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, external audit coordination, organizational ethics, privacy, special investigations, internal audit, delegated provider oversight, and compliance analytics. His focus is on building a culture of compliance that not only meets regulatory expectations—especially across Medicare and Medicaid programs—but also supports L.A. Care’s mission of delivering quality care to its members, providers, and communities.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-m-gower-9a64b7/

Betty Thorne Tierney is the Vice President, Litigation for a nationwide retailer. Betty leads the company’s in-house litigation team which actively defends the company’s uninsured litigation across the country. In this role, she has tried cases and arbitrations in numerous jurisdictions. Betty has also argued appeals in several federal districts and before the Missouri Supreme Court. In fulfilling this not so traditional in-house litigation role, Betty works closely with local counsel in the jurisdictions where her cases are pending. A 1990 graduate of Washington University School of Law, Betty spent her first two years of practice in a local law firm and has spent the remaining 33 years of her practice in-house.

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A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” She is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and consults and speaks for clients such as Google, Yale University, and the World Bank. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a producer of a multiple Grammy-winning jazz album, and a Broadway investor. You can download her free Long Game self-assessment workbook and learn more at dorieclark.com/thelonggame.

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Born in Northern Ireland Donna moved to England in 2003 to qualify as a specialist construction & engineering solicitor (now former solicitor). Working across major FTSE companies Donna has a range of experience in not alone legal strategy, but also in transformation, improvement, process & people strategy.

She qualified as a coach & mentor with IAPC&M & now specialises in transforming In-House Lawyers & Teams to increase their impact.

Donna has founded the ILLP the In-House Lawyers' Leadership Programme in 2020 to coach & mentor  In Housee Lawyers to increase their core Leadership Qualities. Donna says it gives you the underlying skills to manifest these 'adjectives' that we hear others describe Leaders such as Empathy, Influence.

Donna also has worked with Global In-House Legal Teams to transform the Teams' position within the companires they work in - on a consultancy basis.

Her mission is to provide others with skills to transform stress, worry & frustration with possibilities & opportunity.

Her philosophy is:

Leadership does not mean those at the top of the hierarchy, as Leaders are everywhere.

True Leadership starts with taking Leadership within ourselves.

Joe’s web site: Joe Murphy, CCEP

LinkedIn cite: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemurphyccep/

Lisa started her legal career at an international law firm, where she was a litigator and also ran the Washington, D.C. pro bono program.  She also worked in public interest law and advocating on behalf of persons with disabilities as part of a state protection and advocacy organization.  Those roles brought her to work in the area of compliance as it allows her to help shape practices to support ethical decision-making.

Lisa also co-hosts the "Great Women in Compliance" podcast with Mary Shirley.  This weekly podcast focuses on the diversity of the compliance community and the accomplishments of women in our field (and others who support women in compliance).   They are also the authors of Sending the Elevator Back Down: What We’ve Learned from Great Women in Compliance (CCI Press 2020), where women share their stories of their careers and experiences.

Lisa received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate agree from Tufts University.   She grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., and as the daughter of an attorney and a librarian, she feels fortunate to work in a role at Pearson that combines learning and being able to use her legal background.  She lives in Washington, D.C.

Over the last 23 years, Dr. Robert Shindell has served as an experiential education thought leader and practitioner, as well as a senior administrator in both public and private institutions of higher education. Through his highly acclaimed Total Internship Management Workshop, Dr. Shindell has trained thousands of employers to build and sustain meaningful internship programs across the country. He has also worked with hundreds of colleges and universities in the workforce development area, as well as developing comprehensive strategic initiatives, supporting plan implementation, and building successful teams.

Dr. Shindell also serves as a member of the Distinguished Scientists Advisory Board for the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) to maximizing The United States Department of Energy’s strategic objectives. In addition to expanding ORISE thought leadership, the DSAB works closely with ORISE leadership, technical experts, and liaisons to ensure that strategic milestones related to ORISE activities are met.

Dr. Shindell earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Texas Tech University, a master’s degree in training and development from Midwestern State University, and a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Toledo. Dr. Shindell is also an adjunct faculty member in the College of Business and Communications at Concordia University of Texas.

Dr. Shindell is originally from Lancaster County Pennsylvania, but currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife of 14 years, Christy. Robert and Christy have two amazing kids, Jack (11) and Charley (7). When not working, Dr. Shindell is active in his children’s school and sports activities as well as serving on various volunteer boards for the Leander (TX) Independent School District.

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Jo’s Ethics book published December 2020: https://www.auditconsultingeducation.com/product/becoming-the-everyday-ethicist/

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Lisa Beth’s daily mantra is “People are at the heart of every great story, and stories are how people remember.” She believes that resilient organizations are powered by people and fueled by purpose. Lisa Beth has had the opportunity to work with private and public companies, nonprofits, and professional organizations to put values into action.

A teacher at heart, Lisa Beth has always embraced opportunities to help grow and cultivate future leaders. She is happiest when surrounded by family, friends, and colleagues who want to make a difference and who rejoice in the successes of others. Fortunately, she has been able to combine her love of education, communication, and subject matter expertise into a career that keeps her excited about the art of possibility every day.

Stef Tschida spent 15 years working in all aspects of corporate communications before starting her own communications consultancy. She has supported some of the biggest organizations in some of the most highly regulated industries, but today Stef finds she’s most passionate about helping small and mid-sized companies clearly communicate to those who matter most to their success.  

Stef’s professional motto is, “No stakeholder left behind,” and that’s exactly the promise she brings to her work. Stef has led public relations, client communications, and internal communications at regional and global levels, so she thinks about all relevant audiences when it’s time to communicate information. She holds a master’s of Strategic Communication from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and lives outside the Twin Cities metro area with her husband and two young kids.

Immediately before his time at the SCCE/HCCA, Adam was Corporate Relations Executive for LRN, a compliance solutions provider, where he was responsible for the company’s conferences and events programs.

Adam is a regular speaker at SCCE&HCCA events.  He has also spoken at conferences for a number of other associations, including the Institute of Internal Auditors, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Practical Law Institute and the National Contract Management Association.

In addition, he hosts the popular Compliance Perspectives podcasts with spotlights current issues in compliance.

Adam’s professional career includes thirteen years in advertising and marketing.  He began at J. Walter Thompson, where he was a part of the company’s management training program.  During his advertising career Adam worked on such brands as Burger King, Nintendo and Vittel Mineral Water.

Before his time in advertising Adam served for two years on the Washington staff of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

• Nationally recognized consultant and communication strategist

• Professional speaker & trainer (1,000+ presentations)

• Trained, consulted and coached 1,000’s of leaders and teams

• Helped 100’s of business to grow and develop

• Business investor and advisor (startups & turn around)

• Trusted source for building strong culture & brand

• Founder and creator of the Rise of a Leader program

• Founder and CEO of Lead Your Story

PERSONAL STORY (WHY I DO WHAT I DO)

• Corp. Leadership Story: Dysfunctional Team Story (out of the box)

• Fight Fear Story: Became A Professional MMA Fighter

• Personal Story: Jail Riot Averted (helped inmate get over trauma)

• Extreme Sports: marathons, power-lifting, sky diving

• Meditation / Spiritual enthusiast 10,000+ hours

• Bio-Hacker: experiment with nootropics, racetams, fasting, etc.