Roundtable Biographies - 06/18/13 - London

On June 18, Compliance Week and NAVEX Global presented an editorial roundtable at St. Ermin's Hotel in London. The focus of the roundtable, which was moderated by Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly, was on identifying and reducing third-party risks. Attendees' full biographies are below.

Jennifer Aikins-Appiah

Regulatory Compliance OfficerCPA Global

Jennifer Aikins-Appiah is the regulatory compliance officer at CPA Global for Jersey & Europe. Appiah's primary area of focus is on anti-bribery and corruption, economic sanctions, anti-boycott, and data privacy. With an extensive client management experience and knowledge of business operations, coupled with her legal training, she is sensitive to the operational burdens of the business in achieving regulatory compliance at CPA.

Mark Bromley

Head of Governance, Risk, Control & ComplianceEDF Energy

Mark Bromley is the head of governance, risk, control, and compliance for EDF Energy where he is responsible for leading governance, risk, control, and compliance teams across EDF Energy's £7 billion ($11 billion) turnover conventional (coal, gas, and renewable) electricity generation, optimization/trading and customer (major and residential electricity and gas) supply businesses. Prior to his current role, he was the head of contract management for EDF, responsible for the company-wide internal control and business performance of EDF Energy, one of the U.K.'s largest vertically integrated energy utilities, with a turnover of £7 billion per year; eight nuclear power stations; and two fossil-fired power stations which produce around one sixth of the U.K.'s electricity. Bromley is also the chairman of Orchestras Live, which helps local promoters, particularly those inexperienced in putting on professional orchestral music, with programming, audience development, performance, and event presentation. Bromley is also a member of the executive board for The Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability Project, providing oversight to the project.

Claire Combes

Head of Risk & Internal AuditIntu Properties

Claire Combes is head of risk and internal audit at Intu Properties, who own and manage some of the U.K.'s largest shopping centres. Her responsibilities include internal audit, risk management and insurance. She has previously led risk and internal audit teams at Marks and Spencer, Lonmin and Thresher Group and has held financial and operational roles in a number of other large organizations. During the last three years at Intu, she has shaped her team to provide meaningful assurance to the business over their key activities, such that the risk and internal audit team is regarded as a value-added partner in the organization.

Bob Conlin

Chief Products OfficerNAVEX Global

Bob Conlin joined EthicsPoint to help lead the company's strategy to package and deliver market-leading risk awareness solutions that drive increased value for clients. In his former assignment as vice president of marketing at Accero, Conlin owned responsibility for marketing, business development, and product management. Prior to joining Accero, he served as the chief marketing officer at Centive, where he led the successful transformation of the company from enterprise software to a pure-play SaaS provider and created a new product category—On-Demand Sales Performance Management. Before Centive, he served as senior director, product planning and management at Infinium Software, a publicly traded ERP/HR/payroll software vendor. In this capacity, he led the product management and marketing teams in the development, launch, and ongoing marketing of Infinium's software solutions. Previous to Infinium, Conlin held senior-level sales and marketing positions at Cort Directions and Myriad/OrCom Systems.

Kristy Grant-Hart

Director of Compliance, EMEACarlson Wagonlit Travel

Kristy Grant-Hart is an expert on international anti-bribery and data protection law and on creating effective compliance programs for multi-national companies. She currently serves as the director of compliance for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for Carlson Wagonlit Travel, the world's leading business travel management company. Grant-Hart began her legal career as an associate in the international law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she worked several years, both in the firm's Los Angeles and London offices. While at Gibson Dunn, her team was nominated for Best Regulatory Law Firm of the Year at Thomson Reuter's Compliance Awards in London. Grant-Hart has published articles in magazines and trade publications in the United States and Europe on anti-bribery topics and on data privacy and data transfer between the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. She has advised Fortune 500 companies on international compliance and created and revamped compliance programs for major companies in Europe and the United States.

Tomas Hazleton

Head of RiskGAM (U.K.)

Tomas Hazleton is head of risk and a member of the boards of directors of GAM's U.K. companies. Previously, he was EMEA director of risk management for Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Wealth and Investment Management business and AllianceBernstein, both based in London. While based in New York, he held senior roles at General Motors Asset Management, DTCC, and Citigroup. Hazleton was a founding member of the U.K. Investment Management Association's Operational Risk Working Group. He currently serves on the advisory boards of the Chazen Institute of International Business and the Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER).

Matt Kettel

Director of Risk AssessmentPearson

Matt Kettel joined Pearson in 2012, having spent over 20 years working in a variety of risk and assurance roles. His role at Pearson is to lead development of the approach to enterprise risk and compliance. This includes developing a global community of risk, compliance, and assurance experts; risk reporting to the board and audit committee; and monitoring compliance with Code of Conduct and anti-bribery & corruption laws and regulations. Pearson is the world's leading learning company, with global brands in education, business information (Financial Times) and consumer publishing (Penguin). With annual revenues of £6 billion ($9 billion), the business has 48,000 employees and operates in 70 countries. Prior to joining Pearson, Kettel spent three years as director of corporate risk management at HM Revenue & Customs, the U.K.'s tax authority. He previously had leading roles in risk management & internal audit at Land Securities (property) and Reed Elsevier (global media). He started his career as a chartered accountant at Andersen, advising clients internationally on risk, governance, and internal audit.

Dan Kline

Managing Director, EMEANAVEX Global

Dan Kline brings more than 14 years of experience in management consulting and business development in helping global organizations establish and evolve their compliance, ethics, and risk-management architecture. Previously, he served as managing director of CMS Cameron McKenna, Europe's largest law and tax firm, and at LRN, a leading online training and ethics and cultural consultancy company. While at LRN, he consulted with leading companies on how to best safeguard and enhance the reputations of companies—drafting policies, conducting risk assessments, designing internal communication strategies, setting up whistleblowing systems, and designing and delivering live and online training across a wide range of risk areas globally. Kline began his career at the Corporate Executive Board which included responsibilities of overseeing the supply chain and procurement consulting business in EMEA. A Fulbright Scholar, Kline spent time in Buenos Aires developing a new social and economic policy aimed at supporting Argentina's indigenous populations.

Sandra Lau

Director of Ethics and Compliance, EMAFlowserve Corp.

Sandra Lau is director of ethics and compliance at Flowserve Corp., a $7 billion U.S. multinational manufacturing and engineering organization with more than 17,000 employees worldwide. Lau has served in this role since 2007 and is also part of the business integrity and compliance team, as well as the third-party due diligence team, screening identified parties on request. Prior to her current role, Lau served as a Flowserve HR manager and gained experience in international HR processes, supporting three manufacturing facilities with 500 employees and a business turnover of 100 million euro. Lau has 21 years of experience in banking, retail, and manufacturing organizations. Currently, she supports ethics and compliance business functions in Europe, Eurasia, and Africa with 6,300 employees in more than 80 facilities across the world. Bilingual in German and English, Lau has a deep understanding of European and U.S. business processes and their legal environment, as well as experience in working across international boundaries. Her background has enabled her to be a proactive member of the world wide ethics and compliance management team, dedicated to designing best-in-class ethics and compliance processes internationally. In addition, Lau is an active member at the Institute of Business Ethics in London and has contributed to two “Good Practice Guide” publication projects.

James Liddiard

Group Head of LegalInnovation Group

James Liddiard is the chief legal officer and group company secretary at The Innovation Group. The Innovation Group helps P&C insurers compete in the new normal. Innovation Group's core software and services deliver a best of breed software suite, Innovation Insurer, and claims BPO services, providing a platform for innovation and competitive differentiation for insurers of all sizes. His responsibilities include group legal matters (mainly outsourcing and technology contracts, mergers and acquisitions, IT/IP law, HR, and dispute resolution); corporate governance; and plc company secretarial matters (including share schemes). Liddiard also oversees sustainability, information security (including data protection), and the group insurance program. His previous experience includes roles with DLA Piper, Dechert, and Blake Lapthorn.

Barry Matthews

Director of Legal Affairs, Commercial & OnlineITV

Barry Matthews spent 5 years at Hogan Lovells where he trained and qualified specializing in sports and media law. He subsequently joined Granada Television as an in-house lawyer overseeing U.K. brand exploitation of Granada TV programming. Following the merger of Granada and Carlton he was promoted to head of legal overseeing the airtime and sponsorship sales divisions. He currently holds the role of director of legal, third-party sales and advertising compliance for the commercial and online division of ITV which is responsible for monetization of ITV programming in the United Kingdom (including airtime and product placement), VOD exploitation on ITV, and third-party platforms and viewer interactive events. He is also a member of the SRA training and education board committee and creates and delivers cross discipline management skills training to the ITV management community.

Mary O'Connor

Chief Risk & Compliance OfficerWillis Group Holdings

Mary O'Connor is group head of risk and compliance for the Willis Group. O'Connor leads a team of 120 associates who identify and mitigate world-wide risk for 17,000 employees in a market-leading insurance brokerage firm. She transformed the risk and compliance functions in response to a significant FSA fine. O'Connor successfully developed and led, in partnership with management, a “positive compliance” program to embed risk mitigation in the business and to foster cultural change. Additionally, she restructured group governance to address U.S.-U.K. regulatory and legal issues. O'Connor also advised the group board of directors in respect of governance, securities, and risk issues, and liaised with regulators to protect Willis against regulatory and environmental risk. In addition to being a member of the Willis Limited board of directors, O'Connor is a founder-member of “Women at Willis,” a program to foster career development for female associates and a frequent speaker in respect of ethics, governance, and regulatory issues.

Susan Sturrock

Head of Ethics & Business IntegrityBT Group

Susan Sturrock heads up BT's anti-corruption and bribery and ethics program. She is also responsible for the governance of compliance activities within BT, compliance communications and awareness, and training. A lawyer, Sturrock specialized in anti-trust law in private practice before joining BT. She held a number of different roles at BT, including in sales and marketing, commercial, legal, regulatory, and HR, before joining the governance and compliance team.

Helen Whittle

Risk ManagerEasyJet

Helen Whittle is the risk manager at EasyJet, responsible for the coordination of the business wide risk-management program, including risk appetite and risk identification workshops, risk-quality assurance activities, and the day-to-day coordination of all risk-management reporting. Whittle is a chartered accountant and an affiliate member of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM).