Roundtable Biographies - 07/23/13

On July 23, Compliance Week and Boeing presented an editorial roundtable at the Ritz-Carlton Marina del Rey. The focus of the roundtable, which was moderated by Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly, was on cultivating a strong compliance workforce. Attendees' full biographies are below.

Tyson Avery

SVP, Global ComplianceCBRE Inc.

Tyson Avery is senior vice president of global compliance for CBRE Inc. CBRE is the world's largest, publically traded commercial real estate services provider with approximately 37,000 employees and $6B in annual revenue. In this position, Avery is the senior executive responsible for the global ethics and compliance program, which includes both domestic and international responsibilities. He leads a team of over 60 dedicated professionals, and works in the corporate world headquarters in Los Angeles. Prior to CBRE, Avery served as the director of ethics & compliance of ITT Defense. In this role, he built an integrated and sustained ethics and compliance program for a $6B organization in the aftermath of one of the largest regulatory prosecutions in U.S. history, including over $100 million in fines and remediation. He was also the global process owner for compliance of a corporate-wide SAP implementation. Prior to these assignments, Avery held various positions as legal counsel and within the areas of ethics and compliance, industrial security, trade compliance, and environmental, health, and safety. Prior to his corporate experience, he spent ten years as a judge advocate serving in the U.S. Marine Corps where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including prosecuting and defending felony level criminal cases, serving as one of the first Geneva Convention Magistrates in Iraq, and as the sole military attorney in the White House Counsel's Office. In 2004, the American Bar Association named Avery the Young Military Lawyer of the Year. He was also awarded the Bronze Star for his service during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Dianne Binkoski

Director, Internal Controls & ComplianceDIRECTV

Dianne Binkoski is director of internal controls & compliance. Her responsibilities include ensuring compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and Red Flags Rule. She oversees the documentation of internal controls in business processes for DIRECTV U.S. & Latin America so they can be tested by internal & external auditors. She maintains the DIRECTV anti-fraud program and is a third-party vendor risk management committee member. In 2008, she implemented a software solution to maintain and monitor critical spreadsheets that feed DIRECTV's financial statements. She has been with DIRECTV since 1999. Prior to moving into the internal controls & compliance department in 2005, she was responsible for third-party vendor contract compliance.

Wanda Denson-Low

SVP, Office of Internal GovernanceThe Boeing Co.

Wanda Denson-Low is senior vice president of the Office of Internal Governance for The Boeing Co., the world leader in aerospace. A member of the Boeing Executive Council, the company's policy and strategy body, Denson-Low was named to her current position in May 2007. With a global team of nearly 500 people, Denson-Low is responsible for the company's ethics and compliance risk management programs, internal audit, and import/export policy and licensing activities. Previously, Denson-Low led the law department for Boeing's $30 billion defense and space business. Her distinguished professional career includes more than 30 years of experience in corporate law, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, data rights, government contracts, and intellectual property law. She is a member of the board of trustees for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Her most recent awards include the 2011 Pioneer Award from Black Engineer of the Year and the National Asian Pacific American Corporate Achievement Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans in 2012.

Lee Erlichman

Chief Compliance and Ethics OfficerLifeWatch Services Inc.

Lee Erlichman is presently a senior vice president and the chief compliance officer of LifeWatch Services Inc. He has over 30 years of startup, turnaround, and growth experience in both high-technology and medical devices and services. Prior to joining LifeWatch, Ehrlichman was CEO of W.O. Consulting, where he consulted for medical device companies in the areas of reimbursement, regulatory, sales, marketing, product development, fundraising, and business development. His previous experience includes top leadership positions at various companies, including 12 years at Cardiac Telecom Corp., where as president and CEO he pioneered the introduction and use of wireless healthcare; president and CEO of Tartan Inc., an embedded systems software company focused on Aerospace and DoD applications; vice president of sales at Alsys; manager at Data General Corp. where he was part of a four-man team running a JV in Japan; and Territory Manager at Burroughs Corp.

Elliot Fisch

Director, Internal Audit & CCOEaston-Bell Sports

Elliot Fisch has over 30 years experience in internal audit, corporate and regulatory compliance, ethics programs, fraud reviews and risk and project management in the corporate, government, and consulting sectors. He has extensive experience in the compliance discipline, with significant responsibilities to oversee relations with various governmental authorities as well as in corporate governance. Fisch has directed internal audit activities for large international organizations using a collaborative teamwork approach and working with top company executives and the board of directors. Fisch has developed Corporate Ethics, Code of Conduct, Fraud Hotline, SOX, and Regulatory Compliance programs and has designed and presented many training programs on these topics. Fisch has spoken before the IIA, California CPA Society, SCCE, and Thompson-Reuters on topics including corporate ethics and compliance programs, fraud and fraud reviews, risk management, SOX, FCPA, and other regulatory topics.

Tom Garcia

Associate General CounselDeckers Outdoor Corp.

Tom Garcia is VP, associate general counsel and compliance offer at Deckers Outdoor Corp., where he has worked since 2009. Deckers Outdoor is a footwear company based in Santa Barbara, Calif. that builds niche brands into global lifestyle leaders through innovative design and marketing. Deckers' better-known brands include UGG® Australia, Sanuk® and Teva®. Prior to joining Deckers, Garcia was assistant general cunsel and secretary at Mentor Corp., a medical device company now a part of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, and an associate attorney at Hatch & Parent (now Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck). Garcia is also a board member of both the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara and CALM.

Kathryn Greaney

VP, Global Trade ControlsThe Boeing Co.

Wanda Denson-Low is vice president of Global Trade Controls for The Boeing Co., the world's largest aerospace company and the leading U.S. exporter with customers and customer support locations in 150 countries. Greaney is responsible for all Boeing export and import activities, including strategy development for related regulatory policies, trade control infrastructure, regulatory tracking, operational activities, and trade controls compliance. She serves on the leadership teams for Boeing International and the Boeing Office of Internal Governance. She is the former vice president of the Society for International Affairs (SIA), a non-profit industry association educating the international trade community on export and import compliance.

Gus Hubert

VP, Corporate ComplianceJacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Gus Hubert is vice president of corporate compliance at Jacobs, one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services. The company serves a broad range of industrial, commercial and government clients across multiple markets and geographies; and it employs approximately 65,000 people in more than 200 offices in more than 25 countries around the world. Hubert has been with Jacobs for sixteen years, holding various roles in the areas of business management, audit, compliance, and governance. Prior to joining Jacobs, Hubert worked at Lockheed Martin Corp. for 15 years on a number of business operations and legal assignments. Hubert is admitted to the bar in California and Colorado.

Laura LaCorte

Associate SVP, ComplianceUniversity of Southern California

Laura LaCorte was appointed associate senior vice president for compliance in July 2005. She established the USC Office of Compliance in 1999 to assist faculty, staff, and students in following laws, policies, and regulations that apply to the university. The office creates programs that provide education, policy development, and monitoring to help prevent and detect potential violations. It also directly oversees healthcare compliance for the Keck Medical Center of USC, the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, and the School of Pharmacy. In addition, the office manages a confidential help hotline and conducts investigations of policy violations. As the university's privacy officer, LaCorte is responsible for implementing a program to comply with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She was appointed by the California Department of Health and Human Services to serve on the California Privacy and Security Advisory Board. LaCorte is a member of the governing boards of the Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital. She also is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.

Brian Michael

Deputy General Counsel, Group Chief Compliance Officer, Fox Networks Group21 Century Fox

Brian Michael serves as vice president and deputy general counsel for 21st Century Fox (formerly News Corp.) and as the group chief compliance officer for Fox Networks Group (FNG), where he oversees global compliance for FNG's broadcast, cable, sports, and digital business units. FNG includes Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox Networks including the FX and National Geographic channels, FOX Sports Media Group, Fox International Channels, Fox Digital Media, and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations. Prior to joining News Corp. in 2012, Michael was with the law firm WilmerHale, where he represented global and domestic corporations (including media and entertainment), financial institutions, board members, and senior executives in white-collar criminal and compliance matters, internal investigations, securities enforcement proceedings, and related litigation. Until 2010, Michael was a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and New York City. First as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, also an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California, Michael led numerous prosecutions and investigations in cases involving complex financial fraud, organized crime and racketeering, and cyber-crime.

Tom Rudenko

VP of Internal Audit99 Cent Only Stores

Tom Rudenko is an audit and finance executive in gaming, entertainment, and retail with over 15 combined years at firms such as Deloitte, Sony, Activision Blizzard, Caesars Entertainment, and 99 Cents Only Stores. In his current role, Rudenko leads the internal audit function at 99, a rapidly growing extreme value retailer. Recent projects include assessing central function readiness for real money online gaming and social gaming for Caesars Entertainment, including the world's foremost poker brand, the World Series of Poker. Rudenko oversaw reviews of Caesars rapidly growing social gaming operations, including Facebook and iPad games. He established the internal audit and SOX processes at the world's largest video game company, Activision Blizzard. Rudenko is a CPA and an active member of the California & Nevada Societies of CPAs, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Institute of Internal Auditors. Rudenko's specialties include internal audit, risk assessment, internal controls, business process improvement, Sarbanes-Oxley, and financial planning and analysis.

Tania Saison

Senior General CounselAgilent Technologies

Tania Saison recently joined Agilent Technologies as senior compliance counsel heading up the global compliance program for Agilent's Diagnostics and Genomics Group (DGG). Before joining Agilent, Saison was assistant general counsel, global compliance, for Beckman Coulter. From 2003 to 2008, she held the position of senior counsel at Diageo plc, where she managed transnational and domestic commercial litigation and dispute resolution, advised on distributor channel strategy and worked closely with internal and external stakeholders on responsible marketing and self-regulation initiatives. Prior to that, she spent several years in private practice as a litigator with prominent law firms in New York. Her areas of expertise include anti-corruption, healthcare compliance, competition and antitrust, sales channel management, data privacy, compliance program development, and internal investigation.