On July 23, Compliance Week and SAI Global presented an editorial roundtable at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago. The focus of the roundtable, which was moderated by Compliance Week Executive Editor Joseph McCafferty, was on strengthening tone from the middle. Attendees’ full biographies are below.

Carole Bovard

VP of ComplianceThe Options Clearing Corp.

Carole Bovard joined The Options Clearing Corp. in March 2012 to design, build, and drive the implementation of the OCC’s compliance program, focusing on the refinement of the existing ethics and compliance structure, risk identification and prioritization, policies and procedure implementation, remediation, internal control, and forensic testing.

Before joining the company, Bovard served for 9 years as partner and general counsel for Lind-Waldock & Co., where she advised the company on regulatory, legal, and business matters. She also has served as the general counsel to several entities involved in the futures brokerage and private equity business as well as counsel to several businesses involved in healthcare and education. In addition, she has provided independent consulting services to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Division of Enforcement. Bovard also serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the National Futures Association and an advocate for special needs children.

Bovard began her career with the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a market surveillance analyst and next as an investigator for the compliance department at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Kris DiGirolamo

Compliance & Privacy DirectorAllstate Insurance

Kris DiGirolamo is compliance and privacy director in the Enterprise Business Conduct Office for Allstate Insurance Co. In this capacity for both compliance and privacy, DiGirolamo is responsible for governance of the regulatory compliance and privacy programs for the enterprise.

DiGirolamo began her career with Allstate in 1989 and has held various positions within the company. Prior to her’ current position she was appointed to the position of director, protection compliance in July of 2001. She also held positions in protection compliance, finance & planning strategy, internal audit, and reinvention.

DiGirolamo holds several professional designations Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, and Certified Financial Services Auditor, and she is active in several compliance and privacy organizations. She has published several articles, is a frequent conference speaker, and was awarded the 2001 IIA Thurston Award for outstanding feature article – “Creating and Implementing A Business Risk Inventory: Allstate Audit’s Approach.”

Ann Ford

Chief Compliance & Integrity OfficerMedLine Industries

Ann Ford is the chief compliance and corporate integrity officer and privacy officer for Medline Industries Inc., a global medical supply company. Ford oversees all aspects of Medline’s ethics and compliance program. She is an experienced healthcare attorney. For several years before coming to Medline, she was general counsel and chief compliance officer for two hospitals in the Chicago area. As hospital GC and CCO, Ford was responsible for providing advice and counsel on multiple issues, including transactional, litigation and regulatory matters. Prior to her in-house positions, she represented hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers in litigation. She began her healthcare career as a nurse, working in critical care pediatric, neonatal and obstetric units.

Michael Going

General CounselCNH Industrial

Michael Going is senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of CNH Industrial America. He joined the CNH Industrial group as general counsel, North America on May 22, 2006, and was appointed SVP, general counsel and secretary of CNH Global N.V. on June 30, 2007. Effective Sept. 29, 2013, CNH Global N.V. and its parent company, Fiat Industrial S.p.A. were both merged with and into Fiat Industrial’s wholly-owned subsidiary, CNH Industrial N.V. Between February 1999 and May 2006, Going was vice president and general counsel for Volvo Construction Equipment North America Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of A.B. Volvo. From 1992 to February 1999, Going was associate general counsel for First Union Corp. (now known as Wells Fargo & Co.). From 1987 to 1992, Going was an associate attorney in the Reorganization and Finance section of Duane Morris & Heckscher (now known as Duane Morris) in Philadelphia, PA.

Kristopher Keys

Deputy General Counsel, Compliance and EthicsExelon Corp.

Christopher Keys became Exelon’s vice president and deputy general counsel, compliance and ethics in March 2012. Keys is responsible for the day-to-day governance and oversight of the company’s corporate compliance program. Keys and his team are directly responsible for implementing the corporate FERC Standards of Conduct, privacy, and records and information management programs. Additionally, Keys provides day-to-day management of the corporation’s ethics program.

Keys served as associate general counsel, ethics & compliance for Exelon from January 2007 through February 2012. Prior to this assignment he served as director – Equal Employment Opportunity case management and employee dispute resolution from 2003 through 2006, primarily supporting Exelon Nuclear. Keys joined the company as an assistant general counsel – litigation in 1998 after having worked as an associate with the law firm of Marshall, Dennehy, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in Philadelphia.

Kirsten Liston

Associate VP, Learning Content StrategySAI Global

Kirsten Liston sets strategy and market direction for the learning products of SAI Global, a leading provider of comprehensive compliance and ethics solutions for complex, global companies.

Liston was brought into Integrity Interactive in 2000 to build the company’s extensive course library. During her content development tenure, during which time the company was acquired by SAI Global, thecompany’s library grew from just a handful of productsto more than 1,200 titles today. After successfully managing the integration process for the content team, she then moved to the advisory services team, where she advised global companies on program and learning strategy. She also led initiatives to write new Codes of Conduct and other policies for more than a dozen clients.

Liston has extensive subject matter experience in a wide variety of ethics and compliance topics, including industry-specific concerns in the healthcare, automotive, consumer products, and oil and gas businesses, as well as general corporate compliance areas, such as competition law, anti-bribery and anti-corruption legislation, and the like. She has worked with hundreds of clients to design effective training and communication strategies for their Codes of Conduct courses and policies as well as individual risk topics.

Liston is a former journalist, writing for Minnesota Law & Politics and the Super Lawyers family of publications. Several of her articles have been published in Compliance & Ethics Magazine,Compliance & Ethics Professional, Compliance Week, and Directors and Boards. She is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including recent appearances at SCCE, ECOA, and ISM.

Michael Pryal

VP of Internal AuditFederal Signal Corp.

Michael Pryal has served as VP of internal audit at Federal Signal Corp. since 2010, responsible for global audit responsibilities.

He has over 35 years of combined consulting and internal audit experience. His career includes Big Five accounting work in the financial statement assurance practice, senior manager in the business risk consulting practice, and partner in the internal audit services practice largely serving consumer products and manufacturing clients.

Pryal also spent seven years at Protiviti , a global risk consulting firm, as managing director responsible for client service and leading industry programs in the Chicago and Milwaukee markets.

He has extensive process experience in transforming IA Departments including enhancements in SOX and compliance programs, ERM and global risk assessments, third-party contract audits, anti-corruption, and internal audit quality assurance (QAR) reviews.

He also served as director of internal audit at Keebler Co. and Turtle Wax Inc.

Bindoo Rizzo

Senior Corporate CounselTenneco

Bindoo Rizzo is senior corporate counsel at Tenneco, an $8 billion global manufacturing company with headquarters in Lake Forest, Illinois. In this capacity, Rizzo is responsible for transactional and compliance matters. Prior to joining Tenneco, Rizzo was an associate with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

Colleen Roberts

VP, Assoc. General Counsel & Chief Compliance OfficerFresenius Kabi USA

Colleen Roberts currently serves as vice president, associate general counsel & chief compliance officer at Fresenius Kabi USA, a leading manufacturer of medical devices and generic and branded injectable pharmaceutical products.

Roberts provides general legal support to all departments within the company with a particular focus on health care legal issues that affect pharmaceutical and medical device companies. As CCO, Roberts developed and administers the corporate compliance program at Fresenius Kabi and serves as the North American representative on compliance matters within the global compliance function.

Prior to joining Fresenius Kabi, Roberts was an associate in the health law departments of Drinker Biddle & Reath (formerly, Gardner, Carton & Douglas) and Faegre Baker Daniels (formerly, Baker & Daniels). Her in-house experience includes Caremark, TAP Pharmaceuticals, and Takeda. Before attending law school, Colleen worked in the in vitro diagnostics industry and in the clinical laboratory.

Tejal Vakharia

Chief Compliance CounselAllscripts

Tejal Vakharia currently serves as senior vice president and chief compliance counsel at Allscripts.

Garrett Williams

Assistant VP of Enterprise Compliance & EthicsState Farm

Garrett Williams is assistant vice president–enterprise compliance and ethics at State Farm corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Ill.

Williams joined State Farm in 1997 as an attorney in the legislative/regulatory section of the corporate law department. In corporate law, Williams served as state counsel at corporate headquarters before transferring to the corporate law office in Sacramento, Calif., in 2000. He returned to corporate headquarters as a lead attorney in the legislative/regulatory section of corporate law in 2005 and became associate general counsel with responsibility for the HR/agency section of corporate law in 2009. He assumed his current position in 2012.

Williams was appointed State Farm Mutual’s privacy offical, enterprise anti-money laundering (AML) officer, and Eenterprise OFAC officer in 2013.

Williams earned his Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 2007, his Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) designation in 2013, and his Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP) designation in 2013.

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