On July 24, Compliance Week and Navex Global presented an editorial roundtable at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago. The focus of the roundtable, which was moderated by Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly, was on ROI associated with strong ethical cultures. Attendees' full biographies are below.

Bob Conlin

Chief Products Officer NAVEX 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 Man0agement. 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.

Bradd Easton

Associate General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Anixter

 

Bradd Easton is associate general counsel and chief compliance officer at Anixter Inc. Easton has been involved in all aspects of Anixter's legal needs since joining Anixter in 1992.

David Foster

Director Regional Compliance & Investigations Kraft Foods

 

David Foster joined Kraft in October 2010 as a result of the acquisition of Cadbury by Kraft. His responsibilities at Kraft include managing the compliance issues in the Kraft North America business, managing four regional compliance officers (based around the world) and a compliance case management team based in Chicago. In his role he has been involved with numerous compliance issues that Kraft has faced both in NA and worldwide. He led a team that designed and has rolled out internationally an updated compliance investigations process. Further, he has had responsibility for managing a number of the major investigations the group has undertaken. Prior to Kraft Foster was the legal director- global compliance at Cadbury with responsibility for designing a compliance organization at Cadbury, managing broader legal function budget issues. Prior to this he headed up Cadbury's Global Intellectual Property team. He is a U.K.-qualified lawyer.

Ed Hughes

Corporate Vice President, Chief Audit Executive Motorola Solutions

 

Ed Hughes is the corporate vice president, chief audit executive at Motorola Solutions. He joined Motorola in June of 2007 as the corporate VP, CFO enterprise mobility solutions at Motorola Solutions. Huges is responsible for all global financial activities in the EMS Business Segment, a $7.5b revenue business that develops and manufactures government and public safety radio equipment and enterprise products, mobile computing, scanning, WLAN, and RFID.

Mark Johnson

SVP and Chief Compliance Officer CNO Financial

 

Mark Johnson directs compliance functions for CNO Financial Group, which includes Washington National, Bankers Life, and Colonial Penn.

Bruce Patterson

VP and Corporate Compliance Officer Navistar Inc.

 

Bruce Patterson is vice president and corporate compliance officer for Navistar Inc., at Navistar's headquarters Warrenville, Illinois. His background includes 35 years of progressive financial experience in auditing and internal accounting. In 2007, Patterson moved from a position as Navistar's vice president, corporate audit and consulting, to Navistar's vice president and corporate compliance officer in order to develop the corporate compliance organization for Navistar. Patterson is a Certified Public Accountant. He teaches financial accounting as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago. Presently, Patterson chairs the Manufacturers Alliance (MAPI) Corporate Compliance Council and is active in various other professional and charitable organizations.

Nancy Phillips

Manager, Ethics and Compliance Services DeVry Inc.

 

Nancy Phillips joined DeVry in August 2011 as the manager of ethics and compliance services. Phillips has had the opportunity to support multiple institutions within the organization including American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Becker Professional Education, Carrington College, Carrington College California, Chamberlain College of Nursing, DeVry Brasil, DeVry University, and Ross University Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. She travels domestically and internationally to present ethics and compliance awareness trainings, as well as develops online training courses. She creates and implements organizational policies such as the anti-corruption (FCPA/U.K. Bribery Act), and anti-bribery policies. Prior to DeVry, Phillips worked in several industries including manufacturing, transportation, and energy as part of the internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance teams. She has 10 years of financial compliance experience and is excited to be working in the for-profit higher education industry as part of the ethics and compliance team.

Kris Rapp

VP, Global Ethics & Compliance Hospira Inc.

 

Kris Rapp is the vice president, global ethics & compliance for Hospira Inc., a global pharmaceutical and medical technology company headquartered in Lake Forest, IL. She has responsibility for Hospira's Code of Business Conduct, whistleblower program, and the conduct of investigations of ethics and compliance matters, and she leads Hospira's global healthcare compliance and anti-bribery compliance programs. Prior to joining Hospira in April 2004, Rapp worked for Baxter International Inc., serving in legal and business positions of increasing responsibility in the U.S. and Europe, including associate general counsel and chief regulatory counsel for the company. Prior to that, Rapp served as the vice president and liaison to Baxter's largest customers and partner in the manufacture of biologic products, the America Red Cross in Washington, D.C., and was an executive-on-loan, as the ARC's vice president, regulatory affairs and quality assurance shortly after the ARC entered into a voluntary consent decree with the FDA. Earlier in her career Kris held positions as Baxter's general manager, Nordic Area, based in Oslo, Norway and senior counsel, in Brussels, Belgium and Deerfield, IL.

John Steiner

Chief Compliance Officer Cancer Treatment Centers of America

 

John Steiner is the chief compliance officer for Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), based in Schaumburg, Illinois. CTCA is a national network of hospitals providing a comprehensive, fully integrative approach to cancer treatment. CTCA serves patients with advanced cancer from all 50 states at facilities located in suburban Chicago, Philadelphia, Tulsa, and suburban Phoenix. Prior to his current position, Steiner served as the chief compliance officer for U.K. healthcare of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, where he was responsible for the design, implementation, and oversight of an enterprise-wide compliance program encompassing an academic medical center with three hospitals, more than 20 ambulatory clinics, a group practice with more than 900 physicians, and Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Sciences, and Public Health. Steiner previously served as the chief compliance officer, and privacy official for the Cleveland Clinic Health System, an international referral center and multi-specialty, academic medical center in Cleveland, Ohio, and Florida.

Randy Stephens

Vice President, Compliance U.S. Foods Inc.

 

Randy Stephens became VP, compliance at U.S. Foods Inc. a privately held national food distribution company with annual sales of over $20 billion, in July of 2011. Stephens is responsible for the Code of Conduct, policies and procedures, monitoring regulatory compliance, risk readiness and Records Management. From 1999-2011 he served as divisional counsel and head of compliance at Family Dollar Stores Inc., a Fortune 300 company with annual sales of over $9 billion and 7,000 locations. In this role Stephens oversaw the Code of Conduct, all corporate compliance policies and processes, enterprise risk management, and all aspects of records management. From 1999 to 2009 Stephens was an attorney with The Home Depot, a Fortune 30 company with annual sales of over $60 billion. He led the day-to-day operations of the Corporate Compliance and Records Management Department. This position included responsibility for the Code of Conduct, corporate compliance policies, the Enterprise Risk Council, SOP development, and records management.