Compliance Week and Integrity Interactive are preparing a major global survey of concerns about corporate integrity, to be conducted early this year. The survey will explore how multinational companies structure their compliance and integrity programs, with a particular focus on monitoring and reporting possible infractions. The survey will also address key global compliance risks across multiple industries and geographic regions.

The survey will leverage the insights of an advisory panel that includes more than a dozen senior compliance executives at public companies, including:

Cisco Systems: Jeremy Wilson, senior leader of ethics;

CVS/Caremark: Diane Nobles, chief compliance officer;

Fidelity Investments: John McGinty, senior vice president and deputy general counsel ;

Hewlett-Packard: Jon Hoak, chief compliance officer;

Ingersoll-Rand: John Soriano, vice president of compliance;

Johnson & Johnson: Douglas Chia, senior counsel and assistant secretary;

Johnson Controls: Jerry Okarma, corporate secretary and general counsel;

Microsoft Corp.: Herb Wilgis, compliance program attorney;

Motorola Corp.: Jill Goldy, vice president of ethics, compliance, and labor law;

Pfizer Corp.: Doug Lankler, chief compliance officer;

Raytheon Corp.: Patricia Ellis, vice president of business ethics and compliance;

SAI Corp.: Doug Scott, general counsel;

Tyco International: Matt Tanzer, chief compliance officer;

Viacom: Henry Moniz, associate general counsel and senior vice president of global compliance;

Wal-Mart: Gary Hill, director of the global ethics office; and

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Daniel Kessler, chief counsel for international trade controls.

The average annual revenue of the advisory panel members’ companies is $62.6 billion, reflecting the global nature of the survey.

“Our goal is to help multinational corporations understand how their peers address compliance and integrity programs worldwide,” Compliance Week Publisher Scott Cohen says. “This advisory panel, combined with the insights of our broad readership and Integrity Interactive’s global client base, serves as a great sounding board for critical issues to address.”

According to Lankler, Pfizer’s chief compliance officer, the survey “could be extremely helpful as large multinationals look to understand how their peers are addressing complex regulatory and market challenges.”

The survey will be conducted in the first quarter of 2009. “Our goal is to solicit targeted responses from the largest multinationals on a variety of issues,” says Richard Cellini, Integrity Interactive’s senior vice president for business and legal affairs. “Global corruption risks will play a large part of that, but we’ll also explore program metrics and performance.”

Compliance Week is an information service on corporate governance, risk, and compliance that features electronic newsletters, a monthly print magazine, proprietary databases, industry-leading events, and a variety of interactive features and forums.

Integrity Interactive is a technology-powered, data-driven company that helps global corporations measure, manage, and mitigate the risk of compliance failures and attention-grabbing scandals. The firm recently unveiled research that showed Global 2000 companies allocate just $80 per employee annually to eliminate compliance failures.

“Integrity has a strong history of data-driven analytics,” Cohen says, “and we look forward to working with them on this global integrity survey.”

For details or to participate in the survey, please contact Compliance Week Publisher Scott Cohen, scohen@complianceweek.com.

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