 | Aakarshan Agre Senior Counsel Johnson & Johnson |
Aakarshan Agre, is a Senior Counsel at Johnson & Johnson in Singapore. She has 20 years of legal experience, nearly a decade of which she has worked as in-house counsel in the pharmaceutical/life sciences industry. With a background in regulatory compliance and litigation, Aakarshan’s current focus is on government enforcement across the Asia Pacific region.
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| Campbell Clark Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific Medtronic |
Campbell Clark is Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, for Medtronic, a medical devices company, and is based in Singapore. He was previously General Counsel, Asia, for Covidien, another medical devices company. Covidien was acquired by Medtronic in January 2015, and he now engaged in legal and compliance integration activities in Asia Pacific for Medtronic. Prior to joining Covidien in 2008, Campbell was the Assistant General Counsel, Australia and New Zealand, for Tyco International. He has also held senior roles in‑house as an international legal counsel in Japan, and in private practice as a litigation lawyer in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Mr Clark graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and holds an LL.B (Hons) and M.Jur (Dist.).
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 | Gez Clayton Regional Compliance Officer SNC-Lavalin |
Gez Clayton is the Regional Compliance Officer – Asia Pacific for SNC Lavalin, one of the world’s leading engineering and construction groups. Prior to joining SNC Lavalin, Gez provided legal, ethics and compliance advisory services to companies in diverse industries including technology, petrochemicals and oil and gas. Gez has experience both working with and for a corporate monitor, as well as with companies that have implemented new or improved ethics and compliance programs. Gez has worked extensively across Asia Pacific, having lived in Australia, Hong Kong and, most recently, Singapore. Gez is a Solicitor and Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional – International. He is the holder of an arts degree and law degree with honours from the University of Queensland, Australia.
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 | Erik Finkelman General Counsel APAC Avon |
Eric R. Finkelman is Executive Director and General Counsel, APAC Region, for Avon Products, Inc., with his office at Avon’s regional headquarters in Singapore where Eric has been stationed since September of 2014. Prior to this, Eric served as Avon’s Regional Compliance Director for the APAC Region, working from Avon’s former regional headquarters in Hong Kong. Eric has responsibility for Avon’s legal and compliance matters throughout the region, which includes China, Taiwan, the Philippines, India, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand and, commencing in 2016, Indonesia; and leads a team of 10 lawyers and compliance managers. Prior to joining Avon, Eric served as NAFTA General Counsel for Ciba Specialty Chemicals and as General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer for Sun Chemical. Before becoming an in-house attorney, Eric was a litigation associate at the firm of Chadbourne & Parke in New York City. Eric is a native of New York City, and earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law. He is married to Lisa Kazmer, a yoga teacher who presently teaches in Singapore; and has two grown children, Emma and Sam; a dog, George Fang, whom he and Lisa adopted in Hong Kong; and a cat, Boo, who was adopted in New York. His hobbies include yoga, reading, cooking and travel.
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| Gavin Ingram
General Counsel Asia Pacific & Vice President Strategic Planning
Global Blue |
Gavin Ingram is General Counsel Asia Pacific and Vice President Strategic Planning for Global Blue. Gavin also acts as Company Secretary for Global Blue’s Singapore entities. Prior to Global Blue, Gavin was Legal Director Asia for AdventBalance which is a new and innovative law firm that seconds their lawyers to sit with the clients during the term of the secondment.
Prior to AdventBalance, Gavin was General Counsel Asia for the Australian listed company BlueScope Steel (formerly BHP Steel) where Gavin managed all legal and compliance issues across BlueScope’s Asia footprint. In this role, Gavin was awarded the leading in-house counsel award in Asia-Pacific by AsiaLaw in 2007.
Gavin started his career in private practice as an infrastructure lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron (as it then was, now Ashursts) and Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills). Gavin holds Law and Commerce degrees from Australia and most recently completed his MBA (with Honors) through the University of Chicago.
Gavin has significant experience in navigating the challenges of Asia’s diverse legal systems.
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 | Ryo Kobayashi Director, General Counsel APAC Sony Mobile Communications International AB |
Ryo Kobayashi is General Counsel APAC, Sony Mobile communications International AB based in Singapore and supporting mobile business. Previous to this, Ryo doubled as General Manager, Legal and Compliance Division, Sony Electronics Asia & Pacific Pte. Ltd. and General Manager, Legal Department, Sony Middle East & Africa FZE, based in Dubai and mainly supported consumer audio & visual business. Ryo has also held the role of Senior Legal Manager, Legal Department Sony Corp. based in Japan and mainly supported business development and other corporate matters and device business.
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| James Lau
Company Secretary,Chief Legal Officer
NatSteel Holdings Pte Ltd |
James, who has over 23 years of contentious and non-contentious international cross-border transactional experience acquired through a combination of private practice at industry-leading law firms and in-house roles at Fortune 500 Multinational Corporations, joined NatSteel Holdings Pte. Ltd., a TATA Enterprise, in September 2008 as Vice-President of Legal and Company Secretary and is currently its Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary.
TATA Group’s total revenue in fiscal year 2014-2015 was USD108.78 billion, of which 70% was from outside India. Its key companies are Tata Communications Services Limited, Tata Motors Limited (of which Land Rover and Jaguar are part), Tata Power Limited and Tata Steel Limited.
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 | Sely Martini Program Monitoring and Evaluation Manager Indonesia Corruption Watch |
Sely Martini, program coordinator of Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) - leading anti corruption NGO promoting transparency and accountability in public sector and justice system. She focus on campaign preventive action through building integrity system within government and civil society using information technology. This digital participation channeling people voice for public decision making process. |
 | Angela Ng, LLM, CAMS AVP, Regional Counsel Manulife |
Angela Ng is AVP, Regional Counsel in Manulife's Asia Legal team. Prior to joining Manulife (originally based in Hong Kong and now back in Singapore), Angela practised as a litigator and corporate lawyer in Singapore. Angela holds a Bachelor of Laws, LLB (Hons), and a Master of Laws in Corporate & Financial Services, LLM (Distinction) and is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Angela spent seven years within the Regional Compliance team, where she provided guidance and support to the Asia territories on regulatory compliance matters, particularly serving as Program Lead for Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing, and Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption. As Regional Counsel, she supports Manulife Legal Teams across 12 territories in Asia, with particular focus in relation to ASEAN territories, and also covers regulatory compliance issues.
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 | Stanley Park
Managing Director/Head of Legal – Asia Pacific
Scotiabank |
Stanley Park is Managing Director and Head of Legal - Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other responsibilities, Stanley provides (i) transactional advice and support to the Bank's businesses related to capital markets, investment banking, commodities, corporate lending/trade finance and global transaction banking; (ii) regulatory advice and support re the Bank's businesses; (iii) management of litigation and disputes; (iv) advice and support to the Bank's internal or proprietary functions (including proprietary investments, HR matters, Finance); and (v) participation in corporate governance or oversight.
Prior to joining Scotiabank, Stanley was with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in NYC, from 1992 - 2001; with Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 - 2007; with DKR Oasis, as Chief Compliance Officer, in Hong Kong in 2008; with Barclays Global Investors, as General Counsel, in Tokyo from 2009 - 2010; and with Daiwa Capital Markets, as Senior Legal Counsel, in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 - 2014. Stanley graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1985 and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Stanley has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1994.
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 | Eric Pesik Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer; and Adjunct Assistat Professor Seagate Technology |
Eric Pesik is a popular speaker and trainer on legal and compliance matters. He is currently the Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Seagate. He also recently served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Management executive MBA program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Before coming to Singapore nine years ago, Mr. Pesik was a corporate lawyer in the Silicon Valley and taught corporate law at the Monterey College of Law. He is admitted to the State Bar of California, the US Court of International Trade in New York, and the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Some of Eric Pesik’s recent presentations are available online at ttp://www.slideshare.net/ericpesik/
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 | Wei Ling Quek General Counsel and Compliance Officer Hitachi |
Wei Ling Quek is the General Counsel and Compliance Officer for the Hitachi Asia Ltd. group of companies in ASEAN. Her team of 6 not only provides legal and compliance advice to Hitachi Asia Ltd.’s group companies but also compliance training to other Hitachi group companies in ASEAN as well as some of their parent companies in Japan. Her team is constantly in search of interesting ideas (within the budget) to ensure that participants stay awake during training and understand key compliance risks and the need to “Do the Right Thing”. Wei Ling graduated from the National University of Singapore’s Law School in 2000 and has 14 years of post-qualification experience in private practice, government and in-house legal counsel positions in multi-national companies. She joined Hitachi Asia Ltd. in 2011.
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| Thiru Sethuraman Project Director (East Asia and Middle East) GRC Consultancy Private Limited. |
Mr. Thiru Sethuraman has almost 20 years of professional work experience in various roles such as Ethics and Compliance, Information Technology (IT), Supply Chain Management, Purchasing, Project Management and Six Sigma. Thiru pioneered and led the Ethics and Compliance Program for Cummins in Asia Pacific and Middle East. Thiru’s area of focus include Ethics and Compliance Strategy and Operations, Anti-Bribery and Corruption Programs (FCPA and UKBA), Risk Management, Ethics and Compliance Integration, Whistle-blower Program, Ethics Investigations, Instructor Led and Online Ethics Training, and Third Party Due Diligence, Compliance Audits and Controls, Personal Data Privacy Act (PDPA) and Fair Business Competition. Thiru holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Technology and a MBA degree in Finance and Accounting from Purdue University (USA), and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (Law – JD) degree from Indiana University (USA). Thiru is admitted to the Indiana bar, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in Indiana (USA). Presently, Thiru resides in both Singapore and Malaysia and is in charge of the projects in Middle East and East Asia regions for GRC Consultancy.
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| Mary Shirley Compliance Director - Head of South East Asia, Regional Training and Investigations Lead Fresenius Medical Care Asia Pacific Ltd. |
Currently Compliance Director – Head of South East Asia, Regional Training and Investigations Lead Asia Pacific for Fresenius Medical Care, Mary has extensive experience rolling out compliance programs within multi-national corporations, having held global ethics compliance roles in Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai. Mary also spent time working as an investigator for regulators in New Zealand in the areas of data privacy and antitrust. In addition to her current position in the healthcare industry, Mary has also worked in utilities and telecommunications in legal and compliance roles for Aggreko as Group Head of Compliance and Tata Communications as Legal and Compliance Counsel. She has also advised numerous multi-national corporations while providing services as a senior compliance consultant for The Red Flag Group and Compliance Insider magazine.
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 | Patrick Sinclair Partner Ropes & Gray |
Patrick Sinclair is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s Government Enforcement group and a Registered Foreign Lawyer in the firm’s Hong Kong office. He has more than a decade of experience representing U.S.-based and international corporations, audit committees, banks, individuals, and the government in corporate criminal investigations. His practice is focused on white collar criminal defense, internal investigations and risk assessment in the anti-corruption and sanctions spaces. Patrick served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York from 2007 to August 2014, and was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Section in 2013. Patrick handled numerous cases involving the FCPA; OFAC regulations; the mail, wire and securities fraud statutes; the Travel Act; money laundering statutes; the Lacey Act; and the Bank Secrecy Act. In recognition of his achievements at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Patrick received the U.S. Attorney’s Excellence in Criminal Litigation Award, as well as commendations from the SEC, FBI and U.S. Treasury.
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 | BC Tan APAC Proposition Lead, Customer & Third Party Risk Thomson Reuters |
B.C. Tan is the Asia Pacific Head of Client and Third Party Risk solutions for Thomson Reuters. Prior to this appointment, BC had previously functioned as the APAC Head of Research and the Global Head of Organised Crime Research for World-Check; a Thomson Reuters business. He is a specialist in transnational organized crime networks, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Financing of Terrorism, narcotics trafficking, Political-Criminal Nexus and Crime-Terror Nexus. Currently a Research Fellow of the China Centre for Anti-Money Laundering Studies Fudan University and a member of the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO). He speaks regularly at a variety of workshops and conferences on these topics for both the corporate and law enforcement/ intelligence communities. He continues to contribute to several Anti-Money Laundering and security focused publications.
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 | Terence Teo General Counsel, Asia Pacific Atlas Copco |
Terence Teo is a graduate of the National University of Singapore Law School Class of 1986. He has nearly 30 years of experience as a legal professional in general practice, government service, and senior legal counsel positions in large corporations such as Thomson multimedia. He joined the Edwards Group in 2006, and now holds the position of General Counsel, Asia Pacific of Atlas Copco, which acquired the Edwards Group in 2014. Terence is responsible for the management of legal issues and risk management in Asia Pacific for Edwards and now Atlas Copco covering ASEAN, South Asia, Korea, Japan and until recently Greater China. He conducts regular training workshops on contract risk management, compliance with the Edwards Code of Conduct, the Atlas Copco Code of Business Practice, the UK Bribery Act, the FCPA, and the handling of dawn raids. Terence is a keen student of military history, and continues to find valuable lessons to be learnt from past conflicts that apply in life and work.
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| Jonathan Wise Managing Director Head of Legal, Singapore and SE Asia Nomura Singapore Limited |
Jonathan Wise is a Managing Director and Head of Legal for Singapore and Southeast Asia at Nomura. He has close to 20 years of experience as a lawyer advising on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters in Asia Pacific, North America and Europe/CIS. He has also substantial experience on regulatory compliance and dispute resolution matters. In his present role, Jonathan leads a fifteen person legal team based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Bangkok and Mumbai that provides legal coverage to Nomura's Global Markets, Investment Banking, and Private Wealth Management businesses across the region as well as Corporate and Strategy functions supporting such businesses. He also serves as a Chairman of Nomura’s Asia ex-Japan Non-Standard/Complex Transaction Committee and a member of the Debt/Loan and Equity Commitment Committees. Prior to joining Nomura, Jonathan was a senior legal counsel with Lehman Brothers and was involved in integration of the two firms' legal departments following the purchase by Nomura of Lehman's Asian and European businesses. Jonathan has previously worked and resided in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and London and is a member of the New York State Bar.
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