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Welcome to the ALB SE Asia Anti-Corruption Forum 2017
Date:               29 August 2017
Registration:  8.30am to 9.00am
Event:             9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue:            The St. Regis Singapore, 29 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247911.
Room:            John Javob II, Level 2.

ALB SE Asia Anti-Corruption Forum 2017 examines key global and regional developments and provides practical solutions for anti-corruption risks faced on a daily basis. Participants will be given a walk-through of how to develop a complete risk assessment for high risk markets, learn how to deal with difficult issues as they arise and get practical advice on how to institute effective controls to maintain compliance. This event will arm participants with workable insights and proven ideas on how to enhance their organisation’s anti-corruption compliance.

Why You Should Attend
  • Keynote panel from influential regulators and non-governmental agencies (to be invited).
  • Interactive panel discussion providing a balanced perspective and insights from consultants, law firms and the legal/compliance function on how to deal with day-to-day corruption issues.
  • Real life case sharing on compliance failures and the lessons learnt.
  • Networking opportunities with fellow professionals who share similiar challenges in specific jurisdictions.
 Who Should Attend
  • Chief Compliance Officer, Compliance Director, Chief Internal Auditor, Legal Director, Compliance Director, Vice President (Legal), Vice President, (Risk Management).
  • General Counsel, Senior Counsel, Regional Counsel, Legal Counsel, Compliance Manager, Compliance Audit Manager, Legal Manager.

Welcome to the ALB SE Asia Anti-Corruption Forum 2017
Date:               29 August 2017
Registration:  8.30am to 9.00am
Event:             9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue:            The St. Regis Singapore, 29 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247911.
Room:            John Javob II, Level 2.

The Agenda (subject to change)
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Welcome to the ALB SE Asia Anti-Corruption Forum 2017
Date:               29 August 2017
Registration:  8.30am to 9.00am
Event:             9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue:            The St. Regis Singapore, 29 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247911.
Room:            John Javob II, Level 2.

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Guest-Of-Honour

Darryl Wegner

Unit Chief
International Corruption Unit
FBI
Darryl Wegner is the Unit Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's International Corruption Unit which program manages the FBI's investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Kleptocracy, Antitrust, corruption of US public officials and US government fraud occurring outside the United States.  In addition to international corruption matters, Mr. Wegner previously investigated and supervised white collar crime and international terrorism.   Prior to the FBI, Mr. Wegner was a corporate attorney in New York City with a focus on international business transactions and was also a mechanical engineer in in the automotive industry in Michigan.  He earned his law degree at Boston College Law School and a science degree in Engineering-Physics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.


Conference Chair

Gavin Ingram
General Counsel Asia Pacific and 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.

Speakers And Panelists

Jarrod Baker
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting
Jarrod Baker is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Risk & Investigations practice and is based in Singapore. Recognised as one of the leading forensic accountants in Who’s Who Legal: Investigations 2017, Jarrod provides specialist support to clients operating in the Asia Pacific region who face high stakes litigation, complex investigations and regulatory scrutiny. He has consulted across the globe helping corporates with their investigative response to high profile corruption scandals and also worked in an in-house anti-corruption compliance role for a Fortune 100 company.

Jarrod is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and also of the Governance Institute of Australia. He currently serves as Non-Executive Director of the Australian affiliate of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption.

Brett Clapp
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting
Brett Clapp is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting practice and he is based in Hong Kong and Singapore. Brett leads the company’s Asia Pacific Data & Analytics practice. His expertise is in extracting and analysing large amounts of data from disparate financial systems to quickly and efficiently provide meaningful insights. He specialises in complex, data-intensive cases including government/ regulatory investigations, FCPA compliance, financial/ accounting investigations, class action settlement distributions, bankruptcies and other cases requiring complex data modelling or sharing of electronic information. Brett’s most notable engagement involved his role a core member of the global FTI team providing on-going investigative and litigation support to the Trustee and his counsel on the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Ponzi scheme. In that capacity, he led the team responsible for the reconstruction and reconciliation of all accounts, as well as significant litigation related complex data modelling and analysis used by the Trustee.

Brett has a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. 

Maurice Burke
Partner
Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
Maurice Burke heads the Hogan Lovells dispute resolution practice in South East Asia.  Widely recognised as one of the leading dispute practitioners in his field, 
Maurice has advised a broad range of multinational clients on successful strategies that meet their commercial goals. 

With over 20 years' of experience in Asia, Maurice understands the market, his clients' regional problems and how to solve them.

Maurice represents clients in dispute resolution, investigation and contentious regulatory matters across the region, including in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. 
Maurice has particular knowledge in highly regulated sectors including financial services, oil and gas, mining and telecommunications.

Juliet Lui
Head of Professional Services (APAC)
The Red Flag Group
Juliet is the Head of Professional Services Asia Pacific of The Red Flag Group. She is an experienced anti-corruption and compliance lawyer who is responsible for all Professional Services engagements in the Asia Pacific region. She acts as an Advisor to clients on the US FCPA, jurisdiction-specific anti-bribery legislation, competition law, human trafficking prevention and regulatory risks.

Juliet has assessed, designed, implemented and managed compliance programmes for global multinational corporations across a wide range of industries. Juliet has in-depth experience and knowledge across the extractives, logistics, medical technology and IT industries. She has led challenging onsite compliance assessments and investigations onsite in emerging markets including the UAE, Mongolia, Indonesia and China. She has also been the leader of compliance reviews done in Ecuador, Israel, Korea and China. Juliet is an experienced public speaker and has facilitated training in both English and Cantonese onsite at local client offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Japan, Korea, London, Germany and the US.

Clients appreciate her practical and business-focused advice and her ability to prioritise compliance efforts.

John (J.T.) Haas
Chief Compliance Officer-Asia
Aon

J.T. Haas currently serves as Aon’s Chief Compliance Officer for Asia responsible for compliance in 14 countries across Asia for all Aon entities. In his previous role at Aon Mr. Haas was the first Chief Compliance Officer for Aon Hewitt’s US Healthcare Exchange business from its inception until 2014. He has spent over 20 years working in the insurance industry with some of the largest financial services companies in the United States of America including Blue Cross Blue Shield, JP Morgan Chase and State Farm Insurance, working in roles in Sales, Marketing, Underwriting, Internal Audit, IT, Risk Management, and Compliance. He holds an undergraduate degree in Risk Management & Insurance from Illinois Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in Risk Management & Insurance from Florida State University as well as several industry and audit professional designations.         

Richard Carrick
Regional Head of Financial Crime Assurance
Barclays Bank PLC
Richard in his current capacity with Barclays Bank PLC is responsible for Financial Crime 2nd line of defence Assurance ensuring that Barclay’s Asian businesses, (Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth & Investment Banking), are in compliance with FCA and local regulatory requirements and to ensure that Asian business are updated in line with industry’s best practices. He is also responsible for the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit in APAC. Initiatives undertaken include Big Data Analytics, Continuous Control Monitoring and Emerging Risks Scanning.

He has 20 years experience covering a broad range of Compliance based roles for banks and consultancy services across Toronto, New York, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Singapore. Areas covered include Sanctions, AML, KYC, Fraud, Bribery, Corruption advisory, target operating models, data analytics, systems selection, regulatory compliance health checks, and program implementation.
Education includes: BA Psychology (Canada), MBA (UK), Msc Marketing (New York).

Foo Mei Wan
Head of Controls, Compliance and Ethics, SEA
Diageo
Foo Mei Wan is an experienced Finance and Compliance professional with more than 17 years of experience in various industries in Healthcare, Information Technology and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods. She is currently with Diageo as the Head of Controls, Compliance and Ethics in South East Asia, where she is responsible for ensuring that the controls, compliance and ethics program at Diageo is embedded and effective throughout the business across more than 10 geographies. Across her career, she has a proven track record of giving pragmatic advice to ensure controls and compliance supports the delivery of the overall holistic business performance. 


Roland Samosir
General Counsel - Asia Operations
Dyson
Roland Samosir has over 25 years’ experience working in-house at major global brands within the region. After spending nearly five years at GE, with his last appointment being the Senior Legal Counsel Asia Pacific of GE Oil & Gas, Roland joined Dyson in June 2013.  He joined Dyson as Legal Director – Asia Pacific and is now General Counsel, Asia Operations based in Singapore.  In the over three years at Dyson, he built a legal team across the region that supports all aspects of the Dyson business, ranging from procurement, manufacturing operations, logistics to sales.  Prior to GE, he spent fifteen years at Lucent Technologies in its various iterations as part of AT&T and finally as Alcatel-Lucent.  His key drivers throughout his career have been both providing holistic counsel on strategic business decisions and structuring the legal department to provide synergistic partnership and support to the business. Experienced in emerging markets, he was part of the GE team focused on entry into Myanmar. Roland has also taken an active role in mentoring staff to their fullest potential.  Aside from work, Roland likes to spend time with his family, church, sailing and golfing.

Carolyn Cherrett
Asia Compliance Leader
GE Aviation
Carolyn Cherrett is the Asia Compliance Leader for GE Aviation. Based in Singapore, Carolyn supports all of GE Aviation’s Divisions in the Asia region.  Her responsibilities in building and maintaining the regional compliance program include working with leaders to ensure a strong culture of compliance in their organisations, providing training and guidance and conducting and supervising compliance investigations. Before locating to Singapore, Carolyn was the Asia Pacific Compliance Leader for GE’s Water & Process Technologies business, based in Sydney.

Prior to joining GE, Carolyn spent 20+ years working in the Library and Information Services Sector in Australia in a variety of Sales, Marketing and General Management roles.Carolyn has a BA in Asia Studies from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia and an MBA in International Business from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Daniel Kelly
Supervisory Special Agent
FBI
Currently assigned as the program manager for the International Corruption Unit overseeing all FBI operations in Asia and Latin America and FBI involving FCPA, antitrust, kleptocracy and international contract corruption matters. Additional responsibility, Joint Operations Center Representative for International Contract Corruption Task Force. Member of the Hawaii Bar,certified fraud examiner and certified anti-money laundering specialist.

Sonali N. Narasimhan
Chief Compliance Officer, ASEAN
Global Growth Organization, GE
Senior Compliance Counsel, Asia Pacific
Baker Hughes, a GE Company
Sonali has held compliance roles at South Asia and ASEAN at General Electric Corporation since April 2011. She is currently performing the dual role of Chief Compliance Officer, ASEAN, General Electric Corporation and Senior Compliance Counsel, GE Oil & Gas Asia Pacific. She was the recipient of GE’s Global Corporate Award in 2014 for outstanding contribution towards making GE’s Compliance Program simpler and more effective. She is also the current leader for GE Oil & Gas Chapter of GE Women’s Network, Singapore Hub (since 2016). GE Women’s Network fosters professional women’s development to grow, attract and retain successful women through information, education, and networking with other women across GE.

Andrew Eacott
Director - Internal Audit
Fraud, Forensics & Anti-Corruption
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Andrew Eacott is the Director of Internal Audit heading up the Fraud, Forensics and Anti-Corruption team at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has over 23 years of experience in audit, forensic investigations, risk management and other compliance and finance roles, including over 10 years in director-level roles for companies such as HP, Symantec and Johnson and Johnson. Andrew obtained his degree in Accounting from Charles Sturt University in Australia and is an Australian CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the IIA.

Jasmine Karimi
Senior Director, Counsel, Asia/Pacific

Illumina
Jasmine Karimi is the Senior Director & Counsel, heading the legal & compliance function across all Asia Pacific for Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), an international, rapidly growing, and the world’s leading DNA sequencing company (named MIT Technology Review’s “Smartest Company” in 2014, and No. 3 in 2016). Jasmine also sits on the APAC Management and Global Legal Management teams and is the Chair of the Women’s Leadership Network, Singapore Chapter, at Illumina.

A seasoned in-house professional, Jasmine has over 20 years of experience, across multiple jurisdictions across diverse industries (including media, manufacturing, luxury retail and currently life sciences). Preceding her in-house career, Jasmine was a corporate and litigation lawyer at major law firms in Canada and Singapore.

Noted for excellence in public speaking and presentations, Jasmine has been a frequently invited speaker at industry and professional forums globally. She has an LL.B. (Hons) from the U.K., and an LLM specializing in IP law from Canada. She is admitted to practice law in England & Wales, Singapore, Canada, and Hong Kong. A firm believer in giving back, Jasmine has served on several boards and is the immediate past President of the Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association (HKCCA). She currently sits on the SIAC Users Council. Jasmine has been named as one of the 100 leading influential in-house lawyers in business in Asia in The Legal 500: Corporate Counsel 100 Asia 2014.


Lee Kiat Seng
Head Of Compliance
Lazada Group
Lee Kiat Seng is currently the Head of Compliance for the Lazada Group. He is based in the Group headquarters in Singapore. He and his team cover Lazada’s operations in 9 countries. Prior to this role, he was most recently the Senior Compliance Officer, Asia, in Fujitsu. Based in the Asia Region Office in Singapore, having charge of Fujitsu's operations in Asia, including China. Kiat Seng had also previously fulfilled the roles of Interim Risk & Compliance Counsel, Asia, for DTZ and Regional Counsel, Legal & Compliance, Asia Pacific & Middle East for DaVita. In all of these roles, Kiat Seng had charge of the compliance program and regulatory affairs of the company in question.  Before Kiat Seng took up the in-house roles above, he was a partner of Baker & McKenzie, based in Singapore. He was a member of the Firm's Asia Pacific Restructuring & Insolvency Steering Committee, the Asia Pacific Compliance Task Force as well as the Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Steering Committee. He was heavily involved in the dispute resolution, compliance, insurance/reinsurance and restructuring & insolvency practices at both the Singapore office as well as across the Asia Pacific region.  Kiat Seng has advised and represented clients in Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, USA, UK, Italy, Japan, the Peoples' Republic of China, the Republic of China, Laos, India, Germany, Vietnam and other countries in the region.  Kiat Seng was a professor at the Law School at the National University of Singapore for just over 25 years: first as a full time academic and then as an adjunct associate professor. He is extensively published in both criminal law and insurance/reinsurance law.

Campbell Clark
Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific
Medtronic
Campbell Clark is Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, for Medtronic, a healthcare company, and is based in Singapore. He was previously General Counsel, Asia, for Covidien, another healthcare company which was acquired by Medtronic in January 2015. 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. Campbell graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and holds an LL.B (Hons) and M.Jur (Dist.).

Judy Chang
Senior Director, Ethics & Anti-Corruption
PayPal
Judy Chang is a lawyer by training with a degree from the National University of Singapore. She also has a Masters in Art Administration from the University of New South Wales. After an initial few years in law, Judy began her compliance career in 1997 when compliance was not a common term nor was Compliance Officer a recognized occupation. She performed various compliance roles for the Asia Pacific region as well as globally with American Express, based out of Singapore and Australia. Judy moved to PayPal in 2010 managing Government Relations for Asia Pacific, working on many challenging regulatory issues in a nascent e-money transfer industry in the world of financial services coupled with the new economy. Judy headed the Global Business Ethics & Compliance Office for eBay Inc up to when PayPal, a wholly-owned eBay subsidiary was spun off as a public-listed company in July 2015. She is now Senior Director, Ethics & Anti-Corruption for PayPal. She is a regulatory compliance veteran and has vast experience in compliance program building across various areas including Anti-Corruption, Vendor Management, Anti-Money Laundering, Data Protection and Sanctions. 


Ben Brooke-Cowden
Regional Legal Director ASEAN, Korea & Japan
Reckitt Benckiser 
Based in Singapore, Ben sits on the regional leadership team for the ASEAN, Japan and South Korea businesses of Reckitt Benckiser, a FTSE Top 10 company, where he manages a multi-national and multi-jurisdictional legal team as Regional Legal Director and Head of Compliance. Prior to his relocation to Singapore, Ben sat on the regional leadership team for the Australia and New Zealand businesses of Reckitt Benckiser where he established their first legal department in the region. Ben has worked for several other MNCs in the FMCG and gaming industries, and commenced his legal career in the Sydney offices of Norton Rose.

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.


Kirsten Trott
Executive Director, "Speaking Up"
Standard Chartered Bank
Kirsten is a compliance, risk and policy professional, with specialist expertise in whistleblowing (speaking up) and ethical conduct and culture. A qualified lawyer, Kirsten started out in whistleblowing as Legal Adviser at Public Concern at Work (PCaW), the London based thought leader in whistleblowing. She was later made Deputy Director there. At PCaW she gave legal advice to whistleblowers, provided consultancy services to organisations looking to develop more open and ethical cultures and was involved in public policy and law reform relating to whistleblowing. Returning home for a couple of years to Australia, Kirsten was the CEO for the Committee which ensured compliance with the Australia Code of Banking Practice.

She moved to Singapore in 2008, where she held various positions at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, including as the Director of Strategy for think tank The Centre for Asia and Globalisation. After completing a double Masters degree in Public Policy and Law at NUS and having 2 children, Kirsten moved back to the private sector in 2014, joining Standard Chartered. There she has held roles in Operational Risk, Financial Crime Compliance and now heads up the Bank’s Speaking Up Programme.

Devaki Nathan
Director and Head of Compliance, Asia Pacific
TD Securities
Devaki Nathan has been the Regional APAC Head of Compliance for the wholesale banking division of the Toronto Dominion Bank since October 2014. In this role, she is responsible for managing all areas of the compliance with financial laws, regulations and requirements relating to business conduct and employee conduct for the Toronto Dominion Bank's global markets and transaction banking activities in Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

With close to 20 years of experience in this field, she specialises in the design, implementation  and continuing assessment of compliance framework, policies and risk management system, including  conduct risk, regulatory compliance, financial and economic crimes and sanctions, anti-corruption/ anti-bribery, data protection and technology risk management. 

Devaki qualified as a Chartered Accountant from the UK and initially practiced as an external auditor in a Big 4 for a number of years before moving into the Compliance profession in Singapore.  She also holds a LL.B. and a Master in Business Administration.

 

Welcome to the ALB SE Asia Anti-Corruption Forum 2017
Date:               29 August 2017
Registration:  8.30am to 9.00am
Event:             9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue:            The St. Regis Singapore, 29 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247911.
Room:            John Javob II, Level 2.

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Welcome to the ALB SE Asia Anti-Corruption Forum 2017
Date:               29 August 2017
Registration:  8.30am to 9.00am
Event:             9.00am to 5.00pm
Venue:            The St. Regis Singapore, 29 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247911.
Room:            John Javob II, Level 2.

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