Meet the Speakers

Marion Hemphill, General Counsel , Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Australia

General Counsel and Chief Privacy Oficer to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Board member of Melbourne City Mission. Previously worked as a corporate lawyer in large firms in Australia, London and New Zealand. Finalist - Lawyers Weekly Corporate Counsel Awards Not for Profit Lawyer of the Year.

Australian Red Cross Blood Service

The Blood Service is the provider of Australia's blood supply. It collects, processes and dispatches millions of blood products to improve the lives of Australian patients. The Blood Service provides transplanation and biological products for world-leading health outcomes.

Christine Maury-Panis, EVP, General Counsel and Public Affairs, Viaccess S.A, France

Christine Maury Panis is the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Public Affairs Viaccess-Orca. Prior to this role, Christine was legal counsel within the Thomson Consumer Electronics division from 1986 and was focused on the Pay TV activities within the IP section and their newly created licensing entity. Christine was promoted to Deputy General Counsel, Europe for Thomson Multimedia and managed a team of several lawyers. In 1996, Christine moved to CANAL Group to manage the launch of the digital bouquet of CANAL + and helped created CANAL + Technologies which continues to develop, protect and license technologies worldwide. Christine joined Viaccess in 2001 to create the legal and IP department and has been vice presiding the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance, the successor to AEPOC (European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services) over the last ten years. She has been nominated in the GC Powerlist 2016,d 2018 and 2022 in France http://www.legal500.com/assets/pages/cc100/2016/france-16.html) and has been appointed by the European Intellectual Property Office as a specialist to raise awareness on IP within the European Union and as technology expert.

Viaccess S.A

Viaccess-Orca is a leading global solutions provider of OTT and TV platforms, content protection, and advanced data solutions for a personalized TV experience. The company offers an extensive range of innovative, proven, and best-of-breed solutions for content delivery, protection, discovery, and monetization. With over 20 years of industry leadership, Viaccess-Orca helps content providers and TV operators shape a smarter and safer TV and OTT experience. Viaccess-Orca is part of the Orange Group and the company’s solutions have been deployed in over 35 countries, reaching more than 40 million subscribers. For more information, visit www.viaccess-orca.com or follow the company on Twitter @ViaccessOrca and LinkedIn.

Mark VandeVoorde, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer, Worldwide General Counsel, Victaulic Company of America (inc), USA

Mark Van De Voorde is the Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary of Victaulic Company, Victaulic LLC and Victaulic International Sarl. In this role, he deals with a wide array of legal and compliance issues around the world including but not limited to commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution, import-export, antitrust and fair trade, environmental, health and safety, SRO and regulatory approvals, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering as well as corporate development projects. He holds a B.B.S. in Finance from the University of Iowa, a J.D. with high distinction from the University Of Iowa College Of Law, and an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago.

Victaulic Company of America (inc)

Victaulic is the originator and world’s leading producer of mechanical pipe joining solutions and grooved pipe joining systems. Used in the most demanding markets, Victaulic innovative pipe fitting technologies and services put people to work faster while increasing safety, ensuring reliability and maximizing efficiency. Victaulic grooved couplings, grooved fittings and pipe connectors are at work in more than 140 countries across diverse business lines. The company’s pipe fitting solutions meet specific business needs such as accommodating thermal movement, providing seismic solutions, safer system installations, pipeline maintenance and installation, fire protection piping and noise and vibration attenuation. For details and more, see http://www.victaulic.com/

Karl Obayi, Group Lead, Digital Forensics & eDiscovery, Rio Tinto Limited, UK

Specialist Attorney at law, computer systems engineer, certified computer forensics expert and eDiscovery project consultant; with more than 25 years combined experience in legal practice, ediscovery consulting and computer evidence analysis. Instructed as lead eDiscovery and forensic consultant in numerous high profile civil and criminal cases involving the UK, foreign law enforcement and regulatory agencies including, SFO, FCA, ICO, SEC, ASIC and the FBI. A defence expert in matters concerning the Metropolitan police of London and the Crown prosecution services. Subject matter expert in IT Project disputes, corporate fraud, due diligence, compliance and regulatory investigations. Books written and published 1. "Introduction to Computer evidence for Lawyers." 2. "Electronic Documents - Discovery & Disclosure: Principles & Strategies" 3. "Cybercrime law: in Nigeria - Principles & Strategies."

Rio Tinto Limited

Rio Tinto has over 50,000 people working in around 35 countries across six continents. Strongly represented in Australia and North America, and also have significant businesses in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America. Four product groups are – Aluminium, Copper & Diamonds, Energy & Minerals and Iron Ore.

Dennis Lynch, (formerly) VP & Chief Litigation Counsel, Tyco, USA

Dennis currently is active as a mediator of business disputes. Former Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel driving all litigation for a $17+ Billion global company. Currently managing Tyco legacy liabilities resident in a separate corporate structure that total approximately $400 million. Extensive experience with federal securities, tax, corporate governance, intellectual property and products liability. Successfully managed numerous large exposure cases that posed significant external threats to the enterprise, including: - >$3 billion shareholder lawsuits resulting from the Kozlowski era issues (including an MDL) - $4.1 billion bondholder lawsuit resulting from the 2007 spin-off of Covidien and TE Connectivity - $5.4 billion tax litigation relating to the tax treatment for 10 years of acquisition activity - Dozens of consumer class actions against ADT, including a $700 million class action that ended with a directed verdict in ADT’s favor - >$600 million in legacy asbestos liabilities; this included the creation of a separate corporate structure and a captive insurance company to shield the Company from exposure Managed teams of lawyers and legal professionals. Created and implemented a cash recovery program that has netted >$150 million since 2012.

Tyco

Rory O'Keeffe, Legal Counsel, Accenture, UK

Commercial/ IT lawyer (10 years + PQE). My current position involves working on an array of - external client facing - commercial and company matters affecting Accenture in United Kingdom and Ireland and, at times, within Europe, including: - management consulting - technology - outsourcing. My previous experience involved working in both in-house and private practice advising on all legal fields, especially construction, energy and commercial matters, including contracts, dispute resolution, client management (domestic and international) and training.

Accenture

Accenture is one of the world’s leading organizations providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services, with approximately 289,000 employees; offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries; and net revenues of $28.6 billion for fiscal 2013. Accenture's four growth platforms—Accenture Strategy, Accenture Digital, Accenture Technology, Accenture Operations—are the innovation engines through which Accenture builds world-class skills and capabilities; develop knowledge capital; and create, acquire and manage key assets central to the development of integrated services and solutions for their clients.

Giuseppe Catalano, Company Secretary and Head of Corporate Affairs, Assicurazioni Generali, Italy

Born in Bari on April 21st, 1967, Giuseppe Catalano is Company Secretary and Head of Corporate Affairs of Assicurazioni Generali SpA, overseeing corporate governance issues of the Company and acting as Secretary of the Board of Directors and of the Board Committees. From 2005 to January 2015 he acted as Legal and Corporate Affairs Executive Director of Indesit Company SpA, coordinating all the legal advice activities and corporate issues of the Indesit Group. From 2000 to 2005 he was Head of Legal and Corporate Department of Natuzzi SpA, a NYSE-listed company; previously, he was Head of Legal Department – Statutory and Corporate bodies of Banca IMI S.p.A., coordinating relations with the group parent company and surveillance authorities, and internal legal adviser and Board Secretary of IMI Bank (Lux) S.A. He practiced as free-lance lawyer after admission at Italian Bar and graduated as Ph.D. at Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa after becoming J.D. at Law School of University of Bari. Giuseppe is a member of the Policy Committee of Europeaninssuers.

Assicurazioni Generali

The Generali Group is an independent Italian insurance group, with a strong international presence. Established in 1831, it is one of the largest global insurance providers, present in 50 countries and with 2018 total premium income of more than 66 billion euros. With nearly 71,000 employees serving 61 million customers, the Group has a leading position in Western Europe and an increasingly significant presence in the markets of Central and Eastern Europe as well as Asia.

Marion Hemphill, General Counsel , Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Australia

Australian Red Cross Blood Service

Warren Little, Chief Counsel (Acting), UK Commercial Litigation, BT, UK

Charlotte Stetzel, Regional Legal Counsel, DNV GL, UK

Charlotte has global legal responsibility for Business Assurance in DNV GL, a world leading certification body that works with companies to assure performance through certification, verification, assessment and training. The Business Assurance Group in DNV GL is at the cutting edge of using new technology to improve services. Charlotte has recently been involved in advising on the purchase of a stake in leading public blockchain service provider VeChain and the implementation of My Story, a blockchain based Digital Assurance solution combining physical audits with data collection and verification services. Charlotte is also Regional Legal Counsel for Europe & Africa for the DNV GL Group which, along with a team of 8 lawyers, involves advising 41 countries across all business areas on various legal issues such as contracts, litigation, governmental affairs and M&A . Before joining DNV GL, Charlotte worked for a Magic Circle Firm and a leading International Law Firm where she advised major offshore construction, drilling and other oilfield services contractors. She received instructions from a wide range of jurisdictions and has acted in ICC, LMAA, ICSID and ad hoc arbitrations.

DNV GL

DNV GL enables organisations to enhance the safety and sustainability of their business in six key areas: Oil and Gas Maritime Business Assurance Digital Solutions Energy DNV GL Rules and Standards A full description of the organisation can be found at : https://www.dnvgl.com

Simon Taylor, Director, Forensic Risk Alliance, UK

Simon Taylor is a Director in FRA’s London Office in the Forensic Accounting team. He is a dual qualified lawyer (solicitor and barrister) and provides in-house support to the firm on the compliance, forensic accounting and eDiscovery practices. He has in-depth experience in white-collar investigations, financial regulatory enquiries, corporate fraud and corruption. He has extensive experience in structuring and delivering advice to corporate clients on all aspects of governance and compliance risks, including anti-bribery, fraud, anti-money laundering, tax evasion and sanctions abuse across sectors including financial services, engineering, extractive industries, pharmaceuticals, private equity, real estate and commodities. Beyond the investigatory context, Simon also regularly advises companies on the structure, design and testing of compliance programmes and related corporate governance issues. Prior to joining FRA, Simon gained invaluable experience as a trial lawyer with 15 years’ experience of jury, appellate and tribunal advocacy, prosecuting cases on behalf of UK enforcement agencies, including the Serious Fraud Office, and defending corporates and individuals faced with complex white-collar crime, money laundering, tax and professional disciplinary matters. Simon has also served as head of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London White Collar practice and prior to qualifying as a lawyer, Simon worked in-house at a global investment bank.

Forensic Risk Alliance

Forensic Risk Alliance (“FRA”) is an international firm of forensic investigators and accountants, data protection experts, compliance professionals, and eDiscovery specialists with offices in the US, UK, France, Finland, and Switzerland. FRA’s professionals provide independent, conflict-free advice and litigation support, helping businesses to resolve complex and high-risk financial, legal, and regulatory challenges. FRA has served as an independent monitor and supported monitors appointed by the US DOJ, SEC, PCAOB and NYDFS on a number of matters, including monitorships related to anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, OFAC sanctions violations, fraud, and PCAOB accounting and auditing standards. FRA’s monitorship approach utilizes data analytics to provide rigorous and tailored testing of existing and newly implemented controls to assess their effectiveness with the ultimate goal of providing recommendations and practical solutions to align governance and internal controls. FRA collects and analyzes data for use in legal disputes and investigations in a number of areas, including litigation, fraud, bribery and corruption investigations. The company has extensive worldwide project experience in over 75+ countries including Latin America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and has the ability to conduct engagements in most of the world’s key business languages.

Carolyn McNiven, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, USA

Carolyn has deep experience in designing real-world compliance programs for international companies. She was a federal criminal prosecutor for over 13 years and has worked for the past 10 years in defending companies in government enforcement actions and advising them on a wide range of compliance matters particularly in the healthcare and anti-corruption compliance areas. She headed the compliance oversight team for a Fortune 50 Company in India.

Greenberg Traurig

Greenberg Traurig, LLP, is an international law firm with more than 2000 attorneys in 39 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. GT has been recognized for its philanthropic giving, diversity, and innovation; is consistently among the largest firms in the US on Law360 400; and is among the Top 20 on the 2018 Am Law Global 100.

Joseph Aronds, Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel, Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., USA

Joseph M. Aronds is Vice President and Chief Litigation and Trial Counsel at Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., a commercial real estate development corporation based in Secaucus, New Jersey. In his practice, Mr. Aronds consistently handles multi-million dollar litigation and arbitration matters. He has been practicing in the field of complex litigation and arbitration since 1988. Mr. Aronds has served as the president of the Association of Corporate Counsel - New Jersey, the New Jersey chapter of the Washington, D.C.-based Association of Corporate Counsel. Throughout his career, Mr. Aronds has been a speaker or panelist at numerous continuing legal education seminars on a variety of topics. Mr. Aronds received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. In addition to his legal work, Mr. Aronds has authored and drawn an online law-themed cartoon, "Overruled!," several of which have been auctioned off to raise money for various charitable causes.

Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc.

Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. is one of the largest privately owned commercial real estate development firms in the United States. Further information may be found at www.hartzmountain.com

Evie Kyriakides, Chief Data Protection & Privacy Officer- AGC Digital Governance, Privacy & Security, Mars, Incorporated, UK

Mars, Incorporated

Jonathan Anastasia, Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard, USA

Jonathan J. Anastasia is Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel supporting Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard. In his role, Jonathan is responsible for leading a team of attorneys that help develop product solutions to ensure the safety, security and experience of Mastercard products and solutions for consumers, merchants, partners and governments around the world. His team provides integrated legal and transactional support in the development of products and services in the areas of authentication, fraud management, artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet-of-things, biometrics, cybersecurity, and digital identity. Before joining Mastercard, Jonathan was in the Intellectual Property group of Crowell & Moring LLP. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to becoming an attorney, Jonathan served as a Captain in the United States Army.

Mastercard

Anita Adam, Legal and CA Director - Export and License, Molson Coors Brewing Company, UK

Anita works as the Legal and Corporate Affairs Director for Molson Coors' Export and License business unit. As one of the key growth engines for the business Anita's role covers over 50 jurisdictions and the function has been key to the rapid growth and success of the team.

Molson Coors Brewing Company

Molson Coors is the third biggest brewer in the world. It's brands include Carling, Coors Light, Staropramen, Cobra and Blue Moon.

Andreas Blomquist, Associate Vice President, Nasdaq, Sweden

Andreas holds a LLM from the Stockholm University. Prior to joining Nasdaq in 2009, Andreas spent four years working at Mannheimer Swartling, a leading Nordic law firm, doing Banking and Finance and EU and Competition law in the Stockholm and Brussels offices. Prior to joining Mannheimer Swartling in 2005 Andreas worked at the Brussels office of Hogan Lovells. He has also been working at the European Commission's DG Competition as well as a junior judge at a Stockholm district court. At Nasdaq he is managing the legal advise to the information services and listing services business units in Europe as well as all matters relating to litigation and competition law.

Nasdaq

Nasdaq is the world’s largest exchange company with trading, technology and public company service capability spanning 6 continents. Nasdaq offers capital raising solutions to companies around the globe and is number one in worldwide listings with more than 3,600 listed companies representing $4.5 trillion in total market value. Nasdaq offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs. Its technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges in 50 countries. Through its Data and Financial Products units, Nasdaq provides its companies and investors with unrivaled market insight and visibility across multiple trading pools.

Italo Cerullo, Head of Legal Affairs , Nonwovenn, UK

Italo Cerullo is a highly experienced UK commercial lawyer with over 20 years’ experience in both in-house roles and private practice. Having trained and started his career in the City of London in the 1990s with CMS Cameron McKenna, Italo embarked upon a highly successful 11-year career in public relations, marketing and business development. In 2007 he relocated to Somerset, UK. He returned to legal practice and enjoyed spells in private practice with major law firms Womble Bond Dickinson and Foot Anstey in Exeter and Bristol. Having worked in-house on secondments with Lloyds Banking Group in Bristol, he then joined textile manufacturing company Nonwovenn (formerly BFF Technical Fabrics) in Bridgwater as Head of Legal Affairs in February 2013, becoming their first ever in house lawyer.

Nonwovenn

Nonwovenn is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of nonwoven technical fabrics and textiles. With operations in two sites in the UK, it manufactures technical nonwoven fabrics for global markets as wide and diverse as paper fabrics for coffee pods and coffee bags, medical and surgical pads and wound dressings, automotive oil filtration and engine noise reduction and fabric pouches for agricultural growers. The specialist products are used in the food, medical, agrotextiles, hygiene and cables and telecoms markets. The fabrics (which are composed of fused fibres, rather than woven ones) is used in anti-microbial, flame retardant, biodegradable and acoustic control. We have large multinational companies across the world as our customers in industries as diverse as motoring, health and medical, agricultural and food, drinks and FMCG companies. The group has manufacturing bases near Bristol and Manchester, UK. It includes three group subsidiaries specialising in various industrial sectors. Firemark, one of the UK’s leading fire extinguisher maintenance companies, is an associated group company handling several hundred customers across the UK. Pallet Hotel is the group’s warehousing business with several thousand square feet of warehousing space.

Ian Dodd, UK Director, Premonition LLC, UK

Ian Dodd believes that data drives and defines all businesses. While every business has millions of pieces of data it's only recently that AI has been developed sufficiently to search for, find, differentiate, analyse and present that data in a way meaningful enough for managers to interpret and implement it. Businesses which understand the power of data will be the winners. Ian Dodd has been applying the benefits of data to a range of businesses over many years.

Premonition LLC

Premonition is an Artificial Intelligence system that mines Big Data to find out which Attorneys win before which Judges; and much more. Premonition has the World's largest database of litigation - bigger than every major legal database combined. It is a very, very unfair advantage in Litigation.

Rodney Evans, Deputy General Counsel, Structadene Limited, UK

Rodney Evans was appointed General Counsel of the Structadene Group of Companies on 1st June 2006 and stepped down to be3come Deputy General Counsel to his success or 1st October 2017 after a 6 month handover period Rodney's initial job description was "anything legal that affects the group" so included not only all aspects of property law affecting a property investment group but also planning law (especially s106 planning agreements), taxation (especially VAT and SDLT) all aspects on employment law and corporate structure as well as leasing with external counsel.

Structadene Limited

The Structadene Group is a property investment group of companies, consisting of wholly owned subsidiaries and joint venture partners in addition to David Alan Pearlman personally and his pension scheme There are a number of structures including limited companies, limited liability partnerships, individuals, partnerships and a pension scheme. The entire group owns over 1,350 different properties with over 5,500 individual tenants (both residential and commercial) and has a gross value approaching £2bn.

Pedro Castro Nevares, Chief Compliance Officer and Legal Director, Torneos y Competencias S.A, Argentina

Pedro Castro Nevares is the Chief Compliance Officer and Legal Director for Torneos y Competencias S.A., a leading Latin America sports marketing company. In 2015 Torneos was directly involved in the FIFA scandal that resulted in numerous indictments by the US Department of Justice, when Pedro was brought into the fold to create the compliance function. Pedro is responsible of the continuing enhancement of Torneos’ corporate compliance program, while working with Torneos’ leadership to ensure that a culture of integrity shapes all businesses conducted by the company. He was selected by Compliance Week as a "Top Mind" for 2018. Prior to moving in-house, Pedro developed an extensive practice in the corporate, M&A and capital markets areas, starting his carrier at Beccar Varela in Argentina, from where he ultimately moved to found Tanoira Cassagne. A graduate of Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pedro also attended Duke University to earn a master's in law degree. He has also worked in the corporate legal department for Citibank in Argentina, and spent time with law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, primarily doing corporate restructuring and other capital market work.

Torneos y Competencias S.A

TORNEOS is a leading sports marketing and media company in Latin America, with more than 35 years in the entertainment industry, specializing in the acquisition and distribution of media and commercial rights for premium sports events and competitions, organization of high-level sports tournaments, commercialization of audiovisual rights and the generation and production of sports content at a regional level.

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Alcatel-Lucent Bell NV, Belgium

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Siemens AG, Germany

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Philip Morris Italia, Italy

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Riverbed Technology , Netherlands

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Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, USA

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