Speakers

Adrian Mom

Adrian is a Partner in the AlixPartners Risk Advisory team, located in Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in leveraging cutting-edge technology and accounting expertise to conduct internal and regulatory high-profile investigations, monitorships, risk analytics, comprehensive reviews of compliance programs, and related transformations.

Adrian’s experience includes complex local and cross-border compliance matters across several industries in connection with AFC obligations, (top)-management misconduct, accounting fraud, corruption, bribery, tax fraud, asset misappropriation, and other related offenses.

He is recognized by Who is Who Legal as one of the Future Global Leaders in Investigations 2021 and 2022, is a CFA charter holder and holds a MSc in Finance from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dario S. Rufini

Dr Jan Sprake

Elena Mokretsova

Elena has extensive international experience in Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering with global financial institutions with roles based in Switzerland, Spain, Mexico and Poland, with special interest in detecting money laundering patterns of Latin-American and Russian organized crime groups, as well as prevention of embezzlement of funds proceeding from public contracts.

In her current role with Banco Santander, she is responsible for leading Financial Crime Compliance team covering Sanctions Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations and Periodic Reviews.

Prior to joining Santander Group in 2018 in Madrid, she was with Citigroup from 2009 until the end of 2017, covering the role of AML Global Investigation Unit Senior Compliance with Citi in Mexico as her last position, working on complex investigative projects on organized crime and corruption proceeds laundering in Latin American Region. Her main achievements in this role include development of investigative projects focused on detection of money laundering schemes used by Russian organized crime applied for Latin American drug-cartels and public embezzlement project aimed to identify corruption schemes in Construction sector in Mexico.

Before that, Elena was AML Quality Assurance Team Leader in Mexico and AML Subject Matter Expert (SME) for EMEA Region in Warsaw, as well with Citigroup. In the SME role in Poland, she was supporting the migration of the AML Operations processes for virtual units in Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.

She graduated with a master’s degree in International Economics from Lazarski School of Commerce and Law based in Warsaw in 2009 and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance management from Higher School of Economics, Russia. Elena has Advanced AML Certification by International Compliance Association and collaborated for the book The Untold Stories of Financial Crime by Maurren Mutua. She is fluent in 6 languages, including her mother-tongue Russian, Spanish, Polish, English, Portuguese and French.

Kurt Lunkenheimer

Nic Carrington

Nic Carrington is a Partner in Deloitte’s Financial Advisory practice in Switzerland. He specialises in forensic advisory, financial crime fraud and corruption investigations, advising on cases involving white collar crime and corruption, including FCPA-related matters, anti-money laundering compliance and investigations, procurement fraud, conflicts of interest issues and accounting irregularities. Nic is a Qualified Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Rafael Merencio

Sandra Middel

Representative of the Sanctions Unit of the European Commission

Simon Plüss

Tatjana Woedlinger

Ulina Bajraktaraj

Verena Ottenstreuer

Representive of the Office of Foreign Assets Control

Pascal Buergin

Helen Aldridge

Dr. Mathias Zadrazil

Dr. Mathias Zadrazil is Chief Compliance Officer EMEA at Zimmer Biomet in Zug since September 2023. Prior to that, he worked as General Counsel Legal & Compliance International at the US medtech company Cardinal Health. Professional career: Vice President Pharma Law at Novo Nordisk in Copenhagen, before that General Counsel L&C Europe at Novo Nordisk in Zurich. His in-house career started as Legal Counsel in Novartis Pharma AG in Basel; Before that, he was a lawyer at Vischer law firm. Mathias studied at the University of Freiburg (DE), received his doctorate from the University of Lausanne, obtained an LL.M. in Montreal and is admitted to the bar in Switzerland and Germany.

Juan Antonio De Lassaletta Fernández

Juancho de Lassaletta joined Vifor Fresenius Medical Care Renal Pharma (VFMCRP) in August 2019 as Vice-President & Global Head Legal and Compliance.

Juancho studied law at the University of Barcelona and completed postgraduate studies at IESE Business School, Corporate Development Program (PDD).

He started his career at international law firms working during 14 years as a corporate and M&A lawyer in the life sciences spaces in the Iberian and Latin America markets.

His in-house career, as Associate to General Counsel and Head of Compliance, led him in 2015 to InsudPharma Group (generics) where he led the design and implementation of Insudpharm Global Compliance Program with special focus in Latin America.

At VFMCRP, Juancho is globally responsible for all legal, IP, litigation and compliance matters. Interface to global Fresenius Medical Care legal, IP and compliance teams, member of FMC Legal Leadership Team.

His areas of specialization are most notably BD & License-in deals with US biotechs, M&A and Compliance. He works closely with a diverse range of senior stakeholders at Vifor Pharma’s and FMC’s global headquarters, building effective relationships and driving consensus.

Jan Stappers

Jan Stappers is Regulatory Solutions Director at NAVEX. As an expert in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), he is a frequent speaker on subjects related to GRC regulation and best practices, as well as a sought-after author on regulatory developments within GRC, ESG, CSR, whistleblowing, and third-party risk. Jan is a member of the European AI Alliance and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) “Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies.” This working party is broken into six parts and Jan is a member of the Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Jan holds a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) from King’s College London (EU Competition Law) and a master’s degree (LL.M) from Leiden University (European Law).

Floriana Scarlato

Katherine Delikoura

Tim Stanley

Dr. Joel Fischer

Dr. Joel Fischer co-heads Bär & Karrer’s internal investigations practice group and is a leading partner of the financial services team.

He has extensive experience in assisting global corporations and high-ranking executives. His work spans large-scale internal investigations and complex white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement proceedings before Swiss and foreign authorities. His practice includes advising major companies, such as financial institutions, media conglomerates, and trading companies, on a wide range of compliance issues. This includes money laundering, sanctions, fraud, ESG, corruption, tax evasion and the implementation of compliance programmes.

Before his tenure at Bär & Karrer, Joel worked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and as a management consultant with a leading global consulting firm. He graduated from the University of Zurich and obtained a master’s degree in law and finance from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Berne. He is a member of the editorial board of the leading Swiss periodical on corporate and capital markets law (GesKR).

Joel is listed as a Global Leader in investigations in the International Who’s Who Legal and won the Client Choice Award by Lexology in 2022 and 2024. In The Legal 500, Joel Fischer is listed as Next Generation Partner in Switzerland in Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations. 

Dr. Osman Saçarçelik