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Adrian Mom
Partner, Risk AdvisoryAlixPartnersAdrian 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.
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Bettina Huwiler
Industry Adisor, Financial ServicesMicrosoft -
Dario S. Rufini
Head FCPA Anti-Bribery and Corruption SwitzerlandUBS Switzerland -
David Lim
Partner and Former Co-Director, Task Force Klepto Capture, US Department of JusticeWhite & Case -
Dr. Jan Sprake
Head of ComplianceGerresheimer AG | Germany -
Dr. Martin Petrasch
Chief Counsel ComplianceSiemens Ag -
Elena Mokretsova
Financial Crime Compliance Manager, Vice PresidentSantanderElena 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.
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Kees van Ophem
Executive Vice President & Global General Counsel General CounselFresenius Medical Care | Switzerland and Germany -
Kurt Lunkenheimer
Member and Former AUSAU.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida -
Maria Thestrup
Chief Ethics Risk and Compliance Officer and Former Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer ICRCGavi, The Vaccine Alliance -
Michael Faske
Partner | Financial AdvisoryDeloitteMichael is a senior executive with deep expertise in Fraud Investigation and Prevention, Financial Crime Compliance, Ethics and Integrity Programs, and Internal Controls. He has successfully delivered numerous projects, expertly navigating complex business issues, managing stakeholder expectations, and effectively collaborating with regulators across various industries. With a dynamic leadership style and excellent interpersonal and communication skills, Michael has worked extensively in both the USA and Europe. He holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Law, is admitted to the bar in Hamburg, Germany, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Michael is also an accomplished author of thought leadership articles, a guest lecturer at two universities, an active public speaker, and a member of various professional organizations.
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Nora Zs. Bartos
Legal Counsel, Export Control & Economic SanctionsRoche -
Rafael Merencio
General Counsel,Koenig & Bauer -
Samer Jannoun
Head of Regional Ethics & Compliance Special OversightMeta -
Sandra Middel
Chief Ethics and Compliance OfficerAXPO Group -
Sara Chouraqui
Joint Head of Bribery, Fraud and CorruptionSerious Fraud Office -
Representative of the Sanctions Unit of the European Commission
European Commission -
Silvia La Tella
Regional Sanctions OfficerGenerali Deutschland -
Simon Plüss
Head of the Export Controls and Sanctions DivisionState Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO | Switzerland -
Steve Young
Head of Fraud and Investigations, Banque Lombard Odier & Cie SA & CEOAssociation of Corporate Investigators -
Tatjana Woedlinger LL.M., LL.B., CGSS
Head of SanctionsOberbank AG, Austria -
Timothy P. O'Toole
Member, Practice LeadSanctions and Export Controls -
Ulina Bajraktaraj
Division EnforcementFINMA | UK -
Vanessa Sisti
Assistant Chief, Fraud SectionFCPA Unit at US Department of Justice -
Verena Ottenstreuer
Head of Legal & ComplianceHiscox | Germany and Luxembourg -
William P. Barry
Member, Chair of Litigation DepartmentMiller & Chevalier -
Representive of the Office of Foreign Assets Control
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Pierre-Alain Krohn
Chief Compliance OfficerBitcoin Suisse AGPierre-Alain Krohn joined Bitcoin Suisse in April 2022 after holding a leadership role at J.P. Morgan in Geneva for 5 years focusing on anti-money laundering, governance, and controls. Prior to this, he held key positions as advisor on legal and regulatory matters at M&G Investments in London, as well as Rothschild & Co and Credit Suisse in Zurich. He graduated from the University of Zurich with a Master of Law degree.
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Pascal Buergin
Head of Law, Patents and ComplianceBayer -
Karin de Witt
Director Ethics, Compliance & InvestigationsLonza -
Dr. Helen Aldridge
Chief Integrity and Compliance OfficerVW Passenger Cars -
Kersten Schmahl
Senior Director Ethics & Compliance IntercontinentalCSL BehringKersten Schmahl is Senior Director Ethics & Compliance Intercontinental at CSL, a global listed biotech company. He previously held various international Ethics & Compliance leadership positions with both listed and privately-held pharmaceutical, biotech and medical technology companies being based in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden.
Kersten graduated from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Leuphana University in Luneburg, Germany. At the latter University, he has teaching assignments for Compliance & Investigations in Corporate Practice since 2009. Kersten is also a standing co-author for the chapter “Compliance in the Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology Industry” in the Handbook of Corporate Legal Management – Manual for Corporate Compliance in Germany.
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Dr. Mathias Zadrazil
Chief Compliance Officer EMEAZimmer BiometDr. 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.
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Roeland De Wit
Global Head of Integrity & Regulatory AffairsABB MotionRoeland de Wit is Vice President Head of Integrity & Regulatory Affairs at ABB, where he leads the global integrity team and program for one of its Business Areas: Motion. With their leading electrification and automation technologies, ABB helps industries outrun – leaner and cleaner.
Roeland has 20 years of extensive experience in Integrity & Compliance, both in designing and managing programmatic aspects of compliance programs and in leading internal investigations. He is a leader focused on delivering high quality work in challenging circumstances and operates at pace with grit and range. Together with his family he lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Juan Antonio De Lassaletta Fernández
Head of LegalVifor PharmaJuancho 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.
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Kevin Mosley
Deputy Chief, Bank Integrity Unit, Deputy Director National Cryptocurrency Enforcement TeamUS Department of Justice -
Jan Stappers
Regulatory Solutions DirectorNAVEXJan 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).
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Claire Halligon
Deputy Head of Ethics and Sustainability, Anti-Bribery and CorruptionGunvor GroupClaire joined the Gunvor Group in 2016 as the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Compliance Director and has 23 years overall experience which started in Paris as an IP and IT Legal Counsel in the IT industry (Peregrine Systems, Group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, NetApp Inc.). Claire was responsible for creating the Compliance function for the EMEA region of the US listed supplier of data storage solutions NetApp Inc. She is a regular speaker at Compliance and Anti-Bribery conferences and events.
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Floriana Scarlato
Group Chief Compliance OfficerLombard Odier -
Fiona Wallace-Mason
Chief Compliance OfficerRothschild & Co -
Katherine Delikoura
Managing Director, Chief Compliance OfficerCouncil Europe Development Bank -
Michaela Schütz
Deputy Head of Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS)Fedpol -
Tim Stanley
DirectorRisk Advisory -
Chath Weerasinghe
Vice President of Finance & OperationsCanada Goose -
Dr. Joel Fischer
PartnerBär & KarrerDr. 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.
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Daniel Gysel
Chief Compliance OfficerZurich Insurance -
Dr. Osman Saçarçelik
Global Head of Global Standards & Advisory AMLCommerzbank AG -
Valentina Gilberti
Customer Success ManagerSGR Compliance -
Francesca Asselle
Executive DirectorArab Bank -
Danuta Colon
Head of Strategy & ReviewSiemens Healthineers -
Dr. Laura Lißner-Hölschermann
General Counsel/ Chief Compliance OfficerOHB SEDr. Laura Lißner-Hölschermann has been General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of OHB SE since 2022. She joined OHB SE in 2019 as Legal Counsel, in-house lawyer and Compliance Officer. Previously, she worked as a lawyer in the field of labor and social law at the international law firm Göhmann.
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Kaisa Karvonen
Head of Forensic Services, ZurichBDO Switzerland -
Markus Brinkmann
Partner, Head of Global Forensic, Risk and Compliance, HamburgBDO Germany -
Nicholas Bentley
Head Legal Trade SanctionsNovartis -
Salim Kiwirra
Group Head of FCCBanque Lombard Odier & Cie SA -
Harriet Lord
Director, Corporate IntelligenceS-RMHarriet is a Director in S-RM's Corporate Intelligence division, based in London. She joined S-RM in 2017 as head of the Europe regional desk and, in 2020, took over responsibilities for the Corporate Intelligence research teams in EMEA, covering Europe, Russia and the CIS, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. S-RM’s Corporate Intelligence teams deploy their regional and industry-specific expertise to provide a range of due diligence and investigative services. From enhanced due diligence on potential clients, partners and third parties, to in-depth research into investment targets, new markets and regulatory environments, or investigations to support contentious situations, including litigation, arbitration and internal investigations, S-RM’s intelligence and analysis helps clients with a range of compliance, ESG and strategic questions.
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Miroslava Panuscikova
Director, Strategic Client AdvisoryDow Jones Risk & ComplianceMiroslava Panuscikova, Director, Strategic Client Advisory, Risk & Compliance is a subject matter expert with over 17 years of experience in the area of risk data creation, maintenance and analysis as well as data discovery, extraction and collection, with a particular focus on international sanctions, financial crime and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) compliance related content. She acts as the lead research contact for client engagements and has worked with a number of leading financial services institutions and corporate clients to help them get the best out of Dow Jones risk data.
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Stefano Barone
Advisor AML, CTFGlobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized CrimeStefano Barone is an investigative professional with over 15 years of expertise in financial crime and compliance. As a Chief Investigator with the Guardia di Finanza, he led high-profile cases in VAT fraud, money laundering, and corruption, achieving significant asset recoveries. At the World Customs Organization, he spearheaded Project Tentacle, an AML/CTF initiative enhancing global cooperation against economic crime.
Currently part of the GITOC expert network, Stefano focuses on AML, CFT, and organized crime. Previously at FIFA, he investigated misconduct and helped establish the first Integrity Task Force for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
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Roi Lavi
Managing Director - EuropeSqope IntelligenceWith more than two decades of experience in the intelligence and financial sectors, Roi has been developing and expanding Sqope’s business in continental Europe since 2014, including directly managing some of its largest markets and key accounts. Based in Geneva, he works directly with over 50 banks, financial intermediaries, and other companies to help them meet their AML/KYC and ESG requirements.
Prior to joining Sqope, Roi, who is also a certified attorney, worked in the legal field at leading firms, including the risk and compliance department of one of the “Big 4”. In addition to his LL.B and B.A. degrees, he graduated with distinction from the University of Geneva with an Executive MBA.
