Lauren Antion

Director | Co-Head of Beauty, Personal Care & Wellness

Intrepid Investment Bankers

David Archer

CTO

Niobium

Dr. David Archer, Chief Technology Officer for Niobium Microsystems, has over 40 years of experience in computer hardware and software development, including over 12 years of R&D in Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Dr. Archer developed foundations and application of PETs in well-known US Government programs such as DARPA PROCEED, SafeWare, Brandeis, SIEVE, and DPRIVE; IARPA HECTOR; as well as in programs for the US Departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy, the Census Bureau, and the US Intelligence Community. Dr. Archer is a founding member of the Privacy Preserving Technology Team, United Nations Statistics Division, and co-authored the first UN Privacy Preserving Technology Handbook. Dr. Archer was appointed by the Director of NIST and served as one of seven national judges on the US Privacy Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenge. Dr. Archer served as a Summer Scholar in PETs for the US Census Bureau in 2022.

Andrew Parrat

Deputy Head of

Division Serious Fraud Office

Fiona Wallace-Mason

Chief Compliance Officer

Rothschild & Co

Joel Fischer

Partner

Bär & Karrer AG

Joel Fischer co-heads Bär & Karrer's internal investigations practice group. He has extensive experience in assisting global corporations and high-ranking executives in large-scale internal investigations and complex white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement proceedings before Swiss and foreign authorities (incl. the DOJ, the U.S. senate, and the FED). 

His practice includes advising companies in a variety of compliance topics like money laundering, sanctions, fraud, corruption, tax evasion, ESG, and on the implementation of respective compliance programs. He regularly leads large interdisciplinary teams including lawyers, forensic, compliance and technology experts.

Joel Fischer graduated from the University of Zurich and obtained a Master's degree in Law & Finance from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Berne. Prior to joining Bär & Karrer, Joel Fischer worked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and as a management consultant with a leading global consulting firm.

Joel Fischer is a member of the editorial board of the leading Swiss legal periodical on corporate and capital markets law (GesKR). He won the client choice Award 2022 and 2023 and is listed as a Global Leader in Investigations in Who's Who Legal.

Gary LaFever

Co-CEO and General Counsel

Anonos