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Alexandra Gaugler is VP and Chief Compliance Officer at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. A corporate compliance professional, Gaugler previously worked at DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc., where she served as International Chief Compliance Officer from 2014 to 2015. Prior to joining DaVita HealthCare, Gaugler was Senior Manager of Ethics and Corporate Compliance at Endo Pharmaceuticals. Earlier in her career, Gaugler was an Associate for law firm Miller, Alfano & Raspanti. She earned her Law Degree at The Catholic University of America.

Rodrigo Cunha, based in Brussels, BE, is currently a Chief Compliance Officer at Manuchar, bringing experience from previous roles at Louvain School of Management, Anheuser-Busch InBev and AmBev. Rodrigo Cunha holds a 2014 - 2015 Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Business @ University of California, Berkeley - School of Law. With a robust skill set that includes Legal Issues, Legal Compliance, Business Strategy, Corporate Law, Contract Negotiation and more, Rodrigo Cunha contributes valuable insights to the industry.

Andrew established and currently leads a team of auditors, investigators and data analysts on a variety of missions globally across the whole Airbus business. Andrew is also a regular trainer and speaker and has particular expertise and experience in anti-fraud, anti-corruption and other ethics, compliance and sustainability matters.

Alexandra currently holds the role of Compliance Officer responsible for the Global Customer Unit Telecom Italia and South East Mediterranean at Ericsson advising the leadership team on all aspects of the group’s global Ethics & Compliance Program and driving its implementation in the Customer Unit. In parallel she is the subject matter expert on Third Party Management for the Market Area Europe and Latin America. Throughout her career, Alexandra has been focusing on anti-bribery and corruption matters within two international companies under the Monitorship appointed by the US Department of Justice from both implementation and audit perspective and has been regularly contributing to the corporate investigations related to ABC matters. She started her career as an external consultant at Big 4 company supporting clients (pharma, financial institutions, industrial companies, government organizations) with fraud investigations, ABC audits and implementation of Compliance programs.

In 2017, Sandrine joined Hexagon Geosystems, part of Hexagon, as Divisional Compliance Officer, a Division of 6000 employees based in Switzerland. Early 2021, Sandrine took over the role as Group Compliance Director for Hexagon. She is responsible for a seamless continuation of the advancement of Hexagon  compliance programme and assist also with ESG related initiatives. Sandrine brings more than 10 years expertise in compliance in international industrial companies at strategic and operational level.

A Lawyer by education, with Specialist and Master Degrees, Fabrizio is an experienced Corporate Lawyer, with a long and solid background on leading different teams within Legal and Compliance. His current role at Yara involves serving as Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, which includes design, implementation and maintenance of the compliance program.

Deputy Head of Ethics & Compliance at Deliveroo, Paul has 15+ years experience in Ethics & Compliance across the tech industry. He has worked in Ethics/Compliance roles at listed tech giants such as Google, Salesforce and Akamai, and also with the Tesco Group as dunnhumby’s Director of Ethics & Compliance. His focus has been overhauling ethics/compliance programs, redesigning ethics/compliance/antitrust learning and development programs, policy drafting, stakeholder management, process reengineering, public sector and third party risk.

Carmelo is Senior Counsel at Syneos Health (previously INC Research/inVentiv Health), a product lifecycle organization specialized in clinical development and medical affairs. He is an Italian qualified attorney, with more than 8-year spent in multinationals and listed companies, and has experience in corporate law, compliance and legal strategy in regulated industries. He is passionate about ESG, AI and risk management.

Angel Corbacho, Law Graduate and registered member of the BAR, is currently Regional Program Manager, Legal & Compliance at Cloudflare.  A consolidated public speaker with a life-long experience in Legal and Compliance in various industries, he can provide an insight into why compliance matters.

Daniel Selle majored in International Accounting, Taxation and Controlling within the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen, Germany. After 5 years of working within ThyssenKrupp in Germany in the field Subsidiary Controlling of Easter European and Asian Subsidiaries he joined Daimler in Stuttgart, Germany, in June 2011. Within the first 5 years he was working in Corporate Audit Department conducting Forensic Investigations and Process Audits within Daimler Subsidiaries and external Business Partners worldwide. Since May 2016 Daniel Selle is supporting Daimler´s External Business Partners in high risk markets such as Middle East and Africa with regard to setting up a Compliance Management System based on Daimler´s expectations and in consideration of the local legislation and requirements.

Joanna Jenkins is one of the leading authorities on compliance and money laundering in the payments industry. As well as being Regional Head of Compliance for Binance, Joanna is Co-Chair for the Board of Directors of the ACAMS® UK Chapter. She is also a member of the UK RegTech council and a volunteer for Stop the Traffik, an association combating human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Ashu Sharma has over 20 years’ experience in investigations and financial crime risk management. He has worked in investigations in the UK and abroad in diverse sectors such as mining and minerals, banking, law enforcement and the regulatory sector. His experience includes working at Anglo American, HSBC, the UK Serious Fraud Office, and the Electoral Commission. Ash is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Financial Crime Specialist. He is also on the Advisory Board of the Association of Corporate Investigators.

Panagiota Ziagkou, is currently a Compliance Manager EMEA at IDEXX, bringing experience from previous roles at Heerema Marine Contractors, Heerema Fabrication Group and Law office, Athens. Panagiota Ziagkou holds a 2013 - 2015 Master of Laws (LLM) in European Competition Law @ University of Amsterdam.

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its Global Corporate Crime and Investigations Practice with the arrival of Jeffrey W. Cottle as a partner in the firm’s Washington office. Mr. Cottle focuses on white-collar crime and compliance matters, with an emphasis on fraud, corruption, trade sanctions and export controls. Mr. Cottle was previously a partner at Brown Rudnick and, in addition to joining Eversheds Sutherland’s Global Corporate Crime and Investigations Practice, will co-lead the firm’s National Security Practice.

With nearly three decades of experience, Mr. Cottle guides clients through internal investigations of potential breaches of company policies and law, as well as the defense of investigations by external regulators and enforcement agencies such as the US Department of Justice, the US Securities Exchange Commission, the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, the UK Serious Fraud Office, the UK Office of Finance Sanctions Implementation and other enforcement agencies in Europe and elsewhere. He regularly advises on all aspects of compliance program design, roll-out and implementation, including handling compliance-related issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in post-merger compliance integration.

Weeshirl is the Global Head of Internal Audit at Signify (formerly known as Philips Lighting). She manages a team of auditors (financial and non-financial), fraud investigators and 3rd party screening analysts. They are based in the Netherlands, US, Panama, Dubai, India, Mexico, Singapore, France and China.

In her prior roles, she has experience of external audits, forensic investigations, risk management, compliance, third party due diligence and internal controls. Particularly, she has rich experience in forensic accounting, fraud investigation (bribery, corruption, financial crimes) and FCPA review.

Prior to her current role, she led the Fraud Investigation function for Asia Pacific and Greater China at Microsoft. In this role, she was based in Beijing with team members in both China and Singapore.

Martijn Boone is a SpeakUp Consultant and Enterprise Sales Director at SpeakUp. Carrying responsibility for markets such as Germany, France and Switzerland he has wide experience in consulting organizations ranging from local companies with 50 employees to large multinationals boasting workforces beyond 300.000 people.

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