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Alexandra (“Ali”) Gaugler is Vice President and global Chief Compliance Officer for IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in veterinary diagnostics, software, and water microbiology testing.  More information about IDEXX can be found at www.idexx.com.  Ali joined IDEXX at the Hoofddorp, Netherlands location in November 2015 and manages a team of individuals based in the USA, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Shanghai.  Ali has lived in Amsterdam with her husband and two children since 2012.  In addition to her functional role at IDEXX, Ali is the Chairperson for the Netherlands Leadership Team and the executive sponsor of the Netherlands Social Committee. Prior to joining IDEXX, Ali was the international Chief Compliance Officer for DaVita HealthCare, a leading global human healthcare dialysis provider, based in the Netherlands.  Prior to her corporate work, Ali spent many years in private legal practice in the United States where she focused on healthcare fraud and white-collar criminal defense. 

Rodrigo Cunha is the Chief Compliance Officer at Manuchar which is headquartered in Antwerp/Belgium. He brings experience from previous roles Anheuser-Busch InBev to accelerate Manuchar’s journey in Compliance. Rodrigo holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in Business Law from University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and is an Advisory Board Member to Transparency International – Belgium Chapter. With a robust skill set that includes Legal Compliance, Data Protection, and Corporate Law he 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.

Jena Davidson, Founder and CEO of Jenson8, is a leadership development expert with deep experience in consultancy and assessment. She set up Jenson8, a fully immersive VR platform, with the belief that learning in the workplace can look and feel entirely different from the outdated learning and development landscape we find ourselves in.

Marie-laure Pédamon is a Senior Compliance Lead at Nokia. She advises on ethics and compliance matters, including anti-corruption, data privacy, whistleblowing, compliance program and the environment. She oversees the compliance program and runs project compliance for key projects including business unit. Marie-laure previously was compliance lead for Nokia Operations and started her career with Nortel in Strategic Marketing, Projects Management and international trade&sanctions. Her prior experience includes working at Nortel, Alcatel-lucent and Nokia. Marie-laure holds a Diploma in International Relations from ILERI (Institut d’Etudes des Relations Internationales) in Paris and a Master in Management of Technology from Grenoble Ecole de Management, France. She has completed several International professional certifications in Compliance and Project Management among those from the University of California, Berkeley - School of Law - Advanced Compliance Academy.

Walter Hendriks is the Chief Compliance Officer for the Euronext Group. In this role, he maintains direct relationships with seven regulators across Europe, spanning all business lines: Primary Trading Venues, Clearing House, and Securities Depository. Some of the key focus areas for the international Compliance team include Third-Party Risk Management, Financial Economic Crime, Conflicts of Interest, Market Surveillance, Data Privacy, and Regulated Market Affairs.

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.

Sofoklis Karapidakis is the Compliance Director and Data Protection Officer at Metlen Energy & Metals S.A., based in Athens, Greece. Prior to this role, Mr. Karapidakis has held various positions in Siemens SA, Greece and Siemens AG, Germany as Head of Compliance and Data privacy 2007-2018 and Corporate strategy 2001-2007. Before that, he worked for 5 years as program manager in the construction industry on medium scale projects.

Sofoklis is a diploma engineer by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a two year Masters of Science degree on “Strategic management” by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

Chris has over 20 years experience in Risk, Governance and Compliance across various industries incl. about 15 years Ethics, Risk and Compliance experience within the pharmaceutical industry. He served as Compliance Officer in Big-, Generics as well as RNA-Pharma companies with local, regional and global responsibilities. As lecturer within the MBA program for Compliance and Integrity Management at the European University of Franfurt/Oder he contributes in training and educating next generation Compliance Officers. In addition he speaks at local and international congresses about current Compliance evolutions and trending matters.

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, a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization. He is an experienced in-house attorney with a background in multinational and publicly listed companies. His expertise includes corporate law, regulatory compliance, and legal strategy. He is passionate about ESG initiatives.

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 several years of working within ThyssenKrupp in Germany in the field Subsidiary Controlling of Eastern European and Asian Subsidiaries he joined Daimler in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2011. As a Certified Fraud Examiner 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 Africa & Middle East 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.

Thiago Geraldes is a seasoned program and project manager, experienced in leading high-impact initiatives within the tech sector. At Uber, he serves as a Regional Manager for Ethics and Compliance, harnessing his extensive IT background and project management expertise to advance Uber’s compliance and risk management across the EU. Thiago is also responsible for managing the ethics and compliance training program for the EMEA region. Prior to joining Uber, Thiago held various roles at multinational tech and telecom companies, including Airbus and Cisco.

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Robin is working today as Director for ComplyLog and Compliance Services at Euronext Corporate Services. His journey with ComplyLog began by working closely with the founder, where he played a key role in scaling the business from its early stages to becoming a leader in compliance solutions. He specialises in providing practical compliance solutions to listed companies and advisory firms, engaging with C-level executives and legal teams to navigate complex regulatory challenges.

Panagiota Ziagkou is Compliance Manager for the EMEA region at IDEXX, a global leader in veterinary diagnostics, software, and water microbiology testing. She brings 10 years of experience from previous in-house roles at Heerema Marine Contractors and private legal practice in Athens, Greece.

Panagiota holds a Master of Laws and is IAPP certified in data protection, applying her expertise to ensure regulatory compliance and ethical business practices in her current role

Emma Sinclair, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, is currently Senior Legal Counsel for Ethics Compliance at Weatherford International plc. With a career spent both at law firms and in-house, Emma’s background is primarily in commercial legal operations, with a focus on oil and gas law. In 2022, Emma joined Weatherford’s Compliance team, with responsibility for implementation of the Ethics Compliance Program across the Europe and Africa region.

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 Head of Business Integrity Office 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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