Patricia Harned is chief executive officer of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI). Established in 1922, ECI is a nonprofit with a mission to empower organizations to operate with integrity.

For nearly two decades as CEO, Dr. Harned has overseen all of ECI’s strategy and operations. In that time ECI has become the leading provider of independent research about workplace integrity, the drivers of organizational culture, and effective compliance programs. Dr. Harned is a recognized expert on culture change, ethical leadership, and workplace reporting/retaliation. She leads ECI’s advisory service practice. Clients have included 200+ prominent organizations, often working to regain stakeholder trust following significant matters of misconduct. Dr. Harned has participated as a member of several independent monitoring teams, imposed by federal enforcement agencies as a part of corporate settlement agreements.

Dr. Harned also directs outreach efforts to policymakers and federal enforcement agencies in Washington, DC. She has provided ethics & compliance briefings to officials in the US Department of Justice, testified before Congress and the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and she has personally briefed U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the OSHA Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, and the Federal Bar Council on strategies to increase effective reporting of suspected misconduct. Dr. Harned also regularly provides training to corporate boards of directors on topics related to governance, and she is chairing a Blue-Ribbon Commission to define effective corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs.

Dr. Harned is a multi-year honoree as one of Ethisphere Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics. She is also a multi-year honoree as a Top Thought Leader in Trust; a recognition offered by Trust Across America. She was a member of the PCAOB Standing Advisory Group, and she currently serves on the board of the U.S. Center for SafeSport as well as the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM).

Dr. Harned holds a bachelor of science degree from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, a masters of education degree from Indiana University, and a doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.

Helle Bank Jorgensen is the CEO and founder of Competent Boards, offering online climate and ESG programs that draw on the experience of more than 150 renowned board members, business leaders, and investors. Hundreds of directors and senior executives have enrolled in these programs in order to transform their careers and their companies.
Helle is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable business practices, with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities. She works with many global Fortune 500 board members and executives, as well as smaller companies and investors.

Michelle Breslauer leads the Transformational Governance portfolio at the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative that brings together over 20,000 companies and 60 local networks to align their operations and strategies with Ten Principles in the areas of human and labor rights, the environment and governance. In this role, she develops programs to engage businesses in advancing responsible business leadership and supporting peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

Previously, Michelle spent eight years directing strategic partnerships and programs for the Institute for Economics & Peace, a global think tank that uses data to understand and communicate the drivers of peace.

Aron is recognized globally as a preeminent authority on just and sustainable business. In addition to leading BSR, which has grown substantially throughout his tenure as President and CEO, Aron advises senior executives at BSR’s 300+ member companies and other global businesses and partners on the full spectrum of environmental, social, and governance issues.

Aron joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights program. He later opened BSR’s Paris office in 2002, where he worked until becoming President and CEO in 2004. Aron has served on advisory boards to CEOs at AXA, Barrick Gold, Marks & Spencer, Nike, Recruit Holdings, SAP, Shell, and he serves as a director of the We Mean Business Coalition and RISE.

Aron speaks frequently at leading business and public fora and is widely quoted in top-tier media, such as the Financial Times, Le Figaro (France), The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Axios, and Politico. He is co-author of the book Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World, which spotlights innovative sustainability strategies that enable business success.

Prior to joining BSR, Aron practiced law in San Francisco and worked as a journalist at ABC News in New York. He holds a BA from Tufts University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dave Curran is Co-Chair of the Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Advisory Practice and Executive Director of the ESG and Law Institute. He is responsible for continuing to develop and promote the firm’s ESG practices. In this role, he also works with the firm’s lawyers to lead its Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Group.

Dave is a recognized leader in helping complex organizations build resilience. In addition to his work in the ESG space, he has more than 30 years of experience in legal, technology, compliance, risk and ethics roles. Dave has led many popular Thought Leadership conversations with senior executives on a variety of topics where business and technology intersect with the legal, compliance and risk ecosystems, including Transforming Law, Big Data, #MeToo and many others.

Dave began his career as a media trial and appellate lawyer before moving to senior in-house legal, compliance and regulatory affairs positions. He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer at FiscalNote, a legal AI/technology company, and held senior business and legal leadership roles with Thomson Reuters, IntraLinks, Integrity Interactive, Havas, Vertis and Campbell Soup Company.

Dave serves as co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s ESG Committee, which aims to educate and engage New York lawyers, law students and faculty on ESG practices and developments through thought leadership and robust educational programs.

Abe Eshkenazi is chief executive officer of the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM), the largest organization for supply chain and the global pacesetter of organizational transformation, talent development and supply chain innovation. During his tenure, ASCM has significantly expanded its services to corporations, individuals, and communities. Its revenue has more than doubled, and the association successfully completed three mergers in response to both heightened industry awareness and the vast and ongoing global impact driven by supply chains. Previously, Eshkenazi was the managing director of the Operations Consulting Group of American Express Tax and Business Services.

Eitan is a Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. The focus of his writing and teaching is American politics. He mainly studies US elections and civic participation. He earned a PhD from Harvard in 2011 and served on faculty at Yale from 2011-2017. In 2022, he was a recipient of the Emerson Collective Fellowship.

His second book, Politics is for Power, was published in 2020. His first book, Hacking the Electorate, was published in 2015. His peer-reviewed articles have been published in venues such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His public writings have appeared in New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, USA Today, and other outlets. He regularly testifies in litigation involving election issues.

His next major research project, now underway, is about the civic role of businesses and business leaders.

Lane leads the ESG Advisory Practice for Edelman Smithfield in the US. He is a seasoned ESG and sustainability executive having held corporate leadership roles over the last 15 years in the facilities management, financial services and consulting industries.
Prior to joining Edelman Smithfield, he had senior roles on PwC’s national Responsible Business Leadership team helping the firm and its clients drive ESG strategy from creation to performance.  Lane was part of the team that formed PwC’s commitment to combat systemic racism as well as the firm’s global net zero strategy. In addition to his time at PwC and the PwC Charitable Foundation, Lane has been the Director of Philanthropy and CSR at Santander US, where he led the Bank’s $10M annual grants portfolio, and helped develop the first sustainability strategy at Sodexo USA, across the food service and facilities management firm’s North American footprint.
He has designed ESG and CSR strategies for a wide range of clients, including global firms across service and industry segments, including financial services, healthcare, technology, media and manufacturing. Lane is active in impact investing, serving as an advisor and mentor to early-stage enterprises.​
​He has a Master’s in International Development Economics from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, a Bachelor’s in International Studies from Kenyon College and is GRI certified.

Paul Knopp is Chair and Chief Executive Officer at KPMG LLP – one of the world’s leading professional services firms, providing innovative business solutions and audit, tax, and advisory services to many of the world’s largest and most prestigious organizations. He also serves as Chair of the Americas region and is a member of both KPMG’s Global Board and Executive Committee.
Leading more than 33,000 partners and professionals across the United States, Paul is further strengthening KPMG’s inclusive and values-driven culture. He has extensive experience serving large, multinational clients in a wide variety of complex industries and is recognized for his commitment to excellence and quality and for leading KPMG teams with ethics and integrity.
Paul joined KPMG’s San Antonio office in 1983. In his 36-year career, Paul has also served in KPMG’s New York, Norfolk, Stamford, Chicago, and St. Louis offices.
Prior to becoming Chair and CEO, Paul’s career as an audit partner focused on serving leading global companies in the manufacturing, life sciences, transportation, professional services, and technology industries. He served as the global lead audit engagement partner and Engagement Quality Control Review Partner for KPMG audits of numerous Fortune 500 companies.
He was elected to serve a five-year term on KPMG’s U.S. Board of Directors in 2012, and served as Lead Director of the Board of Directors.
Paul previously completed a two-year assignment in KPMG’s Department of Professional Practice where he helped to ensure quality across a range of KPMG audit assignments. He was a participant in the KPMG Chairman’s 25 Leadership program and KPMG’s International Lead Partner Training Forum and has served as an instructor for various KPMG national and local training courses.
Additionally, he lends his time and expertise to many civic and charitable organizations. He is a governing board member of the Center for Audit Quality as well as a board member of Catalyst, Partnership for New York City, and the U.S.-India Business Council. He also is a trustee of the U.S. Council for International Business. Paul previously served as a Director and Vice Chairman for the American Cancer Society Chicago Downtown Division’s Board of Directors.
He holds B.B.A. and M.B.A degrees from the University of Texas at Austin; is a licensed CPA in New York and Texas; and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Paul and his family reside in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Bridget is an economic anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Saïd, where she is Director of the global research Initiative, Ownership Project 2.0: Private Capital Owners & Impact.
Bridget holds a Bachelor’s (BA) degree in English (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Whitman College, a liberal arts school in Washington State. She received her PhD in Economic Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Fellow of the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion. With a focus on economic topics in South Asia, she was a Fulbright Scholar to Bangladesh, Fellow of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and Language Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies to support Bengali language proficiency via full-time language study in Kolkata, India.
Bridget was previously a fellow in residence at the WZB (Centre for Social Science Research) in Berlin and has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council for Development Finance.

Rick Lacaille is executive vice president and senior investment advisor. He also leads and coordinates the environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives at State Street. In his current role, he provides enterprise leadership for our ESG program to ensure a well-coordinated and optimized approach to our ESG policies, products, initiatives and thought leadership.
Prior to his current role, Rick was the global chief investment officer (CIO) at State Street Global Advisors from 2008 to April 2021. He was also the global head of Quantitative Active Equities and European CIO. Before joining State Street Global Advisors in 2000, he held various roles in Quantitative Fund Management and Research at Gartmore Investment Management, including the head of Quantitative Research and Structured Equities.
Rick has a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in operational research from Lancaster University and Master of Science degree in econometrics from London Guildhall University.
Rick is a member of the MSCI Advisory Council, the FTSE Russell ESG Advisory and Sustainable Investment Committee and is Chair of the Asset Management Committee of the Investment Association. He is a writer and broadcaster on investment issues and speaks frequently at industry conferences.

Simon Lorne is Vice Chairman, Chief Legal Officer, and a member of the Firm’s Senior Management team. He is responsible for compliance, legal, and regulatory functions, along with management controls and internal audit.

Prior to joining Millennium in 2004, Simon was a partner in the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, which he rejoined in 1999 after originally becoming a partner in 1972. In 1996, he became a Managing Director at Salomon Brothers, where he served as Global Head of Internal Audit. Following the merger of Salomon Brothers into Travelers Group, he continued as Managing Director and as a senior member of the General Counsel’s office. With the merger of Travelers Group and Citicorp, he organized and coordinated the global compliance functions of Citigroup. From 1993 to 1996, he was General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In his career, he has also served on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Southern California Law School, the NYU Law School and the Stern School of Business at NYU. He has authored a treatise on corporate mergers and acquisitions, has written a number of articles, primarily in legal journals and law reviews, and has been an active participant in corporate governance matters, including as co-director of Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College from 1999 to 2016.

Simon received an AB, cum laude, from Occidental College. He received a JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. Simon also serves on the Council (Board of Directors) of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), and was its Chairman 2016-2020.

Leo S. Mackay, Jr. is senior vice president of Ethics and Enterprise Assurance for Lockheed Martin Corporation. As the chief audit executive, he provides independent, objective assurance and advisory activity to improve the corporation’s operations. He is also on the Board of Directors of LM Ventures, Lockheed Martin’s $200M venture capital fund.
Dr. Mackay previously served as vice president of Corporate Domestic Business Development; and president of ICGS, LLC, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman focused on the U.S. Coast Guard’s modernization.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Dr. Mackay was a secretary of the Navy Distinguished Midshipman Graduate. After pilot training, he spent three years flying the F-14 and graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School (Topgun). He is a veteran of Operation Earnest Will. Dr. Mackay was deputy secretary of Veterans Affairs, and the designated chief operating officer, of the second largest U.S. cabinet agency.
Dr. Mackay is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an independent director of Cognizant, Inc., and USAA Federal Savings Bank and also serves as a strategic advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors.
Dr. Mackay earned a master’s degree and doctorate in public policy from Harvard University. He was a Kennedy Fellow, Harvard MacArthur Scholar, Graduate Prize Fellow, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs.

Senior Advisor at The Carlyle Group, a global diversified private investment firm, since 2023. Former Director, Executive Chair and Group CEO of a Natura & Co Holding SA from 2016 through 2022. Before that, Mr. Marques was Executive Vice President and President, North America at Mondelez International Inc and have also spent over 25 years at Johnson & Johnson where he held senior and executive positions at Johnson & Johnson in the Latin American, North America and EMEA regions. Mr. Marques currently also serves as Board Director for Alcoa Corp, as a board member of We Mean Business Coalition, a non-profit organization focused on climate change actions, and as the chairman of Beautycounter, a Carlyle privately-owned beauty company. Additionally, Mr. Marques is a member of the advisory board of the USTA Foundation.

Dennis J. McGowan, CPA is the Vice President, Professional Practice and Anti-Fraud Initiatives at the Center for Audit Quality. In this role he leads regulatory and policy strategies that foster high-quality performance by public company auditors.
His duties include leading a team of audit executives to advance technical and policy-oriented projects to identify, develop, and seek consensus on issues affecting the public company auditing profession. McGowan is also responsible for overseeing the CAQ’s anti-fraud initiatives. This includes engaging with senior leaders across the financial reporting ecosystem, drafting comment letter responses to regulators, developing thought leadership publications, and responding to technical inquiries.
Dennis serves as a Board Member of Annapolis Pride, an organization dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community in Annapolis. Before joining the CAQ, he spent a decade at PwC, where he specialized in auditing clients in the financial services industry.
Dennis is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Pennsylvania, and he holds a BS in Business Administration from La Salle University.

Alison Omens is the Chief Strategy Officer at JUST Capital. She is responsible for setting and implementing strategy to achieve mission impact for the organization. Her work includes overseeing programs, revenue, partnerships, development, and strategic engagement with companies, investors, foundations, and nonprofits. She has orchestrated program collaborations with BlackRock, the Aspen Institute, Harvard Business School, and others.

Alison was most recently Advisor for Private Sector Engagement to U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, where she managed the inclusive capitalism strategy for the Secretary and with the White House. She was also responsible for engagement on the Department’s future-of-work efforts and its ESG investing guidance. Previously, she was Vice President at Outreach Strategies, an environmental strategic communications firm, and the Director of Media Outreach for the AFL-CIO.

Alison is on the Board of Directors of JobsFirstNYC, which expands opportunities for out-of-work and out-of-school youth and on the Advisory Councils of NextGen Chamber, a business organization for millennial business owners, and LitWorld, which promotes youth literacy through storytelling. She is also the co-founder of Smash Squad, a network for women focused on doing well by doing good. Alison received her masters of public administration from Harvard Kennedy School and B.A. from Scripps College.

Alexandra studied law, specializing in human rights. She began her career at a law firm and then worked for Amnesty International in Germany and at organizations specializing in diversity, change management and sustainability.
In 2012, she joined L’Oréal as Chief Sustainability Officer and launched L’Oréal’s first sustainability program, with a set of objectives to be achieved by the end of 2020. In 2017, Alexandra was appointed Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer and CEO of the Fondation L’Oréal. She became a member of L’Oréal’s Executive Committee two years later.
In June 2020, L’Oréal launched its second sustainability program, L’Oréal for the Future, which sets out the Group’s ambitious targets towards 2030.

Kosmas Papadopoulos is Head of Americas Sustainability Advisory Team and responsible for ICS’ Sustainability Consulting strategy and evolution of services and customer success.

Kosmas previously served as Vice President, Senior Impact Management Analyst at Calvert Research and Management, and prior to that was Senior Director, Corporate Governance & Activism, at Washington-based FTI Consulting. Earlier in his career, Kosmas served over a 12 year period in various senior thought-leadership and research roles at Institutional Shareholder Services, including within its ESG Analytics and Custom Research units.

Kosmas is a CFA Charterholder, holds the SASB FSA Credential, and holds an MA with Honors in International Business Diplomacy from Georgetown University. He has authored over forty published articles and serves as Adjunct Professor at Loyola University’s Sellinger School of Business and Management.

Steve Scarpino was named Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer in April 2021. He has 21 years of experience leading corporate ethics and compliance efforts. Before joining CITGO he served as Director, Ethics and Compliance, Global Programs in BP for 12 years, overseeing all efforts to establish and continuously improve a high-quality ethics and compliance program in the company. Prior to BP, he held director and managerial roles in the areas of compliance, privacy, corporate social responsibility, business development and financial services among others at NCR Corporation, AT&T GIS, and Greyhound Lines, Inc.
Steven holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Management Science from the University of Iowa.

As Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith is responsible for spearheading the company’s work and representing it publicly on a wide variety of critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, environmental sustainability, human rights, digital safety, immigration, philanthropy, and products and business for non-profit customers. He leads a team of roughly 2,000 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals located in 54 countries and operating in more than 120 nations.
In Smith’s bestselling book, coauthored with Microsoft’s Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, he urges the tech sector to assume more responsibility and calls for governments to move faster to address the challenges that new technologies are creating. In his podcast by the same name, Smith and his guests expand on the themes in the book, exploring potential solutions to the digital issues shaping the world today. The New York Times has called Smith “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large” and The Australian Financial Review has described him as “one of the technology industry’s most respected figures.” He has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress and other governments on these key policy issues.
Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, first spending three years in Paris leading the legal and corporate affairs team in Europe. In 2002, he was named Microsoft’s general counsel and spent the following decade leading work to resolve the company’s antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. Over the past decade, Smith has spearheaded the company’s work to advance privacy protection for Microsoft customers and the rights of DREAMers and other immigrants, including bringing multiple lawsuits against the U.S. government on these issues.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors of both Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program.
Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University, where he met his wife, Kathy. He earned his J.D. from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He can be followed on Twitter and LinkedIn. His podcast, Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith, is available on all podcast platforms.

Lex Suvanto is Managing Partner and CEO of Financial Communications & Capital Markets at Edelman. He advises the senior management of public and private companies on strategic communications including transaction communications, financial and corporate public relations, and investor relations.
Lex has extensive expertise working with the C-suite and Boards of Directors to formulate strategic reputation and communications programs during sensitive situations. Lex also has extensive expertise helping companies refine and strengthen their financial communications and investor relations programs.
Lex has helped a wide variety of companies manage communications around transformational and/or challenging corporate announcements and events.
Prior to joining Edelman, Lex was Managing Director at Abernathy MacGregor. Prior to that he held various strategy and client service roles within Havas in New York, Paris and London.

Larry D. Thompson, who joined Finch McCranie LLP as Counsel in July 2015, is the former U.S. Deputy Attorney General (2001-2003), the second highest ranking position in the U.S. Department of Justice.
In a distinguished public and private sector career over more than three decades, Mr. Thompson also has prosecuted complex cases as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, directed internal investigations and defended individuals and businesses in special matters as a partner in a major law firm, and served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of PepsiCo, Inc.
During his tenure as Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Thompson led the Department of Justice’s National Security Coordination Council, as well as the government-wide Corporate Fraud Task Force. In 2000, Congress selected Mr. Thompson to chair the bi-partisan Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control. In 2004, he served as a Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Prior to serving as U.S. Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Thompson was a partner with the Atlanta-based law firm of King & Spalding, LLP, and was co-founder of the firm’s special matters and government investigations practice. He previously served as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia from 1982 to 1986. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Independent Counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development Investigation.
Most recently, Mr. Thompson served as Senior Vice President for Government Affairs and General Counsel for PepsiCo. He also served as the John A. Sibley Professor of Corporate and Business Law at the University of Georgia, a position he will continue while with Finch McCranie LLP.

Andrew Weissmann is a Professor of Practice at NYU School of Law, where he teaches criminal procedure and national security law. He served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (2017-19) and as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice (2015-2019). He is a legal analyst for NBC and MSNBC and the co-host of the podcast Prosecuting Donald Trump.

From 2011 to 2013, Weissmann served as the General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He previously served as special counsel to then-Director Mueller in 2005, after which he was a partner at Jenner & Block in New York City. From 2002-2005, he served as the Deputy and then the Director of the Enron Task Force in Washington, D.C., where he supervised the prosecution of more than 30 individuals in connection with the company’s collapse. Weissmann was a federal prosecutor for 15 years in the Eastern District of New York, where he served as the Chief of the Criminal Division. He prosecuted numerous members of the Colombo, Gambino, and Genovese families, including the bosses of the Colombo and Genovese families.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and attended the University of Geneva on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Tensie Whelan is Clinical Professor for Business and Society and the Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.

As President of the Rainforest Alliance, she built the organization from a $4.5 million to $50 million budget, transforming the engagement of business with sustainability.  Her previous work included serving as Executive Director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Vice President of the National Audubon Society, Managing Editor of Ambio, a journal of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a journalist in Latin America.

Tensie has served on numerous nonprofit boards and currently serves on the advisory boards of ALO Advisors, Buzz on Earth, Giant Ventures, Inherent Group and Nespresso. She was most recently appointed to the board of Emerald SPAC, and is an Advisor to the Future Economy Project for Harvard Business Review. Tensie holds a B.A. from New York University, an M.A. from American University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management (OPM) Program. She was awarded the Stern Faculty Excellence Award in 2020.

Kim Yapchai is an experienced C-suite leader with 30 years in Fortune 200 public companies, including Whirlpool, Tenneco, Masco Corporation, and Ford Motor Credit Company. Kim most recently served as SVP, Chief Environmental, Social & Governance Officer at Tenneco as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. She is currently a Board Member of the Michigan Sustainable Business Forum. She is known for her business acumen, innovation, and ability to provide practical advice to advance the company’s strategy.

Kim earned her J.D. cum laude from Wayne State University Law School and her BA with honors in Economics from the University of Michigan. Select awards include ALI’s Compliance Dept. of the Year, Compliance Week’s Top Mind, Inside Counsel Magazine’s Visionary Leader, and the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce’s Salute to Excellence.

Paul Zikmund serves as SVP Chief Risk, Compliance & Information Security Officer at Berkadia. He is responsible for managing the company’s enterprise risk management program, ethics & compliance, internal audit function, information security, and corporate investigations. Prior to his role at Berkadia, Paul served as a Director of Baker Tilly’s Global Fraud and Forensic Investigations, Compliance and Security Services practice where he was responsible for helping clients develop, assess, and administer ethics and compliance programs, conduct global and cross-border fraud and misconduct investigations, including, bribery, corruption, and compliance matters and manage risks related to ethics and compliance failures. Prior to that, Paul served as Deputy CCO & Vice President Global Security, Bunge in White Plains, NY where he was responsible for the development and implementation of Bunge’s fraud, ethics, compliance, and security risk management programs and controls designed to protect company assets, mitigate fraud and misconduct, ensure compliance with federal and state laws, protect company assets, and promote adherence to Bunge’s core values.

Paul managed and conducted investigations of compliance matters, fraud, and ethics violations. Paul assisted with the development and implementation of tools and techniques to mitigate enterprise security, fraud & compliance risk, manages the company’s third-party risk management program, and administers security, compliance training and awareness programs. Prior to joining Bunge, Paul worked as the Senior Director Forensic Audit at Tyco International in Princeton, NJ, and the Director Litigation Support Services at Amper, Politziner, & Mattia, LLP, in Philadelphia, PA where he was responsible for developing, implementing, and administering fraud risk management services to Tyco and to clients. He possesses nearly 37 years of experience in this field and has effectively managed global compliance and forensic audit teams at various Fortune 500 companies.