2021 GBES Trends Report: The State of Ethics & Compliance in the Workplace

Speakers

• David Berman Director of Compliance & Ethics, Lyft, Inc.
  

  David Berman

  Director of Compliance & Ethics, Lyft, Inc.

  David is the Director of Compliance & Ethics at Lyft where he oversees the company’s Compliance and Ethics Program. Before joining Lyft, David was Counsel at WilmerHale in the Securities, Litigation, and Enforcement Group representing clients in internal investigations and government enforcement actions. David also spent nearly five years as Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the Securities & Exchange Commission’s San Francisco Office where he investigated and charged a number of high-profile matters involving corruption and other corporate compliance issues. David began his career as a litigator in the office of a prominent New York law firm. With more than 15 years of legal experience, David has served on all three sides of the corporate compliance “triangle” — government, outside counsel, and in-house — and brings that diverse perspective to all his matters. He holds a J.D. from New York University and an undergraduate degree from Amherst College. David lives in New York with his wife, two sons, and bloodhound, Josie.

• Evren Esen LPEC SHRM-SCP Vice President, Research & Analytics, Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI)
  

  Evren Esen LPEC SHRM-SCP

  Vice President, Research & Analytics, Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI)

  Evren has nearly two decades of experience conducting workplace research. She brings research leadership skills to ECI as head of the team that manages the implementation, analysis and reporting of ECI’s premier, longitudinal study on workplace integrity, the Global Business Ethics Survey®(GBES®).

  Evren also oversees ECI’s Advisory Services, engaging with clients utilizing ECI’s tools to assist organizations in assessing, improving and strengthening their workplace culture.

  Before joining ECI, Evren worked at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for 15 years. As director of workforce analytics, Evren led SHRM’s survey research projects on HR topics, including employee benefits, job satisfaction and engagement. She also served as the organization’s media spokesperson on workplace research.

  Evren holds a bachelor of science in biology from Virginia Tech, a master’s of social work from Radford University and a graduate certificate in survey design and analysis from George Washington University.

• Kelly Katerakis LPEC CPA Data & Analytics Change Lead, GlaxoSmithKline
  

  Kelly Katerakis LPEC CPA

  Data & Analytics Change Lead, GlaxoSmithKline

  Kelly recently started a new role, as a Change Lead Director for Data and Analytics at GlaxoSmithKline, supporting the internal global transformation of upskilling employees in the area of Data and Analytics. Prior to this, she was the Director of Capabilities for the Global Ethics and Compliance team, where she designed and delivered innovative compliance learnings and development programs to suit both technical and business skill needs of this evolving profession. She has also spent four years in the GSK Audit and Assurance team, which proved to be excellent learning about the complexities in a commercialized pharma business.
  Prior to GSK, Kelly worked at KPMG for ten years, in roles doing both external auditing in the financial services and manufacturing industries, as well as in leading the design and delivery of core audit training for ~ 2,000 new hires annually. She has a breath of experience in the audit/compliance world, as well as in how to best training and upskill this audience. Kelly has both undergraduate and masters degrees in Accounting from Miami University (Ohio), and current resides in Chapel Hill, NC.

• Skip Lowney Senior Survey Researcher, Client Solutions, ECI
  

  Skip Lowney

  Senior Survey Researcher, Client Solutions, ECI

  As Senior Researcher, Mr. Lowney leads and participates in multiple research projects including quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to assess organizational culture as it relates to ethics and compliance programs. Mr. Lowney contributes to the study of ethics and compliance in the national workforce through ERC’s Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES®); and he surveys companies and organizations to determine the presence and effectiveness of their ethics and compliance programs, reporting on findings and making recommendations. He also develops and refines survey questions and methodology, participates in improving data collection and analysis techniques, investigates areas for further inquiry including developing white papers on special topics, and presents at conferences and other gatherings. Mr. Lowney joined the ERC in October 2005.

  He holds a Master’s of City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. While there, he performed specialized study in social theory and research and analysis on numerous topics.