Fellows Facilitators
Blair Marks is a retired vice president of ethics and business conduct at Lockheed Martin, where she led a team of ethics professionals responsible for ensuring the application of Lockheed Martin’s values in all aspects of operations. Earlier in her 40+ year career, she managed aircraft development, modernization, and production programs as well as a small manufacturing facility.
Blair has actively participated in multiple industry groups in the ethics and compliance space, including the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct. She has also served on several non-profit boards, supporting multiple ethics as well as diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. She is a past president of Women of Reform Judaism.
Blair holds engineering degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan as well as an MBA from Georgia State University. She holds certifications as a Leading Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC) and a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP.)
Blair received the 2003 Women in Aerospace Outstanding Leadership Award and the 2021 Carol Marshall Award for Innovation in Corporate Ethics from the Ethics and Compliance Initiative. She is the principal of ValuesMatter, LLC.
Tim Lindon is the former Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of Philip Morris International. He oversaw the company’s global compliance program. He also led the company’s legal functions in Asia and Latin American and its international litigation.
Tim is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Law, where he teaches Compliance and Risk Management, and is a Senior Fellow at the Law School’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Ethics.
Tim is certified as an executive and leadership coach by the International Coaching Federation. He uses these skills to coach and advise CECOs and other executives, and to facilitate Compliance Peer Leadership Groups through ECI.
Steven Guymon
Chair, Fellows Advisory Council / VP, Global Ethics and Compliance Data Analytics and Monitoring, Eli Lilly
Steve Guymon is the Vice President of Ethics and Compliance Data Analytics and Monitoring for Eli Lilly and Company. He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Utah, is a certified Black Belt in Lean and Six Sigma and has LPEC and CCEP certification. Steve was the founding President of Business Ethics Indiana.
He has over 35 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry and 20 years in Ethics and Compliance leadership roles. He has also worked in roles in Six Sigma, training, sales leadership, marketing and clinical research. He joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1996. Prior to Lilly, he worked for Upjohn Pharmaceuticals.
Fellows Speakers
Vikram Bhargava
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management & Public Policy, GWU School of Business
Vikram R. Bhargava is an assistant professor of strategic management and public policy at the George Washington University School of Business. He holds a joint Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Ethics & Legal Studies (The Wharton School) and Philosophy (School of Arts and Sciences). He also is co-editor of the Journal of Business Ethics‘s section on technology & business ethics. His research centers around the distinctive ethics and policy issues that technology gives rise to in organizational contexts.
He is interested in topics including technology addiction, mass social media outrage, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, hiring algorithms, the future of work, and other topics related to technology policy and ethics. His research has been published by the Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and the Oxford University Press. Dr. Bhargava has been interviewed by press outlets including Marketplace, Financial Times, and was a featured speaker at The Wall Street Journal’s Risk and Compliance Forum. He also has spoken at the Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, the University of Oxford, among other universities. He has written for popular audiences at the San Francisco Chronicle, Al Jazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Newsweek.
He has won the Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty of the Year award, V.I.P. Professor Award, and Career Influencer Award. He delivers annual visiting lectures on digital technology policy and ethics to graduate students at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering, and he has taught courses at Wharton on multiple occasions.
Since joining GSK in 2011, Marcus has held roles of increasing responsibility within GSK’s risk management functions. In his current role as VP, Risk Analytics and Monitoring, Marcus leads a global team of risk management and data analytics professionals that provide assurance over Commercial activities performed both within GSK and by key third parties on GSK’s behalf. In recent years, Marcus and his team have transformed our global monitoring approach to be industry leading, delivering change through improved processes and incorporating data analytics, increasing timely and relevant risk insights for business leaders. Prior to joining GSK, Marcus was a senior manager at a professional services firm, where he focused on financial audits of life science and technology companies. He holds undergraduate degrees in Finance and Information Systems and has a master’s degree in accounting. Marcus is also a Certified Public Accountant in the state of North Carolina.
Carl Hahn is Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Northrop Grumman a leading global security company providing innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems, cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and commercial customers worldwide. Mr. Hahn graduated from the College of William and Mary and University of Virginia School of Law. He is admitted to the Washington D.C., New York and Virginia State Bars.
As Chief Compliance Officer for Northrop Grumman, Mr. Hahn is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide compliance function, ensuring the Company has the right policies, procedures and practices in place and that they are effectively implemented globally. His Office helps to identify and address gaps, and partners with functional and business leads to deploy the right talent and resources to implement compliance strategies. The Office is also responsible for ensuring the Company responds effectively to changes in the regulatory environment, evaluating controls and processes; developing and conducting training programs regarding applicable laws and regulations, policies and procedures; collecting and analyzing corporate compliance data; monitoring results; providing feedback to business units regarding their compliance activities; and reporting to the CEO and the Audit Committee of the Board.
Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Mr. Hahn was an Associate General Counsel and Trust and Compliance Officer with IBM where he was responsible for IBM’s compliance program across the United States, South America and Europe. In that role, he also helped to manage the company’s investigations worldwide. Mr. Hahn held various other positions at IBM, including in corporate litigation, as assistant general counsel in Japan, and providing counsel to IBM’s federal government business.
Nick is the Head of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at OpenAI. He brings a unique blend of experience from over two decades in the intelligence community and Silicon Valley. His expertise lies in integrating robust compliance, regulatory, and security frameworks within emerging software technologies, especially in dynamic, rapidly evolving environments.
James Hamilton
Former Assistant Chief Counsel, Senate Watergate Committee; Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP (Retired)
Meet James Hamilton
James Hamilton is a retired partner from the Morgan Lewis law firm. He was assistant chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee. He also served as the Clinton-Gore transition counsel for nominations and confirmations and as the principal Clinton White House vetter for Supreme Court nominations. Jim was in charge of vetting vice presidential candidates in 2000 for Al Gore and in 2004 for John Kerry, and served in a similar role for Sen. Obama in 2008. He also vetted candidates for Cabinet, the Department of Justice, White House, and Supreme Court for the Obama administration. He also lead Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential vetting operation. Jim is a past member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In 2011, President Obama appointed Jim to the Board of the USO, and he now chairs the Board’s Governance Committee and serves on its Executive Committee.
Patricia Harned is chief executive officer of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), America’s oldest nonprofit in the ethics & compliance industry. ECI is a research and membership organization comprised by institutions across every sector, each dedicated to promoting the highest levels of integrity in their operations.
For more than 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.
James has been with BP for 15 years, initially working in both the US and the UK as a lawyer specialising in regulatory conduct and investigations, labor law and data privacy. He became Head of E&C Programmes in 2021, having responsibility for BP’s code of conduct and central compliance programmes.
Frank Alvarez is a highly experienced professional currently serving as Managing Director at Alvarez & Marsal since January 2024. Previously, he founded Ation Advisory Group in 2017, specializing in pharmaceutical innovation commercialization. With extensive leadership roles at Latham BioPharm Group and Pfizer Inc., Frank has a proven track record in finance and strategic consulting. He holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Providence College.
Serena Palumbo, Esq. CIPP US
Managing Director, Chief Privacy & Confidentiality Officer, KPMG LLP
Meet Serena Palumbo
Serena Palumbo is KPMG Chief Confidentiality & Privacy Officer based in New York. Serena is a seasoned privacy professional and regulatory attorney with broad and unique experience working at international law firms and global financial institutions. She is responsible for enhancing the confidentiality and privacy governance and compliance program and enabling employees, partners, and third parties to appropriately handle confidential information and personal data entrusted to KPMG by our clients, our people, and others.
Prior to KPMG she was the Data Protection Office and Assistant General Counsel at ING, and the Head of Legal at Intesa Sanpaolo. Serena is a graduate of Universita’ degli Studi “Federico II” and New York University School of Law. She worked international law firms such as Shearman & Sterling and Schulte, Roth & Zabel prior to moving in-house. She lives in New York with her family and enjoys traveling, boating and cooking.
Benjamin Powell
Partner and Co-Chair, AI Practice and Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice, WilmerHale LLP
Meet Benjamin Powell
Benjamin Powell is widely recognized as one of the country’s top authorities on handling cybersecurity, data breach and related investigation matters. He has advised companies on major cybersecurity incidents and incident preparedness across virtually every sector of the economy, including the banking, investment management, software, retail, energy, defense and intelligence, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, cloud services, government contracting, aerospace, information technology, manufacturing, and travel sectors. He is recognized as a leading attorney in handling complex regulatory matters relating to international investment and mergers, including matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Defense Security Service (DSS). He also is regularly asked to be lead counsel on major investigations and strategic counseling across a variety of sensitive regulatory matters for the world’s most prominent companies.
He is the author of the Global and US chapters in a cybersecurity guide for companies in jurisdictions worldwide, and contributing global editor of the guide. He was recently selected as one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America by Lawdragon. He is also frequently retained to perform due diligence on major corporate transactions requiring expertise in government regulatory issues, including government contracting, data security and privacy, security clearance issues with the Defense Security Service (DSS), and related issues. He is regularly named as one of Washington’s Top Lawyers in surveys of best attorneys in DC. The Wall Street Journal calls him one of Washington’s “big legal guns” and The Legal 500 calls him an “exceptional lawyer” who “provides clear guidance on complex technological issues.” He is recognized as a CFIUS expert in the 2013–2022 editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers in Business.
Matthew D. Rotelli, Ph.D.
Vice President for the Bioethics Program, Eli Lilly and Company
Meet Matthew D. Rotelli, Ph.D.
Dr. Rotelli is currently the Vice President for the Bioethics Program at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana. He leads the company’s evaluation of bioethical considerations across the continuum of its research, development, and commercialization activities. Dr. Rotelli has over 25 years of pharmaceutical development experience at Eli Lilly and Company. He has led multiple diverse disciplines to bring medicines to patients in oncology, immunology, cardiovascular, endocrine, and neuroscience indications. He is passionate about making the drug development process more reliable, efficient, and trustworthy. Dr. Rotelli was formerly a Director of Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics (PK/PD), and Pharmacometrics and also a Director of Statistics. Previously, he was a Research Advisor in the Advanced Analytics Hub focusing on Data Mining and Bayesian applications. Throughout his career, he has performed or directed statistical and PK/PD work in all phases of clinical development, including commercialization, pharmacovigilance, and real-world evidence generation.
Dr. Rotelli earned his B.A. in Mathematics from Cornell University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Virginia Tech. He is a graduate of the Lilly Bioethics Leadership Academy (BELA) and a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), and Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). He is a former chair of the DIA Comparative Effectiveness Scientific Working Group and of the joint ASA and ISoP Statistics and Pharmacometrics Scientific Interest Group. Dr. Rotelli is currently on the Executive and Steering Committees of the MRCT Center and a member of the Biopharmaceutical Industry Bioethics Forum. He is Chair of the IFPMA Bioethics Workstream and currently serves on the IFPMA Innovation Enabling Working Group. He is Vice-Chair for the ASA Committee on Professional Ethics.
Ann Skeet
Senior Director, Leadership Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
Meet Ann Skeet
Ms. Skeet is a seasoned leader with over two decades of experience spanning across various sectors, from media and education to nonprofit organizations. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.
Prior to joining the Markkula Center, Ms. Skeet held roles in strategy and leadership consultancy, where she advised CEOs and senior executives on organizational design, strategic planning, and executive coaching. Before transitioning into consultancy, Ms. Skeet served in executive positions at esteemed institutions such as Notre Dame High School in San Jose, where she held the role of President, and the American Leadership Forum in Silicon Valley, where she served as CEO for nearly a decade.
With a detailed educational background, Ms. Skeet holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Economics from Bucknell University. She further honed her understanding of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Throughout Ms. Skeet’s career, she has demonstrated a commitment to ethical leadership, strategic vision, and organizational excellence, making significant contributions to the fields of business, education, and ethics.
