Great Women in Compliance

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  Compliance Officers are often generalists who dabble in fraud investigations from time to time when they crop up. So we invited Kelly Paxton who gets right in the weeds on fraud as her day job to help enlighten Compliance Officers more on the subject and share her fascinating stories. Did you know that ther...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  GWIC is back!  This episode is dedicated to Mary and Lisa answering questions that they received as part of an "Ask Us Anything" call out for questions.  They received questions in areas ranging from the origins and growth of the podcast, how guests are chosen, and podcast production.  They were able to sha...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Lisa speaks with Jenny Kim, the Deputy General Counsel & Vice President, Public Policy at Koch Companies, Public Sector.  In her role, Jenny supervises the political law and compliance team, and we get the opportunity to speak about lobbying and political ethics...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this crowdsourcing episode – our first solo episode of the Great Women in Compliance podcast series - and hosted by Mary Shirley. We know that sometimes Compliance budget can be hard to come by and even when it’s available, you do not want to squander it on only a few...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. Like Compliance, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an area which has had an increasing spotlight over the past few years. As a result, both of these functions have evolved and are more aligned in the past. In this episode, Lisa Fine visits with Alison Taylor. One of the trailblazers in this area is Al...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode, Mary Shirley visits with Fabiana Lacerca-Allen, the Senior Vice President of Compliance at Aimmune Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for potentially life-threatening food allergies. Practicing law and compliance for more than 25 years, Lacerca’s passion as a com...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  When someone new joins a team, we often think about onboarding from the manager and the new employee's perspective, but often we may think less frequently about how that person's team will be impacted in their work and as team members. In this episode of GWIC, Lisa speaks with two of her peers at Pearson as...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Mary speaks with Monica Lopez Reinmiller. She is Managing Corporate Counsel-Compliance at T-Mobile. Monica Lopez Reinmiller has a busy and wide-ranging portfolio at T-Mobile. This hasn’t stopped her from taking a Compliance 2.0 approach to her work. Monica shares...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Lisa speaks with Anastasia Savvateeva. This episode was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic, and Anastasia had not yet started her new role as Senior Compliance Officer at Pictet Group. Anastasia is a globetrotter - she was born in Ukraine, moved to Moscow, and...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. COVID-19 has had a monumental impact all over the world. Every day, we see new public health issues, are living through economic challenges and everyone's daily lives are very different than a year ago, or even 3 months ago. In this special joint episode, Mary and Lisa share various perspectives of the new n...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In episode 55 we highlight some of the hottest areas in Compliance right now – behavioral and cognitive science. At its core, Compliance is really about shaping behaviors so it is no surprise why Compliance Officers are taking an increasing interest in behavioral economics and how we can use it to better und...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode of GWIC, Lisa speaks with Fatema Merchant, who is an International Trade and White Collar Defense partner at Sheppard Mullin. She is also the first hijab-wearing woman to make partner at a Washington, D.C., Am Law 100 firm. Fatema talks about wearing the hijab in the context of how each of us...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In episode 53 of the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, we speak with Beth Colling, the Chief Compliance Officer of CDM Smith, a global engineering and construction company.   In this packed episode we ruminate about several topics including the false sense of security low risk countries can provide, keeping...

In today's episode of Great Women in Compliance, Lisa speaks with Ellen Hunt, who is the Senior Vice President and Audit, Ethics and Compliance Officer for AARP. Ellen has accomplished so much for the compliance community, in the field and is a friend, advocate and mentor to a lot of people, Lisa and Mary included. Following along from the episode a few weeks ago about a dream compliance team, thi...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In episode 51, Mary Shirley, speaks with Sarah Hadden, the Editor of Corporate Compliance Insights (CCI). They visit about an innovation for compliance professionals, cross-pollinated project groups.  One of the best parts of the GWIC podcast for Mary and Lisa is when it has resulted into new ideas for other...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this Episode 50, Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine sit down together for a very special episode.  After getting the chance to speak together about the best professional advice that listeners had ever received at the end of the year, Lisa and Mary received some great feedback from listeners. Some of the responses...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In episode 49, Mary Shirley, speaks with Carrie Penman, Chief Compliance Officer at Navex Global. They visit about the convergence of compliance risk and operational risk. Once referred to by Matt Kelly as a “national treasure”, the GWIC team is pleased to feature Carrie Penman, Chief Risk and Compliance Off...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In episode 48, Lisa Fine speaks with Gwen Romack, who is the Senior Director of Legal and Regulatory Compliance at VMWare. They visit about creating multi-faceted ‘Dream Teams’ for a corporate compliance function. Almost every compliance practitioner is asked at least once “what do you mean by compliance?” A...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley.  In episode 47 of the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley are pleased to feature Sofia El Mansouri, a native of Morocco who has spent many years practicing Compliance in the Middle East. Sofia outlines for us the current state of the fight against corruption in the Morocco, includin...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode of GWIC, Lisa speaks with Kim Yapchai, who is the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for Tenneco. Kim did not start in the ethics and compliance field by choice - she became responsible for ethics and compliance during the 2008-2009 recession as part of a large staff reduction.  Kim went fro...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode, Lisa Fine has a conversation with Olga Pontes, the Chief Compliance Officer at Odebrecht SA. What do you do when faced with the largest foreign bribery case of all time? In Odebrecht’s case they identified a fearless leader who would face the big job ahead of being the new Chief Compliance O...

Today's Great Women in Compliance podcast is a little different. At the most recent SCCE Compliance and Ethics Institute held in September, Lisa and Mary asked the session attendees to provide examples of the best professional advice they received, and we had a lot of great information from women throughout the ethics and compliance community. It was a unique opportunity for Mary and Lisa to be on...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this episode, Lisa Fine has a conversation with Lidia Lopez Trabalon, who is the Group Compliance Officer at SBM Offshore. We all have biases, conscious and unconscious, and these impact our thoughts every day. But how often do we think about them as part of our programs - both for ethics and compliance p...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this Part 2 of a special two-part episode, Mary Shirley begins a conversation with Cindy Morrison. Cindy is the Director of Compliance at Post Holdings, Inc. Mary and Cindy re-unite after their first episode in this two-part series to discuss an infliction suffered across both genders – that of Imposter S...

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, co-hosted by Lisa Fine and Mary Shirley. In this Part 1 of a special two-part episode, Mary Shirley begins a conversation with Cindy Morrison. Cindy is the Director of Compliance at Post Holdings, Inc. Like many great Compliance relationships, Mary met Cindy Morrison through Compliance Connector Jay Rosen at a volunteering event in Las Vegas in the...