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Built to Last

Leading with Resilience & Agility in an Era of Constant Change

EQS Compliance Connect is a half-day event that unites compliance officers, legal professionals, and industry leaders to discuss how to transform corporate values into tangible practices. This gathering provides a unique environment for networking and learning, focusing on strengthening organizational trust and accountability.

Agenda

2:00 – 2:30 PM
Welcome & Registration
2:30 – 2:35 PM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Marco Goldberg
Managing Director US
EQS Group
2:35 – 2:55 PM
Keynote:The Human Altimeter: Why Empathy, Ethics, and Judgment Keep Compliance Programs Airborne

As AI and automation reshape the compliance landscape, their value is clear. Scale, speed, and precision have never been more important. But no matter how advanced the tools become, it is human insight that keeps compliance programs truly airborne.

In this opening keynote, EQS Group’s Steph Holmes explores how the real strength comes from combining both. When technology accelerates and humans navigate, we build programs that are not only efficient but also ethical, resilient, and trusted.

Steph Holmes
Director of Ethics & Compliance Strategy
EQS Group
2:55 – 3:40 PM
Building Resilient Compliance Teams for an Uncertain World

This session brings together battle-tested senior leaders who’ve navigated the perfect storm of cultural pushback, regulatory scrutiny, and organizational upheaval. Discover the real-world strategies they used to preserve team morale, protect long-term values, and emerge stronger on the other side.

Debbie Hennelly
Founder and President
Resiliti
3:40 – 4:05 PM
Compliance Agility at the Speed of Change

With AI reshaping industries and global complexity creating new risk categories, traditional compliance approaches are failing. Join this strategic discussion to uncover how leading programs are reinventing themselves through adaptive strategy, flexible frameworks, and leadership models designed to thrive in uncertainty.

Ahmed Salim
Director of Compliance
PwC
Elizabeth Reisinger
Senior Manager, Content
Rethink
4:05 – 4:15 PM
Break & Refresh
4:15 – 5:00 PM
Strategic Leadership for Compliance Executives: Building Organizational Trust

This high-impact session reveals the specific strategies and communication techniques that elevate compliance executives into trusted C-suite partners. Learn how to command boardroom attention, align compliance with business strategy, and build the executive presence that drives organizational change.

Andrew McBride
CEO
Integrity Bridge LLC
Kimberly White
Vice President, General Counsel-Compliance
Ingredion Incoporated
Ellen Hunt
Vice President, Global Ethics & Compliance
Cushman & Wakefield
5:15 – 6:00 PM
Networking Reception

Speakers

Andrew McBride
Andrew McBride

CEO | Integrity Bridge LLC.

Andrew has over 25 years of compliance experience, at an international law firm and several multinational companies in the Americas, Europe and Australasia.

In his most recent role as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Albemarle Corporation, he built a new ethics and compliance program, and recruited a new team, against the backdrop of an FCPA investigation. The investigation was resolved by way of a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and Cease & Desist Order with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of the resolution, Albemarle secured a 45% reduction in penalty due to its co-operation with the investigation and the compliance program that was built, the largest FCPA % penalty reduction to date. In recognition of these efforts Albemarle was awarded Compliance Program of the Year by Compliance Week in May 2024.

In parallel to the FCPA investigation and business ethics efforts, Andrew played a key role supporting Albemarle’s commitment to sustainability including UN Global Compact membership, management of the company’s human rights framework and support for the company’s successful efforts to achieve certification against the Initiative of Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)’s Mining Standard.

Prior to Albemarle, Andrew was Associate General Counsel Compliance at BHP, Senior Antitrust Counsel at BP and Managing Associate at Linklaters. Andrew is admitted to practice law in England, Western Australia & California. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Kimberly White
Kimberly White

Vice President, General Counsel-Compliance | Ingredion Incorporated

Kimberly White is Vice President, General Counsel-Compliance for Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global plant-based food and industrial ingredients manufacturer, headquartered in Westchester, Illinois.  In her current role, Ms. White is responsible for Ingredion’s global compliance program strategy and implementation As a leader in Global Ethics and Compliance, her work focuses on all elements of an effective Ethics and Compliance Program including risk assessments, policies and standards, code of conduct, training and communication, anti-corruption, investigations, sanctions, privacy and third party risk management.

Prior to joining Ingredion, Ms. White was the US-Canada Regional Compliance Counsel for Johnson Controls, Inc., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a past co-chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Compliance and Ethics Committee and a frequent presenter at Practising Law Institute’s Compliance and Ethics Essentials program.  Ms. White received her Bachelor of Science in Speech in Communication Studies from Northwestern University and her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame School of Law.  She is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) awarded by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) Compliance Certification Board and became a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) in June 2019. Ms. White also holds a Certification in Spanish as a Second Language (Level C1) awarded by the Cervantes Institute and Spain’s Ministry of Education in 2017.

Debbie Hennelly
Debbie Hennelly

Founder & President | Resiliti

Debra Sabatini Hennelly helps organizations create cultures of candor, wellbeing, and integrity, which are essential to team effectiveness, innovation, and organizational resilience. She helps leaders and teams address obstacles to ethical decision-making and psychological safety, increasing collaboration, wellbeing, and productivity.

Debbie also advises and coaches ethics and compliance professionals, helping them lead effectively and develop strategies for personal resilience. She holds a Certificate in Wellness Counseling from Cornell University.

Debbie is the founder and president of Resiliti, providing advisory services and experiential learning that focus on ethical leadership, ESG (environment/social/ governance), holistic risk management, and resilience—and incorporating those insights into operations and culture. She is also an adjunct professor in Fordham University Law School’s Program on Corporate Ethics & Compliance, a Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) program.

For more than 25 years, Debbie has been creating innovative approaches to fostering ethical leadership—from boardrooms to break rooms—with organizations ranging from small entities to some of the largest multinationals. Her pragmatic approach is informed by her engineering and legal background and decades of corporate leadership, C-suite, and advisory roles in compliance and ethics, legal, environment and safety, and strategic management—including serving as general counsel and chief compliance officer for two chemical companies, reporting to their CEOs and meeting quarterly with their Boards of Directors. Her experience holding senior in-house roles in public and private companies, as well as working in two ethics and compliance service providers, has enabled her to acquire an uncommon perspective from both sides of the client/vendor relationship.

Prior to her corporate experience, Debbie practiced environmental law with firms in Washington, DC, and New Jersey. Before practicing law, she was a civil/environmental engineer and supervised construction in the oil and gas industry.

Debbie frequently speaks at conferences, has been interviewed on several podcasts, and writes on several platforms. Most recently, she co-authored three articles for Harvard Business Review: “Resilient Organizations Make Psychological Safety a Strategic Priority,” “Bridging Generational Divides in Your Workplace,” and “How ‘Carewashing’ Alienates Employees. ” She is also the author of the book, Presence in Chaos – 365 Mindful Moments.

Debbie earned her B.S.E. In Civil/Environmental Engineering from Duke University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Ellen Hunt
Ellen Hunt

Vice President, Global Ethics & Compliance | Cushman & Wakefield

Ellen is a lawyer, ethics & compliance professional, audit executive, and chief privacy officer. She has expertise in identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks as an advisor to the Board of Directors and senior management. She has over 20 years of management experience in various industries including health care, food service, and not-for-profit associations in creating, designing, implementing, and operating world-class ethics and compliance programs including board governance and reporting, designing instructor-led and online ethics education, creating policy management frameworks, implementing conflict of interest processes, managing enterprise and compliance risk processes as well as handling investigations and regulatory agency inquiries.

She is the Vice President – Global Ethics & Compliance Program for Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate company with 52,000 employees in 60 countries. Her responsibilities include developing the global ethics & compliance strategy, developing education to foster a culture of integrity, managing third party due diligence, as well as conflicts of interest. Before Cushman & Wakefield, she was a Principal Consultant & Adviser with Spark Compliance Consulting where she shared her expertise and experience with Boards and Compliance professionals from around the world. Ellen served as the Board expert for a healthcare organization subject to a Corporate Integrity Agreement and has led ethics and compliance programs for other organizations subject to enforcement actions. She advised on compliance risk, compliance program assessments, best practices, obtaining ISO 37001 certification for anti-bribery management systems, policy management frameworks, and applying for and being named a World’s Most Ethical Company.

Ellen served as the Vice President, Compliance Program Operations and Chief Privacy Officer for LifePoint Health, a national healthcare network with 60,000 employees in over 80 hospitals, post-acute services, and outpatient centers operating in 28 states. There she was responsible for all aspects of the Privacy Program, establishing an annual conflict of interest process, managing the policy review committee, and designing Code of Conduct education. As the Senior Vice President – Audit, Ethics & Compliance Officer for AARP, a 38-million-member not-for-profit association that advocates for the 50+ to choose how they live as they age, she set the strategic direction for both the Internal Audit and the Ethics & Compliance functions with a team of seven and a budget of over $1 million. Ellen created the first Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics for the AARP Boards and established an ethics and compliance program from seven-page conflict of interest policy. AARP was honored as a World’s Most Ethical Company in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Ellen led the day-to-day compliance program operations for the second largest food distributor in the United States, U.S. Foodservice, Inc., where she managed a staff of six and reported to senior management and the Board. She served as the Vice President – Compliance Operations for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and was the designated Compliance Officer for all government contracts including Medicare C and D, Medicaid, Federal Employees Program, CHAMPUS, and other federal, state and local government customers.

She taught at the Fordham University School of Law, Program for Corporate Ethics and Compliance and is an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago, School of Law, Center for Compliance Studies.

Ellen serves on the Advisory Boards for the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, Compliance Week, and the Quorum Initiative. She is the co-founder of The Seven Elements Book Club, a book club devoted to ethics and compliance authors and winner of the 2022 award for “Best New Idea” by Great Women in Compliance podcast. She is a co-host of the Great Women in Compliance podcast roundtable series.

Ahmed Salim
Ahmed Salim

Director of Compliance | PwC

Ahmed Salim is a Compliance and Privacy professional with over 15 years of experience leading global programs across the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare sectors. A recognized expert in healthcare regulations—including the Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, PhRMACode, HIPAA, GDPR, and U.S. state privacy laws—Ahmed has built and matured enterprise compliance functions from the ground up and led high-impact transformation initiatives at top organizations. Additionally, Ahmed served as the Chief Compliance Officer for a medical device company based in San Francisco, where he oversaw compliance operations globally. ​
Ahmed holds a Master’s in Communication from Northwestern University, a JD from Western Michigan Law School, and a BS in Business Administration from DePaul University. Certifications: Certified Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Certified Healthcare Privacy Compliance (CHPC), and Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP)
Elizabeth Reisinger
Elizabeth Reisinger

Senior Manager, Content | Rethink

As part of Rethink’s Content and Advisory Services team, Elizabeth writes courses, digital content, communications materials, and more for Rethink’s clients. Elizabeth brings more than 20 years of experience to her work at Rethink, including positions in marketing, academia, and corporate communications. Her career began in journalism and lifestyle editorial writing, eventually leading to a corporate communications role at Thomson Reuters. There she worked in crisis communications, mergers and acquisitions, and on various product launches on Westlaw, an online legal research service and proprietary database. Elizabeth was the recipient of an Award of Excellence while at Thomson Reuters.

A history enthusiast, Elizabeth brought her communications experience to the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University (Minnesota, USA), a global leader in the cultural preservation of endangered manuscripts. She worked on several high-profile communications initiatives, including a feature on CBS’ 60 Minutes and the roll-out of HMML’s online resource for the study of manuscript cultures. As an editorial freelancer, Elizabeth has worked with some of the world’s most recognizable brands and with several education and nonprofit organizations throughout Minnesota.

Moderators

Steph Holmes
Steph Holmes

Director of Ethics & Compliance Strategy | EQS Group

Steph Holmes is the Director of Ethics & Compliance Strategy at EQS Group, where she partners with organizations to turn compliance programs into strategic assets that scale with the business. With a sharp focus on customer needs, she helps shape intuitive, effective solutions that empower companies to navigate regulatory complexity with clarity and confidence. As part of EQS’s Center of Excellence, Steph operates at the intersection of compliance, innovation, and program enablement — leveraging digitalization, automation, and smart design to future-proof ethics and compliance programs. She holds a Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from the University of Denver, along with CCEP and LPEC certifications. When she’s not working , Steph recharges outdoors—often found camping, biking, or snowboarding in the Colorado mountains.

Marco Goldberg
Marco Goldberg

Managing Director US | EQS Group

Marco Goldberg leads the North America business of EQS Group as the Managing Director. As an experienced Compliance professional, Marco has helped companies ranging from Fortune 100 enterprises to SMEs implement effective global compliance programs. His expertise ranges from implementing successful global Speak Up programs to policy management, conflict of interest, approval management, as well as risk management. Marco has lead the expansion of EQS Group in North America since 2016 and is located in New York City. With a background in Capital Market Compliance, he holds a Master’s Degree in International Management from the School of International Business and Entrepreneurship, Steinbeis, Berlin.

Location

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311 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60606