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Chief Compliance Officer | Balfour Beatty Communities

David is the Chief Compliance Officer of Balfour Beatty Communities, a division of Balfour Beatty Group, Plc.  In his role, David leads the Ethics & Compliance function for a diversified real estate services company delivering acquisition, management and renovation services in the multifamily, student and military housing sectors. Previously, David founded and led the Ethics & Compliance Program at Lyft, Inc.  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 and individual misconduct. David began his career as a litigator in the office of a prominent U.S. law firm. With 20 years of compliance and investigations experience, David has sat on all sides of the table – in government, as outside counsel, and now in house – and brings those varied perspectives to all his matters. He holds a J.D. from New York University and an undergraduate degree from Amherst College. David lives outside New York City with his wife, two boys, and bloodhound, Josie.

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.

Managing Partner | D’Avanzo LLP

Maria J. D’Avanzo is a nationally recognized attorney with more than 30 years of experience leading legal, compliance, ethics, and data privacy functions across global organizations. As Partner of Davanzo LLP, she provides strategic legal counsel to corporate clients navigating complex regulatory environments, internal investigations, and enterprise risk.

Maria has built and led global compliance and data privacy programs for some of the world’s most recognized companies. Her work spans across highly regulated industries, including finance, real estate, and technology, where she has advised boards, executive leadership, and audit committees on matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), global privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA, and internal misconduct investigations.

Maria has served in multiple executive leadership roles, including Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer and Chief Data Privacy Officer for Cushman & Wakefield, and Chief Evangelist Officer at Traliant, a leading provider of ethics and compliance training. She was also Deputy Chief Compliance Officer for AIG Asset Management and held compliance leadership roles at Starwood Capital Group Management. Earlier in her career, she co-founded a niche law firm focused on real estate, financial, and corporate matters.

She is a trusted advisor known for her ability to align legal strategy with business priorities and for her leadership in building strong compliance cultures within global organizations. Maria frequently speaks and writes on issues related to ethics, investigations, privacy, and corporate governance.

Former Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer | OneTrust

Jisha Dymond is an ethics and compliance leader with deep experience in building and leading global ethics, compliance, privacy, and sustainability programs that enable responsible innovation and growth. Most recently, she served as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at OneTrust, where she oversaw all aspects of the company’s global ethics, compliance, privacy, and sustainability initiatives.

Prior to OneTrust, she was the Global Lead for Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance at Twitter, where she built broad risk management efforts, including reporting frameworks for executive management and the Risk Committee of the Board of Directors. Earlier in her career, she held legal, compliance, and risk leadership roles, including Head of Enterprise Risk at Och-Ziff Capital, a publicly traded global institutional alternative asset manager. She began her career in private practice, litigating and advising clients on corporate governance and regulatory matters for over a decade.

A proud daughter of immigrants, Jisha serves on the board of directors of Behind the Book, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping young people cultivate their potential through literacy programs centered on diverse books and authors.

Founder | Human Risk

Christian Hunt is the founder of Human Risk, a Behavioural Science-led consulting and training firm on a mission to make Ethics & Compliance more human — and a lot less boring.

Before launching Human Risk, Christian was Managing Director at UBS where he became the bank’s first-ever Head of Behavioural Science — a role created for him after he proved that understanding human decision-making could transform how Compliance works. He led Compliance & Operational Risk for UBS Asset Management globally and for UBS across EMEA (excluding UK & Switzerland).

Before that, he was Chief Operating Officer of the UK Prudential Regulation Authority, part of the Bank of England. He’s also done stints at the Financial Services Authority, Deutsche Bank (including two years regulating takeovers at the UK Takeover Panel), a family office, and even Arthur Andersen — back when that was still a thing. Christian is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists, and holds a Master’s from Oxford. But don’t hold any of that against him. He’s a regular speaker and writer on behavioural science, risk, and ethics — and hosts the Human Risk podcast, where he explores the fascinating ways our brains can help or hinder us at work.

Founder and 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.