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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

1:00 – 1:30 PM
Welcome & Registration
1:30 – 1:35 PM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Marco Goldberg
Managing Director US
EQS Group
1:35 – 1:55 PM
Keynote: Driving Integrity into the Culture of your Compliance Program

 

Rob Chestnut
Former General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer
Airbnb
1:55 – 2:40 PM
Preventing Burnout and Building Resilience: Maintaining Your Equilibrium in Challenging Times

This interactive session will equip you with insights into the signs and causes of burnout and the role of our work environment in the stress levels of our profession such as cultural resistance, lack of authority or resources, and the pace of organizational and technological change.  Join this engaging discussion to explore these challenges, as well as the strategies for preventing burnout and building our resilience for a sustainable career in Compliance & Ethics/Risk Management.

Debbie Hennelly
Founder and President
Resiliti
2:40 – 3:05 PM
Inside the EQS AI Benchmark Report: What AI Can (and Can’t) Do for Compliance

The EQS AI Benchmark revealed that today’s AI models are ready for prime time in many compliance domains — from due diligence to data analysis and reporting. But it also underscored where limits persist: judgment, interpretation, and ethical context.

This session explores how Compliance & Ethics leaders can apply these insights to strike the right balance — embracing AI for what it does best, while maintaining the rigor and discernment that only experienced professionals can bring.

Steph Holmes
Director of Ethics & Compliance Strategy
EQS Group
3:05 – 3:15 PM
Break & Refresh
3:15 – 4:00 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
Ed Hanover
SVP, Regulatory, Pharmacy and Privacy Law and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Albertson Companies
Carol Tate
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
AppLogic Networks
4:00 – 5:00 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.

Carol Tate
Carol Tate

Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer | AppLogic Networks

Carol Tate serves as the Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at AppLogic Networks, a global software company.  She leads the global ethics, compliance, and information security team and periodically reports to the AppLogic Networks’s Board of Directors and Human Rights Committee.

Before joining AppLogic Networks in 2025, Carol served as the Chief Compliance Officer of Intel Corporation, the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., the Vice President of Compliance & Investigations at Flextronics, and Senior Counsel at Motorola, Inc. Prior to going in-house, Carol served as a Senior Attorney in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and worked as a commercial litigation attorney in the law firms of Wildman Harrold and Thompson Coburn, LLP.

Carol received her B.A. from Tufts University and J.D. from Boston College Law School.

Rob Chestnut
Rob Chestnut

Former General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer  | AirBnB

Rob Chesnut is a tech general counsel, trust and safety pioneer, prosecutor, author and keynote speaker on growing business with integrity.  Rob spent over 5 years as the General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb, where he grew the legal department to a global team of over 150, and was recognized as one of the Financial Times Global 25 General Counsel.

Rob is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Virginia.  He worked for 14 years with the U.S. Justice Department, including 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Northern Virginia where he handled the prosecution of CIA employee Aldrich Ames.   He is the recipient of the Justice Department’s John Marshall Award for litigation, and the CIA’s Outstanding Service Medallion.

Rob spent 10 years at eBay, Inc., where he was a member of the executive leadership team and built the Internet’s first ecommerce platform Trust and Safety department.

Rob joined Airbnb in the spring of 2016, where his legal team led initiatives to promote home sharing and address regulatory issues with local governments and landlords around the world.  Rob developed a popular interactive employee program, Integrity Belongs Here, to help drive ethics throughout the culture at the company.  He speaks at businesses and colleges around the world, and his bestselling book “Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution” was published by St. Martin’s Press in July 2020 and named by Inc Magazine as one of the top 10 Business Books of the Year.

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Debbie Hennelly
Debbie Hennelly

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.

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

Convene 100 Stockton
40 O’Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94108