NOVEMBER 18 | Best Practice Forum | Conducting Investigations Virtually

Speakers

• Amie McLemore Senior Manager, Corporate Compliance & Ethics, Cox Communications
  

  Amie McLemore

  Senior Manager, Corporate Compliance & Ethics, Cox Communications

  Amie McLemore, CFE, CCEP, is the Senior Manager of Ethics & Compliance for Cox Communications, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. She is responsible for leading special compliance, litigation and privacy projects and ensuring ongoing compliance for any Consent Decrees the company is subject to while also conducting Regulatory Compliance Risk Assessments. She is the Navex Policy Tech system site administrator for the Cox organization, and responsible for policy lifecycle management. Amie obtained her Certified Fraud Examiner’s license in October 2018 to conduct internal employee investigations for Cox.

  Prior to joining Cox Communications, Ms. McLemore worked for The Home Depot, Inc. in Atlanta as a member of the Internal Audit Leadership Program, an accelerated rotational program structured to train future leaders of the Company. Prior to that, she worked at the big four accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on several high profile public clients in the Consumer Industrial Product Services Group.

  Ms. McLemore graduated from the University of Georgia in 2002 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accountancy. She was a member of Sigma Sorority where she served on many philanthropic committees to improve the community and lives of others. She’s served her Atlanta community with the Shepard Center’s Junior Committee, KaBoom, Habitat for Humanity, Nicholas House and several other agencies. Currently, she is serving on the Legal department Diversity & Inclusion committee, and she is the Vice Chairman of the Atlanta Compliance & Ethics Roundtable organization.

• Carlos Vecino Senior Director, Conduct Management Investigator, Wells Fargo
  

  Carlos Vecino

  Senior Director, Conduct Management Investigator, Wells Fargo

  Carlos is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) and an Employment Investigator with a large Fortune 100 financial services company where he leads investigations involving allegations of harassment, hostile working environment, discrimination, and retaliation.

  Previously, Carlos worked at another Fortune 100 financial services company as an Ethics Advisor and later the Director of Ethics Programs. Carlos led the company’s ethics program to include Code of Conduct and ethics policy development, ethics training and communications, conflicts of interest and investigations. Carlos led and supervised hundreds of complex and diverse investigations involving allegations of company policies and the Code of Conduct.

  Prior to joining corporate America, Carlos served in the U.S. Air Force for 22 years as an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance officer and Latin American Regional Affairs Strategist. Carlos also served on the Air Combat Command Inspector General team as an inspector and investigator.

• Dan Wenner Vice President & Associate General Counsel, United Technologies Corporation
  

  Dan Wenner

  Vice President & Associate General Counsel, United Technologies Corporation

  Since May 2019, Dan has been the Vice President and Associate General Counsel at United Technologies Corporation and then its successor company, Raytheon Technologies Corporation. Dan sits within the company’s Global Ethics and Compliance group, which is in the Office of the General Counsel. He reports to the company’s Chief Compliance Officer. In that role, Dan leads the company’s investigations function for any ethics and compliance issues that arise. Dan also leads the efforts to coordinate and respond to government subpoenas or other external investigations. He also supports those functions at the various business units within the company.

  Prior to taking this position, Dan spent more than 10 years at the law firm Day Pitney LLP in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was a partner in the White Collar and Government investigations practice. At Day Pitney, Dan represented individuals and companies in criminal and regulatory investigations and conducted several internal investigations for various clients. Before joining Day Pitney, Dan was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. There, he was in the business and securities fraud, organized crime, and narcotics units where he investigated and prosecuted various individuals and organizations. Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, Dan worked as an associate at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

  After law school, Dan clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Dan graduated from Cornell Law School magna cum laude, where he was a managing editor of the Cornell Law Review, and he has a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Northwestern University.

• Maurice L. Crescenzi Jr. Principal, Risk Advisory Practice Leader, Global Consulting Solutions, CohnReznick
  

  Maurice L. Crescenzi Jr.

  Principal, Risk Advisory Practice Leader, Global Consulting Solutions, CohnReznick

  As a member of CohnReznick’s Global Consulting Solutions practice, Maurice Crescenzi has nearly 30 years of in-house and Big 4 consulting and risk management experience. He works with organizations in multiple industries to assess, design, implement, and enhance governance structures, ethics and compliance programs, and other risk-focused programs.
  A seasoned compliance officer with cross-industry experience, Mr. Crescenzi has conducted risk management work in more than 35 countries and has held in-house compliance officer positions at the leadership level in leading, global consumer products companies such as the Altria family of companies (Philip Morris, Kraft Foods, Miller Brewing, etc.), Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, and the DeVry Education Group. In these capacities, Mr. Crescenzi led the design and implementation of the companies’ global compliance programs. As a compliance leader, Mr. Crescenzi has served on the companies’ management teams, and has reported to the audit committee of the board.
  Mr. Crescenzi is well-versed in leading practices related to effective risk management program design and implementation – across programmatic elements (e.g., risk assessments, code of conduct, training, whistle-blowing, monitoring, etc.) and risk areas (e.g., anti-bribery and anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, antitrust, insider trading, records management, etc.).
  Mr. Crescenzi is recognized member of leading compliance organizations, and he speaks regularly at compliance and ethics conferences, both in the United States and abroad. He is also published on these topics.

• Norman W. Good Senior Director, Corporate Investigations, Law and Global Compliance, The Boeing Company
  

  Norman W. Good

  Senior Director, Corporate Investigations, Law and Global Compliance, The Boeing Company

  Norm Good is the senior director for Law and Global Compliance for The Boeing Company. He is responsible for leading a global team of more than 95 professionals that conduct investigations of company rule, policy and criminal conduct across Boeing operations. He also oversees Global Compliance’s Metrics and Analytics team who compile and analyze Boeing data enabling Compliance leaders to influence Boeing leaders on how to drive an open and accountable culture within their organization, and make well informed decisions on the deployment of compliance resources.
  Good joined Boeing in February 2012 as an investigator and has held positions of increasing responsibility; he assumed his current role in August 2016.
  Prior to joining Boeing, Good worked as a detective with the City of Kingston Police Department in New York where he served as lead investigator and case manager for more than 1,000 criminal investigations. He has provided expert witness testimony regarding white collar crime, accident reconstruction, and was a frequent lecturer on criminal investigations with the Department of Criminal Justice Services – New York and the State University of New York.
  Good holds a bachelor’s degree in Police Science from Empire State College, a master’s degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica College and a certificate in Computing Forensics and Digital Media Analysis from Champlain College. He also holds certifications from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFE) and the Ethics and Compliance Institute (ECI).

• Pauline Blondet Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success & Compliance, GAN Integrity
  

  Pauline Blondet

  Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success & Compliance, GAN Integrity

  Pauline is a seasoned litigation attorney and compliance expert, well-versed in both US and EU laws. In her role, Pauline oversees the implementation and ongoing success of the GAN platform for all of our clients. She gained years of first-hand exposure at a major international law firm, notably working on transnational corruption and trade sanctions cases and investigations. Pauline then joined the wines and spirits industry where she conceived and rolled out a global ethics and compliance governance and program.