ECI Senior Advisors

ECI supports organizations around the globe with their unique needs through its Advisory Services. Our cadre of Senior Advisors bring a variety of skills drawing upon a depth of hands-on experience designing and leading E&C programs. In addition to providing subject matter expertise to ECI engagements, Senior Advisors support various internal and external projects.

Jeff Benjamin
Jeff BenjaminFormer CECO, Avon

Jeff served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at Avon Products, Inc. from September 2012 through July 2017. Previously he served in a variety of General Counseling and Ethics & Compliance Officer roles at Novartis Corporation (formerly known as Ciba Geigy Corporation), where he was employed for more than 37 years, including as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer from 1997 to 2011.

Among other ethics and compliance related activities, he served on the Board of Directors of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association from 2005 through 2012 and as Chair of its New York Metropolitan Area Chapter from 2010 through 2012. Since retiring from Avon in 2017, Jeff has provided consulting services primarily in the areas of ethics and compliance, litigation and leadership.

Andrea Bonime-Blanc
Andrea Bonime-BlancCEO/Founder of GEC Risk Advisory

Andrea is CEO/founder of GEC Risk Advisory and a global governance, risk, ESG, ethics and cyber strategist. She also serves as the Independent Ethics Adviser to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.

Andrea spent two decades as a C-suite global corporate executive at Bertelsmann, Verint, and PSEG, as general counsel, CECO, CRO and CSR officer. She began as an international corporate lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb and was born and raised in Germany and Spain. She received a joint JD/PhD from Columbia University.

Andrea serves as a director on several boards including the NACD NJ Chapter, Cyber Future Foundation, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Crisp and WireX. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chair Emeritus of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (2004-2012) and founding faculty for the LPEC certification. Andrea currently teaches “Cyber Leadership, Risk & Resilience” at NYU.

Andrea has published dozens of articles and several books, most recently Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value (Routledge 2020) and The ESGT Megatrends Manual 2021-2022 (Diplomatic Courier 2021).

Andrene Bresnan
Andrene BresnanFormer Senior Director, Compliance and Ethics, The Boeing Company

Andrene is a retired senior director of compliance and ethics at The Boeing Company. She most recently led a team of professionals responsible for compliance risk management for the enterprise and for ethics in the services business and for enterprise engineering. She facilitated the enterprise Compliance Risk Management Board with focus on collaboration across businesses and functions to identify current and trending compliance risks and ensuring integrated mitigation plans were in place.

Andrene has over 35 years of experience at Boeing and has held positions in Corporate Audit, Global Trade Controls, Finance, Accounting, and developing and deploying strategic initiatives. She holds certifications as a Leadership Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC) with ECI and in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) from the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). She is a graduate of City University in Seattle, Washington and holds a certificate in Innovative Leadership from University of California, San Diego.

Andrene is currently an instructor for the ECI Elevating Ethics & Compliance (E2C) Training course.

Jacqueline Brevard
Jacqueline BrevardFormer CECO, Merck

Jacqueline brings more than 20 years of experience as a global ethics and compliance professional in the pharmaceutical industry. As the former Vice President, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer of Merck & Co., Inc., Ms. Brevard is the pioneer and visionary who developed and successfully implemented the first comprehensive Global Ethics Program for a top tier global pharmaceutical company, driving Merck & Co. to a leadership position in organizational ethics and setting the standard that others would follow years later. She served on the Board of the then, Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (now, the Ethics and Compliance Initiative) where she is Vice Chair Emeritus; and she is former Chair of the Ethics Resource Center’s Fellows Program. Currently, Jacqueline is the Program Director of The Conference Board Global Business Conduct Council.

In addition, she is Senior Advisor at GEC Risk Advisory, a global risk, governance, ethics, cyber and crisis advisory firm, serving executives, boards, investors, and advisors to business, non-profits and government.

C. Eugene Farmer
C. Eugene FarmerFormer Business Integrity Manager and Senior Attorney, Marathon Petroleum
Gene has 30 years’ experience serving as Attorney and Senior Attorney at Marathon Petroleum and its subsidiary, Speedway, LLC, including seven years as Business Integrity & Compliance Manager. Gene’s leadership experience includes assessing and designing codes of conduct, heading hotline and hospitality reporting systems, spearheading ethics and compliance communications and training, and speaking at ethics and compliance conferences nationwide.
Lauren Ferrari
Lauren FerrariFormer Vice President, Legal Counsel, Ethics & Compliance, Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
Lauren is a senior executive and visionary ethics and compliance leader with expertise in strategically developing, executing and overseeing global ethics and compliance programs to ensure compliance and drive a culture of business integrity.

Her experience expands over two decades of broad operational experience in conducting enterprise-wide risk assessments and monitoring compliance across diverse industries, including the pharmaceutical (Warner-Lambert Company/Pfizer), energy (Mobil/Exxon), real estate and manufacturing sectors. Her experience includes sixteen years in telecommunications, where she designed and successfully implemented the inaugural global business integrity program for Nokia/Lucent, following two mergers and under a three-year anti-corruption compliance monitorship.

Lauren has extensive experience in developing and operationalizing policies and codes of conduct, implementing policy management systems, overseeing hotline programs, leading culture assessments, advising on conflict issues and leading confidential internal investigations.

Lauren served on the Board of the Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (now, the Ethics & Compliance Initiative), where she was the former Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee. She is a frequent invited speaker on ethics and compliance topics and has been recognized as an “Attorney Who Matters and a Distinguished Ethics and Compliance Officer”.

David Gebler
David GeblerFormer Principal, Ethics Engagement and Integrated Education at Lockheed Martin Corporation

At Lockheed Martin David was responsible for producing the Corporation’s ethics and compliance training, including managing the design and content of the Code of Ethics & Business Conduct, annual Ethics Awareness Training, the Integrity Minute series, Business Conduct Compliance Training, as well as special projects such as the “Respectfully Talking about Race” video released in 2020.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, David spent twenty-five years advising leaders of global organizations on how to reduce people-based risks while improving productivity and corporate reputation. Gebler has been recognized as a pioneer in values-based culture assessment and training, utilizing creative elements such as Scott Adams’ DILBERT characters in developing groundbreaking training, such as “The Ethics Challenge” produced for Lockheed Martin in 1997.

A business lawyer by training, David worked as an attorney in private practice and as corporate counsel for Gamma International. While living in Israel he worked for CBS Records International as Director of Business Affairs and as a staff lawyer for El Al Israel Airlines. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis School of Law and his B.A. from UCLA.

Barbara B. Hannigan
Barbara B. HanniganFormer Ethics Officer and Senior Compliance Counsel at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Before joining ECI in 2022, Barbara was the ethics officer and senior compliance counsel at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The PCAOB is a nonprofit corporation established by Congress to oversee the audits of public companies (and broker dealers) in order to protect investors and further the public interest in the preparation of informative, accurate, and independent audit reports. She oversaw the PCAOB’s ethics program and advised Board members and staff on matters concerning the Board’s Ethics Code. Prior to joining the Board in 2004, she spent 17 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission, holding several legal positions, including SEC ethics counsel and designated agency ethics official.

As the senior SEC ethics lawyer, Barbara managed the SEC Ethics Office within the Office of the General Counsel and was responsible for the day-to-day management of the Commission’s ethics program. She also counseled the Commissioners and staff on a wide range of ethics issues arising under federal conflict-of-interest statutes, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics Standards of Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, and the SEC Conduct Regulation. She was responsible for advising and assisting presidential nominees to the SEC during the nomination process.

Before her SEC career, Barbara was an associate with the Washington law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.

She earned a B.A., magna cum laude from Georgetown University. She received her J.D., cum laude, from The American University Washington College of Law.

She serves as a member of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church migrant team assisting refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers and as a board member of The Kwek Society, a nonprofit organization that provides period supplies to indigenous students and communities across North America.

Barbara Kipp
Barbara KippFormer PricewaterhouseCoopers Partner

Barbara (Bobby) Kipp is a retired PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, who most recently led PwC’s Ethics & Compliance Consulting practice. As the former global and U.S. Ethics & Business Conduct Leader, and U.S. Chief Privacy Officer for PwC, she led the development and operation of PwC’s U.S. and global Ethics & Business Conduct programs and U.S. Privacy program. These were ground-breaking programs, and the first amongst the Big Four.

She led the first compliance risk assessment for PwC and created the initial blueprint for PwC’s current Ethics & Compliance program. She also led a multiyear engagement to develop and implement a global data protection and privacy program for PwC in 150 countries.

Following her internal roles for PwC she spent over ten years consulting with many global and domestic organizations on their ethics, compliance, privacy, risk management and conflict minerals programs. She also spent many years as a financial auditor. She has been active in the Ethics & Compliance space for more than twenty years.

Tim Lindon
Tim LindonFormer VP and Chief Compliance Officer, Phillip Morris International

Tim has almost three decades of experience in compliance and legal leadership roles in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, most recently as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of Philip Morris International in Switzerland. He oversaw the global compliance program and 50 compliance professionals worldwide. He also led the company’s legal functions in Asia and Latin American and its international litigation.

Tim is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU School of Law, where he teaches Compliance and Risk Management, and is a Senior Fellow at the Law School’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Ethics. He also serves as Senior Advisor of Ethics & Integrity for the Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors, focusing on supply chain integrity.

Tim is certified as an executive and leadership coach by the International Coaching Federation. He uses these skills to coach and advise CECOs and other executives, and to facilitate Compliance Peer Leadership Groups through ECI.

Blair C. Marks
Blair C. MarksRetired VP of Ethics and Business Conduct, Lockheed Martin

Blair is a retired vice president of ethics and business conduct at Lockheed Martin, where she led a team of ethics professionals responsible for ensuring the application of Lockheed Martin’s values in all aspects of operations. Earlier in her 40+ year career, she managed aircraft development, modernization, and production programs as well as a small manufacturing facility.

Blair has actively participated in multiple industry groups in the ethics and compliance space, including the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct. She has also served on several non-profit boards, supporting multiple ethics as well as diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. She is a past president of Women of Reform Judaism.

Blair holds engineering degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan as well as an MBA from Georgia State University. She holds certifications as a Leading Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC) and a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP.)

Blair received the 2003 Women in Aerospace Outstanding Leadership Award and the 2021 Carol Marshall Award for Innovation in Corporate Ethics from the Ethics and Compliance Initiative. She is the principal of of ValuesMatter, LLC.

Ellen Martin
Ellen Martin Former Vice President Ethics and Business Conduct, The Boeing Company

Ellen is a retired Vice President of ethics and business conduct at The Boeing Company. She most recently led the executive team responsible for managing Boeing’s global ethics and compliance program; including management of ethics inquiries and cases, investigations, initiatives to advance an open and accountable culture as well as compliance risk management.

Ellen has 30 years of experience at Boeing. In addition to her leadership experience in ethics and compliance she held leadership positions in manufacturing, quality assurance, human resources, product support, merger and acquisition integration and program management. She holds the Leadership Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC) certification with ECI. She has a bachelor of science degree from the State University of New York College at Buffalo and a masters in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Tony Maus
Tony MausFormer Senior Director, Ethics and Business Conduct, The Boeing Company

Tony is a former director for Ethics and Business Conduct (EBC) for The Boeing Company. He was responsible for ensuring effective deployment of ethics controls and initiatives to promote a compliant and ethical work culture within Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA). He also led the Office of Internal Governance and Administration integration for Security and Fire Protection, Internal Audit, Global Spectrum Management, Ethics, Corporate Investigation, and Privacy in the Boeing-Embraer Joint Venture.

Tony joined Boeing in 2000 as an investigator, and has held positions of increasing responsibility including the senior leadership role for all Boeing corporate investigations and most recently expanding his role in EBC as Senior BCA Director in July 2015.

Prior to joining Boeing, Tony worked with the Washington State Department of Corrections, and in his last assignment as manager for the largest field parole/probation office with a high risk offender caseload.

Tony has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Whitworth College and a master’s degree in Strategic Planning from the University of Washington. He holds certifications from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Jeff Oak
Jeff OakFormer Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health

Jeff brings 25 years experience leading ethics, compliance and risk functions. Most recently, he served as the Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, Bon Secours Mercy Health. Under his leadership, Bon Secours Health System, was recognized nationally for innovation and among the World’s Most Ethical Companies®.

Jeff has served on the Boards of Directors for organizations in health care, higher education, global development, professional associations and insurance. In addition to his work with ECI, he is Adjunct Faculty at Fordham University Law School, and Founder and Principal of AnchorPoint GRC Advisory LLC.

Anthony O'Reilly
Anthony O'ReillyFormer Chief Ethics Officer, State Street Corporation
Anthony has been hired by two global giants to help them transform business operations following compliance failures that created reputational damage and threatened business growth. He served as the first Chief Ethics Officer at State Street Corporation, a ‘Global Systemically-Important Bank’ from 2014 to 2021. In collaboration with the CEO, CHRO and other executive team members he introduced a number of innovations to deepen the practice of ethical decision-making in alignment with the company’s business purpose, upgraded core compliance capabilities, and helped address regulatory issues.

Previously, Anthony was hired to helped Siemens, AG rebuild the quality of its internal audit group in the wake of Siemens’ settlement with US and German regulators for breach of anti-bribery statutes – at the time, the largest such settlement in the world. Prior to this, he was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he provided audit and consulting services across industry. Anthony is a member of the Advisory Board of the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics.

Vicki Sweeney
Vicki SweeneyFormer Partner, KPMG

Vicki is a recently retired partner from KPMG LLP. She is an ethics and compliance professional with extensive experience building and managing key program elements designed to enhance ethical culture and mitigate legal, reputational, and financial risks. She has the knowledge and skills needed to help solve some of the most complex E&C issues organizations may be facing.

Vicki was responsible for the development and implementation of a multi-year E&C learning and communications strategy designed to enhance the firm’s ethical culture and ensure compliance with policies, professional standards, laws, and regulations following an SEC Order.

During her tenure at KPMG LLP, she developed the firm’s first US and Global Codes of Conduct and was responsible for ongoing management of periodic updates for the US Code. She administered the annual Code of Conduct Confirmation and served as a resource to partners and employees who raised questions about policies covered by the Code. She also set up the E&C hotline, conducted investigations, rolled out an enterprise-wide case management system and a leading practice to monitor personnel involved in internal investigations for potential acts of retaliation. Prior responsibilities included developing and managing the compliance monitoring programs for auditor independence, CPA licensing, CPE compliance and other related initiatives.

Vicki has a long history of involvement with ECI, serving on the board from 2011 – 2018. She also served as the chair of the Conference Board’s Council on Compliance & Ethics and was a member of the BBB Foundation of Greater New York.

Carsten Tams
Carsten TamsConsultant, Harvard University & Emagence, Author

Carsten served as Senior Vice President of Ethics & Compliance at Bertelsmann for nearly a decade. There, he built the company’s global ethics program that spanned 50 countries and more than 100,000 employees. Tams has most recently worked as a consultant for Harvard University and Emagence as well as an author and contributing writer for Forbes magazine.

As a Fellow at The Aspen Institute, Tams worked to develop an innovative methodology for strengthening self-governance in organizations.

Donna Vitalie
Donna VitaliePresident and Founder, 3 Great Questions LLC

Donna helps clients reduce risk and improve the employee experience through policies, processes, systems, and data. She has led high performing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver innovative solutions with lasting impact for Fortune 500, American Lawyer 100, and Federal Government clients. Her practitioner experience includes leading enterprise-wide programs in Ethics & Compliance and in Information Management. She held advisory client-serving roles at Booz Allen Hamilton, Ernst & Young, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and served as Senior Director of Business Conduct & Compliance for Verizon Media, Verizon’s digital media subsidiary, prior to founding her own firm in 2019.

She has served in leadership positions in diversity and inclusion, and holds a Master’s in Business Administration. She also holds certifications as a Society for Human Resource Management Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) and as a Certified Records Manager (CRM).