ECI Senior Advisors

Jeff Benjamin 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.

Andrene Bresnan 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.

Bresnan 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.

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

Ms. Brevard, 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. Ms. Brevard 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, Ms. Brevard 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.

Earnie previously served as Director of the M.B.A. and Executive Education programs in the Greehey School of Business at St. Mary’s University from 2011 to 2016. Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Earnie served as Executive Director, Ethics Program Coordinator, for United Services Automobile Association (USAA) from 2000 to 2011 and reported directly to USAA’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

Earnie co-founded the Greater San Antonio Ethics and Compliance Roundtable and currently serves as President. He also chaired the San Antonio Ethics in Business Awards from 2010 though 2012.

Gene Farmer 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.

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 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. Tim 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.

Ellen Martin 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 cultural as well as compliance risk management.

Martin 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.

Suzan McGinnis has served in senior ethics positions for nearly 15 years. McGinnis acted as Senior Manager and Director in the ethics & compliance function at Best Buy, before moving on to act as the Ethics Team Director at Target.

Currently, she is the Senior Director at Rethink Compliance where she uses her knowledge and experience to develop boutique, custom strategies that organizations can use to advance their E&C function.

Jeff Oak 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.

Stephen Prosser has nearly two decades of experience in the ethics & compliance function. In 2001, Prosser was hired on by Starbucks to build, design and manage the company's global ethics & compliance team. In this position, Prosser's focus was in strategic planning, operations, policy development, risk assessments, communications, leadership engagement, board reporting, anti-harassment, anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation training and investigations across the world, as well as focus on anti-bribery / anti-corruption compliance.

Carsten Tams 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.