Tom Best

Partner, Litigation Department

Paul Hastings

Dr. Manuel Liatowitsch

Group General Counsel/ CLO

Ringier

Lars Hauser

General Counsel- Corporate Functions

Julius Baer

Simon Truckle

Director of Learning Solutions

Skillcast

Nadine Balkanyi-Nordmann

CEO

Lexperience AG

Nadine Balkanyi-Nordmann is a seasoned legal, compliance, and governance expert with extensive experience in Swiss and global corporate leadership. She is the founder and CEO of Lexperience AG, a leading firm specializing in regulatory investigations and compliance services. Previously, she held senior roles at UBS, GE Money, and BNP Paribas. A qualified Swiss attorney, she holds an LL.M. from the University of Hong Kong and certifications from INSEAD and Imperial College London. She serves on multiple corporate and non-profit boards, including Sanitas Health Insurance and Zoo Zürich, bringing strategic insight and risk management expertise to her leadership roles.

Karin de Witt

Director Ethics, Compliance & Investigations

Lonza

Roi Lavi

Managing Director - Europe

Sqope Intelligence

With more than two decades of experience in the intelligence and financial sectors, Roi has been developing and expanding Sqope’s business in continental Europe since 2014, including directly managing some of its largest markets and key accounts. Based in Geneva, he works directly with over 50 banks, financial intermediaries, and other companies to help them meet their AML/KYC and ESG requirements.

Prior to joining Sqope, Roi, who is also a certified attorney, worked in the legal field at leading firms, including the risk and compliance department of one of the “Big 4”. In addition to his LL.B and B.A. degrees, he graduated with distinction from the University of Geneva with an Executive MBA.

Helen Aldridge

Ex-Chief Integrity and Compliance Officer

VW Passenger Cars

Kersten Schmahl

Senior Director – Ethics and Compliance

CSL

Kersten Schmahl is Senior Director Ethics & Compliance Intercontinental at CSL, a global listed biotech company. He previously held various international Ethics & Compliance leadership positions with both listed and privately-held pharmaceutical, biotech and medical technology companies being based in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden.

Kersten graduated from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Leuphana University in Luneburg, Germany. At the latter University, he has teaching assignments for Compliance & Investigations in Corporate Practice since 2009. Kersten is also a standing co-author for the chapter “Compliance in the Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology Industry” in the Handbook of Corporate Legal Management – Manual for Corporate Compliance in Germany.

Yannine Pasula

Director, Disputes & Investigations

S-RM

Yannine is a Director in the Disputes & Investigations team at S-RM, a global Corporate Intelligence and Cyber Security business. Yannine is based in the US and leads cross-border investigations and proactive compliance projects related to fraud, anti-bribery, and anti-corruption matters, including those involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Yannine has extensive experience as a forensic accountant and uses forensic accounting and interviewing techniques, data analytics, corporate intelligence, and eDiscovery tools to assist clients in mitigating legal and regulatory risks.

Elena Mokretsova

Risk and Control Oversight Head, Vice President

Banco Santander International SA

Elena has extensive international experience in Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering with global financial institutions with roles based in Switzerland, Spain, Mexico and Poland, with special interest in detecting money laundering patterns of Latin-American and Russian organized crime groups, as well as prevention of embezzlement of funds proceeding from public contracts.

 

In her current role with Banco Santander, she is responsible for leading Financial Crime Compliance team covering Sanctions Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations and Periodic Reviews.

 

Prior to joining Santander Group in 2018 in Madrid, she was with Citigroup from 2009 until the end of 2017, covering the role of AML Global Investigation Unit Senior Compliance with Citi in Mexico as her last position, working on complex investigative projects on organized crime and corruption proceeds laundering in Latin American Region. Her main achievements in this role include development of investigative projects focused on detection of money laundering schemes used by Russian organized crime applied for Latin American drug-cartels and public embezzlement project aimed to identify corruption schemes in Construction sector in Mexico.

 

Before that, Elena was AML Quality Assurance Team Leader in Mexico and AML Subject Matter Expert (SME) for EMEA Region in Warsaw, as well with Citigroup. In the SME role in Poland, she was supporting the migration of the AML Operations processes for virtual units in Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.

 

She graduated with a master’s degree in International Economics from Lazarski School of Commerce and Law based in Warsaw in 2009 and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance management from Higher School of Economics, Russia. Elena has Advanced AML Certification by International Compliance Association and collaborated for the book The Untold Stories of Financial Crime by Maurren Mutua. She is fluent in 6 languages, including her mother-tongue Russian, Spanish, Polish, English, Portuguese and French.