Odvar Bjerkolt

Emmanuel Olivares

Stefania Butoi Varga

Stefania Varga is the Group Chief Compliance and Data Protection Officer at Landis+Gyr. Stefania leads the compliance and data protection management programs of the Group across 30+ jurisdictions where the company has a local presence, and is responsible for advising on compliance and data protection matters across all 100+ jurisdictions where the company operates. Stefania has been with Landis+Gyr in Switzerland since 2019. Previously, Stefania gained valuable experience in internal compliance matters while working in a mid-size law firm in Washington D.C. helping achieve justice for plaintiffs who had been subjected to workplace harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and violations of whistleblowing obligations.  

Stefania is a lawyer in good standing of the New York State Bar, where she applied for admission following her studies at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. She is also a Certified Privacy Professional (CIPP/E and CIPM) since 2021.

Tarana Baghirova

Kees van Ophem

Dr Nora Bartos

Nora Zsofia Bartos works as Chief Export Control and Sanctions Officer at Roche. She is responsible for the strategic management and continuous improvement of Roche's economic sanctions compliance program, including export control and financial sanctions matters. In this role, she is responsible for developing global export control and sanctions compliance strategies, in close collaboration with the Group Compliance Officer.

She monitors relevant regulatory changes and ensures their adequate implementation in the Pharmaceuticals Division and in cross-divisional functions such as Finance, Treasury, Information Technology, Purchasing and Human Resources. This also includes determining appropriate organizational structures and related responsibilities, processes and procedures; providing guidance on approval requirements and coordinating approval requests globally; reviewing and approving and/or rejecting blocked business partners; managing interaction with embargoed territories; defining the annual training cycle of dedicated professionals around the world; and conducting the annual internal audit program in the field.

In addition, Nora represents the company before export control and sanctions regulators and committees. She lives in Basel, Switzerland.

Prior to joining Roche, Nora worked for Big4 consulting firms in Hungary, Romania and Switzerland in the areas of customs and international trade as well as taxation, and advised the automotive, FMCG, pharmaceutical and precision manufacturing industries.

Nora is a Hungarian lawyer and holds an LLM degree with a focus on tax law, including customs law, in addition to her BA degree in Business Administration from Middlesex University. She is a certified tax advisor and holds a license as a customs and excise declarant in Hungary.

Nora is a regular speaker at international trade and sanctions conferences and authors articles in printed and online journals on sanctions and international trade issues. She is also co-author of the IBFD publication on Global Trade and Customs and the new edition of Dual -Use Export Controls of the European Union, currently under editorial review at the publisher WorldECR, the journal of export controls and sanctions.

Frank Vießmann

Frank Vießmann, Chief Compliance Officer at Continental AG. He joined Continental in 2021 after more than a decade with Mercedes Benz AG (previously Daimler AG).

 Frank has been handling several major multinational investigations with a multitude of international regulators such as US DoJ, SEC, EPA, CARB, KFTC, several German Public Prosecutor offices and many more.

 In his current task of restructuring Continental’s worldwide Compliance activities, he puts a strong emphasize on strategic and holistic compliance management, driving technological innovation in Compliance processes and fostering Integrity Culture throughout the company.