Annual Meeting Biographies

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Tracy castle-newman

Former Wall Street Executive, Advocate for Women in Business, Board Advisor, Speaker

TCN Advisors

Tracy Castle-Newman is a highly accomplished Wall Street executive with over 35 years of experience in financial services. Most recently serving as the Head of Client Business Development and Strategy for the Global Institutional Equity Division at Morgan Stanley, where she spent over two decades leading organizational and business transformation. Following the Global Financial Crisis, Tracy played a pivotal role in transforming Morgan Stanley’s business by crafting and implementing a client strategy that led to significant organizational change and commercial impact.
Tracy is widely recognized for her unwavering advocacy for diversity, both within Morgan Stanley and among her clients. Her commitment to diversity is evident in her efforts to establish the only female equity portfolio manager community and create several marquee events aimed at elevating the profile of women managers in the industry. Her efforts have been recognized for helping numerous women launch their own hedge funds.
Tracy is celebrated for her dynamic and authentic approach, using storytelling and real-life examples to inspire and empower her audiences. Her talks offer practical advice on increasing impact and achieving goals, whether for organizations, clients, or personal development.
Post retiring from Morgan Stanley, Tracy founded TCN Advisors, a firm focused on consulting, coaching and building community. She serves as an External Advisor for Bain Consulting, as an Independent Board Trustee for Bitwise Funds Trust and is actively involved in her alma mater, Virginia Tech, where she serves as the Vice President of the Pamplin Advisory Council and serves on the Investment Committee of Virginia Tech’s endowment.

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Amy Carver

Partner

Welsh & Recker, Counsel for Former President of AIS

Philadelphia Chapter

Amy Carver, a partner at the Philadelphia litigation boutique Welsh & Recker, has dedicated her legal career to the practice of white collar criminal defense. Amy represents a broad range of both individuals and organizations and has successfully guided her clients through federal and state grand jury investigations, internal investigations, traditional criminal proceedings and related civil and administrative enforcement actions. Amy is ranked in the Chambers USA Guide for White Collar Crime & Government Investigations in Pennsylvania as well as numerous other rankings organizations. Amy is a graduate of Duke University and earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a proud member of the WWCDA Small Firm Initiative, formerly serving as its co-chair from 2022-2025.

Christiana Jacxsens

Corporate Vice President, General Counsel, Life Sciences & Litigation

B. Braun of America Group of Companies

Christiana Jacxsens is General Counsel, Life Sciences & Litigation at B. Braun of America Inc. She is a seasoned legal executive with over 20 years of experience specializing in complex litigation and regulatory strategy for life science companies. As General Counsel, Life Sciences & Litigation, Christiana leads high-stakes mass torts, class actions, product liability cases, and government and regulatory actions. With a background as a partner at a global law firm before moving in-house, Christiana is known for innovative defense and settlement strategies, effective risk management, and mentoring legal teams to achieve successful outcomes in challenging litigation environments.

Jessica Natali

Partner

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Counsel for B. Braun of America and AIS

Philadelphia Chapter

Jessica Natali is a Chambers-ranked, seasoned white collar defense attorney and former Assistant United States Attorney (Eastern District of Pennsylvania). She focuses her practice on representing public and private companies, as well as individuals, in federal and state criminal investigations, grand jury proceedings, and civil enforcement matters—particularly those triggered by whistleblower (qui tam) complaints. Jessica has substantial experience defending entities in the health care, securities, and financial services sectors against allegations of fraud, including health care fraud, financial services fraud, wire and mail fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, public corruption, and violations of statutes such as the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark Law, HIPAA, FDCA and FCPA. Her work often involves advising clients under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and handling complex matters involving national and international dimensions.

Jessica regularly conducts internal investigations for boards of directors, audit committees, and closely held companies, frequently leading teams to interview key personnel, prepare fact-finding reports, and recommend compliance improvements. She counsels clients on litigation strategy, risk mitigation, and settlement negotiations—including non-prosecution and deferred prosecution agreements. Her expertise extends to developing and implementing compliance programs aligned with DOJ guidelines, drafting policies, and training regarding ethics, anticorruption, and code of conduct violations. Throughout her career—including over 11 years as an Assistant United States Attorney—Jessica has worked closely with federal agencies such as the FBI, DEA, FDA, and HHS OIG, and is recognized for her thorough preparation, sophisticated legal analysis, and commitment to excellence in white collar defense and investigations.

Claire Schenk

Partner

Thompson Coburn LLP, Local Counsel for AIS

Missouri Chapter

Claire is a litigator focusing in health care fraud and abuse, False Claims Act litigation, and other complex white-collar litigation.
Drawing on 14 years as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Department of Justice and service as a Chief, Claire advises health care providers and government contractors. She guides physician groups, hospitals, pharmaceutical groups, and government contractors through the maze of complex and overlapping government regulatory schemes and assists with resolving their compliance concerns.
Health care providers and government contractors facing False Claims Act lawsuits turn to Claire for help in obtaining dismissals and successful resolutions. Parallel to these disputes, she helps clients work through all of the related administrative proceedings and compliance concerns that arise in licensure and while participating in federal and state programs.
Throughout her career, Claire represented clients in significant federal litigation and other commercial litigation matters. She also frequently served as a court-appointed receiver in litigation initiated by the SEC, the FTC, and the SBA, and served as counsel in receivership litigation.

Carolyn F. McNiven

Partner & Head of White Collar West Coast

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Counsel for B. Braun of America and AIS

San Francisco Chapter

Carolyn McNiven is a nationally recognized white collar defense attorney, known for her strong advocacy in high-stakes government enforcement matters. With a focus on health care enforcement defense and financial crimes, Carolyn represents companies (public and private) and individuals facing investigations and prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice and state authorities, particularly in cases triggered by qui tam (whistleblower) complaints. Carolyn’s practice includes defending against criminal and civil actions involving health care fraud, False Claims Act violations, anti-kickback allegations, and regulatory issues across the health sector, including pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, laboratories, hospital systems, retail pharmacies, licensed professionals, and business owners. Although she is not afraid to take a case to trial when appropriate, she is highly skilled at negotiating with enforcement authorities before charging decisions have been made and has an impressive record of persuading prosecutors to drop charges after they have been filed.

Drawing on her 14 years of experience as a federal criminal prosecutor—including serving as a health care fraud coordinator and leading multi-agency taskforces—Carolyn brings deep insight into government decision-making and enforcement strategies. She regularly conducts sensitive internal investigations, helps clients resolve regulatory violations, and assists with compliance program development. Carolyn’s expertise also extends to representing clients in joint defense teams, leveraging novel legal arguments in False Claims Act matters, and preparing executives for congressional testimony. Her reputation for integrity, sophisticated legal analysis, and cost-effective representation has made her a go-to defense attorney for complex white collar and health care enforcement cases.

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Jennifer Beidel

Member, White Collar and Government Investigations

Dykema Gossett PLLC

Michigan Chapter

Jennifer Beidel is the WWCDA Michigan Chapter Leader and a member of Dykema Gossett PLLC’s white collar and government investigations practice group in Detroit, Michigan. Jennifer is also a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York’s complex frauds and cybercrime unit. As befits a former federal prosecutor, Jennifer is a highly effective advocate who uses the insights, investigative experience, and courtroom acumen she gained in that role to guide and protect organizations and individuals in internal investigations, corporate compliance matters, and white-collar criminal defense cases. Persuasive and personable, a steady hand, and a strategic thinker, Jennifer is an invaluable ally for those anticipating or facing governmental and regulatory scrutiny. While she eschews a one-size-fits-all approach to her work, Jennifer’s goal is always the same: avoiding or minimizing risk, disruption, and costs. In civil and criminal matters involving a broad range of regulatory regimes, she protects the interests of a diverse cross-section of clients in heavily regulated industries, including healthcare, life sciences, food and agriculture, cannabis, and financial services. In Chambers USA, clients note that Jen is “great on her feet, terrific with witnesses, efficient and organized. She’s a smart and savvy lawyer who is highly experienced when it comes to the courtroom.” Most recently, Jennifer and her team convinced the DOJ Fraud Section to dismiss the charges against her client mid-trial in a highly-publicized research fraud case in the District of Maryland, for which Jennifer was recognized as Law.com’s Litigator of the Week.

Shelly Irvine

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Shelly Irvine is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Disputes Advisory Services practice within the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment. She is focused on clients who require intellectual property expertise in the context of a dispute as well as with solving strategic issues related to their intellectual assets. Her experience spans many industries including telecommunications, life sciences, semiconductor, clean energy, cloud computing and manufacturing. Ms. Irvine advises clients and counsel globally, including those based in Asia, UK and Europe, on complex issues related to damages quantification, expert testimony, valuation and licensing of intellectual property.

Ms. Irvine has more than 25 years of experience assessing damages in patent, copyright and trademark infringement disputes and trade secrets misappropriation matters. She has performed market and competitive studies, financial analyses and asset valuations that support lost profits and royalty rate determinations. Her work frequently involves evaluating the contribution of patented processes or methods to end products, identifying and assessing comparability of license agreements and applying damages frameworks consistent with evolving damages case law. Ms. Irvine’s practical hands on experience working alongside clients to navigate critical IP issues provides a broad base of knowledge, lending credibility to her dispute advisory work.

Ms. Irvine is a recognized thought leader in intellectual property damages and valuation. She has been featured as a speaker for the International Bar Association, Licensing Executives Society and the California CPA Society, and lectures at UC Berkeley, Stanford and UC Hastings College of Law. She has also served as faculty for the UCL/Taylor Wessing Conference on Standards, FRAND, NPEs and Injunctions, participating in panels alongside leading judges and academics in Washington DC, London and Tokyo. Her contributions to the field were acknowledged in IAM Patent 1000 for her deep industry insight and mastery of patent damages case law.

Rachel Berk

Vice President, Risk, Investigations & Analytics

Charles River Associates

New York Chapter

Rachel Berk is a vice president in CRA’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice. She is based in New York and has nearly 20 years of experience providing forensic accounting, financial analysis, and regulatory and consulting services to law firms, boards of directors, and corporate clients.

Ms. Berk specializes in investigations and disputes involving complex accounting issues and financial analysis, government and regulatory inquiries, and bankruptcies. She has led dozens of financial crime investigations involving financial statement fraud, asset misappropriations involving money transfers and wire fraud, accounting irregularities, securities fraud, Ponzi schemes and bribery and corruption including potential violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She also leads litigation support matters and has performed fraud risk and fraud program assessments for global financial institutions. She works across industries with a focus on financial services, consumer products and life sciences.

She is a certified public accountant, certified fraud examiner, certified insolvency and restructuring advisor, and is certified in financial forensics. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors. Ms. Berk is a frequent speaker and has taught numerous seminars on accounting, fraud, internal controls and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) topics for corporate clients and law firms. She has also written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Pensions & Investments Online, and PE Hub.

Prior to joining CRA, Ms. Berk was a senior manager in the Forensic practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, where she focused on leading investigations related to asset misappropriation, bribery and corruption, and financial statement fraud.

Stephanie Anderson

Global Co-Leader, Investigations and Forensic Accounting, Senior Managing Director

Ankura

Dallas Chapter

Stephanie leads Ankura’s Global Investigations and Forensic Accounting practice. She has over thirty years of experience performing accounting investigations as well as leading financial due diligence, post-acquisition integration, and operations improvement initiatives for large private equity firms and multinational companies. Stephanie has served in an interim CFO role for a publicly traded company to direct a restatement, finalize the audit and Form 10-K filing, and resolve a SEC inquiry into the company’s accounting practices. She lived and worked in Kuwait, Mexico, and Russia during her tenure at PricewaterhouseCoopers and has worked on many high profile complex and international matters. Stephanie is a CPA, certified by the AICPA in Business Valuation, a Certified Fraud Examiner and certified by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Mariah Rodriguez

Managing Director

BDO

Florida Chapter

Mariah Rodriguez is a Managing Director at BDO USA in Miami, specializing in regulatory transformation and financial crimes investigations. With 18 years of experience in the financial industry, she has led complex investigations, compliance initiatives, and regulatory remediation efforts for both U.S. and foreign financial institutions.

Mariah is recognized for her ability to streamline regulatory processes, eliminating inefficiencies and enhancing operational capacity within global organizations. Her deep experience in data modeling and quality management allows her to solve intricate compliance and operational challenges. She has worked extensively with U.S. and international regulators to address rule violations and implement remediation strategies.

Her experience includes:

Forensic and asset tracing investigations

Implementation of compliance programs

AML and sanctions investigations

Financial crime compliance for both financial and non-financial institutions

Before joining BDO, Mariah served as Head of U.S. Client Data at a Fortune 100 global financial institution, where she led a global data transformation initiative to meet regulatory reporting requirements. Her efforts optimized data flows from trade initiation to reporting, reducing processing costs. She also previously led the Financial Crimes Practice in Miami at Alvarez & Marsal.

Mariah holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of North Florida and has pursued master’s-level education in forensic accounting and data analytics at Florida Atlantic University. She holds a FINRA Series 99 license, is Six Sigma certified, and serves as a Relativity Administrator.

A bilingual professional fluent in English and Spanish, Mariah is an active member of the Women’s White-Collar Defense Association (WWCDA) and serves as a regional ambassador for the Women in Crypto Association.

Erin Toomey

Vice President & Managing Director, Global Investigations Practice Group

Epiq

Washington D.C. Chapter

Erin Toomey is Vice-President and Managing Director at Epiq and is the Leader of Epiq’s Global Investigations Practice Group, based in Washington, DC.
Throughout her twenty-year career, Erin has specialized in managing complex government investigations and antitrust projects, including merger reviews, large-scale litigation, and internal investigations. At Epiq, she oversees all aspects of service delivery for global investigations, including forensics, data processing, project management, analytics, and document review. Erin is also a recognized thought leader and speaker on cutting-edge technology issues, including the use of artificial intelligence tools to identify relevant and privileged content. Erin oversees a dedicated team of over 50 professionals who work exclusively on antitrust matters and global investigations.
Throughout the course of a project, Erin works closely with Epiq’s clients and provides guidance on the latest requirements of global regulators. She is a trusted advisor and partners with clients in their negotiations with global regulators concerning production standards, provisions for Technology Assisted Review compliance, foreign language translation, privilege logs and timing agreements. Erin also has extensive experience overseeing projects in multiple jurisdictions and is thoroughly familiar with international data privacy standards. She works closely with Epiq’s operational teams to assure the rapid deployment of internal resources so that our clients can efficiently comply with the compressed time requirements of global investigatory matters.
Erin holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from Wake Forest University.

Expert Insights on Monitors and Receiverships: A New Frontier or Business as Usual?

Sandra Moser

Partner and Co-Chair White Collar & Government Investigations

Morgan Lewis

Washington D.C. Chapter

Sandra Moser is a partner at Morgan Lewis where she co-leads the firm’s global white collar and investigations practice. A former chief of the DOJ’s Fraud Section in Washington, DC, and former AUSA in the District of New Jersey, she is a veteran investigator and trial lawyer who represents companies, Boards and executives in a wide range of matters involving the US DOJ, State Attorneys General, the SEC, the CFTC, the US Congress and various other domestic and international enforcement agencies. In her various leadership roles at the Fraud Section, Sandra led, negotiated, or approved dozens corporate enforcement resolutions, including global coordinated resolutions, and played a key role in the selection and oversight of corporate monitors. She currently serves as co-chair of the WWCDA’s national Monitorship Committee.

Lisa Osofsky

Partner and Managing Director

AlixPartners

Washington D.C. Chapter

Lisa's risk advisory and corporate compliance experience, in the UK and US, has distinguished her as a leader in investigating and combating complex financial crimes. She has served as a prosecutor, in-house counsel, money laundering reporting officer, corporate compliance monitor, and ethics advisor for both public and private sector organizations, on both sides of the Atlantic. Prior to joining AlixPartners as a Partner & Managing Director, Lisa served as the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK, where she held the highest-ranking position in white-collar crime prosecution, focusing on anti-corruption, fraud, and anti-money laundering. As board chair and chief executive, Lisa was responsible for overseeing all SFO operations, reporting directly to Parliament. Under her leadership, the SFO investigated and prosecuted some of the most intricate white-collar criminal matters across the UK, achieving landmark convictions and securing substantial conﬁscation orders. Her career also includes legal, compliance, and investigative roles at Goldman Sachs International and Control Risks Group, as well as the FBI, where she was Deputy General Counsel and Ethics Officer. Lisa holds a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. She is a barrister and member of the Maryland State Bar Association.

Karyl Van Tassel

Senior Managing Director

J.S. Held

Houston Chapter

As a leader in the investigative and litigation consulting area, Karyl oversees multi-disciplinary teams with a proven track record of working with clients to deliver high- value solutions to their most complex investigatory, monitorships/receiverships, litigation and financial challenges. She is often retained by outside counsel, audit committees and/or companies to assist in investigating allegations of accounting and financial improprieties and forensic accounting (including economic damages) in some of the largest cases in the country.

Krista Tongring

President, DEA Regulatory Compliance

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Washington DC Chapter

Krista Tongring serves as an Executive Vice President in the Guidepost Solutions Washington, DC office, where she oversees a variety of compliance issues, monitorships and investigations for clients. She brings a vast background of investigative, governmental, regulatory and compliance experience to Guidepost Solutions, which allows her to provide clients with personalized, thorough, and dedicated solutions.

Before joining Guidepost Solutions, Ms. Tongring established an accomplished career at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Most recently, she served as the Acting Section Chief at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Office of Compliance. She led policy discussions and developed strategies to implement new and revised policies. She worked to establish a more efficient policy review process through the use of an electric workflow and centralized policy website.

Prior to taking on the role of Acting Section Chief, Ms. Tongring served as a Senior Attorney for the DEA Diversion and Regulatory Litigation Section. In addition to litigating administrative actions, she supervised investigations to ensure compliance with the Controlled Substances Act, and coordinated DEA investigators, gathered evidence, conducted witness interviews, and prepared litigation recommendations.

Ms. Tongring spent a significant portion of her career as a federal prosecutor first in the criminal enforcement-side of the Tax Division and then in the Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Gang Section (OCGS). In these roles, she investigated and prosecuted complex criminal matters, including racketeering, money laundering, abusive trust and other tax matters, international organized crime, criminal asset forfeiture, and violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. While a member of OCGS, Ms. Tongring also served as Associate Counsel to DOJ’s International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center (IOC-2) where she represented the agency in high-level meetings with members of law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and global law enforcement agencies.

During her lengthy career in federal service Ms. Tongring has received numerous awards for her work, including the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Outstanding Trial Advocacy, the Tax Division Outstanding Attorney Award, a Special Achievement Award, and numerous Performance Awards. She was also named an honorary IRS-CI Special Agent by the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division for her work on a particularly complex abuse trust tax case.

Carrie Valente

Managing Director

Alvarez & Marsal - Disputes & Investigations

Florida Chapter

Carrie Valente is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Disputes & Investigations, based in Miami, Florida. She specializes in all types of financial crimes compliance, investigations, remediation, transformation and related systems and data work for clients under federal and state-level regulation and across a wide range of industries including banking, payments, technology, cryptocurrency exchanges/digital assets and gaming. She provides these services in the context of a trusted advisor, independent compliance consultant, monitor and other types of supporting roles. She has both domestic and international experience working in the U.S., Caribbean, Europe and Asia.

Carrie frequently teams with technology, data and analytics colleagues to provide end-to-end systems and data solutions for clients to support their BSA/AML and OFAC compliance programs. Specifically, she has led many projects to test data quality, completeness and lineage, assess risk coverage of relevant systems, perform model validation of key systems supporting these programs, optimizing systems and data for effectiveness and efficiency gains, and she has led several system implementations.

Carrie has also developed and executed new qualitative and quantitative based risk assessment and specific customer risk assessment methodologies for a wide variety of clients. She has helped many of those clients adapt their programs to the results of those assessments, drafted risk appetite statements, and help clients develop strategies for measuring and assessing results within the context of their defined risk appetite.

Carrie has also led dozens of clients successfully through regulatory enforcement actions, including historical transaction lookbacks, KYC remediations, policies and procedures re-development, governance assessments, staffing assessments, customized training programs and other remediation and enhancement initiatives. She has designed regulator-approved methodologies and frequently supports clients in their efforts to improve communication and effectiveness with their regulators.

Carrie is frequently appointed for independent testing of a wide array of client’s BSA/AML and OFAC compliance programs. She has also helped overhaul companies’ internal audit methodologies for this space and trained internal audit teams on the subject matter and how to be more effective at risk-based testing and reporting.

Michele Edwards

Partner

StoneTurn

Chicago Chapter

Michele Edwards, a Partner with StoneTurn, has approximately 30 years of combined experience in fraud and compliance risk management, forensic investigations, compliance and monitoring and auditing. She specializes in assessing, implementing and remediating antifraud and compliance programs, including as part of corporate compliance monitorships. Her experience includes:

Appointed Independent Compliance Co-Monitor and Navy Independent Monitor, respectively, for a global ship builder and defense prime contractor;

Serves on the leadership team supporting the Independent Compliance Monitor, appointed by the DOJ, of a multinational e-commerce company, related to its compliance with a Deferred Prosecution Agreement;

Serves on two leadership teams supporting Monitoring Trustees, appointed by DOJ Antitrust, related to the oversight of compliance with obligations within two Stipulation and Order and Final Judgments related to mergers.

Chief of Staff and led the Independent Compliance Monitor and Auditor team appointed by the DOJ for Volkswagen AG, one of the largest and most high-profile corporate compliance monitorships in history;

Served as a risk assessment subject matter expert to the DOJ-appointed Independent Compliance and Ethics Monitor to a global investment bank; and

Led the StoneTurn team serving as forensic adviser to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration appointed Monitor of a Tier-One automotive supplier.

She also has extensive experience assessing the design effectiveness and testing the operating effectiveness of remedial actions taken by companies to address root-cause findings, prevent future misconduct and support favorable government settlements where no compliance monitor was appointed. Currently she serves as the External Compliance Consultant of a Japanese truck manufacturer related to post-settlement compliance and self-reporting obligations in a Plea Agreement and Consent Decree.

Michele has assisted many Fortune 500 companies with building and assessing antifraud and compliance programs and controls, conducting fraud audits and operationalizing robust fraud detection strategies with enhanced internal controls. In addition, she spent eight years conducting financial statement audits, and advising clients on initial and secondary public offerings, acquisitions, purchase price negotiations and private placements.

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Amy Jane Longo

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Los Angeles Chapter

Amy Jane Longo is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s litigation and enforcement practice group, where she focuses on SEC enforcement matters and the defense of securities and other class action cases. Amy has more than 25 years of experience in securities litigation, with significant first-chair experience both as a defense counsel and as a senior SEC trial attorney. Amy has extensive experience in the financial services, technology, and healthcare/life sciences industries, both in the public and the private sector, as well as in the defense of ERISA cases and other complex business disputes. She is an industry thought leader on AI-related matters, regularly advising clients on SEC enforcement and litigation trends, and proposed rulemaking. Amy also serves as a Steering Committee member of R&G Insights Lab, a differentiated solution for corporate governance and risk in complex business environments.

Amy previously served as the Regional Trial Counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Los Angeles Regional Office in the Division of Enforcement, where she oversaw all litigation brought by the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office—from pre-filing through trial or resolution—in federal district court and SEC administrative proceedings.

Hemma Lomax

Deputy General Counsel, Vice President, Head of Global Business Integrity

Docusign, Inc.

Dr Hemma R. Lomax is a passionate ethics and compliance professional focused on effective risk management at scale, coaching for compliance, and the compliance customer experience.

She currently serves as the VP, Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Ethics and Compliance at Docusign. Docusign is so much more than an e-signature, and Hemma enjoys working for a company that allows her to leverage the product to enhance her ethics and compliance processes, providing data-driven insights and a seamless customer experience. Ask her about how legal and compliance teams create, commit to, and manage agreements using Docusign's Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform.

Hemma was formerly the VP of Integrity, Governance, Risk, and Compliance and an Associate General Counsel at Zendesk, where she led the global ethics and compliance function. Prior to joining Zendesk, she served as a senior corporate counsel in the Integrity and Compliance team at Snap Inc. and as a director in the Global Ethics and Compliance Management team at The Walt Disney Company. Hemma co-chairs the Bay Area High-Tech Compliance Group and serves on several corporate advisory boards.

Hemma also served for just over a decade prosecuting financial fraud and corruption with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. She is a British-trained barrister who has previously worked as parliamentary counsel for the UK government and as an adviser to the government of Guyana at the United Nations. Hemma is a strong advocate for integrity at work, active bystandership, and culture-building. She has a PhD in human rights and the role of law in war. She lives in Maryland with her husband and their two daughters.

Kaitlin Shannon

Lead Counsel

Sally Sears

Corporate Ethics Officer and Head of Corporate Function Compliance

Prudential Financial

Sally Sears serves as the global Corporate Ethics Officer. Ms. Sears joined Prudential Financial in 2021, as Vice President Ethics & Conflicts of Interest. Ms. Sears leads the organization’s global ethics and conflicts of interest programs. She also oversees compliance for Prudential’s corporate functions.

Prior to joining Prudential, Ms. Sears served as the Vice President of Ethics & Compliance at Tyson Foods, where her responsibilities spanned oversight of enterprise-wide internal investigations, ethics reporting hotline, and case management; oversight of global social compliance audit program (supplier responsibility); anticorruption program evolution; governance enhancements; risk assessments; regulatory/legal compliance monitoring in high-risk areas; M&A due diligence support and post-deal integration of ethics and compliance programs; and participation in enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.

Ms. Sears was also an equity partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where she counseled and litigated on behalf of Fortune 10 to Fortune 500 clients, privately held corporations, and bankruptcy trustees across 10 key industries, including financial services, insurance, real estate, manufacturing, professional services, and technology. Ms. Sears served on 5 firm committees supporting the firm’s governance processes, fiscal management, and diversity commitment.

Ms. Sears earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from James Madison College at Michigan State University, and graduated Order of the Coif from University of Michigan Law School. Ms. Sears is committed to providing pro bono legal services and supports various civic and charitable organizations.

Sarah Flanagan

Associate General Counsel and Senior Director

TP-Link Systems

Sarah Flanagan is Associate General Counsel and Senior Director at TP-Link Systems Inc. She manages government investigations and regulatory legal issues and advises executive leadership and the Board of Directors on international trade, antitrust, privacy, cybersecurity, and labor and employment law. Sarah also leads the company's ethics and compliance program and oversees internal investigations. Prior to joining TP-Link in 2025, Sarah was in-house counsel for Intel and Chevron and, before that, she was in private practice in Northern California. She serves as Co-Chair of the ABA Antitrust Section's In-House Counsel Committee.

Sarah Soifer

Vice President, Legal & Chief Compliance Officer

Zura Bio Ltd.

Sarah Soifer is the Vice-President, Legal and Chief Compliance Officer at Zura Bio. Zura Bio is a clinical-stage, multi-asset immunology company dedicated to developing novel dual-pathway antibodies for a range of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases with unmet needs. Prior to that role, she was Head of Global Compliance & Privacy at Atara Biotherapeutics, Inc. a cell therapy biotechnology company.

Sarah joined Atara after more than a decade at Amgen Inc., with roles of increasing responsibility in both the Law and Worldwide Compliance and Business Ethics departments, including an assignment as the first Head of Compliance for Amgen’s Asia Pacific region. During her career in the legal and compliance fields, Sarah has focused her practice on the biotechnology industry. Sarah advises her business partners on the intersection of the law, compliance, and privacy in commercializing cutting edge biologics across multiple jurisdictions.

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Stephanie Siegmann

Partner

Hinckley Allen & Snyder, LLP

Boston Chapter

Leveraging her extensive and vast experience as a former Navy JAG and national security prosecutor, B. Stephanie Siegmann specializes in handling high-stakes criminal and civil litigation matters, sensitive internal investigations, government enforcement proceedings and cyber-related incidents of all kinds. She is a litigation partner at Hinckley, Allen, & Snyder LLP, Chair of its International Trade & National Security group, and Co-Chair of its Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence Practice Groups. Stephanie has been a trial lawyer for more than 25 years, has overseen hundreds of complex investigations, and tried dozens of federal trials. She uses her experience as a former prosecutor to defend companies and individuals in complex government investigations and advises clients on a full range of issues involving national security, export controls, sanctions, cybersecurity, cyber incident response, data privacy, the use of AI tools and systems, anti-money laundering, grant compliance, theft of trade secrets and intellectual property, and healthcare and financial crimes. Stephanie conducts internal investigations, provides guidance on developing robust regulatory compliance programs, interfaces with law enforcement agencies, responds to government inquiries and subpoenas, seeks to favorably resolve government enforcement matters, and provides aggressive representation in civil and criminal matters.

Prior to joining Hinckley Allen in March 2022, Stephanie handled and supervised some of the highest profile national security matters in the country during her 18-year tenure as a former prosecutor and National Security Chief in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. In her capacity as National Security Chief, she was responsible for supervising all national security investigations/prosecutions in Massachusetts, including cyber intrusions, international and domestic terrorism, terrorist financing, violations of U.S. export control laws and sanctions regulations, espionage, trade secret theft, foreign influence operations, money laundering, and fraud.
Stephanie has earned numerous honors and awards during her career, most notably, she is ranked as a top lawyer in White-Collar Crime & Government Investigation by Chambers and Partners (2025) and was the recipient of the 2025 UMass Boston Distinguished Alumni award. Stephanie graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelors of Arts Degree in History and Psychology and graduated magna cum laude from Suffolk University Law School with a Juris Doctor. She also now teaches as adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School’s Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity, Risk and Governance.

Jessie Liu

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in first Trump Administration

Jessie K. Liu is a partner in the Washington, D.C., Litigation Group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Prior to joining the firm, she served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and deputy general counsel at the Department of the Treasury. In addition, she has held senior roles in the Department of Justice’s National Security Division and Civil Rights Division, and has worked as counsel to the deputy attorney general and as an assistant U.S. attorney. She also has been a partner at two other international law firms.

Lisa Miller

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for DOJ's Criminal Division Fraud and Appellate Sections

Washington DC Chapter

Lisa Miller is a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP. Lisa focuses her practice on white collar criminal defense, internal and government investigations, compliance matters, and crisis management. Prior to joining Sidley, Lisa spent more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where she held several senior leadership positions, tried more than a dozen federal criminal cases before juries, and spearheaded the resolution of more than 35 corporate criminal cases. Most recently, Lisa served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Criminal Division, the third highest rank in the Division, responsible for supervising the Fraud Section and Appellate Section. Lisa received her B.A. cum laude from Cornell University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, and clerked for Hon. Edgardo Ramos (S.D.N.Y.).

Soumya Dayananda

Partner

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Washington DC Chapter

Soumya Dayananda is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation Department, where she is a member of the Investigations & Enforcement Practice in Washington, DC and New York.

Soumya has more than 20 years of public service experience, encompassing two decades at the premier state and federal prosecutors’ offices in New York and two high-profile Senate and House congressional committees in Washington, DC. Soumya spent more than a decade as a federal prosecutor at the Eastern District of New York, after beginning her career at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. After leaving DOJ, Soumya was a senior investigative counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Government Affairs Committee and the House Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Soumya’s experience includes handling complex investigations, crisis management, and congressional oversight. She represents private companies, public entities and individuals facing scrutiny by the federal government, including the Department of Justice, State Attorney Generals and Congress.

Soumya is recognized as one of the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America in the areas of Litigation, White Collar, and Investigations.

Thea Kendler

Partner

Mayer Brown LLP, former Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Department of Commerce, former DOJ Prosecutor

Washington DC Chapter

Thea Kendler is a partner with Mayer Brown, where she co-leads the law firm’s global Sanctions
& Export Controls practice. As a former Senate-confirmed U.S. Commerce Department
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Thea advises clients on export controls and
sanctions-related compliance and investigations. Clients rely on Thea’s unique background of
more than 20 years of regulatory, prosecutorial, and policymaking experience at Commerce and
in the Justice Department’s National Security Division, where she led investigations and
prosecuted cases involving export controls, sanctions, and economic espionage. Thea is a
graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Jenny kennedy gellie

Partner

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, former Chief of Counterintelligence & Export Control Section, DOJ's National Security Division

Washington DC Chapter

Jennifer Kennedy Gellie is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Jenny focuses her practice on investigations, criminal defense, and compliance in the national security space. Prior to joining Pillsbury, Jenny served as Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section in DOJ’s National Security Division. In that role, Jenny oversaw DOJ’s nation state threats portfolio, including counterintelligence, export controls and sanctions, foreign malign influence, and transnational repression. Previously, Jenny served as FARA Unit Chief, overseeing civil, administrative enforcement of FARA. Concurrently, Jenny was also the Deputy Section Chief over CES’s counter-foreign malign influence portfolio, supervising prosecutions of criminal violations of FARA, 18 U.S.C. § 951, and other statutes.

Jenny holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia, a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law.

Erica Macdonald

Partner, Co-Chair of White Collar Defense & Investigations Team, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota in first Trump Administration

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Minnesota Chapter

Erica MacDonald is a Partner at the law firm of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath where serves as the Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense & Global Investigations team. She also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, teaching a class in Advanced Trial Advocacy.

Prior to joining Faegre, Ms. MacDonald served as the 36th United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota. In addition to leading her office, Ms. MacDonald was selected at one of a small group of US Attorneys to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, a body designed to give the collective 94 United States Attorneys voice in DOJ policies and to advise the US Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General. The Attorney General also chose Ms. MacDonald to serve as one of 16 Commissioners of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. The work of the Commission was to conduct a modern study of the state of policing and determine specific measures to reduce crime and promote the rule of law.

Before her service at the United States Attorney, Ms. MacDonald served as a Judge of District Court in Minnesota’s First Judicial District for over eight years and as an Assistant United States Attorney for over a decade in the Chicago and Minneapolis offices, with a recognized expertise in the prosecution of cases involving violent crimes, child exploitation and human trafficking.

Ms. MacDonald began her legal career serving as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable James Alesia in the Northern District of Illinois and subsequently as a Judicial Law Clerk for Honorable Harriet Lansing at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. She received her B.A. in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law.