Conference Chair

Gavin Ingram, General Counsel Asia Pacific and Vice President Strategic Planning, Global Blue
Gavin Ingram is General Counsel Asia Pacific and Vice President Strategic Planning for Global Blue. Gavin also acts as Company Secretary for Global Blue’s Singapore entities. Prior to Global Blue, Gavin was Legal Director Asia for AdventBalance which is a new and innovative law firm that seconds their lawyers to sit with the clients during the term of the secondment. Prior to AdventBalance, Gavin was General Counsel Asia for the Australian listed company BlueScope Steel (formerly BHP Steel) where Gavin managed all legal and compliance issues across BlueScope’s Asia footprint. In this role, Gavin was awarded the leading in-house counsel award in Asia-Pacific by AsiaLaw in 2007.

Gavin started his career in private practice as an infrastructure lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron (as it then was, now Ashursts) and Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills). Gavin holds Law and Commerce degrees from Australia and most recently completed his MBA (with Honors) through the University of Chicago.

Gavin has significant experience in navigating the challenges of Asia’s diverse legal systems.

Speakers And Panelists

Dan Whitaker, Managing Director, China, Consilio
A China and strategic sales expert, Dan Whitaker has held sales leadership and general management positions in technology-focused and software organizations here in China and in the United States. Soon after arriving in Shanghai in 2008, Dan worked closely with the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai and the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai to lead the successful 61.5 million USD sales and diplomacy effort for the construction and operation of the USA Pavilion at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo. This accomplishment against difficult odds established Dan’s credentials as a can-do China expert and trusted advisor to American businesses in China, and he continues to volunteer in senior roles as a Warden to the US Consulate in Shanghai as well as the Chair of the USA Girl Scouts Overseas Shanghai.

On the eDiscovery front, Dan leads the Consilio China team and is routinely asked to assist multi-national and Chinese companies with data collection, processing & hosting, and managed document review services within the PRC. Dan often speaks at conferences and serves as a subject matter expert for legal practitioners with a China focus throughout America, China, and southeast Asia.

Scott Lane, CEO & Chairman, The Red Flag Group®
Scott has over 22 years’ experience in legal, compliance, internal audit, export control, ethics and corporate governance, providing counsel and advice to senior management throughout the world in the development of legal and compliance practices. Scott has worked as a senior director and general counsel in various multinational corporations in Australia, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, and has significant experience in complex compliance issues. Scott has worked in several industries, ranging from insurance to high technology. He has spoken at over 100 conferences on compliance in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Scott is an avid writer, and has had over 100 articles published in leading newspapers and journals, including The Red Flag Group’s own Compliance Insider® of which he is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief.

Maurice Burke, Partner, Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee
Maurice Burke heads the Hogan Lovells dispute resolution practice in South East Asia.  Widely recognised as one of the leading dispute practitioners in his field, Maurice has advised a broad range of multinational clients on successful strategies that meet their commercial goals. With over 20 years' of experience in Asia, Maurice understands the market, his clients' regional problems and how to solve them.

Maurice represents clients in dispute resolution, investigation and contentious regulatory matters across the region, including in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. Maurice has particular knowledge in highly regulated sectors including financial services, oil and gas, mining and telecommunications.

Daniel Levison, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Daniel Levison is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Singapore office, where he heads its Litigation Department. Mr. Levison counsels clients regarding compliance matters and conducts internal investigations and compliance reviews across the Asia-Pacific region, where he has over 17 years of experience. 

Clients say that Mr. Levison “is intelligent, thorough and flexible in meeting our company’s needs”, and rely on his experience with highly sensitive matters, which have included fraud and corruption, cartel and other competition matters, anti-money laundering, export control, privacy and data security, and regulatory and product safety investigations. In addition, he assists clients with pre-acquisition and third-party anti-corruption due diligence, and developing, reviewing and implementing anti-corruption policies, procedures and training programs.

Mr. Levison was recently listed by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018 as a top practitioner in his field for Corporate Investigations/Anti-corruption. 

Geoffrey Atkins, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Geoff is a partner in the Litigation and Enforcement practice group at Ropes & Gray in Hong Kong. Geoff advises public companies, fund sponsors, and financial services clients in the U.S. and throughout Asia in connection with civil and criminal government enforcement matters before the SEC, DOJ, and other state and foreign regulators.  Geoff regularly advises corporate management and directors conducting internal investigations, evaluating sensitive governance issues, and establishing regulatory compliance programs. Geoff has particular experience advising clients regarding potential violations of global anti-corruption, sanctions, and securities laws in relation to their operations in India, China, and throughout Southeast Asia.

Alexis Lu, Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Singapore) LLP
Alexis Lu represents individual and corporate clients in cross-border and Asia-related internal investigations, U.S. regulatory enforcement actions and compliance matters arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and other U.S. laws.

She has extensive experience handling corporate investigations of multinational companies’ business operations, parallel investigations by federal regulators including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), FCPA/compliance due diligence in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and advising on clients’ compliance programs.

Ms. Lu also defends U.S.-listed companies based in Asia in putative class actions brought under U.S. federal securities laws in U.S. federal courts, and has successfully secured the dismissal of such actions on dispositive motions.

Ms. Lu’s recent representations include:

• iDreamSky Technology Limited in a federal SLUSA securities class action alleging claims in connection with its August 2014 initial public offering;
• Jumei International Holding Limited, a Chinese online retailer, in securing the dismissal of a putative federal securities class action alleging that it made false and misleading statements regarding its financial performance;
• multiple internal investigations of an international pharmaceutical company in connection with alleged FCPA violations in Asia;
• an internal investigation of a global health care conglomerate in response to inquiries by the DOJ and the SEC relating to the company’s potential FCPA violations and other compliance issues; and
• multiple FCPA and other compliance due diligence on behalf of multinational companies across various industries in connection with their acquisitions in Asia.

Richard Carrick, Regional Head of Financial Crime Assurance, Barclays Bank PLC
Richard in his current capacity with Barclays Bank PLC is responsible for Financial Crime 2nd line of defence Assurance ensuring that Barclay’s Asian businesses, (Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth & Investment Banking), are in compliance with FCA and local regulatory requirements and to ensure that Asian business are updated in line with industry’s best practices. He is also responsible for the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit in APAC. Initiatives undertaken include Big Data Analytics, Continuous Control Monitoring and Emerging Risks Scanning.

Sonali N. Narasimhan, Chief Compliance Officer, ASEAN, General Electric
Sonali has held compliance roles at South Asia and ASEAN at General Electric Corporation since April 2011. She is currently performing the dual role of Chief Compliance Officer, ASEAN, General Electric Corporation and Senior Compliance Counsel, GE Oil & Gas Asia Pacific. She was the recipient of GE’s Global Corporate Award in 2014 for outstanding contribution towards making GE’s Compliance Program simpler and more effective. She is also the current leader for GE Oil & Gas Chapter of GE Women’s Network, Singapore Hub (since 2016). GE Women’s Network fosters professional women’s development to grow, attract and retain successful women through information, education, and networking with other women across GE.

Mark Tan, General Counsel, GLP
Mark Tan is General Counsel of GLP. Mark is responsible for overseeing all legal matters, including regulatory compliance, contract negotiations on fund management transactions, acquisitions and dispositions and other significant transactions. Prior to joining GLP, Mark was previously at Shearman & Sterling LLP, Singapore where he represented underwriters, issuers and private equity sponsors on debt and equity offerings. Previously, Mark also worked at Goldman Sachs and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

Mark received his Juris Doctor Honors from the University of Toronto and Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science, Economics Minor from the University of Waterloo. He is based in Singapore.

Chris Royal, VP, Ethics and Compliance Officer Emerging Markets, Global Ethics & Compliance, GSK
Chris works within the Global Ethics & Compliance function at GSK as VP, Head of Ethics and Compliance Emerging Markets. 

After graduating from Birmingham University, with a degree in degree in Chemical Engineering, Chris began his in the pharmaceutical industry in 1998 with GSK in London.  Chris was with the Internal Audit group for 8 years and was responsible for reviewing internal controls of GSK’s subsidiaries, branch offices and cross functional processes around the world. Following that Chris was responsible for GSK’s worldwide implementation of Enterprise Risk Management.  Chris joined the Compliance organization in 2011 originally as the Global Compliance Officer for GSK’s Dermatology Business Unit (Stiefel). In 2014, Chris took on the position as VP, Head of Ethics and Compliance in China and was recently promoted in October 2016 to head up the Asia Pacific and Japan region. As of October 2017, Chris has been appointed as the Head of Ethics and Compliance for the Emerging Markets region.   In his current role, Chris provides strategic direction for all compliance related activities to effectively manage business unit risk. 

Chris is a UK Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) and holds an MBA from Henley Business School (UK).

Brent E. Jones, Director of Investigations, Asia Pacific and Japan, HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
Brent Jones is the Director of Investigations for Asia Pacific and Japan at HPE and manages internal SBC and governmental investigations. Prior to joining HPE, Brent was counsel in the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). While at the SEC, Brent handled cases involving insider trading, financial fraud, market manipulation, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Before joining the SEC, Brent worked as an associate at the law firms of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Ropes & Gray; and Kirkland & Ellis, focusing primarily on investigating allegations of FCPA violations worldwide. Brent holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana.

Andrew Tang, Vice-President, Compliance, Legg Mason Global Asset Management
Andrew is Legg Mason Global Asset Management’s Vice-President and heads the Compliance team for Singapore and South East Asia. Andrew joined Legg Mason in 2014 and he coordinates the client due diligence in the region as well as helps to develop the compliance monitoring programme and adherence to the regulatory aspect of the distribution business.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Macquarie University, Sydney and a Diploma in Compliance from International Compliance Association.

Warren Kim, Chief Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, Schaeffler
Warren Kim serves as the Chief Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, at Schaeffler.  He is based in Singapore and oversees all regional compliance activities relating to antitrust, anti-corruption, white collar crime, corporate and information security, AML, and data privacy, including risk assessments and investigations.  Before joining Schaeffler, Warren worked at an international financial institution in Basel and law firms in Singapore, Seoul, and New York. 

Warren received his law degrees from Goethe University (LL.B.), the University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.M.), and Columbia Law School (J.D.).  He is qualified as an Attorney-at-law (New York) and as a Solicitor (England and Wales). 

Stanley Park, Managing Director/Head of Legal – Asia Pacific, Scotiabank
Stanley Park is Managing Director and Head of Legal - Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other responsibilities, Stanley provides (i) transactional advice and support to the Bank's businesses related to capital markets, investment banking, commodities, corporate lending/trade finance and global transaction banking; (ii) regulatory advice and support re the Bank's businesses; (iii) management of litigation and disputes; (iv) advice and support to the Bank's internal or proprietary functions (including proprietary investments, HR matters, Finance); and (v) participation in corporate governance or oversight.

Prior to joining Scotiabank, Stanley was with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in NYC, from 1992 - 2001; with Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 - 2007; with DKR Oasis, as Chief Compliance Officer, in Hong Kong in 2008; with Barclays Global Investors, as General Counsel, in Tokyo from 2009 - 2010; and with Daiwa Capital Markets, as Senior Legal Counsel, in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 - 2014. Stanley graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1985 and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Stanley has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1994.

James Lee, Compliance Counsel, Japan & Asia Pacific Regions, Twitter
James Lee works within the Compliance function at Twitter as the Compliance Counsel overseeing the Japan and Asia Pacific Regions. James has more than 20 years' experience as a legal professional in the Asia Pacific region, with the last 6 years spent as Compliance Counsel for the Asia Pacific region, first with Nokia Networks, and thereafter with Twitter since December 2016. His in-house corporate experience spans the power, chemicals, telecommunications and news and social networking industries. In his current role, James is responsible for developing and managing all compliance-related matters for Twitter's Japan and Asia Pacific business as well as global initiatives in relation to third party risk management.