Date:	February 7, 2012
Time:	2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Cost:	Complimentary

There is an increasingly fine line between an organization – and its third party suppliers and partners. Perception is reality – and the reality is that corruption and other illegal business activities by third parties are becoming increasingly costly for organizations. Even established third party risk management programs are falling short – relying on manual processes that do not scale, are difficult to audit and lack the ability to enable market comparisons for benchmarking. Organizations are looking for ways to effectively streamline and automate the process of screening third party suppliers and partners because it’s good for business – and increasingly a requirement for compliance with global regulations including the UK Bribery Act and the FCPA.

Please join our guest speaker, Steve Vale, the Managing Director of Risk Solutions, for a presentation with a “from the field perspective” using Risk Solutions & Investigations’ anecdotal experience and point of view on effective program components such as:

• Matching risks to responses
  
• Managing results
  
• Responding to raw information from the field
  
• Comparing data sets between the developed and developing worlds
  
• Customizing questionnaires
  
• “Complying with compliance”
  
• Feedback loops, trend analysis
  

PRESENTERS:

Stephen Vale

Managing Director, Risk Solutions and Investigations

A lawyer by training with over thirty years’ experience in the risk and investigative arena, Mr. Vale is currently Managing Director of the Los Angeles office of the RISQ Group - a global investigations and risk management firm. Prior to joining RISQ, Mr. Vale was a founding principal of Risk Solutions & Investigations, Inc., a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Managing Director at Kroll Associates. Mr. Vale received his B.A. from Western Connecticut State University and his law degree from the University Of Connecticut School Of Law. He is a member of the Connecticut bar association.

Jacki Trevino

Chief Compliance Officer, Global Compliance