I am a former Associate General Counsel Compliance Programs, Director Corporate Compliance and Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer, and have spent my entire career in the in-house environment, specifically in the midstream energy (particularly pipelines) and petrochemicals industries. Throughout my career, I have focused on designing, implementing and overseeing enterprise-wide compliance programs designed to mitigate a wide range of legal risks and ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations in Canada, the U.S., and internationally. My experience has encompassed many areas of law and distinct types of business dealings and legal matters. The compliance programs I (together with the teams I have led) have developed included programs to ensure compliance with anti-bribery and anti-corruption, terrorist financing, anti-money laundering and facilitation of tax evasion laws, competition/antitrust laws and inter-affiliate codes and standards of conduct for transmission providers, safety management system-related regulations, electricity marketing, commodity trading and market manipulation regulations, as well as data privacy laws, government lobbying and political donations laws, environment, social & governance / sustainability related standards and the management of third party risk. I have also led the ethics and compliance function on teams charged with developing and negotiating agreements in respect of major projects, mergers and acquisitions, purchases of assets and the formation of joint ventures. My achievements have included: - Leading the development and management of a comprehensive third party compliance risk management program; - Successfully averting an additional year of regulatory compliance monitoring through effective management of the corporate response to a US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) compliance monitoring order; - Developing and implementing a corporate governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management system to track and manage more than 25,000 legal requirements company-wide, the way they were addressed and associated regulatory compliance reporting, payment and filing deadlines. This system was also used as a database to track instances of non-compliance, annual compliance certifications, audit deficiencies and compliance risks, and ultimately to analyze and address discrepancies between requirements and compliance controls; - Achieving significant, measurable improvements in corporate compliance culture through the development and oversight of numerous risk-based, enterprise-wide ethics and compliance programs in alignment with the US Federal Sentencing Guidelines and best practices. This work included: - presenting to and providing strategic and practical advice to senior executives and boards of directors; - establishing and chairing executive level compliance committees; - developing strategic plans and performance metrics; - developing reporting structures and dashboards to monitor compliance KPIs; - establishing and leading cross-functional compliance organizational structures and liaison networks to achieve business accountability for compliance; - establishing ethics frameworks; - developing and implementing corporate policies (including comprehensive values and principles-based codes of conduct); - developing and implementing whistleblower systems and reporting mechanisms, and conducting internal investigations into allegations of misconduct; - developing compliance risk identification, assessment and mitigation frameworks and conducting compliance risk assessments; and - developing and delivering training protocols and employee communication strategies.