2025 Speakers

Adrian Mom

Adrian is a Partner in the AlixPartners Risk Advisory team, located in Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in leveraging cutting-edge technology and accounting expertise to conduct internal and regulatory high-profile investigations, monitorships, risk analytics, comprehensive reviews of compliance programs, and related transformations.

Adrian’s experience includes complex local and cross-border compliance matters across several industries in connection with AFC obligations, (top)-management misconduct, accounting fraud, corruption, bribery, tax fraud, asset misappropriation, and other related offenses.

He is recognized by Who is Who Legal as one of the Future Global Leaders in Investigations 2021 and 2022, is a CFA charter holder and holds a MSc in Finance from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Dario S. Rufini

Dr. Jan Sprake

Elena Mokretsova

Elena has extensive international experience in Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering with global financial institutions with roles based in Switzerland, Spain, Mexico and Poland, with special interest in detecting money laundering patterns of Latin-American and Russian organized crime groups, as well as prevention of embezzlement of funds proceeding from public contracts.

In her current role with Banco Santander, she is responsible for leading Financial Crime Compliance team covering Sanctions Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations and Periodic Reviews.

Prior to joining Santander Group in 2018 in Madrid, she was with Citigroup from 2009 until the end of 2017, covering the role of AML Global Investigation Unit Senior Compliance with Citi in Mexico as her last position, working on complex investigative projects on organized crime and corruption proceeds laundering in Latin American Region. Her main achievements in this role include development of investigative projects focused on detection of money laundering schemes used by Russian organized crime applied for Latin American drug-cartels and public embezzlement project aimed to identify corruption schemes in Construction sector in Mexico.

Before that, Elena was AML Quality Assurance Team Leader in Mexico and AML Subject Matter Expert (SME) for EMEA Region in Warsaw, as well with Citigroup. In the SME role in Poland, she was supporting the migration of the AML Operations processes for virtual units in Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.

She graduated with a master’s degree in International Economics from Lazarski School of Commerce and Law based in Warsaw in 2009 and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance management from Higher School of Economics, Russia. Elena has Advanced AML Certification by International Compliance Association and collaborated for the book The Untold Stories of Financial Crime by Maurren Mutua. She is fluent in 6 languages, including her mother-tongue Russian, Spanish, Polish, English, Portuguese and French.

Kurt Lunkenheimer

Michael Faske

Michael is a senior executive with deep expertise in Fraud Investigation and Prevention, Financial Crime Compliance, Ethics and Integrity Programs, and Internal Controls. He has successfully delivered numerous projects, expertly navigating complex business issues, managing stakeholder expectations, and effectively collaborating with regulators across various industries. With a dynamic leadership style and excellent interpersonal and communication skills, Michael has worked extensively in both the USA and Europe. He holds a Master’s and Ph.D. in Law, is admitted to the bar in Hamburg, Germany, and is a Certified Fraud Examiner. Michael is also an accomplished author of thought leadership articles, a guest lecturer at two universities, an active public speaker, and a member of various professional organizations.

Rafael Merencio

Sandra Middel

Mihai Keller

Simon Plüss

Tatjana Woedlinger LL.M., LL.B., CGSS

Ulina Bajraktaraj

William P. Barry

Pierre-Alain Krohn

Pierre-Alain Krohn joined Bitcoin Suisse in April 2022 after holding a leadership role at J.P. Morgan in Geneva for 5 years focusing on anti-money laundering, governance, and controls. Prior to this, he held key positions as advisor on legal and regulatory matters at M&G Investments in London, as well as Rothschild & Co and Credit Suisse in Zurich. He graduated from the University of Zurich with a Master of Law degree.

Karin de Witt

Kersten Schmahl

Kersten Schmahl is Senior Director Ethics & Compliance Intercontinental at CSL, a global listed biotech company. He previously held various international Ethics & Compliance leadership positions with both listed and privately-held pharmaceutical, biotech and medical technology companies being based in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden.

Kersten graduated from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Leuphana University in Luneburg, Germany. At the latter University, he has teaching assignments for Compliance & Investigations in Corporate Practice since 2009. Kersten is also a standing co-author for the chapter “Compliance in the Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology Industry” in the Handbook of Corporate Legal Management – Manual for Corporate Compliance in Germany.

Roeland De Wit

Roeland de Wit is Vice President Head of Integrity & Regulatory Affairs at ABB, where he leads the global integrity team and program for one of its Business Areas: Motion. With their leading electrification and automation technologies, ABB helps industries outrun – leaner and cleaner.

Roeland has 20 years of extensive experience in Integrity & Compliance, both in designing and managing programmatic aspects of compliance programs and in leading internal investigations. He is a leader focused on delivering high quality work in challenging circumstances and operates at pace with grit and range. Together with his family he lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

Jan Stappers

Jan Stappers is Regulatory Solutions Director at NAVEX. As an expert in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), he is a frequent speaker on subjects related to GRC regulation and best practices, as well as a sought-after author on regulatory developments within GRC, ESG, CSR, whistleblowing, and third-party risk. Jan is a member of the European AI Alliance and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) “Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies.” This working party is broken into six parts and Jan is a member of the Group of Experts on Risk Management in Regulatory Systems. He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Jan holds a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) from King’s College London (EU Competition Law) and a master’s degree (LL.M) from Leiden University (European Law).

Floriana Scarlato

Katherine Delikoura

Tim Stanley

Dr. Joel Fischer

Dr. Joel Fischer co-heads Bär & Karrer’s internal investigations practice group and is a leading partner of the financial services team.

He has extensive experience in assisting global corporations and high-ranking executives. His work spans large-scale internal investigations and complex white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement proceedings before Swiss and foreign authorities. His practice includes advising major companies, such as financial institutions, media conglomerates, and trading companies, on a wide range of compliance issues. This includes money laundering, sanctions, fraud, ESG, corruption, tax evasion and the implementation of compliance programmes.

Before his tenure at Bär & Karrer, Joel worked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel and as a management consultant with a leading global consulting firm. He graduated from the University of Zurich and obtained a master’s degree in law and finance from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Berne. He is a member of the editorial board of the leading Swiss periodical on corporate and capital markets law (GesKR).

Joel is listed as a Global Leader in investigations in the International Who’s Who Legal and won the Client Choice Award by Lexology in 2022 and 2024. In The Legal 500, Joel Fischer is listed as Next Generation Partner in Switzerland in Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations. 

Dr. Osman Saçarçelik

Francesca Asselle

Dr. Laura Lißner-Hölschermann

Dr. Laura Lißner-Hölschermann has been General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of OHB SE since 2022. She joined OHB SE in 2019 as Legal Counsel, in-house lawyer and Compliance Officer. Previously, she worked as a lawyer in the field of labor and social law at the international law firm Göhmann.

Markus Brinkmann

Salim Kiwirra

Miroslava Panuscikova

Miroslava Panuscikova, Director, Strategic Client Advisory, Risk & Compliance is a subject matter expert with over 17 years of experience in the area of risk data creation, maintenance and analysis as well as data discovery, extraction and collection, with a particular focus on international sanctions, financial crime and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) compliance related content. She acts as the lead research contact for client engagements and has worked with a number of leading financial services institutions and corporate clients to help them get the best out of Dow Jones risk data.

Katrin Ivell

Andreas Raggl

Wilhelm Frhr. von Feilitzsch

Wilhelm advises companies in the area of corporate compliance. This includes the implementation of holistic compliance management systems and advice on specific compliance areas (e.g. money laundering and corruption prevention), as well as the investigation of compliance incidents and the prosecution of any resulting liability. After several years of professional experience, he joined Taylor Wessing in 2022 and works at the firm's Hamburg office.

Wilhelm also advises clients on corporate litigation and corporate compliance. As a member of the Disputes & Investigations practice area, his work includes pre- and post-M&A disputes, shareholder disputes in partnerships and corporations as well as directors‘ and officers’ liability proceedings. He supports clients both in and out of court (corporate law) disputes.

Rita Mitchell