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On this special episode of #GWIC, guest host Ellen Hunt talks with the incredible Teri Cotton Santos, Chief Compliance Officer at Phillips 66.

Teri shares her inspiring journey—from serving as General Counsel in Asia at Eli Lilly to leading compliance at HF Sinclair, and now shaping the culture of ethics and compliance at Phillips 66.

🔑 Key takeaways from this conversation:

Teri also reflects on #leadership, #mentorship, and the power of community in the compliance profession.

🎧 Tune in for an honest, thoughtful, and inspiring discussion about leading with purpose and integrity in today’s evolving regulatory environment.

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#Compliance #Leadership #WomenInCompliance #GreatWomenInCompliance #Ethics #Trust

In this episode of the Great Women and Compliance Podcast, co-hosts Hemma Lomax and Lisa Fine discuss the breadth and depth of effective risk assessments with guests Jisha Dymond and Lisa Beth Lentini Walker.  Jisha and Lisa Beth have both worked in highly regulated and high-profile industries. Jisha most recently served as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at OneTrust, and Lisa Beth is currently the Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Legal, and Assistant Secretary at Marqeta, as well as the CEO and Founder of Lumen Worldwide Endeavors.

They discuss various aspects of assessing risk and how to align the needs best for your compliance risk assessments with other functions to develop strategic and holistic approaches that influence organizational direction. The discussion touches on the importance of cross-functional collaboration, effective use of data and AI, and practical steps for implementing comprehensive risk management processes.

Key highlights include:

Trigger Warning:

This episode contains a brief discussion of suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, host Hemma Lomax is joined by Lynette Buebird—trainer at Mind, the UK’s leading mental health charity, and a certified Mental Health First Aid Instructor with Mental Health First Aid England. Tune in to hear an insightful discussion about building cultures where the mind can thrive.

Lynette’s career path is guided by a deep curiosity about how people think, learn, and thrive. She studied both law and psychology, taught law, moved into school-age education, expanded her impact in higher education, and now focuses on training organisations in mental health awareness and neurodiversity-inclusive compliance. Through Mind, she equips organisations to go beyond “tick-box” compliance—blending legal knowledge, psychological insight, and educational skill to create workplaces that are both compliant and compassionate.

As a Mental Health First Aid Instructor, Lynette also trains individuals to act as “first responders” for mental health—helping them spot early signs of distress, intervene appropriately, and connect people to the right support. 

In this conversation, Lynette and Hemma explore:

Biography

Lynette Buebird is a trainer at Mind, specialising in workplace mental health awareness and neurodiversity inclusion. She holds degrees in law and psychology, has taught law, and worked in both school-age and higher education. She is also a Mental Health First Aid Instructor with Mental Health First Aid England, training individuals to recognise, respond to, and support mental health needs in corporate and community settings.

Lynette combines her legal expertise, psychological insight, and educational experience to help organisations move beyond minimum legal requirements toward cultures where all employees can thrive. For her, compliance leadership means empowering people and institutions to make inclusion a lived, everyday practice.

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If you or someone you know is in crisis, please seek help from a trusted resource:

In this episode of Great Women in Compliance, Lisa speaks with Alejandra Montenegro Almonte, a member at Miller Chevalier. Alejandra is the Chair of their International Practice and Practice Co-Lead, Workplace Culture.

They discuss recent regulatory trends, workplace culture, and the evolving compliance landscape in Latin America and the United States, including the increased focus on Foreign Terrorist Organizations, False Claims Act enforcement, and the importance of addressing these changes and others proactively, including the DEI Executive Order requirements.

Alejandra also shares her insights about the shift towards addressing workplace culture and conduct issues proactively, and how this has evolved past looking just at litigation risk. She discusses employee engagement and the increasing use of ethical assessments.

Alejandra and Lisa reflect on the challenges of building authentic professional relationships in a predominantly remote work environment. They emphasize the need for intentionality, such as scheduling regular virtual coffees and employer-facilitated opportunities for connection, to foster networking and mentorship.

Alejandra and Lisa have known each other for a long time, and they discuss the value of the early career friendships that become a peer network. This is harder in a virtual age, and Alejandra shares some of her strategies to build networks.

Lisa Fine speaks with Cricket Snyder, the first Chief Compliance Officer for the Jefferson County Commission in Birmingham, Alabama, a role that was mandated by a US Federal District Court decree.

Cricket shares her experiences in shifting the compliance culture in Jefferson County from one where she was initially viewed as an extension of the monitoring to one where she overcame employee skepticism and built trust, connecting with people throughout the county.

Cricket also emphasizes the importance of vulnerability, particularly in a new, challenging role. She also reminds us of the power of being open about what you don’t know and how doing so helped foster a more transparent and collaborative environment. She also received support from the broader compliance community.

Lisa and Cricket also discuss strategies to increase engagement. Cricket introduced “Compliance Week” to Jefferson County, transforming compliance education into engaging, themed events. These have increased trust in the function among all county employees, leading to a positive culture shift.

This GWIC episode features a “Great Gentleman in Compliance,” Jonathan Aronie, a leading expert in government investigations and organizational integrity at Sheppard Mullin. Jonathan joins GWIC co-host Hemma Lomax to discuss his career journey, the innovative compliance tool known as the compliance pre-mortem, and the importance of proactive measures in compliance and governance. He also emphasizes the significance of active bystander intervention programs, derived from law enforcement, as highly effective tools for preventing misconduct in organizations. Additionally, Jonathan offers insights into the challenges and benefits of compliance programs, highlighting the need for continuous improvement and strategic empathy in these efforts.

Biography

Jonathan Aronie is a partner in and the former leader of the firm’s Governmental Practice, resident in Washington, DC. Jonathan is also a founding member and current leader of the firm’s Organizational Integrity Group, a cross-disciplinary team of litigators, regulatory specialists, federal monitors, and ex-prosecutors with extensive experience helping organizations prevent and defend against challenges to their organizational integrity. 

Areas of Practice

Jonathan counsels and represents large and small businesses in some of the country’s most prominent classified and unclassified government contract matters, including bid protests, claims, self-disclosures, internal investigations, Department of Justice investigations, and False Claims Act investigations. As the leader of the firm’s Organizational Integrity Group, Jonathan also dedicates significant time to working with clients to identify and mitigate known and unknown risks before they become problems.

Jonathan’s experience includes litigating under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, conducting early risk-based “legal pre-mortems,” developing and implementing corporate compliance programs, conducting internal investigations (proactive and defensive), and providing advice on the FAR Mandatory Disclosure Rule as well as a variety of federal regulatory and statutory matters. He frequently represents clients before the DOJ, the Government Accountability Office, the General Services Administration, and other defense and civilian agencies. Additionally, Jonathan is cleared at the highest levels and counsels and defends clients in classified matters.

Jonathan has authored more than 100 articles and co-authored what is regarded by many as the leading treatise on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule Program, published by Thomson Reuters. He is a regular speaker at national and international forums, as well as CLE programs, including government-sponsored symposia. He is a regular presenter at Coalition for Government Contracting programs and served on the ABA Task Force that drafted guidance regarding the FAR Mandatory Disclosure Rule.

https://www.sheppardmullin.com/jaronie

Resources

Sheppard Mullin’s Organizational Integrity Group

Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement

Everyone Benefits When An Ethics & Compliance Program Is Integrated Throughout An Organization. By: Jonathan Aronie,

Jonathan Aronie on LinkedIn

We’re back with another GWIC x EC crossover episode. Today, we have the quartet of Great Women in Compliance of Kristy Grant-Hart, Karen Moore, Lisa Fine, and Hemma Lomax.

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In this episode, Lisa and Ellen get the opportunity to speak with Junna Ro and Melanie Sponholz to recap the Women in Compliance Summit and discuss the evolving landscape for women in the field.

Junna Ro, a seasoned legal and compliance executive and the Head of Strategic Legal Initiatives at the University of California, and Melanie Sponholz, Chief Compliance Officer & Director of Responsible Investing—Portfolio Operations at Waud Capital Partners, shared insights from the summit.

Both Junna and Melanie emphasized the collective support and sense of community at the event, discussing their session on mentorship and allyship, as well as effective strategies for building these relationships. Junna’s session with Elizabeth Simon focused on Women on Boards and also provided insight and strategy.

They also discuss the current state of the profession, examining both its challenges and opportunities.

Hui Chen is a luminary in the world of Ethics and Compliance, and she is our guest on today’s episode of Great Women in Compliance. Today, Hui is one of the co-founders of CDE Advisors, which stands for “Culture. Data. Ethics.”

Most of us know Hui from her work at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and her contributions to the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance for the Fraud Section. However, my career path included being a prosecutor, in-house compliance work, and even being inspired to pursue a Master’s degree in Divinity after the 9/11 attacks.

Hui discusses the origins of the ECCP and her perspective on its current use. She also discusses the opportunity in the “FCPA pause” and how organizations can broaden their ethical considerations beyond foreign bribery to focus on relationships with all stakeholders. She discussed how the focus on regulatory guidance, particularly on bribery outside the United States, is just one of many areas to consider as a compliance professional. 

She also offers practical advice based on her experiences working with global compliance functions and the lessons she has learned.

In this timely roundtable, Lisa and Hemma sit down with Mary Inman and Liz Soltan, two powerhouse advocates in the whistleblower legal space, to unpack the DOJ’s newly revised Corporate Whistleblower Awards (CWA) Pilot Program and its implications for the compliance community.

We also explore what makes whistleblowing work, how to support internal and external reporters, and why this moment may mark a turning point for global whistleblower engagement.

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Biographies

Mary Inman

Partner, Whistleblower Partners LLP

Mary Inman is a seasoned attorney with over 30 years of experience representing whistleblowers under various U.S. programs, including the False Claims Act, SEC, CFTC, IRS, FinCEN, and NHTSA/DOT. After spending three years in London, she now focuses on international whistleblowers exposing misconduct with ties to the U.S. She assists clients in bringing claims to foreign regulators such as the Ontario Securities Commission and the Canada Revenue Agency.

Mary is renowned for her expertise in healthcare, tech, and financial services fraud. She has represented high-profile whistleblowers like Frances Haugen (Facebook) and Tyler Shultz (Theranos) and co-authored The Tech Workers’ Handbook, a guide for tech industry whistleblowers. Her advocacy extends to testifying before global governmental bodies, including the European Commission and UK Parliament, championing the effectiveness of U.S. whistleblower programs.

Mary holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has clerked for judges in both the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Outside of her legal work, she enjoys participating in her husband’s YouTube channel and spending time in northern Maine.

Liz Soltan

Associate, Whistleblower Partners LLP

Liz Soltan is an associate at Whistleblower Partners LLP, focusing on cases involving financial fraud, anti-money laundering, and sanctions evasion. Her notable work includes representing a foreign whistleblower in a FinCEN sanctions violation case concerning illegal sales to Russia. Liz also contributed to the landmark Medicare Advantage risk adjustment fraud case, United States ex rel. Poehling v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

Before joining Whistleblower Partners, Liz served as a Skadden Fellow at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, where she was part of a team that secured $712 million in emergency food stamp benefits for 650,000 households during the COVID-19 pandemic. She earned her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she led the Wage and Hour Practice Group at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and successfully argued a workers’ rights case before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Liz completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude with majors in history and Spanish.

Residing in Brooklyn, Liz maintains strong ties to her roots in Philadelphia. She enjoys participating in a fiction-only book club, exploring historical sites, and spending time with her husband, son, and their two cats, Alex Trebek and Vanna White.