RANE Network

RANE’s Serina Vash sits down with Tom, now founder of Tipper X Advisors, which engages with investment firms that seek to enhance their compliance and ethics culture beyond traditional employee training, leveraging the lessons learned from his cautionary tale and providing insights into the “why’s” and “how’s” of human behavior.

Business leaders and their governing boards face ever more challenging disruptions and must be ever more on guard. While some disruptions can be anticipated, others arrive without warning. In "Mastering Catastrophic Risk: Leading Authorities on Risk Management Strategy and Company Leadership", Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem provide real world practical insights into how large companies are responding to this new reality and developed a framework for smarter thinking about events that can damage a business.

Companies have a legal, ethical, and employee relations obligation to thoroughly investigate charges of sexual harassment of any type. They must be willing and prepared to conduct prompt, objective, and thorough investigations before a complaint comes in. A poorly conducted investigation can harm an organization’s bottom line as well as its long-term reputation. In this podcast, RANE’s Serina Vash sits down with Una Dean, Partner, White Collar Defense and Government Investigations, Fried Frank.

In this podcast, RANE’s Greg Radner sits down with Tom for a discussion on his new book, designed to be used by all levels and expertise of compliance practitioner. This practical guide incorporates the most current government thinking and commentary on what constitutes a best practices compliance program as well as steps for creating a more effective compliance program in 31 days.

In this podcast, RANE analyst Dawes Cooke interviews Becky Fair, the co-founder and CEO of Thresher. She is a former intelligence officer who teamed up with a team of data scientists from Harvard and a 15-year veteran of the software and security engineering space to build a company that looks at censorship and why it matters to companies operating in the Chinese sphere of influence.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with David Cohen and Zachary Goldman from WilmerHale to discuss the implications of the US exit from the agreement and the pragmatic steps companies need to take to avoid running afoul of renewed sanctions.

In this podcast, RANE’s Founder David Lawrence sits down with Geoff Brown, Chief Information Security Officer for the City of New York, a position with cybersecurity and information risk purview across over 100 NYC departments and agencies. Geoff leads the New York City Cyber Command, which sets information security policy and standards, provides cyber defense and incident response, and issues guidance on cyber defense and information risk to the mayor and other city agencies.

In this podcast, RANE’s Serina Vash sits down with Rashmi Airan. Rashmi began her career in national law firms and later as a government attorney. While running her own legal practice, one of Rashmi’s developer clients engaged in illegal business practices. In late 2015, she served six months of a year-and-a-day sentence—an experience and lesson she now shares boldly with the world. It is her mission to share the need for ethical vigilance and to inspire others to make good ethical choices in all areas of their lives. Rashmi is a keynote speaker and consultant fighting to create a culture of conversation and bring ethical issues in business to light, to promote integrity, enhance commitment to fiduciary duty, and shift the paradigm of ethics standards through ethics training.

In this podcast, RANE’s Serina Vash sits down with Azish Filabi, Executive Director, Ethical Systems, to discuss what drives a healthy corporate culture and best practices for creating and maintaining that culture. Through research and collaboration with the best academics in the field, Azish dedicates her time to helping businesses assess and promote ethical behavior and culture in their organizations. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.

In this podcast, RANE’s David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Derek Scissors, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and on US economic relations with Asia. Scissors is concurrently chief economist of the China Beige Book. He is author of the China Global Investment Tracker and the Chinese Investment in the US Dataset, and holds a doctorate in international political economy from Stanford University.