Ethicast: How Compliance & Risk Make a Great Partnership

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Ethicast: How Compliance & Risk Make a Great Partnership

As one of the world’s top telecom providers, Verizon inhabits some very complicated and high-stakes compliance territory. This makes risk assessments a crucial part of their larger E&C strategy. David Kass, Chief Compliance Officer at Verizon, explains how risk assessments drive a compliance strategy that hasn’t just built value and delivered internal results, it has also yielded the company both World’s Most Ethical Companies® honors as well as a 2024-2026 Compliance Leader Verification™ recognition.

Partnership & Progress at Pillarstone

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Partnership & Progress at Pillarstone

Explore how Pillarstone, a KKR portfolio company, partners with Ethisphere to strengthen compliance programs for its investments in diverse industries across Europe. Ethisphere’s Craig Moss sat down with Pillarstone’s General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer Silvio Cavallo—named to Legal Community magazine’s list of top Italian general counsels under the age of 40—to discuss:

  • Strategies to address bribery, corruption and ESG risks in portfolio companies like Sirti (telecom) and Premuda (shipping)
  • A focus on actionable compliance improvements, governance, and alignment with Italian regulatory standards
  • Insights into how holistic compliance assessments address emerging risks like ESG, data privacy, and trade sanctions
  • How compliance programs strengthen partnership with stakeholders, including investors and banks

Global Portfolio of Innovation: KKR Advances Compliance Worldwide

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Global Portfolio of Innovation: KKR Advances Compliance Worldwide

As the Global Chief Compliance Officer for investment firm KKR, Bruce Karpati faces an interesting challenge: making sure KKR’s own practices remain best-in-class in a highly regulated industry, while simultaneously keeping the companies in which KKR invests up to snuff. Karpati spoke with Ethisphere Magazine on how innovation, and his work with Ethisphere, helps him keep up.

BELA Asks: How Do I Engage My Board to Drive Tone at the Top?

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BELA Asks: How Do I Engage My Board to Drive Tone at the Top?

We talk about how great cultures of business integrity need a robust “tone at the top.” But that involves the Board of Directors too. So how can ethics and compliance officers make sure their directors are as fully invested as the C-Suite? Find out as BELA Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers: How do I engage my board to drive tone at the top?

In our BELA Asks series, we address questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

To learn more about BELA, please visit https://bela.ethisphere.com to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

If you have a question that you’d like answered on BELA Asks, be sure to use the BELA Concierge Service, and we will get to it as soon as we can.

Ethicast: Building a Better E&C Training and Learning Program

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Ethicast: Building a Better E&C Training and Learning Program

Jennifer May, CEO and Head Cheerleader of Broadcat, discusses the next-gen techniques, technology, communication strategies, and audience engagement approaches that can supercharge an organization’s training results. You can’t have a great ethics and compliance program without great training and communications, and Jennifer talks about how to get there.