Top Corporate Executives and Government Officials to Provide Strategies for Strong Compliance Programs at the 2012 Dow Jones Global Compliance Symposium

Speakers Include Former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Executives From Leading Corporations Including Microsoft, Google, 3M and GE

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Dec 06, 2011, 10:00 ET

NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The second annual Dow Jones Global Compliance Symposium (http://gcs.dowjones.com) – to be held March 27-28, 2012, at the Park Hyatt in Washington, D.C. – will provide strategies for developing strong, global compliance programs. More than 30 speakers are confirmed, including government officials and top compliance officers from the world's leading organizations, such as:

  • Michael B. Mukasey, former U.S. attorney general
  • Odell Guyton, senior corporate attorney, director of compliance, Microsoft
  • Andy Hinton, associate general counsel & chief compliance officer, Google
  • Marschall Smith, senior vice president, legal affairs & general counsel, 3M
  • Alfred Rosa, director of compliance & senior executive counsel, GE

Through interviews and other sessions led by editors and reporters from Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, the Global Compliance Symposium offers compliance officers, general counsel and other legal, compliance and ethics professionals strategies for creating successful compliance programs that will help companies avoid wrongdoing and regulatory violations and prepare them to respond to issues that can arise.

The opening panel session will address the steps that companies can and should take to stay out of trouble, given the mounting regulations both in the U.S. and abroad. Attendees will also hear from top executives from other leading companies, including Office Depot, Petco, Best Buy, BP, Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo & Co., Oracle and more during a series of panel discussions, one-on-one interviews and breakout sessions.  

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hogan Lovells, Nardello & Co. and Kroll are sponsors of the Global Compliance Symposium.

To register and learn more about the Dow Jones Global Compliance Symposium, visit http://gcs.dowjones.com, call 212-416-2951 or email [email protected]. Full-time journalists and members of the traditional media can request a press pass by contacting Shannon Sullivan at (609) 627-2312 or [email protected].

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