In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Gary Ballesteros.
Gary Ballesteros is Vice President, Law, Chief Compliance Officer and Ombuds. He leads the team of compliance professionals who oversee Rockwell Automation’s compliance with regulatory requirements around the globe. Under his leadership, Rockwell has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Magazine.
As the Company’s Ombuds, Gary serves a critical role in the Company’s culture of ethics and integrity. The Ombuds has a direct reporting authority to the Board of Directors and is empowered to investigate any claims or allegations of misconduct within the Company. The Ombuds maintains a variety of hotline reporting mechanisms that can be accessed anonymously by any employee worldwide; and he also manages a staff of investigative personnel and counsel who investigate any reported violations of our Code of Conduct.
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Episode 203 - Curtis Oltmans
In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Curtis Oltmans.
Curtis Oltmans joined Fulcrum as General Counsel in November 2020 with over 25 years of experience in corporate law including senior management positions in legal departments at several leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He served as Vice President, Head of Litigation at DaVita Kidney Care, Inc. where he led a 30-person team and was responsible for all litigation, workers’ compensation and employee safety matters. Prior to DaVita, Curtis was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Array BioPharma Inc. where he oversaw all legal, corporate governance, patent and compliance matters.
He has served on the Avenue Therapeutics Board of Directors since April 2021. Curtis received a BA in political science from the University of Nebraska and his JD from the University of Nebraska College of Law.
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Episode 202 - Avril Ussery Sisk
In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Avril Ussery Sisk.
Avril Ussery Sisk, NACD.DC, serves as Chair of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Capital Area Chapter Advisory Board, and is on the Advisory Boards of MABLE Software and Athena Alliance. She recently served on the board of a privately held information technology company where she supported strategic public-private partnerships and the government relations strategy to drive significant revenue and ultimately a transaction.
An attorney with more than 30 years of professional and community leadership, Avril has a strong record of innovation in large and mid-size government, business, and nonprofit organizations as well as consulting experience in both Japan and the United States.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/avril-ussery-sisk/
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Episode 201 - Karin Hurt & David Dye
In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick welcomes Karin Hurt and David Dye.
Karin inspires courage confidence, and innovation. A former Verizon Wireless executive, she’s known for growing courageous leaders, building great cultures, and inspiring high-performance teams.
David helps leaders and teams achieve transformational results without sacrificing their humanity. As a former executive and elected official, he is known for practical leadership techniques you can use right away.
While they were reading and supporting one another's work, they met online. After a while, they realized they were writing the same book, so they decided to collaborate. They wrote their first book, Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results Without Losing Your Soul, while David was living in Colorado and Karin was in Maryland.
Soon after the book was complete, they realized we had fallen in love somewhere along the way and they got married and merged their businesses.
Now they help human-centered leaders (like you) resolve workplace ambiguity and chaos so that you can drive innovation, productivity, and revenue without burning out employees. At Let’s Grow Leaders, our leadership development programs and proven, researched-based techniques create sustained transformation. They equip your leaders with practical tools to cultivate lasting habits and build strong, cohesive, courageous cultures.
Learn more about Karin and David and Let's Grow Leaders here: https://letsgrowleaders.com/
Karin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karin-hurt/
David's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmdye
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Episode 200 - Andrew McBride
In this episode of The Ethics Experts, Nick and Gio welcome Andrew McBride.
Andrew McBride is the CEO of Integrity Bridge LLC, a consulting practice offering strategic & operational compliance support for companies.
Andrew has over 25 years of compliance experience, at an international law firm and several multinational companies in the Americas, Europe and Australasia. In his most recent role as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Albemarle Corporation, he built a new ethics and compliance program, and recruited a new team, against the backdrop of an FCPA investigation. The investigation was resolved by way of a Non-Prosecution Agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and Cease & Desist Order with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. As part of the resolution, Albemarle secured a 45% reduction in penalty due to its co-operation with the investigation and the compliance program that was built, the largest FCPA % penalty reduction to date. In recognition of these efforts Albemarle was awarded Compliance Program of the Year by Compliance Week in May 2024.
In parallel to the FCPA investigation and business ethics efforts, Andrew played a key role supporting Albemarle’s commitment to sustainability including UN Global Compact membership, management of the company’s human rights framework and support for the company’s successful efforts to achieve certification against the Initiative of Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)’s Mining Standard.
Prior to Albemarle, Andrew was Associate General Counsel Compliance at BHP, Senior Antitrust Counsel at BP and Managing Associate at Linklaters. Andrew is admitted to practice law in England, Western Australia & California. He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.
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