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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 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.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with Jim Mintz, founder and CEO of the Mintz Group to help unpack the background check industry. Jim has spent more than thirty years conducting investigations all over the world and helped pioneer the use of sophisticated resources by law firms in the 1970s at the DC law firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1980, Newsweek said about their unique in-house group: “What sets [them] apart…is their ability to take comprehensive looks at complicated situations and make sense out of them.” Jim co-founded The Investigative Group in 1984, which became one of the leading investigative firms in the country and was cited by the New York Times as being “the gold standard for financial private detection.”

In this podcast, RANE’s Executive Director, GRC and General Counsel, Serina Vash sits down with Katherin Nukk-Freeman, Partner, Nukk-Freeman & Cerra PC to explore this issue further. Katherin enables companies to proactively address and effectively manage workplace issues related to harassment and discrimination complaints, unconscious bias, disability and leave law, wage and hour disputes, social media risks, staff reductions in force, and high-risk terminations. She works with human resources management professionals providing guidance and instruction to help them better manage and proactively address their training programs and many other employment law issues. As an employment law training instructor and industry thought leader, Katherin partners with clients to develop and implement strategies to manage risk, comply with the law, increase productivity and create an overall better workplace.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with David Pitofsky, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at News Corp, where he oversees global legal operations including litigation, mergers and acquisitions, ethics and corporate governance matters and chairs the company’s Compliance Steering Committee. In June 2015, he was recognized on the “Attorneys Who Matter” list by Ethisphere Institute, the global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practice.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with Joel M. Cohen, Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn's White Collar Defense and Investigations Group and a member of its Securities Litigation, Class Actions and Antitrust Practice Groups. A trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor, his experience includes all aspects of FCPA and anti-corruption issues, insider trading, securities and financial institution litigation, class actions, sanctions, money laundering, and asset recovery, with a particular focus on international disputes and discovery.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with David Cohen, Partner at WilmerHale in their Regulatory and Government Affairs and Litigation/Controversy Practices to discuss the likely regulatory and enforcement focus for the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control – also known as OFAC which focuses on financial and economic sanctions – and the Financial Crime Enforcement Network – also known as FinCEN which focuses on anti-money laundering regulation and enforcement.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with Steve Taylor, Senior Partner at Askari Safari and Director of Safety and Security at Bain & Company An international safety and security expert, Steve was appointed as Harvard’s first International Safety and Security Director in 2011, bringing proactive risk mitigation to the University and its constituents on matters of health, safety, and security.

In this podcast, RANE Senior Advisor for Cyber and Information Rhea Siers interviews Ondrej Krehel, CEO & Founder of LIFARS, an international Cybersecurity Intelligence, Digital Forensics, and Incident Response firm based in New York City. Prior to LIFARS, he was the CISO of IDT911, a leading identity theft recovery and data breach management service, and he conducted forensic investigations and cybersecurity consulting at Stroz Friedberg, including various US government engagements and military cyber special operations. His experience covers a wide range of cyber resiliency matters, from data breaches and theft of intellectual property to anti-money laundering and financial fraud.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with James Bosworth, founder of the consulting and technology firm Hxagon, which provides risk assessments and predictive analysis in emerging markets, to discuss the issues facing the Venezuelan bond restructuring. Bosworth writes and consults on politics, security, economics, and technology issues in emerging markets, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the author of 'Bloggings By Boz' where he provides daily analysis and commentary on Latin American politics and US foreign policy.

In this podcast, RANE founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Mark Gold to discuss these challenges. Dr. Gold is a world renowned expert on addiction-related diseases and has worked for over 40 years to develop models for understanding the effects of tobacco, cocaine, opioids, other drugs, and food on the brain and behavior. After being a Professor at Yale, Florida and now Washington University in St Louis, Dr. Gold is serving as Chairman of RiverMend Health’s Scientific Advisory Boards. RiverMend Health provides scientifically driven, specialty behavioral health services to those suffering from alcohol and drug dependency, dual disorders, eating disorders, obesity, and chronic pain.

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In this podcast, RANE risk analyst Mina Pollmann interviews Carmen Medina, former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence, for her take on the future of the international order.