PLAINSBORO N.J., May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SAI Global, a
worldwide leader in providing expertise, perspective, technology
and tools in compliance, ethics, risk management and governance,
today announced that Marjorie Doyle,
JD, CCEP-F, and Alice Peterson have
joined the SAI Global Compliance Law and Ethics Advisors.
The SAI Global Compliance Law and Ethics Advisors include
prominent lawyers, ethicists, and industry experts in the fields of
business ethics and corporate compliance who provide insight,
subject matter expertise and guidance to SAI Global in developing
and updating courses, understanding and reacting to industry
trends, and advising the company on legally compliant and ethically
responsible workplace behavior.
Marjorie Doyle, Principal,
Marjorie Doyle & Associates,
LLC, is an expert practitioner and leader in the field of ethics
and compliance. She works with all organizational levels including
Chief Ethics & Compliance Officers, CEOs, and Boards of
Directors, and advises, coaches, counsels, develops, and helps to
effectively implement compliance and ethics programs in a way that
successfully embeds them into business processes.
Prior to her consulting practice, Ms. Doyle was EVP, Chief
Ethics & Compliance Officer at Vetco International, and Chief
Ethics & Compliance Officer at Dupont. In these roles,
she built and globalized compliance and ethics functions and led a
best practices response to meeting agreements with the US
Department of Justice resulting from Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
(FCPA) violations pleas. Her earliest experience was as a
litigation associate with Fulbright & Jaworski in Houston, Assistant US Attorney for the
District of Connecticut, and Law
Clerk to the Honorable John R. Brown, Chief Judge of the US Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
In 2005 Marjorie Doyle was awarded the Society of Corporate
Compliance & Ethics (SCCE) award for her work and contributions
to the ethics and compliance community.
Alice Peterson is the founder and
former president of Syrus Global, a provider of hotline and case
management solutions, acquired by SAI Global in 2009. Ms.
Peterson currently serves on the faculty of the Practising Law
Institute (PLI) and the National Association of Corporate Directors
(NACD), and consults, speaks and writes on topics of governance and
ethical culture.
Ms. Peterson held executive positions at Sears, Kraft and
PepsiCo prior to founding Syrus Global. At Sears, Roebuck and
Co. where her last position was Vice President and Treasurer, she
launched and ran Sears Online and held key roles during the IPO and
subsequent spin-off of Dean Witter Discover and the IPO and
spin-off of Allstate. While serving as Assistant Treasurer at
Kraft, Ms. Peterson was responsible for the defense plan which the
company deployed when Philip Morris made its takeover offer.
"Marjorie and Alice are wonderful additions to our team of Law
and Ethics Advisors," said Ann
Wootton, President and General Manager, SAI Global
Compliance Americas. "Marjorie's in-house experience has been a
real asset in helping clients assess and develop successful
programs particularly in the global anti-corruption risk
area. And Alice's knowledge of Board responsibilities and
activities provides an inside view of the governance function
critical to our clients' business." Wootton added, "We look
forward to their guidance as we continue to build awareness and
solutions that address the key concerns of businesses around the
world."
Marjorie Doyle is a regular
speaker and contributor on ethics and compliance programs, FCPA and
anti-corruption and anti-bribery programs, board of directors'
responsibilities, ethical cultures, and all elements of building a
successful program. She is a member of the Advisory Board of
Directors of the SCCE, former member of the Steering Committee of
the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), charter member and
former chair of the Council on Corporate Compliance of the
Conference Board, charter member of the Compliance & Ethics
Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board, a member of
the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association (ECOA), and a member
of the Ethics Research Center (ERC). She has both the CCEP and
CCEP-F certifications for the profession. She has written
numerous articles and contributed to books on various topics
relating to the ethics and compliance profession.
Alice Peterson currently serves
on the boards of Williams Partners and RIM Finance, the US
subsidiary of Research in Motion Ltd. Earlier board service
includes Hanesbrands, Navistar Financial Corporation, 360
Communications, and Fleming Companies. She also currently
serves on the board of trustees of the Institute for Business &
Professional Ethics at DePaul
University and the NACD-Chicago Chapter. Ms. Peterson
holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of
Management.
About SAI Global Compliance
For twenty-five years SAI Global Compliance has helped clients
achieve organizational integrity and meet their overall business
objectives with best practice compliance, ethics, risk management
and governance solutions. With offices in more than 25 countries,
SAI Global provides products and services including risk and
culture assessments, a full range of advisory services, best
practice Code of Conduct program development and review,
whistleblowing hotline services, compliance and ethics education
and awareness, regulatory knowledge, policy management, case
management, and software solutions that manage and integrate every
aspect of a compliance management process.
www.saiglobal.com/compliance
Media Inquiries
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Global Marketing, SAI Global Compliance
tia.smallwood@saiglobal.com, phone 609.955.5135
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