Corpedia - Ethics. Elevated.

Jonathan R. Breuning

As MSI’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Jon Breuning brings 30 years of legal experience to MSI. In addition to overall responsibility for legal matters, he oversees the planning and operations of MSI’s Corporate Development division, including the Employee Services, Leadership Development, Administrative and Facilities departments.

Prior to joining MSI, Jon was a partner in the Baird Holm Law Firm in Omaha, advising clients in a variety of industries, with primary concentration in labor and employment law and in the general representation of health care providers and technology companies.

Jon earned his Bachelor of Sciences degree in History from Western Michigan University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Michigan Law School.

Stewart A. Broder

Born in Queens, N.Y. 1953. B.S., with honors, Cornell University (1975); JD, with honors, University of Texas at Austin (1978). Worked in public service from 1978 to 1981 as a Field Attorney with the National Labor Relations Board and as Labor Counsel with the U.S. Postal Service. In private practice as a labor and employment attorney from 1981 to 1991 as an associate with Guggenheimer & Untermyer (N.Y.) and Peabody & Brown (Boston), and as a partner with Gaston & Snow (Boston). In house Employment Counsel with Data General Corporation, Westborough, MA (1991 to 1999) and with EMC Corporation since 1999.

Nancy Held

Nancy Held is Director of Corporate Compliance at Xcel Energy Inc., with responsibility for the company’s corporate compliance and business conduct program. The program’s purpose is to promote a culture across the company that encourages ethical conduct and a commitment to compliance with the law.

Held joined Northern States Power Company, a predecessor company of Xcel Energy, in 1980. Before being named Director of Corporate Compliance in 2004, she was Director of Business Services, where she was responsible for strategic guidance to the Shared Services senior management team through business planning services and management system deployment. In addition, she has held numerous leadership positions in the areas of human resources, customer service and training.

Held earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from St. Cloud State University, and has completed the HR Executive Program and Minnesota Management Institute Program at the University of Minnesota.

Ellen M. Hunt

Ellen M. Hunt recently joined U.S. Foodservice as its Vice President of Ethics and Compliance. In this role, Ms. Hunt is responsible for oversight of the corporate compliance program including ensuring continued state of the art compliance practices, design and development of ethics education and awareness materials as well as serving as a resource on regulatory compliance matters. U.S. Foodservice is one of the largest broadline foodservice distributors in the United States. The company distributes food and related products to over 250,000 customers, including restaurants, healthcare facilities, lodging establishments, cafeterias, schools, and colleges and universities. U.S. Foodservice markets and distributes more than 43,000 national, private label and signature brand items, and employs approximately 26,000 people in over 70 locations around the country.

Prior to joining U.S. Foodservice, Ms. Hunt spent over 15 years in the health care industry in the roles of Vice President of Compliance Operations, Compliance Officer for Medicare & Medicaid, and Assistant General Counsel & Assistant Secretary for Health Care Service Corporation and its subsidiaries which provides coverage for over 12 million members and operates as the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. As Vice President of Compliance Operations and the Compliance Officer for Medicare and Medicaid, Ms. Hunt was responsible for all aspects of the compliance program including developing compliance training, conducting investigations and implementing regulatory requirements. As Assistant General Counsel, Ms. Hunt advised on ERISA and employee benefit matters, mergers and acquisitions, negotiations and settlements of litigation and other claims, corporate governance and finance, state and federal regulatory matters, as well as trademark and employment issues.

Ms. Hunt received her law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1990 and her B.A. degree from Hope College in 1985. She is admitted to practice law in Illinois.

Christina A. Joros, Esq.

Biography coming soon.

Peter Liria, Jr., Esq.

Peter is a well respected attorney experienced in all aspects of regulatory and ethical compliance and corporate governance. He is currently the Senior Director, Global Ethics & Compliance for Avaya Inc. a private (former Fortune 500) company and a world leader in telecommunications. Avaya builds and manages communications networks for more than 1 million business world-wide including over 90% of the Fortune 500. Peter’s responsibility extends across the globe and he is responsible for having created Avaya’s first comprehensive compliance program addressing all compliance and ethics matters in the more than 150 countries within which Avaya sells and services businesses. Peter also has responsibility for overseeing Avaya’s global Corporate Security, Equal Employment Opportunity, Records Management, Business Continuity, and Environmental, Health and Safety functions.

Prior to coming to Avaya, Peter was VP Compliance & Ethics for WellChoice Inc., the former parent company to Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, the largest health insurer in New York State, and itself a Fortune 350 company. As a member of the WellChoice senior management team, Peter served as an innovative senior officer, exploiting technology to develop creative, cost-effective solutions to complex legal, ethics and regulatory matters that, in turn, led to a) significant reduction in alleged and upheld Code violations and b) overall improved employee behavior through development and implementation of:

• A comprehensive, interactive Corporate Compliance intranet site viewed by employees as an essential tool to guide their decisions and actions.
• A cutting-edge annual, on-line e-Conflict of Interest disclosure system.
• A customized, on-line training on Code of Ethics/Conduct and Compliance Program. All 5500 employees were trained within four months of program inception.
• An on-line policy certification system, ensuring all employees annually read and agreed to abide by critical corporate policies.
• A ground-breaking integrity hotline that permitted reporting of allegations through use of voice-distorted recordings to ensure anonymity.

Peter is a member of the American Bar Association and American Corporate Counsel Association. He is admitted to practice in New York (Second Department, 1982) and in the U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts (1985).

Peter is a graduate of New York Law School (J.D. 1981) and Pace University (B.B.A. Labor Management Relations 1978).

Kelli C. McTaggart

Kelli McTaggart is senior counsel in the Ethics and Compliance Office at Time Warner Inc., one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. Ms. McTaggart assists in the management of Time Warner’s Ethics and Compliance program, where she is responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, conducting internal investigations, and providing guidance and training to employees.

Prior to joining Time Warner, Ms. McTaggart was an attorney at WilmerHale in Washington D.C. where she represented individuals and companies in white collar criminal investigations and complex civil litigation. She was previously an associate at Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin (now Baker Botts), representing individuals and companies in criminal matters, congressional investigations and complex commercial disputes. Ms. McTaggart also served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the District of Maryland, where she represented clients on a range of matters, including fraud and financial crimes, drug and firearms offenses, and immigration matters.

Ms. McTaggart earned her law degree magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center where she was a member of the law review. She earned her undergraduate degree cum laude from Georgetown University. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Frank Magill on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She is the former co-chair of the D.C. Bar’s Committee on Criminal Law and Individual Rights. She is a current member of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, the Association of Corporate Counsel of America, and the Capital Area Business Ethics Network. She serves on the Board of Directors of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for the Children of D.C.

Robert T. Molinet

Robert T. Molinet is the Corporate Vice President, Securities & Corporate Law of FedEx Corporation, where he has responsibility for a wide range of corporate matters, including compliance. Prior to joining FedEx Corporation in 2000, he was a partner with Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Molinet completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Julie L. Murray

Julie joined Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in October of 2004 to design and execute a communication and education strategy for the Global Ethics Office reaching 2 million associates worldwide. This strategy includes the annual Ethics Awareness Month and the Award for Ethical Courage recognizing Wal-Mart associates worldwide. Julie has over 15 years experience in the marketing and advertising industry and has served as a member and chapter officer of the American Advertising Federation. She is currently a member of the Ethics & Compliance Officer’s Association, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, serves as a fellow with the Ethics Resource Center and is an adjunct Professor at John Brown University. She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Arkansas and a Master of Science in Leadership and Ethics from John Brown University.

Melissa Noonan

Melissa Noonan joined ULTA in March of 2007 as their Director of Leadership Development. In addition to her primary responsibility for implementing and managing ULTA’s Leadership Development strategy and function, she was also tasked with the responsibility of developing and implementing an Ethics and Compliance curriculum for this public, high-growth national retailer.

Ms. Noonan has over 15 years of experience in training and development. Prior to joining ULTA she was employed at Accenture and Hewitt in internal and client facing capacities focused on implementing and delivering training and development strategies and solutions. She has held numerous management and leadership positions in the areas of training and broader talent management during her career.

Ms. Noonan received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Northern Illinois University and a Masters degree in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University.

Mark J. Ohringer

Mark J. Ohringer has been Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated since April 2003. From April 2002 through March 2003, Mark served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Kemper Insurance Group, Inc., an insurance holding company. Prior to that, he served as General Counsel and Secretary of Heller Financial, Inc., a commercial finance company, since September 2000. He previously served as Chief Corporate Counsel and Deputy General Counsel of Heller from March 1999 to September 2000, Associate General Counsel from March 1996 to March 1999, and Senior Counsel from December 1993 to February 1996. Prior to joining Heller, Mark was a Partner at the law firm of Winston & Strawn. He has a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Katherine Olive

Kate Olive is Manager of Integrity and Compliance at Honeywell, a diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials.

Ms. Olive joined Honeywell in 1994 as a paralegal in the Law Department supporting the Corporate Secretary and Integrity and Compliance functions, before becoming Manager for the Integrity and Compliance program. In this role Ms. Olive manages the integrity and Compliance program for Honeywell’s 128,000 employees worldwide.

Her responsibilities include maintaining and enforcing the Code of Business Conduct, developing a compliance training program, implementing an effective investigation process and providing ongoing awareness, resources, guidance and metrics to leadership and employees.

Ms. Olive earned her bachelor’s degree in international relations from Rollins College in Winter Park Florida.

Luann Queen

Luann Queen has been employed at Oklahoma One-Call for over 12 years in various capacities and functions. Each job duty held increasing responsibilities and continued to improve the company performance and productivity.

After extensive experience as a call center representative, she was promoted to management where she was responsible for center operations managing over 30 service representatives. Drawing on her experience she founded a new training department that rewrote the Call Okie training manual and established new standards for employee skills and expectations. Her foundation work developed into skills development as well as skill asset mapping into our ability routing that we use today. Her efforts also were used in several offsite training classes hosted by Oklahoma One-Call for people with disabilities that may have been interested in the customer care industry.

Drawing from this experience of ground floor development, Luann was asked to start a new business venture, Oklahoma Public Awareness Liaison, OPAL. The group helps our pipeline stakeholders meet requirements for responders, contractors, public officials and general public awareness of pipelines in our community. These efforts included the development of extensive training materials, booklets, presentations, scenarios and networks. A clear testament of this effort is that a number of other states copied this model and are currently using the same materials and concepts. Through the development of the OPAL program, Luann has developed and gained an excellent working knowledge based on extensive research and one-on-one instruction from our pipeline members participating in the public awareness program.

Once again Luann was asked to take on another tough project, the development of an HR department. Over the last few years both One-Call and HR services have grown. Management of these resources is critical to the core business processes. Her efforts have seen the transition into a time card reporting system; benefits self service; HIPPA compliance; personnel folder audits as well as continued work in workforce development. In fact, she was involved in the first in the country Apprenticeship Customer Care Center Program in the nation. Luann’s focus is in the continued development of our staff and the screening of future staff. Staff development must include training, coaching and good work environment.

Her energy and enthusiasm continue to improve our program benefiting not only our member stakeholders but also the safety of every Oklahoman.

Garrett W. Reich

Garrett is currently Director of Ethics and Business Conduct for MillerCoors, the second largest brewer in the United States. The company is a U.S. joint venture between SABMiller plc and Molson Coors Brewing Company and has over 8000 employees. With the merger of the two companies last year, Garrett was responsible for establishing the new company ethics programs by joining the two legacy company practices and is now working to enhance the new program’s visibility at all levels of the organization.

Garrett has over 30 years of legal experience, with extensive internal and external work in the compliance and ethics area, including chairing and establishment of crisis management committees to SOX. He was a team member with previous parent company programs for both SABMiller and Altria in enhancing their ethics and compliance programs. He has also served on an Ethics Seminar Program Board for Marquette University.

Garrett has also been recognized as an advisor to the Wisconsin Secretary of Revenue, National Chamber Litigation Center in Environmental matters, the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce General Counsel’s Board, and the University of St. Thomas (MN) Opus College of Business Strategic Board of Governors. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, ACC, and ECOA.

Garrett earned his B. A. in accounting from the University of St. Thomas and his J. D. from Marquette University.

Garrett’s proudest accomplishment and strongest supporters are his wife Sheila of 34 years and his four lovely daughters.