GC and COO: Risk Management in Business Operations

Nicolette Martin is the Head of Compliance for Operations & Technology at Citi.

Laurie Bartlett Keating is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals where she also has responsibility for public policy and government relations. She joined Alnylam in 2014 with more than 25 years of executive experience at high technology and biotechnology companies.

Prior to joining Alnylam, Laurie served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company for 9 years, responsible for setting the company’s global legal, intellectual property, and corporate quality strategies and priorities.

Prior to Millennium, Laurie was co-founder and the first CEO of Hydra Biosciences, Inc. Before co-founding Hydra, she served as an executive at high growth technology companies, including Iomega Corporation and Sybase, Inc., a software company that grew from a few hundred to 6,000 employees during Laurie’s tenure on the management team. Based on her leadership at Sybase, she was named as one of the 45 most influential in-house lawyers in the United States under the age of 45.

Laurie has a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Frank Licata is the president of Licata Risk Advisors, a risk & insurance advisory and management firm. He consults with businesses and public entities to help them understand risk, reduce the cost of risk and turn risk to competitive advantage. This includes the management of property and casualty insurance programs.

Mr. Licata’s risk management career spans over 20 years, his most recent prior position involving a decade-long engagement with the country’s largest independent risk management consulting firm.

Kevin oversees the legal function of the Marketing Cloud and Communications and Retail Global Business Units at Oracle. He is responsible for all corporate and commercial activities, including acquisitions, strategic alliances, partnerships, and the spectrum of technology transactions (software, cloud/SaaS, hardware, consulting, outsourcing). He also partners with executive management and key stakeholders to support the product development lifecycle, monitor and mitigate organizational risks, ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements worldwide (including data privacy), and resolve disputes with customers, partners, and vendors.

Kevin has focused on the telecommunications, media, technology, and financial services industries during his career. He has significant knowledge of the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in these heavily regulated and highly competitive industries, including in new and emerging markets. In addition, his tenure at Oracle has provided in-depth insight into disruptive technologies such as cloud computing, big data/analytics, e-commerce, and social media, as well as the data privacy and security issues implicated by their rapid adoption.