·
Blurred lines of responsibilities between
internal audit, human resources, legal, and regulators;
·
Best practices for implementing whistleblower
programs within an organization;
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Challenges that organizations are currently
facing with respect to whistleblower programs; and
·
Emerging questions that board members and
regulators have in relation to whistleblower programs.
Moderator - Margaret
Pacheco, TD Bank
Margaret
Pacheco
is an Associate Vice-President, Governance Risk & Corporate Functions Audit
at TD Bank. Margaret joined TD Bank in 2011 and is responsible for the
management and direction of all internal audit activities for the second line
of defence functions, as well as audits of key projects across the Bank.
Previously, she was at KPMG and worked with several insurance, banking and
wealth management clients. Margaret has over 15 years of experience in external
audit, internal audit, risk management, accounting and financial reporting
management. Margaret is the President of the Institute of Internal Auditors,
Toronto chapter.
Panelists – Christopher Burkett,
Baker McKenzie
Ashok Menen, Ontario Securities Commission
Reema Ibrahim, KPMG
Megan Telford, TD
Bank
Chris
Burkett
has been recognized by Legal 500 as a "Highly Recommended" lawyer and
a 2018 Next Generation Lawyer. Chris has extensive experience in litigation,
disputes, internal investigations and regulatory compliance, and has appeared
before a variety of tribunals, all levels of trial court, and the Court of
Appeal for Ontario. He has worked in the Firm's London office and conducted
internal investigations of anti-corruption and human rights compliance issues
for multinational corporations and their subsidiaries across many international
jurisdictions. Chris also appears regularly on local and national tv news
broadcasts as a legal analyst. Prior to joining the Firm, Chris was a Crown
Attorney and acted as lead prosecutor in numerous trials. His experience
extends to matters involving administrative tribunals, judicial review
applications, injunctions, trials, appeals and sensitive internal
investigations.
Chris has a broad trial
advocacy and investigations practice, with a specific focus on employment,
regulatory, civil, fraud and criminal law matters. Chris also provides
strategic advice to domestic and international private and public sector
corporations on employment and labour law as well as regulatory compliance,
particularly in the area of anti-corruption and labour/human rights standards
and norms.
Reema
Ibrahim is
a Partner in KPMG’s Risk Consulting practice. Reema has over fifteen years of
experience providing assurance and advisory services to clients in the
financial services industry, with a focus on the banking and asset management
sectors. She worked with the Canadian Banks treasury functions, commercial
lending business and wealth management platforms.
Beyond assurance, risk
and controls assessments, Reema has significant experience helping her clients
address a range of topical matters including corporate governance and control
function frameworks, strategy planning initiatives, finance transformations and
adoption of accounting standards including IFRS 9. Reema continues to help her
clients navigate their governance and risk management journeys in the current
heightened regulatory environment and demands by stakeholders in the financial
services sector.
Reema is a CPA, CA and
has earned her Bachelor of Arts-Honours and Masters of Accounting from the
University of Waterloo. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of
Canadian Feed the Children and Treasurer of Macaulay Child Development Centre.
Ashok
Menen
is an Investigation Counsel with the Ontario Securities Commission’s Office of
the Whistleblower (the “OWB”). Ashok is a lawyer and a Chartered
Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). Ashok joined the Enforcement Branch of
the Commission in 2015, working with domestic and international regulators on
inter-jurisdictional investigations. He has been involved with the
Whistleblower Program since before its launch.
Ashok is responsible for reviewing whistleblower submissions, dealing
directly with whistleblowers and their submissions and assisting Commission
Staff assigned to investigate whistleblower tips. He is also responsible for public enquiries
about the Commission’s Whistleblower Program.
Prior to joining the OSC, Ashok worked at a Big Four accounting firm and
in a global forensic accounting boutique.
Megan
Telford
is the Vice President, Global Head of Employee Relations and North America HR
Advice for the Toronto-Dominion Bank Group where she oversees teams that
manage, advise and run programs that deal with employment related risk.
Megan joined TD as the
Bank’s employment law counsel and then went on to work in a number of other HR
related areas such as HR mergers and acquisitions, HR regulatory affairs, and
total rewards, before joining employee relations. Previously, Megan was a
lawyer in the labour and employment law group at the law firm of Heenan Blaikie
in Toronto and was a sessional instructor in the Queen’s University Faculty of
Law. In addition, Megan worked for the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The
Hague, Netherlands.
She has published
articles on a wide range of labour, employment, administrative law, and human
resources issues. Megan obtained both her Masters of Industrial Relations and
her Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University.
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