Speakers BCEC 2025
Andrijana Bergant
President, European Institute for Compliance and Ethics (EICE)
Andrijana Bergant is an expert in Business Compliance and Ethics, a TEDx Speaker, an international speaker, professional and management trainer and a former inhouse compliance officer at large international financial groups, with over 15 years of experience in the field. She has worked internationally and across industries, from smaller tech brands to energy, retail, logistics and pharma to large state-owned, financial and multimillion publicly listed companies.
She specializes in integrity leadership and models, ethical culture, effective compliance management and business resilience, offering insights that deliver returns on integrity through good leadership.
Andrijana has been validated as a subject matter expert in projects overseen by the World Bank Group (2018) and the USAID (2022), has co-developed Slovenian Corporate Integrity Guidelines (2014) and the 5-Star Integrity Leadership Manual (2019). She has just been elected into the honorable tribunal of the Managers’ Association of Slovenia in 2024.
Andrijana aims to encourage businesses, business professionals and leaders to identify their own specific compliance and integrity risks, develop practical understanding of their corporate values and establish an ethical dialogue, which will serve them in fulfilling desired results, strategies and mission long-term.
She holds a Law degree, Executive MBA, and international business compliance certificate from the ICA – International Compliance Association. She is the founder and a director of European Institute of Compliance and Ethics (EICE), the Bled Compliance and Ethics Conference director (BCEC), and has been instrumental in establishing the European Network for Compliance Officers (ENFCO).
Keith Read
Former Group Compliance & Ethics Director, British Telecom (BT) & Author – ‘The Unconventional Compliance Officer’
Keith Read was formerly General Manager, Supply Chain Integrity for British Telecom’s (BT) £6 Billion supply chain, before becoming the company’s Group Director of Compliance and Ethics with responsibility for compliance, ethics and regulatory risk management, covering 150,000 employees and contractors operating in some 176 countries.
He is a past winner of the Compliance Register’s Best Compliance Officer award, when he also won the Best Compliance Company award; he was subsequently the subject of a full-page Daily Telegraph national press article – ‘Compliance and Science’. Since leaving BT, he has worked with a range of major household-name companies and leading solution providers in the compliance and ethics field, including Global Advice Network (now GAN Integrity), LRN and Convercent/OneTrust
He has an innovative and practical approach to compliance and ethics, and his recently published book – ‘The Unconventional Compliance Officer’ – provides a raft of new and highly original ways of addressing what are the universal challenges for compliance and ethics officers, who will not have previously encountered many, if any, of these unconventional tools and techniques
Anand Guruswamy
Senior General Manager – Compliance at Siemens Gamesa
Adrian Pay
Dynamic-GRC Director, International IT Compliance/AML and Sanctions Compliance
Adrian’s compliance career started in 1996 with London headquartered Robert Fleming where he undertook compliance investigations and monitoring. He worked extensively in Hong Kong and Tokyo on regulatory IT projects and investigations before co-founding LatentZero, an IT company focusing on trading and risk systems for investment managers in New York, Boston, London, Paris and Singapore.
Tomislava Pribanić
Associate Director Ethics, Risk & Compliance R&D, SERCE cluster, Novartis
Tomislava has dedicated over 15 years to the pharmaceutical industry, cultivating a deep passion for ethics, risk and compliance. Her enthusiasm extends to learning, diversity and inclusion, organizational development, and human resources – topics she embraces with unwavering dedication. Known for her excitement about change, she brings a fresh perspective and a creative approach to everything she undertakes.
Currently, she serves as the Associate Director of Ethics, Risk & Compliance R&D, SERCE cluster at Novartis, based in Zagreb. Her diverse experiences across multiple roles within the industry provide her with a distinctive insight into business partnering, internal customer engagement, and transforming the compliance function into an engaging and enjoyable experience.
A sought-after guest speaker, Tomislava has shared her expertise at numerous regional and global conferences in recent years. A true lifelong learner, she thrives on the learning process and is committed to making it enjoyable for others. Ever curious, she constantly seeks innovative ways to share knowledge and inspire those around her.
Rok Praprotnik
Chief Compliance Officer, NLB Group
Rok Praprotnik is the Director of the Center for Compliance and Integrity Enhancement at NLB d.d., an organizational unit responsible for conducting internal investigations, ensuring general regulatory compliance, and carrying out preventive and developmental tasks in the field of corporate ethics and integrity.
Before taking on his current role at the bank, he served as the Deputy President of the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, where he was responsible for overseeing the assets of public officials, supervising the field of lobbying, and leading the Commission’s strategic preventive activities as an independent and autonomous state authority.
In the past, he worked as a journalist for the newspapers Delo and Dnevnik, focusing primarily on investigative journalism in the areas of intelligence services, the military, and rule-of-law institutions.
İnci Bozokluoğlu
Corporate Sustainability & Compliance Manager at ENKA and a Board Member at Ethics and Reputation Society, TEİD
İnci Bozokluoğlu serves as the Corporate Sustainability and Compliance Manager at ENKA İnşaat ve Sanayi A.Ş. (ENKA). A graduate of Civil Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and the State University of New York, she completed her master’s degree in Engineering Management at Galatasaray University.
Starting her professional career in 2011, she progressed through roles in design, field and planning engineering, followed by a position as technical office chief. In 2015, she began working at ENKA in the field of management systems and internal audit. Later, in 2018, she assumed the role of Sustainability and Compliance Manager in the newly established Corporate Sustainability and Compliance Department.
Her work focuses on sustainability, ESG reporting, ethics & compliance, internal audit, risk management, internal investigations, community relations, and social accountability. She is also a member of the audit boards of the Ethics and Reputation Society (TEİD) and the Private Sector Volunteers Association.
Martin Skeens
Subject Matter Expert – Third Party Risk and Compliance at Dun & Bradstreet
Martin is a subject matter expert in Dun & Bradstreet’s Third-Party Risk and Compliance line of business. For the last 15 years, he has worked in the information industry, helping clients to make the most of their data and analytics. At Dun & Bradstreet, Martin helps clients better understand who they are doing business with and where risk lies at a global level, accurately and efficiently. His areas of expertise include due diligence, beneficial ownership, screening and sanctions, fraud and more.
Mirjana Matešić
Director at Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development, IEDC, Coca Cola Chair for Sustainability, European Climate Pact Ambassador
Mirjana is a director of the Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development since 2004. She is active in the implementation of sustainable development policies in business as well as in public policies and strategies. She has edited quarterly newsletter Business and Sustainability, and she teaches CSR at several business schools in Zagreb.
She is a co-author of the methodology of the Croatian Sustainability Index (HRIO) which has been implemented since 2008 on evaluation of corporate sustainability of Croatian companies. She has published a number of papers in the area of sustainable development and has participated in number of local and international conferences. She is a member of the State Council for Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection. She currently holds a Coca-Cola Sustainability Chair at IEDC – Bled School of Management. She has PhD in sustainable development, Master in business and she is an engineer of ecology, all degrees obtained at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Nejc Novak
Founder at Riskaway and Nlaw
Nejc Novak is the founder of Riskaway, a London-based startup building an AI General Counsel; and founder of Nlaw, an international law firm with offices in Slovenia, Croatia, the UK, and Palo Alto. Previously, he practised as a lawyer focused on M&A, banking and finance, and distressed transactions. He now works at the intersection of law and technology, helping companies transform how legal services are delivered.
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