Speakers BCEC 2025
Andrijana Bergant
European Institute for Compliance and Ethics (EICE), President
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).
Anand Guruswamy
Senior General Manager – Compliance – India and Sri Lanka
Keith Read
Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer & Author
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
Adrian Pay
Dynamic-GRC Director, International IT 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
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.
Simona H. Bosiger
Senior Group Compliance Manager
As a Group Compliance Manager for a global manufacturing company Semperit AG Simona is working to establish, implement, and administer a compliance structure to strengthen the company’s existing compliance efforts. Her diverse background in anti-corruption, implementation of organizational integrity and journalism supports her in understanding practical challenges and nuances to bridge the gap between theory and execution. From how to why.
She embarked on her journey as a journalist and editor, pursuing stories that shed light on unethical practices and held those in power accountable. As the president of Transparency International Slovenia, she harnessed her expertise to lead transformative initiatives to promote good governance and combat corruption. She has worked with a diverse range of private and (international) public entities, delivering tangible results through developing and implementing robust integrity systems. She holds an MSc in Political Science focused on organizational integrity.
Anniina Kristinsson
Managing Partner at Nordic Sustainability
Anniina has more than 15 years of professional experience from both the private and public sector, making her ideally suited for complex strategy processes, policy, executive advisory, and change management.
Anniina is mostly in charge of helping clients for the upcoming EU sustainability regulations, in particular the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). This includes not only briefing senior leadership about the challenges ahead, but also leading the NS team’s efforts in creating new service models and methods for assessing clients’ material impacts across value chains.
Furthermore, Anniina has lead projects for global manufacturing clients on e.g. decarbonization of logistics and sustainability in product design.
She has previously led the preparation and implementation of a new sustainability framework for Hempel A/S, a Danish multinational coatings manufacturer. Anniina has a wide knowledge base of topics such as carbon neutrality and science-based targets, circular economy, sustainable product development, reporting, and sustainability communication. She holds a Masters in Political Science and International Law from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Her previous work experience includes the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Finnish Parliament, and the European Commission.
Tim Tyler
Director of Qualifications at ICA
As Director, Qualifications, Tim is responsible for the development and delivery of the wide range of ICA courses from Certificate to Post Graduate Diploma.
Tim joined the ICA from the Gambling Commission where, as AML lead, he was responsible for all aspects of AML regulatory and supervisory activity. This was preceded by thirty years in UK Law Enforcement spanning the police, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) and National Crime Agency. During this time he led a number of functions including the Proceeds of Crime Operational Command within SOCA, and the UK International Crime Bureau, responsible for criminal and fugitive enquiries transacted between the UK and the rest of the world.
Countering the threat of financial crime has been a recurrent theme throughout Tim’s career. He established money laundering investigation teams across the UK and in strategic locations around the world. He developed innovative tactics to counter the threat and worked with many domestic and international partners to track and eliminate laundering at source.
Earlier in his career Tim worked in partnership with the Serious Fraud Office and overseas agencies including the FBI in the investigation of complex fraud and corruption. The understanding and specialist skills he developed over this time combine with his experience as a supervisor and mean that Tim offers significant insight and practical expertise as a trainer and as the lead for qualifications within the ICA.
Lucia Ana Tomić
Head of HR and Regulatory Affairs, Vienna Insurance Group d.d., Croatia
After graduating from the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics and Business, I gained my MBA and worked as a lawyer attending to legal affairs from the domain of company law in various institutions and positions. I am currently the head of HR and Regulatory Affairs, Vienna Insurance Group d.d., Croatia.
Dr. Jennifer Pope
US Fulbright Scholar / Associate Professor at IEDC – Bled School of Management
Dr. Pope took a position in the marketing department at Grand Valley State University in Michigan in fall 2003. She primarily teaches international marketing, sales and negotiation classes and has consulted with multiple companies and NGOs. She regularly teaches international business classes at a Duale Hochschule in Bad Mergentheim, Germany and has taught in France, Mexico, Taiwan and Slovenia. Currently, Dr. Pope is working as a US Fulbright Scholar at IEDC – The Bled School of Management in Slovenia. She has travelled to over 30 countries and has lived in four countries outside the US. Dr. Pope received her MBA and PhD in International Business and Marketing from the University of Texas-Pan American. At IEDC she is working on the ESG research project and as such speaking with many businesses and stakeholders around the region.