Soon after graduating in Electronics and Communication Engineering from one of South India's top institutions, Mahesh began his career as a Software Engineer with Infosys. He has 15 years' track-record of formulating innovative and impactful tech-driven projects covering implementation cum risk mitigation strategies. Due to his attempts to solve socio-economic problems in India, Mahesh received an array of appreciation from Government bodies and became India's 1st non-bureaucrat to earn an IMACC degree from IACA*.

Passionate about enriching lives through innovative technologies, Mahesh is promoting job creation by addressing risks related to foreign investments and doing business in India through the adoption of a global integrity-compliance culture in India Inc. As a Ph.D. Scholar at National Forensic Sciences University, Mahesh is researching "FDI Risk & Realization".

*International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) is an Intergovernmental Organization, initiated by the United Nations and other distinguished organizations. IACA is an observer to the UN General Assembly and India is one of the IACA parties involving 76 UN Members States and 4 Intergovernmental Organizations. Only a handful of Indian Senior Bureaucrats have pursued masters in IACA, which is recognized alongside Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins universities' programs under the DFFT scheme of DoPT, Government of India. IACA's partners include the United Nations, OECD, Organization of American States, and World Economic Forum alongside other globally respected agencies.

Advocate A C Singh was Deputy Legal Advisor of Enforcement Directorate (ED), Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India and was in-charge of the Legal Department, ED - Headquarters in New Delhi. Adv. Singh has represented Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and ED as their 'Special Public Prosecutor' in many high-value cases under Prevention of Corruption Act - 1988 and Prevention of Money Laundering Act - 2002, respectively.

Following are a few notable achievements of Adv. A C Singh:

1. Played an instrumental part in drafting of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 and Rules thereof. Besides drafted various amendments to PMLA, 2002 and FEMA, 1999.

2. Nominated by Govt. of India and ‘UNODC’ (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) jointly as Governmental Expert under ‘UNCAC’ (United Nations Convention Against Corruption) review mechanism. Core Group Member of ‘Review of India’ under ‘UNCAC’ review mechanism which took place from 12th to 15th Oct 2015.

3. Reviewed the Corruption Laws of ‘Republic of Korea’ (South Korea) and ‘Republic of Vanuatu’ under UNCAC review mechanism.

4. Attended the delegation of the National Security Council at Bangkok, Thailand to make the Thailand Officials conversant with Indian Criminal Law including Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.

5. Regularly delivers lectures on PMLA, 2002 at various State Judicial Academies, CBI Academy and Institute of Chartered Accountant of India.

Adv. A C Singh graduated in B.A., LL.B. from University of Allahabad and enrolled at the Bar as an Advocate in July, 1983.

Venkatesh has worked in State Bank of India, India's largest bank, in various Executive Positions and as Chief Vigilance Officer & Executive Director (CVO) in Central Bank of India. He has dealt with both Retail and Corporate Banking extensively including Stressed Assets Management. Headed Credit Monitoring and Appraisal Department handling large value loans. He was involved in various sub committees of the Board like, Audit Committee, Large value Fraud Committee and Risk Management Committee at Central Bank of India and contributed significantly to streamline systems and processes to improve operational efficiency and vigilance administration. He was part of Credit Committees involved in sanction of large value loans, enhancements, according approvals for rehabilitation and restructuring and holding on operations in respect of Special Mention Accounts, Non-Performing Loan Accounts.

Venkatesh was also responsible for formulation of vigilance policies and implementation at Central Bank of India. Held additional charge as CVO at Life Insurance Corporation of India (India's largest insurance company), New India Assurance Co Ltd and Bank of Maharashtra. He was member of various committees formed by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance Government of India in order to streamline preventive vigilance activities in Public Sector Banks.

Maria is Attorney at Law, specialized in Corporate Law, Antitrust and Compliance with more than 25 years of practice of working with national and international companies. Currently, Maria is Secretary of the Board and General Counsel for FIFARMA; also, she is Corporate Lawyer, External Compliance Officer for AMIIF. Maria has taught Corporate Law and Ethics in Universidad Panamericana.

Education: 2019-2021: International Master in Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action, International Anti-Corruption Academy | 2019: Board Members Program | 2018: Certified Auditor ISO 37001 Anti-Corruption Management Systems | 2018: Certified Auditor ISO 19600 Compliance Management Systems | 2002-2003: IPADE Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas AD-2 Programa de Alta Dirección de Empresa | 1987-1992: Universidad Panamericana, Magna Cum Laude

Publications: 1. Leasing Chapter of Mexican Law of Highways, Bridges and Federal Transport. 2. Elimination of non-tariff barriers to trade related to dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals in Mexico

Joseph has over 16 years of experience in risk advisory including conducting risk assessments, risk based internal audit, governance and compliance assurance reviews. Joseph has served clients in both the public and private sector advising a range of companies and organisations on risk management, financial compliance, internal controls, information technology and governance.

He was part of the KPMG Task Force while in the Cayman Islands that assisted the Government in improving its financial accountability and reporting.

Joseph is a qualified accountant and fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He is currently pursuing the International Masters in Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collection Action (IMACC) with the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA).

Susan Duley is currently Compliance Manager at EBI Portfolios Limited (EBI). Susan has over 5 years’ experience in legal and compliance functions. Prior to joining EBI Susan was the Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Control for Nedbank and has also worked in the compliance function at Old Mutual.

Susan has a legal background and holds a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Criminal Justice (LLM) from the University of Aberdeen, A Bachelor of Laws, Law with Management Studies (LLB. Hons) from the University of Buckingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist accredited by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS). Susan was awarded a Scholarship by the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) and is currently studying for an International Masters in Anti-Corruption Compliance and Collective Action with IACA.

Aruna holds a post-graduation diploma in Indian, US, and EP patent laws. She has secured a certification from George Washington University, USA for successfully completing a course in US patent law. She has more than 8 years of experience in the field of IPR. She is an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer.

Her strengths are performing patent searches, drafting patent applications, filing patent applications with Patent offices, and preparing responses to examination reports from patent offices. She is well versed in all the stages of the patent process (for example from evaluating the patentability aspects of the invention to the grant of the patent). She has also conducted IPR seminars to educate faculties of reputed colleges from Chennai, namely - MGR College and Shri Sai Ram Institute of Technology to name a few. She has drafted a good number of patents for renowned corporations in the field of 5G and Radio Broadcasts.

Soumya holds master’s degree in computer science and has ~8 years' experience, including a brief stint with one of the India’s largest IT exporters. Soumya is good at extrapolating ideas and pointing out implications of the same. Conversion of research into a tech-frameowkr is an outcome of constant deliberations with Soumya.

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