Meeting/Event Information

Corporate culture is increasingly viewed as a fundamental prerequisite for maintaining a strong, anti-fraud environment. The 2019 DOJ evaluation criteria and June 2020 updates provide a detailed road map for in-house compliance, ethics and anti-fraud practitioners to create the building blocks necessary to strengthen corporate culture, prevent and detect employee misconduct, and reduce an organizations exposure to the most severe fines and penalties.   In this session you will:

• Learn the importance of corporate culture in preventing fraud, and how to identify the red flags of a culture in crisis;
• Identify how the COVID-19 Pandemic has presented challenges to corporate culture and impacted instances of fraud;
• Examine how the DOJ guidance can help Compliance Officers and Anti-Fraud professionals focus their resources and energy on the highest impact anti-fraud program areas;
• Discover how a well-designed and integrated Compliance, Ethics and Anti-Fraud program can help strengthen culture, reduce misconduct and contribute to more positive outcomes in enforcement actions

This event will earn 2 ethics CPE.

Speaker Bio

Eric R. Feldman, CFE, CIG, CCEP-I

Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Corporate Ethics and Compliance Programs, Affiliated Monitors, Inc.

Eric Feldman joined Affiliated Monitors after retiring from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2011. Feldman had a distinguished 32-year career with both the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government. He has served in executive positions with Offices of Inspector General at the Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and CIA, and was the longest serving Inspector General of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from 2003-2009. At the NRO, he presided over a highly successful procurement fraud prevention and detection program, widely recognized by the Department of Justice as a model throughout the federal government.

In 2009, Feldman was appointed Senior Advisor to the Director of the NRO for Procurement Integrity where he helped the Director ensure that the NRO's industrial partners were meeting their integrity and ethics responsibilities required by law and federal regulations. His work involved the real-time assessment of corporate ethics and compliance programs at over 40 government contractors including some of the world's largest corporations in the aerospace, military and public contracting fields.

During his tenure as a Federal Inspector General, Feldman worked with the Department of Justice in establishing programs to prevent and detect fraud in the federal acquisition program. As Inspector General, he helped to recover millions of taxpayer dollars in matters involving overpricing, kickbacks and other forms of fraud.

A former Senior Intelligence Service Officer, Feldman is a 1995 graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, and is both a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Inspector General (CIG). In 2016 he successfully completed the Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional – International (CCEP-I) examination, which certifies his expert knowledge of international compliance regulations and processes. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Association of Inspectors General, and was the founding President of the California Chapter. In 2015, he was appointed as a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Suspension and Debarment Committee.