Panelist Bios

MARGARET M. CASSIDY, ESQ.
Principal and Founder
Cassidy Law PLLC

Margaret Cassidy is a principal and founder of Cassidy Law. She counsels and defends businesses on legal and ethics matters when dealing with the U.S. federal government and with foreign governments.

She represents businesses in government investigations, government audits, government contract disputes, and other interactions with the government. She also conducts internal investigations and prospectively advises clients on designing, implementing and improving ethics and compliance programs on the laws when interacting with governments such as procurement, corruption, ethics and conflict, national security, international trade and “know your business partner”.

Prior to launching Cassidy Law, Margaret held positions as PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Government Ethics and Compliance Leader and GE Transportation’s Global Ethics & Compliance Counsel. At both organizations, she managed aspects of the organization’s ethics and compliance program; conducted internal investigations, interfaced with government authorities, and advised leadership on government procurement, interacting with governments, FCPA, and international trade. Earlier in her career she was both a local and state prosecutor and handled investigations and prosecutions involving fraud and public corruption as well as other crimes.

Outside of the firm, Margaret is Chair of the ABA Business Law Section Corporate Compliance Committee, adjunct faculty in the George Washington School of Law International LLM program; and Co-Chair of the D.C. Bar’s Law Practice Management Steering Committee. She is the former Global Issues Forum Co-Chair for the Association of Corporate Counsel National Capital Region Chapter. She is an appointed a hearing officer for the Washington D.C. Lawyer Board of Professional Responsibility.

Margaret has delivered seminars and training for business executives, employees and organizations such as the American Bar Association, the Cleveland and D.C. Bar associations, the Association of Corporate Counsel, both the D.C. and Virginia Procurement Technology Assistance Centers, and Today’s General Counsel on government investigations, ethically interacting with governments, government procurement, implementing ethics and compliance programs; FCPA and anti-corruption; the False Claims Act; and national security compliance.

Margaret is also a writer with her own blog/newsletter: When the Writ Hits the Fan. And, writes with fellow small firm lawyer- colleagues at the blog: The Candid Counsel. Margaret has been published in Today’s General Counsel, Law 360, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Magazine and with the ABA. She is a co-editor and author of the forthcoming ABA book – The Corporate Social Responsibility Handboo,.

Margaret earned a B.S. in Finance from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and, after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, clerked for the Ohio Court of Appeals. She is a member of the D.C., Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York (inactive) bars.

She currently lives in D.C. with her husband but is regularly in Cleveland for work and to spend time with her parents.


LISA DETWILER
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
FS2 Investment Solutions

Lisa Detwiler is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of FS Investment Solutions, FS Investments’ wholly owned broker-dealer subsidiary, responsible for both legal and compliance functions.

Prior to joining FS Investment Solutions, Ms. Detwiler served as Senior Managing Counsel of BNY Mellon’s managed account business and General Counsel of Lockwood Advisors, a BNY Mellon subsidiary, and a member of its investment committee. Her prior experience includes serving as a partner at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, LLP, as Chief Counsel of the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and as an attorney at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. She has more than 25 years of experience representing a variety of financial institutions in regulatory, transactional, litigation and governance matters.

Ms. Detwiler received her JD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she was an executive editor of the Law Review, and her BA cum laude from Mount Holyoke College.

Ms. Detwiler has been active in federal, state and local bar associations, including serving as Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Business Law section and Co-Chair of the Women in the Profession Committee. In 2016, she was recognized with the Philadelphia Business Journal’s Women of Distinction Award. She is also active in her community, serving on numerous civic and charitable boards, currently including the Board of Directors of The Forum of Executive Women; the Riddle HealthCare Foundation; the Committee of Seventy; and as a Trustee of Westover School where she serves as the Secretary of the Board.


Tamsin Fast
Chief Compliance Officer
Aramark

Tamsin Fast is Chief Compliance Officer at Aramark, a $16B global leader in food, facilities management and uniforms with 270,000 employees in 19 countries. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic direction and operations of Aramark’s global compliance program and provides regular updates to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors. She has held this position since 2017.

Tamsin joined Aramark in 2007 as an in-house employment lawyer. In that role, she built an employment law team responsible for employment law strategy, litigation, and government investigations in the U.S., and implemented Aramark’s wage and hour and background check compliance programs. Prior to Aramark, Tamsin practiced employment law at Morgan Lewis, where she received recognition in Chambers USA as a leading labor and employment lawyer in Pennsylvania.

Tamsin holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two sons. In her spare time, she plays the violin with the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra.


JENNIFER J. HELLER
Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Deputy General Counsel
Comcast Corporation

Jennifer Heller serves as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Deputy General Counsel for Comcast Corporation. In this role, she is responsible for leading the internal processes for promoting and ensuring Comcast’s compliance with laws, regulations, company policies and contracts, including chairing its enterprise-wide Compliance Committee which oversees its compliance risk management and internal complaint reporting programs. She is also responsible for formulating and implementing Comcast’s policies and procedures, including its Code of Conduct, and making sure they are communicated and trained upon across the company.

Jennifer joined Comcast in 1999 as in-house attorney handling mergers and acquisitions matters before becoming Co-Chief Compliance Officer in 2006. Prior to joining Comcast, Jennifer served an associate in the Corporate Department of Blank Rome LLC, where she handled M&A matters. She serves on the advisory board of the Center for Compliance and Ethics at Temple University’s School of Law and on the board of the Schuylkill River Development Corporation, an organization focused on revitalizing Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River corridor into an asset that connects neighborhoods and encourages investment.

Jennifer received a B.A. in political science from Barnard College, Columbia University and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. She resides in Wynnewood, PA with her husband and two children.


JANET STERN HOLCOMBE
Vice President, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Janet S. Holcombe is the Vice President, Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a top rated pediatric healthcare system consisting of a teaching hospital, an extensive ambulatory network, and a large research enterprise.

Janet joined CHOP’s Office of Compliance in Privacy in 2006, and has served as Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer since early 2011. She has institution-wide responsibility for CHOP’s compliance and privacy programs. She also administers CHOP’s Enterprise Risk Management program and co-chairs its Institutional Risk Committee. In addition, Janet has operational responsibility for CHOP’s conflict of interest program and is a member of its Conflict of Interest Committee. Through a centralized conflicts of interest office within the Office of Compliance and Privacy, she has responsibility for managing the full range of conflict of interest matters at the institution, including annual conflicts reporting, research conflicts, industry interactions policies, institutional conflicts, and conflicts reviews of consulting relationships.

She is an active member of the Compliance Officers Forum of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), serving as a member of its Steering Committee and its Peer Evaluation Workgroup. She also is active in the AAMC’s Forum on Conflict of Interest of Academe (FOCIA) and is a past member of FOCIA’s Steering Committee and its Program Committee.

Previously, she practiced law for 15 years and was a member of a Philadelphia law firm where she specialized in complex commercial litigation. She is a member of the Pennsylvania bar. Janet earned her J.D. from Temple University School of Law, magna cum laude, and her B.A. from Douglass College at Rutgers University.


ROBIN C.V. HOLTS, ESQ.
Senior Counsel, AVP, CCO, Retirement Plan Services
Lincoln Financial Group

Robin Holts is Senior Counsel/Assistant Vice President, Legal for the retirement plan business at Lincoln Financial Group.

She has enjoyed a legal career marked with opportunities in several great American companies and in numerous industries including property and casualty insurance, telecommunications, public education, armed security, and financial services. Although currently focusing on regulatory compliance in the government space, her legal practice continues to be diverse.

She is an accomplished civil litigator with significant experience in telecommunications, legislative and regulatory advocacy. Since 2006, she has advised her business clients on regulatory and contractual matters in numerous industries including, telecom, commercial real estate management, mass transit, aviation, petro/chem, defense, and government. In addition to authoring corporate policies and procedures, she also creates and delivers training content concerning campaign finance, GEMs (gifts, entertainment, and meals), and lobbying compliance.

Prior to joining Lincoln Financial Group, Robin was a member of the law and regulations departments at Allstate Insurance Company, Comcast, and AlliedBarton Security Service, in addition to providing legal consulting services for the School District of Philadelphia.

Robin earned her A.B. in Economics from Vassar College, and is a graduate of Temple University School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.


Catherine Healy Kanzler
Head of Global Compliance Operations
Olympus Corporation

Catherine Healy Kanzler is Head of Global Compliance Operations for Olympus Corporation. She is responsible for leading, directing, and harmonizing compliance and ethics program operations with professionals located in Japan, Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She serves as lead advisor to the Global Chief Compliance Officer, and has a proven record of success implementing compliance program operations that enhance the performance and reputation of the Company and minimize its risk of non-compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Cathy oversees the Company’s global incident reporting and case management system. She directed the design of the organization’s compliance monitoring, testing and data analytics programs, as well as its grants and due diligence processes. She managed the establishment of a subsidiary’s Compliance, Grants, and HIPAA governance committees, oversaw the development and submission of its Corporate Integrity Agreement Implementation and Annual Reports, and was a key contributor to the management of its Deferred Prosecution Agreements.

Prior to joining Olympus in 2008, she practiced corporate, commercial and municipal litigation in New York. She earned her J.D. from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, magna cum laude, and her B.A. from Villanova University. She is a member of the New York and Pennsylvania bars.


MAYA NAYAK
Assistant Privacy Officer, Penn Medicine
Office of Audit, Compliance and Privacy
University of Pennsylvania

Maya Nayak recently joined the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of Audit, Compliance and Privacy as the Assistant Privacy Officer for Penn Medicine.

From April 2013 through April 2019, Ms. Nayak served as General Counsel of the Philadelphia Board of Ethics, and before that she was the Board’s Associate General Counsel. The Philadelphia Board of Ethics is an independent City agency that administers and enforces the City of Philadelphia’s ethics, conflict of interest, financial disclosure, political activity, campaign finance, and lobbying laws. As General Counsel, Ms. Nayak built the Ethics Board’s advice function into a high quality, well-utilized, on-call resource that provides guidance in response to approximately 1,700 inquiries from members of the regulated community each year.

Previously, Ms. Nayak was a litigation associate with the law firm Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, and she was a law clerk to the Honorable Berle M. Schiller in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Prior to law school, Ms. Nayak worked as a product development and project manager at a medical internet start-up company. She also served for two years as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow in the People’s Republic of China.

Ms. Nayak is a graduate of the Yale Law School and of Yale College where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Biology.


ALISON TANCHYK
Partner

Morgan Lewis

Alison Tanchyk handles government and internal investigations, complex civil litigation, and compliance and regulatory cases, with an emphasis on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), and False Claims Act (FCA) matters. Companies and individuals rely on Alison to defend against investigations alleging violations of the FCPA, AKS, and FCA, and involving allegations of healthcare, tax, and securities fraud, and other business frauds. Corporate leaders and Boards also seek Alison’s counsel on matters related to developing, implementing, evaluating, and auditing internal compliance and ethics programs.

Corporate leaders and Boards from all industries, including retail, life sciences, and manufacturing rely on Alison’s advice on anticorruption compliance issues including third–party due diligence, procedures, and training.

Most recently, she represented Olympus Corporation of the Americas in connection with an FCPA investigation of Olympus’s sales and marketing practices in Latin America resulting in a deferred prosecution agreement and $22.8 million fine, announced March 1, 2016. She also represented a key government witness in the United States v. McDonnell Virginia corruption trial. In 2014, Latinvex named her one of Latin America’s Top 50 Female Lawyers, and in 2016, Latinvex named her as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers.

investigation of Olympus’s sales and marketing practices in Latin America resulting in a deferred prosecution agreement and $22.8 million fine, announced March 1, 2016. She also represented a key government witness in the United States v. McDonnell Virginia corruption trial. In 2014, Latinvex named her one of Latin America’s Top 50 Female Lawyers, and in 2016, Latinvex named her as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers.


SUSAN WILLIAMSON
Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Endo


Susan Williamson was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer effective April 1, 2018. In this role, she is responsible for the strategic direction and operations of Endo’s Global Corporate Compliance program. Ms. Williamson joined Endo in 2012 and has been a valued member of Endo’s Corporate Compliance leadership team, previously serving as Endo’s Vice President and U.S. and Canadian Compliance Officer where she was responsible for oversight of Endo’s Corporate Compliance program including management of Endo’s Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA), enterprise wide corporate compliance training and monitoring and Aggregate Spend reporting. Prior to joining Endo, Ms. Williamson worked at Pfizer in Operational Risk Management supporting Pfizer’s CIA from 2009 to 2012. Prior to her employment with Pfizer, Ms. Williamson spent over five years at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and held key roles in building, developing and implementing a Global Corporate Compliance program. Ms. Williamson began her career in public accounting at Ernst & Young in the Assurance and Advisory Practice. Ms. Williamson is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Saint Joseph’s University as well as an M.B.A. from the Erivan K. Haub School of Business at St. Joseph’s University.