Grace is a distinguished expert in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, withtwo decades of experience. She has led GRC in large-scale IT and OTenvironments, holding key roles at Guidewire, DXC, HP/HPE, and the StateDepartment of Mental Health.Beginning her career as a clinical social worker, Grace developedexceptional skills in understanding human behavior, enabling her to connecteffectively with leaders, customers, and team members. Transitioning into legalcompliance, she navigated complex regulatory frameworks, spearheading globalGRC transformations for 3,000+ enterprise customers at HP/HPE/DXC Technology.As Director of GRC at Guidewire, she applies her expertise to SMB environments. Renowned for innovation, Grace developed Automated Control EfficacyTesting (ACET) and co-founded Mercury Risk and Compliance, incorporated theAdvanced Asset-Value Based Risk Quantification (AVRQ) methodology. Coupled withher dedication to humanitarian efforts, she is a transformative leader incybersecurity.

As Head of Governance and Policy @ Meta (Facebook), Carlos Pereira brings an unprecedented understanding and knowledge of Risk Management, Governance, Oversight Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk, Vendor Risk, and IT Risk. He has over 25 years of industry and risk consulting experience working with Fortune 100 companies. Carlos continues to lead by example in the development of the risk management industry through practitioner excellence. He has diverse ERM experience in conducting detail risk and control assessments; Enterprise Risk Management implementation; leading expert on the 2017 COSO Framework; DOL Fiduciary Rule; Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) testing and validation; Control Self Assessments (CSA); implementing Enhanced Prudential Standards (EPS) for foreign banks owned in the U.S.; Internal Controls definition and testing; Risk metrics and measures; Operational Improvements and Excellence, Audit & Compliance integration. Carlos has been invited as an honorary speaker at several industry Risk Management Conferences. He has several risk management certifications, an MBA degree and is multilingual.

Michael is an internationally recognized pundit on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). With 27+ years of experience, He is a sought-after keynote speaker, author, and advisor and is noted as the “Father of GRC” — being the first to define and model the GRC market in 2002 while at Forrester. Specialties: GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance), compliance management, risk management (e.g., strategic, operational, legal, compliance), business ethics, corporate governance, investigations, corporate policy management & communication, corporate social responsibility.

Susan is the epitome of a customer advocate, and she has the first-hand experience to understand the needs of the customer and translate those requirements into innovation solutions. As an executive and advisor at several Fortune 100 companies and B2B SaaS startups, she has 30+ years leading teams focused on Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, InfoSec, Risk Management, Sales, and Customer Success. She has successfully defended Compliance programs to the OCC, Federal Reserve and FDIC, and leveraged this experience to help shape GRC products. Ms. Palm led both sales and customer success teams, earning recognition for exceeding goals and retaining customers. Susan also serves as an Executive Advisor for PeopleShores and Data Safeguard. She received her B.A. in Economics from Lawrence University, and graduated from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business’ Executive Management Program.