Susan is a director, Risk & Compliance for Microsoft’s Supply Chain Hardware team with primary responsibility for ensuring that the Supplier base is compliant with the Microsoft policies and stated requirements for the group. A UK national now residing in the Netherlands, Susan came to Microsoft from Cisco where she was the designer and architect of the Corporate Ethics & Compliance Program across Cisco with an emphasis on Anti-Bribery & Corruption. She developed, introduced, and initiated the program globally ensuring compliance & ethics were embedded down through the country locations as well as with customers and partners alike. Prior to Cisco, Susan has come from alternate industries such as GE Lighting where she was European Product General Manager responsible for the business deliverables for Automotive lighting in three factory locations. She attended the G20 on lighting quality, delivered cost savings in manufacture of 27% through business process reengineering and, won several awards on ‘Best in Class’ manufacturing capabilities with Ford Motor Company (Europe) as well as BMW and Mercedes. Susan started her career in the Oil & Gas sector in the drilling area where she worked with Schlumberger and the then ‘Sedco’ drilling companies on join venture negotiations and business methodology. It is this business methodology and understanding that has helped her drive to understand the balance in the needs of business and regulatory practise. Susan holds a legal degree in International law, is certified through the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE) on compliance, is an adjunct professor at the Sorbonne university teaching Compliance programs, is a certified Stanford Project Management SME as well as a major speaker at compliance conferences on the topics of Anti-Bribery & Corruption, ESG and compliance programs in general.