Ethisphere Teams with Leaders from Top Companies to Drive Business Ethics

Announces New Stakeholder-Driven Committee for Business Ethics
Leadership Alliance (BELA) Featuring Bayer AG, Eli Lilly, GE, HCA, Jones
Lang LaSalle, Microsoft, Realogy and The Boeing Company

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing
standards of ethical business practices, announced today that it has
created an Executive
Steering Committee for its Business
Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA). The team is comprised of key
stakeholders from leading multinationals across the country, including
representatives from The Boeing Company, Eli Lilly, Jones Lang LaSalle,
Realogy Holdings Corp, GE, Hospital Corporation of America and Microsoft.

The overriding mission of this new committee is to develop strategy and
elevate thought leadership around organizational justice, while
highlighting the financial and brand-enhancing value of prioritizing
ethics in business. The Executive Steering Committee will meet several
times during the year to develop research topics, aligning key
strategies in the ethics arena and developing best practices in
measuring and improving ethics programs to create sustainable, long-term
value.

“Research—including Ethisphere’s—shows how organizations with a strong
ethical culture regularly outperform their peers. We refer to this as an
ethics premium,” said Erica Salmon Byrne, Executive Vice President and
Executive Director, BELA. “This underscores the value of prioritizing a
strong, innovative ethics program in an ever-changing business
ecosystem. To that end, we are proud to partner with each of these
thought leaders, representing first class companies, to develop new
platforms that will help raise the ethical standards at companies around
the world.”

“It is an invaluable opportunity to serve as a member of the Executive
Steering Committee for BELA and the broader community,” said Diana
Sands, Senior Vice President, Office of Internal Governance and
Administration, The Boeing Company. “What’s especially impactful for us
is the rich dialogue among industry leaders who are active members in
BELA and the willingness of those leaders to take a cross-industry
approach to collaborating and sharing best practices.”

Representatives expected to join the BELA Executive Steering Committee
and their areas of focus include:

• Diana Sands, Senior Vice President, Office of Internal Governance
  and Administration, The Boeing Company – Cross Functional
  Executive Leadership: Aligning with the Business;
• Melissa Stapleton Barnes, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Risk
  Management, and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Eli Lilly and
  Company – Career Development, Mentorship and Positioning Ethics
  and Compliance as a Launching Pad for Company Leadership;
• Mark Ohringer, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
  Corporate Secretary, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) –
  Long-term Company Investment Value (Ethics as a Driver);
• Thomas Pfennig, Head of Compliance, Bayer AG – Globalization:
  Global Voices and Culture;
• Elisabeth Gehringer, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Realogy
  Holdings Corp. – Stakeholder and Board Communications & Engagement;
• Al Rosa, Chief Compliance Director and Senior Executive Counsel, GE –
  Measurement and Data Analytics;
• Alan Yuspeh, Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance
  Officer, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) – Program Structure
  and Industry Leadership;
• David Howard, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel,
  Litigation, Competition Law and Compliance, Microsoft Corporation –
  Leveraging Technology.

“JLL is excited to be represented on the BELA Steering Committee,” said
Mark Ohringer, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. “We always want to be at the
forefront of best practices in business ethics, and there is no better
way to do that than to get the benefit of what the leading companies
from a cross-section of industries are thinking about and doing as they
confront the challenges of today’s complicated business environment.”

“Ethisphere is doing great work to further business ethics, and I am
honored to be part of the BELA Executive Steering Committee to help
elevate ethics, compliance and performance across BELA and the broader
community,” said Melissa Stapleton Barnes, Senior Vice President,
Enterprise Risk Management, and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, Eli
Lilly and Company. “Career development and mentorship are important
components of a company’s ethics and compliance program and can help
develop leaders who understand the value of business ethics and its
impact on long-term success.”

“We appreciate the opportunity and value of being a part of BELA’s
Executive Committee,” said Bayer AG’s Head of Compliance Thomas Pfennig.
“It is a great privilege to join and contribute to the conversation
along with other leading experts in the field.”

The creation of the new steering committee comes on the heels of
Ethisphere’s recent announcement that it will create new Centers
of Excellence that will serve the BELA
community as online reference sites for all things ethics. BELA
expects to have up to a dozen contributing company centers by the end of
2017 available for the entire global BELA community of companies. Each
Center contains practical insights relevant to an area of challenge for
ethics and compliance professionals, with multiple modalities of
downloadable information.

For complete bios of our steering committee members, please click here.
For a recap of the community priorities and highlights from BELA
activities, click here.

About Ethisphere
The Ethisphere® Institute is the global
leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business
practices that fuel corporate character, marketplace trust and business
success. Ethisphere has deep expertise in measuring and defining core
ethics standards using data-driven insights that help companies enhance
corporate character. Ethisphere honors superior achievement through its
World’s Most Ethical Companies® recognition program, provides a
community of industry experts with the Business Ethics Leadership
Alliance (BELA) and showcases trends and best practices in ethics with Ethisphere
Magazine. Ethisphere is also the leading provider of independent
verification of corporate ethics and compliance programs, including
Ethics Inside® Certification and Compliance Leader Verification™. More
information about Ethisphere can be found at http://www.ethisphere.com.

Contacts

Aarti Maharaj
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