Abu Dhabi

Louise O'Donnell
Executive Vice President- Head of Internal Audit, Oman Insurance Company

Louise is the EVP - Head of Internal Audit, Anti- Fraud & Investigations at Oman Insurance Company. She is an Irish Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting & Finance. She has 17 years working within Audit, Finance, & Operational Risk Management and 10+ years working in the financial services industry across numerous locations worldwide. Louise is working at Oman Insurance Company for the past five years and during that time has lead the set-up and reengineering of the function to meet with the ever changing risk environment & increasing everyday demands that are required of Audit & Anti-Fraud.  

Santosh Agarwal
Managing Partner, Gulf Integrity

Mr. Santosh is an award winning thought leader in the compliance and fraud control industry, with 25 years of hands on multi industry experience - crossing the spectrum of fraud risks management, investigations, compliance management, whistle-blowing, internal audits, corporate governance and training. Known for significantly increasing productivity and saving millions of dollars by assessing and mitigating the risk of revenue leakage due to non-compliance and fraud, and twice establishing Compliance & Fraud Control Department for two mega size organisations (Abu Dhabi Health Services Company and Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations), Mr. Santosh has a strong passion to develop UAE Nationals in the areas of compliance, fraud control and internal audit. Prior to joining Gulf Integrity Management Services LLC, Mr. Santosh has held a number of executive positions with Abu Dhabi Health Services Company PJSC, Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations, Abu Dhabi Investment Company, Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Gaurav Kapoor
Chief Operating Officer, MetricStream

Gaurav Kapoor is responsible for Sales, Marketing, Customer Advocacy, the Partner Ecosystem, and ComplianceOnline.com. He also serves on the board of Regalix, a digital innovation and marketing company. Until 2010, he served as the CFO of MetricStream. During this time, he led the company's financial strategy as well as Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships. He also launched ComplianceOnline.com, a MetricStream business unit which has grown to become a leading online GRC community and content property. Previously, Gaurav held the position of Vice President at OpenGrowth and ArcadiaOne. Prior to that, he spent several years in Marketing, Operations, and Business roles at Citibank in Asia and the U.S. Gaurav has a Bachelor's degree in Technology (with Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), a degree in Business from FMS, Delhi, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.

Melissa Aoun
Associate Director - Transformation Advisory, Grant Thornton UAE

Melissa’s most recent work focused on the integration of risk in corporate growth as she led a team of consultants dedicated to the aviation, education, insurance, manufacturing, and hospitality industries among others. Beyond working with multinationals and regionally spread medium to large businesses, Melissa has worked closely with large family groups on structuring and developing profitable business models including business process reengineering and corporate governance matters. In addition to introducing risk Management to entities novice to the practice, Melissa leveraged the risk culture of companies with established internal audit departments to integrate risk in strategy so that auditors’ risk management capabilities may be of better support to leadership’s decision making process. Her experience in Risk Management is built around the design, training and implementation of risk management frameworks that support and enhance an entity’s internal audit function by providing it with effective tools to assess its risk appetite and tolerance, therefore helping the organization take calculated risks that catalyze its strategic growth. Through enterprise risk management and in line with a company’s risk appetite, Melissa designed business strategies that are conducive to risk optimization in the fulfillment of her clients’ corporate objectives. Melissa has over 11 years of experience in risk management, is a graduate of Temple University’s Risk Management and Insurance program in addition to holding a bachelor’s degree in economics. She later pursued a Masters of Science in Risk Management at New York University (NYU) and was awarded an Associate in Risk Management designation (ARM) from the American Institutes.

Santhana Anandraman
Compliance Manager, Nawah

Sorana Parvulescu
Partner, Control Risks

Experienced geopolitical analyst and political risk adviser, focused on helping private and public organisations to make informed decisions on how to successfully approach market opportunities while managing associated risks . Advising clients on government relations and helping them to assess and manage reputational, political and security risks arising from their global ambitions and global operational footprint.