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TMU CSR Institute zoom session: Exploring Corporate Integrity & ESG at MNC Subsidiaries with Siemens Canada's Richard Brait & Shawna-Leigh Moulton

Date
January 16, 2023
Time
12:00 PM EST - 1:30 PM EST

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The Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility at Toronto Metropolitan University*(TMU) is pleased to present an online interactive zoom session, Exploring Corporate Compliance, Integrity & ESG at Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations-- in conversation with Corporate Counsel Richard Brait and Chief Compliance Officer Shawna-Leigh Moulton of Siemens Canada (details below), on Monday, January 16, 2023, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm (Toronto time).

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Information will be provided during the session re: how to submit questions.

About the Speakers

Richard Brait (Siemens Canada General Counsel) and Shawna-Leigh Moulton (Chief Compliance Officer and Data Privacy Officer) are ideally positioned to discuss the topic of corporate compliance, integrity & ESG at subsidiaries of multinational corporations.

Richard Brait

Richard has degrees in Engineering Physics, and Law from Queen's University, and a Masters in Law from the University of Oxford. A member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, he holds the Certified Corporate Director designation.

Prior to joining Siemens Canada as General Counsel in 2009, Richard was General Counsel at ATI Technologies and then Chief Administrative Officer of Advanced Micro Devices Canada. Richard was previously senior partner at the global law firm Stikeman Elliott, and chaired its technology group. He also worked at Nortel Networks, where he formed and ran what became one of the world’s largest intellectual property businesses, and was General Counsel to Nortel’s largest divisions.

The Legal Department of Siemens Canada was named Canada's best-managed large law department at the Innovation Legal Awards (2017), and received commendations for "Technology" and "Managing and Developing Talent" at the Financial Times North American Innovative Lawyer Awards (2018). It was also shortlisted for the Innovation award at the 2019 Canadian General Counsel Awards.

Shawna-Leigh Boulton

Shawna-Leigh is the Chief Compliance Officer and Data Privacy Officer at Siemens Canada. In her role at Siemens Canada, Shawna-Leigh is responsible for governance in the areas of: anticorruption; antitrust; ethics; anti-money laundering; export control and data privacy. Shawna-Leigh holds an honours degree in Environmental Studies and Physical Geography (McMaster University) and is a member of the Corporate Ethics Management Council (Conference Board of Canada) and a member of the Corporate Governance Professionals of Canada.

Prior to her taking lead of the Compliance department, Shawna-Leigh was a member of the Legal department at Siemens Canada in her role as Director, Corporate Governance & Legal Operations. Shawna-Leigh started working at Siemens in 2009, at the time implementation of new governance rules around corporate integrity were being rolled out globally within Siemens to address Siemens AG’s anti-bribery and corruption challenges.

Previous to her employment with Siemens Canada, Ms. Moulton was a Senior Corporate & Securities Law Clerk for 14 years at the law firm Stikeman, Keeley, Spiegel & Pasternak LLP. In this role, Shawna-Leigh worked with the senior partner managing corporate governance and securities matters. Her time was primarily spent on initial public offerings and private placements for public companies, dealing frequently with various stock exchanges and securities commissions.

About Siemens Canada

Siemens Canada describes itself (external link)  as "a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose, adding real value for customers since 1912." This includes the smart infrastructure and digital factory divisions, as well as its financing business and affiliates in healthcare and mobility. Siemens Canada has more than 2000 employees in office and production facilities across Canada, and annual revenue of over $1 billion. Siemens Canada is a subsidiary of Siemens AG, a German multinational conglomerate corporation technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare.

Siemens AG and its more than 800 subsidiaries employ approximately 303,000 people worldwide and in 2021 Siemens AG reported global revenue of over $66 billion (US). Siemens works with an estimated 66,000 suppliers in more than 150 countries around the world. A signatory of the UN Global Compact, Siemens AG was rated 25th out of 100 according to Corporate Knight's 2021 list of top sustainable corporations. (external link) 

In addition to navigating their way through the distinctive legal and socio-political-economic landscape of the jurisdictions where they are located, subsidiaries of multinational corporations such as Siemens Canada are associated with and operate in close cooperation with and are affected by the decisions and actions of their parent corporations. General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers play a critical role in steering through this terrain.

While Siemens Canada was not implicated in the bribery and corruption investigations targetting Siemens AG and some of its other subsidiaries in the period leading up to 2009 (for which a record $1.6 billion in settlements was paid), Siemens Canada was nevertheless impacted by the rollout of a new global-wide anti-bribery & anti-corruption compliance regime that was introduced at that time. Richard and Shawna-Leigh joined Siemens Canada as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer respectively in 2009, and as such the rollout of the global anti-bribery and corruption regime was one of the corporate integrity challenges they faced upon their arrival. Siemens Canada has been active on ESG topics for some time (see, e.g., its 2020 " (PDF file) Business to Society (external link) " report), and has recently hired its first Chief Sustainability Officer.

Moderator

Moderating the session will be Dr. Kernaghan Webb, Director of the Toronto Metropolitan University CSR Institute and a Law and Business professor in TMU's Ted Rogers School of Management.

The talk is co-sponsored by the TMU Corporate Social Responsibility Student Association, the TMU Commerce and Government Association, and the TMU Law and Business Student Association.  

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