China Corporate Security and Risk Management Summit 2022

He is the Compliance Director - Asia Pacific at ADM - Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, with approximately 40,000 employees serving customers in nearly 200 countries.

He is a qualified lawyer and has additional qualifications of CFE - Certified Fraud Examiner and CCEP-I (Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional International) and has previously worked with FedEx and Philips.

He heads the Compliance, Ethics and Risk function for South-East Asia, Korea, Australia and New Zealand for GE’s Healthcare division, based out of Singapore. Joined GE 15 years ago and has held various roles in Compliance, Finance, Controllership and Audit functions with Healthcare, Corporate, Energy and Financial Services divisions of GE. Prior to that, he was a management consultant driving govt. projects in the UK. He started his career with E&Y’s management audit division.

In his current role he leads implementation of risk and compliance program including third party, anti-bribery compliance and other policies such as public procurement, anti competition, conflict of interest, privacy etc.

He manages the risk review board for the region and the ombuds program. Most recently, he led the Global Compliance monitoring, audit and analytics function.

He has lived and worked in USA, UK, India and Singapore.

The Asia Council President of International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the Consultant for UNAPCICT-ESCAP, UNISDR, ILO and IRP. He has rich experience on emergency management and business continuity especially emergency response team (ERT) and emergency operation center (EOC) management. He was regional security and emergency manager for Intel China before 2009. He was safety engineer and ERT leader been trained as incident commander by Chandler No.2 fire station in Arizona during 1996 to 1998. He also had various experience on civil engineering and information technology. He can make EOC design consolidates architecture, EM and IT all together. He is the first CEM in Mainland China.

Company:Michelin

Title:Head of SI Security, Asia Pacific

Company:Midea Group

Title:Chief Compliance Officer

He has been in IT industry for more than 25 years and in security space for over 20 years. He is currently the head of Information Security and Risk Management of Novartis China. Prior to that, he held the APAC Information Security management role for Eastman Kodak and Country Security Officer for HP New Zealand. With multiple industry exposure, His most recent experience includes general IT security, governance, data security, risk management and regulation compliance in pharmaceutical industry. In the past 3 years, He has been leading the effort globally in Novartis to comply with China Cybersecurity Law and related regulations.

He works as the Head of regional HSE&S at Nouryon APAC. He holds a master degree of chemical engineering from Suzhou University, and holds a PhD degree of Safety Technology and Engineering from Nanjing Tech.

University. He owns over 20 years of experience on the HSE area in the chemical industry. He has worked in Novartis , PPG, and Arkema before. He is a Certified Safety Engineer of P. R. China, and Senior Chemical Safety Engineer. In 2018, he was also granted as Level 1 Certified Fire Engineer of P. R. China.

He is a chair of Pollution prevention of RC committee of the Association of International Chemical Manufacturers in China (AICM)

Asia Managing Partner of Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe LLP (“Orrick”) and the head of Orrick’s China Intellectual Property (“IP”) and Data Privacy practices.

He earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, a Juris Doctor in law, and a Chinese Certificate of Law.

He is a Guiding Expert of the China Overseas IP Dispute Response & Guidance Center.

He has extensive experience in assisting Chinese and foreign multinational companies with all aspects of their IP rights and disputes in the U.S. and China, including but not limited to IP litigation and arbitration, industrial espionage, and trade secret misappropriation.

He also works extensively on data privacy and cybersecurity issues for both Chinese and international companies on corporate compliance matters in relation to data acquisition, localization, retention, disclosure and export under China’s new Data Security Law (“DSL”) and Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) including issues on “core data”, “important data”, “sensitive data” and exterritorial impact by these laws, as well as on matters in relation to ransomware investigation, assessment evaluation, remedial measures, security improvement, and reporting duties, among other actions.

He is an accomplished executive with close to 20 years international cyber risk and security experience. He is currently in the role of Group Chief Information Security Risk Officer at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore with a global scope. Darren also serves as volunteer on the executive advisory board for cyber at Australia's Deakin University.

He is the former Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Qantas Airlines in Australia, and, before coming to live in Australia, the former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at IHS Markit, a global FinTech headquartered in the UK. He has also held various senior international cyber security leadership roles at Symantec and IBM.

In 2016, Darren featured on the front cover of SC Magazine (an award-winning cybersecurity media publication) then, in 2017, was named in the top 100 Chief Information Security Officers globally. In 2018 he co-founded Cyber Leadership Institute, which delivers executive cyber leadership programs to support the next generation of cyber leaders and he remains the chairman.