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Webcasts of the Week

 Defining and Executing Systematic, Risk-Based Third-Party Due Diligence for FCPA Compliance
Sponsored by The Steele Foundation

Help Wanted: Ad of the Week

 Compliance Education & Communications Mgr.
Submitted by Oracle

Event of the Week

 Corporate Governance Programs
Courtesy of Harvard Business School

Thought Leadership of the Week

Access Management: Efficiency, Confidence, Control
Courtesy of SAP

The Resource Exchange

Code of Conduct
Submitted by BP

Sample Risk Acceptance Request
Submitted by Circuit City

Featured Databases

Whistleblower Guidelines
Search Whistleblower Policies, Contract Options

Class-Action Filings
Download Text of Class-Action Complaints

GRC Illustrated Series

 Improving GRC by Visualizing Your Data
The 24th Installment in This Exclusive Series
Compliance Week 2009--Fourth Annual Conference for Corporate Financial, Legal, Risk, Audit & Compliance Executives, June 3-5, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

David C. Farrell

Vice President and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer
Yahoo! Inc.

Dave Farrell David Farrell joined Yahoo! in June 2007 as the company’s first Chief Compliance Officer and is responsible for developing and leading Yahoo!'s Ethics and Compliance Organization.

His responsibilities include: advising executive management and the Board of Directors regarding business conduct and corporate compliance issues; promoting global awareness and consistent enforcement of Yahoo!'s business conduct policies; establishing resources for employees to identify, report and resolve business conduct issues; and, working with management to coordinate Yahoo!'s global corporate compliance initiatives.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Farrell's professional experience included working in a number of senior legal and compliance positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he created and led Sun’s corporate compliance and business conduct program as Sun’s first Chief Compliance Officer. Farrell's positions at Sun included: Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Legal Operations and Corporate Compliance; General Counsel, Microelectronics; Regional Counsel, East Coast and Canada; Corporate Counsel for Corporate Governance and Securities Compliance; and, Sales and Marketing Counsel.

Prior to Sun, Farrell served as Corporate Counsel at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he supported HP's sales and marketing operations and several product groups. Prior to HP, Farrell served as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant and Judge Advocate in Japan and San Francisco.