Interim Ethics & Compliance Management

Do you need somebody to temporarily replace your Chief Compliance Officer? ECMC is available to provide an interim solution.

Is new legislation coming up which needs to be implemented in your organization? Are you looking for a project manager to take care of that? ECMC is experienced in managing implementation projects.

Do you want to have a discussion with other companies in your industry in order to identify best practices in respect of ethics and compliance and/or start a collective action initiative? ECMC is available to act as an independent, neutral coordinator and facilitator, to ensure that you don’t violate competition law.

Have you received difficult questions in respect of ethics and compliance from your clients or the authorities? Or is a compliance audit coming up? ECMC is available to prepare the organization or to provide advice.

Ethics & Compliance Consulting

ECMC can review the set-up, framework or governance of your compliance program and draft a Compliance Charter.

ECMC can check your compliance requirements, make an inventory of your biggest compliance risks and advice you how to address these risks. Or organize a compliance risk assessment and analysis.

ECMC can help you draft policies and procedures, select compliance software providers, implement compliance requirements into your processes and train your employees.

ECMC is specialized in establishing and improving anti-corruption programs, especially third party due diligence systems and procedures. See:  link.

Another specialization of ECMC is trade restrictions and export controls.

ECMC can also help you put a whistleblowing procedure in place. New Dutch legislation requires Dutch companies with more than 50 employees to have a whistleblowing procedure. See: link. ECMC has almost 10 years of experience rolling out and coordinating international whistleblowing systems.

Compliance Education and Training

Geert Vermeulen, the CEO of ECMC, frequently acts as teacher and trainer. He is one of the regular teachers in the education course for compliance officers in the financial services industry of the Netherlands Compliance Institute. He also acts as trainer for the Castille Institute in Malta. Besides that, ECMC also delivers in-company training. Geert has delivered in-company in-person training at all continents of the world. ECMC also has vast experience in rolling out online compliance education courses. Click here to download the current overview of standard courses.

Speaking engagements

Geert Vermeulen speaks (and writes) on a regular basis about ethics and compliance. Do you want to know how ethics & compliance officers save lives and make people happy? Invite Geert to speak at your event. In the past Geert spoke at compliance events in London, Paris, Frankfurt and various places in The Netherlands. He also chairs compliance events. In addition to that, he can speak at the internal compliance officer or sales meeting of your company. Click here for more information.