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Delivering workable governance, risk and compliance solutions to corporate businesses is a highly specialised area. It requires skills covering international law, business processes and hierarchies, solution architectures and IT systems.
But to be really effective at delivering those solutions quickly and without skimping on depth or quality requires a small and dedicated team that have worked together over a long period … just like ours.
Tim Bovy, Chief Executive Officer (Global Operations)
Tim has nearly 30 years of experience in designing and implementing various types of information and risk management systems for major law firms such as Clifford Chance and Richards Butler; and for major accountancy firms such as Deloitte & Touche. He has also developed solutions for organisations such as BT, Imperial Tobacco, Rio Tinto, the Kuwaiti government, and the US House of Representatives. He is currently project leader in defining and developing the strategy for the Rio Tinto global governance, risk, and compliance system, which covers a broad spectrum of compliance risk management.
Tim holds a BA degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame, and MA and C.Phil degrees, with high distinction, from the University of California.
Tim has written articles for, and given lectures at, City University in London and at Oxford University. He lives in Marlow, England, where he is on the Executive Committee of the Marlow Chamber of Trade and Commerce.
Ed Beck, Chief Executive Officer (USA Operations)
Ed has served as Executive or Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Mervyn’s LLC, a $2.5 billion department store chain, Yamanouchi Consumer, Inc., and its predecessor, Shaklee Corporation, a NYSE and Fortune 500 consumer products company, and The Pacific Lumber Company, a NYSE and Fortune 1000 lumber and welding products company.
Ed began his legal career with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco. He has substantial experience in a broad range of compliance areas, serving as chief compliance officer in the various companies for which he has worked. Ed has also managed all legal aspects of several successful acquisitions and divestitures, dealt with numerous corporate governance matters, served on the Board and Audit Committee of Yamanouchi Consumer Inc. and chaired the Board, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee on behalf of the company’s Japanese Chairman.
Ed has served on numerous professional and non-profit Boards, including the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Bar Association, and The San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He also served as Chair of the Bay Area General Counsel Group.
Ed holds a BA degree, cum laude, from Yale and a JD degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
Harry Hodgson, Chief Information Officer
Harry has over 20 years experience with major IT companies in business and quality planning, designing and implementing processes, improving performance and managing operations. This experience includes working with Data General and EMC at UK Board level as well as International Management level covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Particular areas of expertise include defining/implementing business processes and rules, FCPA risk management, ISO9000 quality systems, training, call centres, purchasing, logistics and managing and coordinating complex projects across all business areas and geographies. Harry has a very successful record of achieving objectives in terms of time, efficiencies, effectiveness and significant cost savings.
Rob McHardy, Chief Technology Officer
Rob received both his bachelors and masters degrees from Oxford University, in 1991. He began working with Tim immediately after graduation as a project manager on a £multi-million project, involving two of the world’s largest ship builders. Rob was responsible for setting up a records management system for a large document database, which ran to over 1 million pages.
From that experience Rob quickly grew into a highly skilled systems engineer. In 1993 he spearheaded the Kuwaiti government project, which managed the massive insurance claims against Iraq, following their 1991 invasion of Kuwait. Since then Rob has built up extensive expertise in system architecture, design and implementation. This ranges, from working with sophisticated databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, to preparing detailed specifications and diagramming precise hardware configurations, to writing bespoke code to enhance systems integration and workflow procedures.
Over the years, Rob has overseen the design and implementation of numerous successful systems in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Rob is the CTO of d2OPS international and is the technical authority on all of the company's client engagements.