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As Former President and CEO, Sean served on NAVEX’s board of directors and ledthe executive team. He started his tenure at NAVEX as president and chief operating officer where he led initiatives in strategy, product development, sales and marketing. 

Before joining NAVEX, Sean served as executive vice president of the SAP Ariba Network, the world’s largest third-party procurement network with over five million suppliers. Prior to SAP, Sean co-founded the natural language processing and artificial intelligence company, Nuiku, which was sold to Nortek (NASDAQ: NRTK) in 2016. 

Sean also served in leadership roles at Microsoft as the managing director of corporate alliances and as group product manager for Microsoft SQL Server Database, an $8 billion business. He joined Microsoft from Nimble where he was the executive vice president of sales and service for the XML virtual data warehouse technology company backed by Madrona Venture Group. 

Earlier in his career, Sean led M&A efforts as a director at Drugstore.com; he also played an integral role on the pre-IPO team for this leading online pharmacy backed by Kleiner Perkins. Sean’s career began with 10 years at Deloitte Consulting where he was one of the firm’s youngest practice leaders in ERP.   

Sean earned an MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Business Administration with high honors from Gonzaga University. He is also a CPA in the State of Washington.

Jane Norberg is a shareholder in the Washington D.C. Office and Co-Chair of our Whistleblower and Compliance group. Jane is the former Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower and Senior Officer in the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and a former Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. Jane Norberg brings her unique understanding of whistleblowers and the pitfalls for companies in assisting clients with internal and government investigations, and related compliance issues.

Spotlighted by CNN as an “$800 million top cop”, recognized by Securities Docket as an “Enforcement Elite”, and shortlisted by Global Investigations Review as “Investigator of the Year”, Jane represents clients on sensitive whistleblower issues, including investigating high-stakes allegations, whistleblower retaliation claims defense, sexual harassment allegations, and provides crisis management counseling to mitigate reputational risk. Jane also counsels clients on proactive assessment and structuring of internal compliance mechanisms, policies, procedures, and controls; as well as training boards of directors, management and workforces on internal reporting structures and retaliation. Jane also advises companies on emerging whistleblower programs such as those run by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, and NHTSA.

Jane has extensive experience and knowledge regarding whistleblower retaliation and is the leading expert on agreements that impede reporting in violation of SEC and other whistleblower laws, having directly advised on all whistleblower protection cases brought by the SEC during her tenure. She advised senior SEC leadership on emerging whistleblower issues and policies, as well as reported to Congress regarding the program’s activities. She also advised other domestic and international regulators related to the development of new whistleblower programs. Jane is a subject matter expert on whistleblower issues and writes and speaks frequently on the topic.

Prior to joining the SEC, Jane was in private practice, where she focused on executive compensation structuring. She also previously served as a legal intern to Judge Joseph M. McLaughlin, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

As one of the earliest ethics officers in the industry, Carrie Penman previously served four years as deputy director of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, now ECI. A scientist by training, she developed and directed the first corporate-wide global ethics program at Westinghouse Electric Corporation between 1994 and 1999. Carrie now leads NAVEX’s risk management processes and oversees its internal ethics and compliance program.   

Carrie has extensive client-facing risk and compliance consulting experience, including more than 15 years as an adviser to boards and executive teams. Carrie was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Compliance 2020 by Compliance Week magazine. In 2017, she received the ECI’s Carol R. Marshall Award for Innovation in Corporate Ethics for an extensive career contributing to the advancement of the ethics and compliance field worldwide.