Elizabeth Keating

Elizabeth Keating is the VP & Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at the Gemological Institute of America. Elizabeth has over 20 years of experience in compliance investigations and legal risk management. Prior to their current position, they served as the Vice President Global Compliance Investigations Counsel and Chief Compliance Investigations Counsel for Johnson Controls Inc., a $40B global technology and engineering company with over 170,000 employees in 150 countries. In this role, they were responsible for leading and managing the company's compliance investigations program; lead investigator in all significant global investigations; management of the corporate 24/7 Hotline. Additionally, they conducted FCPA forensic audits in collaboration with Internal Audit and designed and implemented major compliance risk programs; auditing and monitoring of performance and effectiveness of ethics and compliance program.

Elizabeth has conducted investigations and FCPA forensic audits in person in a variety of locations including: China, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Dubai, Qatar, Turkey, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil.

Elizabeth Keating has a JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

They are on a team with John W. Hall - VP & CIO, Kelli Stone - VP, Global Tax, and Mark Buntz - SVP & CMO. Their manager is Susan M. Jacques, President & CEO.