Film Screening: UNRAVELED
October 6, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dir. Marc H. Simon
Documentary / 2010 / USA / 84 mins / English / PG
Unravelled tells a modern day tragedy of ambition gone astray — it is a compelling first person account of one man’s audacious decent into white collar crime and the destruction left behind.
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured the nation’s attention as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud that netted over 750 million dollars.
The film is set in the “guilded cage” of Dreier’s Upper East Side Penthouse, where the Court has ordered him confined to house arrest until his sentencing day.
For sixty days — from the day he pleads guilty until the day he is sentenced — the divorced father of two reflects upon the choices that lead to his criminal demise, and the prospect of life imprisonment. Building upon candid interviews with Dreier, Unravelled weaves its narrative with cinema verité footage, revealing archival material and innovative animation effects. The film builds suspense as the countdown to his trial date approaches.
| TIME |
PROGRAMME |
| 7.00PM |
Welcome Speech by Ms Clara Cheo
Chief Executive Officer, Golden VillageWelcome Speech by Mr Kenneth Tan
Chairman, Singapore Film Society |
| 7.15PM |
Screening of UNRAVELED |
| 8.45PM |
The Psychology of Fraud
What Makes a “Good” Person Turn “Bad”?
Panel Discussion |
| 9.30PM |
End |
PANELLISTS
Moderated by Joseph Alfred
Joseph Alfred is the Head of Policy and Technical at ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Singapore. In this role, he is responsible for the formulation of policies, development and implementation of Professional Insights initiatives to drive ACCA’s public value mission and brand objectives; and ensure ACCA members, regulators and other stakeholders are updated on ACCA’s global technical policies. He works closely with stakeholders and organisations to identify opportunities where ACCA can contribute to the agenda in relation to accounting and business in Singapore, as well as ASEAN. He is a Fellow of ACCA, Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore; and holds an MBA from the University of Strathclye.
Current Function
– EY Global Independence Partner, APAC/Japan Independence Leader
– In charge of Independence and Ethics consultations and policies for EY Global providing support and oversight to EY Areas and Countries.
– IESBA (International Ethics Standards Board of Accountants) Board Member. IESBA ambassador to IAASB. Member of the Safeguards Task Force
Professional experience and clients
– International partner with 30 years experience gained in various countries and companies with diverse economic environments. For the last 15 years, Sylvie has been dedicated full-time to ethical risk management and independence of auditors at global level with EY Global and before with Andersen Worldwide..
– Before being dedicated full-time to a Global Independence function, Sylvie was providing consulting services to the European Commission, governments and government agencies from various countries, and large international corporations in relation to ethics, sustainability and corporate governance as well as working closely with various international bodies, regulators and agencies in relation to international standard setting and law-making process
Education
– Bachelor of Applied Mathematics and Economy from Paris Sorbonne University
– MBA from ESCP-Europe
– Master of Environmental Policy and Management from University of Denver, Colorado
David has over 33 year’s professional experience in investigations and project management with extensive experience in the Asian market. Investigations have included asset tracing assignments, Intellectual Property (IP) theft and infringement cases, anti-counterfeiting operations, large multi-jurisdictional e-data collections, e-discovery, litigation support and readiness.
David also project managed international teams for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), IP investigations and data collections in Europe and US for MNC’s and international law firms. He also directed computer forensic teams in two of Asia’s biggest fraud cases for the investigation and preservation of Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
His past experience includes senior manager with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP’s New England office managing the Analytic and Forensic Technology (AFT) lab. Prior to moving to the US in March 2007 he as the Director Financial Advisory Service (FAS) of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Hong Kong, head of the AFT practice.
Peng Kwee graduated from the National University of Singapore and has practised as a lawyer in Singapore for more than 20 years. He is presently a consultant with the law firm of Aptus Law Corporation and the managing consultant of Bird’s Consultancy. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Peng Kwee was a regular police officer with the Singapore Police Force.
Peng Kwee conducts continuing professional education seminars with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants in the areas are ethics for professional auditors and accountants. He has conducted ethics related topics with the Singapore Prison Service and Government Sector training such as “Fraud & Internal Controls and Governance & Compliance” in the “Executive Education Programme for Public Sector Finance Leadership”. He has also conducted ethics for commercial institutions and multi-national corporations (for professionals in the corporate and financial areas of practice).
Peng Kwee is presently involved in the training of white collar crime investigation officers and other investigation officers involved in crime investigations with the Home Team Academy, Singapore Police Force. He also conducts law courses as an adjunct with the Nanyang Business School (Nanyang Technological University.
He has conducted seminars in Mandarin on various aspects of Singapore laws to judicial, law enforcement and accounting practitioners from the People’s Republic of China. He had been a Panellist and Speaker at international conferences like the ‘International Economic Crime Conference’ organized by the Commercial Affairs Department
Humans are by nature, creatures of “Habit”.
We unknowingly acquire patterns of behaviour through constant repetition, repetition of thoughts, repetition of actions. And, for repetition to proceed, we first need to harbour a mindset or attitude that encourages those behaviours, don’t we?
Patrick holds out a “Helping Hand” to individuals and organisations that desire personal growth and transformation. This has been his laser focus since 2004, when he founded The Amanuenses Network Pte Ltd, a training organisation aligned to the deeper development of soft skills.
Soft skills are those less tangible, more “Emotionally Intelligent”, and often complex cognitive skills, that strengthen areas of communication, collaboration and creativity. They impact how we think, feel, choose and act. Soft skills play a hand in differentiating one person from another.
Amanuenses facilitates work on the inner attitudes of the mind, and how these translate into outer visible behaviours. By paying more attention to those external behaviours, we can gain better insight to the mind’s inner workings, and the mindsets and attitudes that may be concealed.
