Board of Advisors

Brightline Compliance's Board of Advisors includes nationally-known in-house counsel and attorneys at large law firms, former government officials, compliance and ethics officers, and experts in instructional design.

The Board of Advisors helps ensure that Brightline's services are not only legally accurate and kept up-to-date with legal changes, but that they provide practical guidance on how to deal with the "gray areas" that employees may face in the real world.

Biographies of Board of Advisors

Alan W. H. Gourley
Alan Gourley is a Partner in the Crowell & Moring law firm, where he counsels clients and litigates on behalf of them on a broad range of international and government contract issues. He has extensive experience with all aspects of international contracts, both government and commercial. He counsels and defends clients with respect to a wide range of international and government compliance issues, including U.S. export controls, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the False Claims Act, World Bank procurements and other laws and regulations applicable to international transactions. He also counsels clients concerning U.S. laws and regulations applicable to foreign investments and ownership in the United States.

Mr. Gourley is a member of various bar associations including the American Bar Association where he is active in the Sections of Litigation, International Law & Practice, and Public Contract Law, and in the American Society of International Law. He is a graduate of Beloit College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Elaine Herskowitz
Elaine Herskowitz has worked in the equal employment opportunity field for more than 20 years. For 15 years, she served as an attorney at the headquarters of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While there, she served as the key drafter of various EEOC policy documents, including the Enforcement Guidance on Vicarious Liability for Unlawful Harassment by Supervisor, Policy Guidance on Sexual Favoritism, Policy Guidance on Current Issues of Sexual Harassment, and Compliance Manual Section on Retaliation.

Since Ms. Herskowitz's departure from the EEOC, she has trained many thousands of personnel in the public and private sectors on workplace harassment prevention and other EEO issues. The EEOC hired Ms. Herskowitz to serve as its expert witness in sexual harassment litigation.

Ms. Herskowitz is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Georgetown University Law Center.

William Horton
William Horton is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on effective instructional design in e-learning courses. He served on the American Society for Training and Development's ECC (E-Learning Courseware Certification) committee, which drafted quality standards for evaluating e-learning courses. He is author of E-Learning by Design, Designing Web-Based Training, Evaluating E-learning, Using E-learning, and several other books.

Mr. Horton has been designing technology-based training since 1971 when, as an undergraduate, he designed a network-based course for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Engineering Study.

Mr. Horton is an internationally sought-after keynote speaker and instructor. He has delivered presentations to the Distance Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, the Human Resources Association National Congress in Sao Paulo, the Information Technology Training Association conference in Barcelona, the Knowledge Management Seminarium in Stockholm, the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei, and the Asian Development Bank in Manila and Tokyo.

He is a registered Professional Engineer, an MIT graduate, and Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He is a recipient of ACM's Rigo Award for contributions to software documentation, IEEE's Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for contributions to engineering communications, and the IF Award (Germany) for industrial design.

Ami Kim
Ami Kim is a Senior Compliance Director for Capital One Financial Corporation. In this capacity, she oversees the company's anti-money laundering (AML) compliance program and implementation of AML risk management strategy for U.S. and Canadian operations. She manages corporate responses to independent audits and regulatory examinations, and consults with corporate clients in the development of internal monitoring and reporting infrastructures. Ms. Kim develops and oversees AML policies and training programs for staff, Board members and executives.

Ms. Kim is a certified regulatory compliance manager and certified anti-money laundering specialist, and actively speaks on AML issues around the country. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the William and Mary School of Law, and is a licensed attorney in Virginia.

Michael Krawitz
Michael Krawitz is CEO of Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSX). During his career at Applied Digital, Mr. Krawitz has supervised the successful reorganization of the company; worked to successfully conclude, with no adverse impact on the company, an SEC inquiry into prior activities; supervised over 400 '33 Act and '34 Act filings with the SEC; and renovated the company's compliance efforts to move from lacking independence and controls to having state-of-the-art board structure and policies, thorough but practical control procedures and a compliance-cognizant corporate culture.

Mr. Krawitz has lectured at the Practising Law Institute on the corporate perspective of mergers and acquisitions and has guest lectured at Harvard Law School on practical issues of corporate formation and on venture capital fund raising. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Harvard Law School.

Carol M. Merchasin
Carol M. Merchasin is a lawyer and training consultant who delivers interactive training in the areas of harassment prevention, discrimination prevention, ethics and workplace investigations. She has trained thousands of employees from such diverse industries as financial services, pharmaceuticals, biomedical, media, manufacturing and technology. In addition, she has extensive experience in providing specialized training for managers and executives. In addition to delivering training, Ms. Merchasin is a co-founder of The Training Design Studio, which develops and designs webcasts that provide strategic business solutions in the areas of training, marketing and customer service.

Ms. Merchasin is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a regular speaker at both regional and national SHRM conferences. She is a published author on the legal issues related to harassment training; the second edition of her book, Case Dismissed! Taking Your Harassment Training to Trial, was published by the American Bar Association (ABA) in June 2005. Ms. Merchasin is a graduate of Cedar Crest College and the Northeastern University School of Law, and a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Jeffrey L. Snyder
Jeffrey Snyder heads the International practice group for the Crowell and Moring law firm. Since 1986, Mr. Snyder's practice has concentrated on the U.S. regulation of international trade, including cross-border transactions, import/export controls, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. His clients include those operating in the chemical, electronics, pharmaceuticals, software, insurance, investment, and general trading industries. Mr. Snyder assists companies in day-to-day compliance, audits and investigations, and civil enforcement proceedings.

Mr. Snyder speaks frequently on international trade issues, and presents regularly in the U.S. and abroad on U.S. trade regulation topics. He is a graduate of the American University, American University School of Law, and Columbia University, and is a licensed attorney in Washington, DC.

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