Extensive compliance, anti-corruption and internal investigations experience with GE Capital and U.S. Justice Department. Experienced in restructuring and re-engineering enterprise-wide ethics and compliance programs in the financial services industry. Adept at leveraging systems and programs to enhance compliance infrastructure. As Core Compliance Leader, led an enterprise-wide GE Capital policy and governance framework, co-designed its compliance risk assessment, and created and executed training program prior to Fed/OCC oversight. As Chief Compliance Officer of a business unit, responsible for delivering all facets of compliance and ethics program spanning across a geographically diverse platform. Vanderbilt University Law graduate. GE Leadership graduate. Embeds ethics and compliance into business growth. Successful track record leading, motivating and collaborating with direct reports, cross-functional teams and business stakeholders. Thought leader for innovative compliance strategy. Co-author of ABA best-selling book, Warning the Witness: A Guide to Internal Investigations and the Attorney-Client Privilege. Former adjunct professor of SEC and Corporate Regulatory and Internal Investigations. Avvo attorney rating: 9.9 (Superb). Thinks strategically, executes tactically.

Director, Compliance Management Division @ From June 2015 to Present (5 months) Greater New York City AreaChairman @ Appointed by Connecticut Governor, Dannel Malloy to lead and reimagine the oldest governmental civil rights organization in the world. Credited with bringing corporate best practices to the public sector: • Restructured leadership across agency and invested in new positions to upgrade skill sets and technology. • Digitized and automated key systems including, complaint processing to more efficiently track and report key metrics. • Reduced overdue caseload by more than 30 percent in 18 months. CHRO's mission is to eliminate discrimination through civil and human rights law enforcement and to establish equal opportunity and justice for all persons within the state through advocacy and education. From August 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Hartford, Connecticut AreaManaging Director, Core Compliance Leader (Global HQ) @ Managing Director, Core Compliance Leader – encompassing retail, credit card and corporate businesses Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer – GE Energy Financial Services Responsible for GE Capital’s core compliance processes and programs for all business lines, including its annual compliance plan, policy creation and governance, annual risk assessment, training plan, Volcker compliance and joint venture compliance. Chair – Policy Governance Committee, Risk Assessment Task Force and Training Committee; Member & Presenter – Enterprise-wide Compliance Committee. Graduate of GE Leadership Development Program at GE’s Crotonville Center. Co-author of ABA best-seller, Warning the Witness: A Guide to Internal Investigations and the Attorney-Client Privilege. Co-led GE’s Legal Diversity initiative for its more than 1,300 attorneys. From March 2007 to August 2013 (6 years 6 months) Norwalk, ConnecticutGovernment Investigations Instructor @ Trained and instructed the next generation of lawyers and compliance professionals. Course concentrated on investigations in four contexts: Corporate Internal Investigations; Grand Jury Investigations; Independent Counsel Investigations and Congressional Investigations. Corporate Internal Investigations component of course included: How to Conduct a Corporate Internal Investigation; Duties and Responsibilities of Management & Standing Committees of the Board; Defending the Corporation, Its Officers, Directors and Employees in Grand Jury and SEC Investigations; Communicating with the SEC and Other Regulatory Agencies. From December 2002 to June 2012 (9 years 7 months) West Hartford, ConnecticutPartner/Government Investigations @ Practice balanced between government investigations and regulatory enforcement. Government investigations practice included representation of corporations, directors and officers in criminal, civil and SEC enforcement matters. Trial counsel in one of the longest federal criminal trials in the history of the District of Connecticut. From March 2002 to March 2007 (5 years 1 month) Hartford, Connecticut AreaAssistant United States Attorney @ Investigated and prosecuted a broad array of matters under the direction of then U.S. Attorney, Eric H. Holder, Jr. First chaired more than two dozen jury trials, fifty bench trials as well as several appeals and special proceedings in federal and local courts. Recipient of the 1996 Justice for Victims of Crime Award, the 1997 U.S. Attorney’s Special Achievement Award, and the 1998 Justice for Victims of Crime Award. From May 1995 to July 1999 (4 years 3 months) Wahington, DCAttorney @ Practice balanced between government investigations and labor litigation. From 1991 to 1994 (3 years) Greater Chicago Area

JD, Law @ Vanderbilt University Law School From 1989 to 1991 BA, Political Science @ State University of New York College at Buffalo From 1984 to 1988 Gary Collins is skilled in: Leadership, Government, Litigation, Training, Legal Writing, Corporate Governance, Civil Litigation, Legal Research, Politics, Commercial Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Public Speaking, Higher Education, Corporate Law, Intellectual Property, Due Diligence, Nonprofits, Finance, Appeals