Corpedia and EthicsPoint Announce Partnership to Provide Critical Risk Awareness, Benchmarking and Training Solutions

Companies to offer single resource for critical components of comprehensive ethics & compliance programs

Phoenix, Ariz. and Portland, Ore. — June 7, 2011 — Today, Corpedia, a leading provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) advisory services and training, and EthicsPoint, a leading provider of enterprise risk awareness solutions, announced a strategic partnership to provide customers with more seamless employment training, program benchmarking and risk awareness solutions. With this partnership, the two organizations will together add valuable guidance and tracking to businesses seeking more comprehensive risk and compliance solutions across their corporation.

Organizations today face an ever-expanding list of regulatory mandates which require them to maintain compliance, as well as additional pressure from governmental agencies increasing enforcement activities around these directives. With these regulations, it is imperative companies closely monitor and understand the impact of their risk and compliance programs on their business as well as implement policies and processes to ensure potential risks are brought forward and investigated consistently and efficiently. The Corpedia and EthicsPoint partnership addresses this issue through software solutions and information services.

“Companies are continually striving to uncover and implement leading practices,” commented Erica Salmon-Byrne, managing director of Corpedia’s Compliance Advisory Services. “The linkage between transparency and program improvement is top of mind in the C-Suite. EthicsPoint’s industry leading solutions coupled with the breadth of Corpedia’s benchmarking capabilities and practical and actionable advice will allow us to serve companies more holistically and help companies serve customers, employees and stakeholders even more effectively.”

The companies will begin each engagement with complimentary diagnostics on key program components in order to identify critical risk areas, prioritize them and provide actionable plans for mitigating these risks – taking the guesswork out of timelines and costs. Using proprietary methodology with state-of-the-art tools and resources, each baseline diagnostic is done via phone with an experienced compliance professional.

The two organizations then work together to provide clients with a robust roadmap for Corpedia-led training or program benchmarking and – depending on client needs – either case management, compliance management, policy management or business risk analytics solutions implementation from EthicsPoint to meet those identified needs. Additionally, organizations will be able to use the EthicsPoint solutions to benchmark against companies of similar size or within their industry as their central repository of GRC-related information grows.

The results are feasible, in-depth recommendations and solutions tailored to industry, company size and organizational goals. Moreover, the joint solutions address how client programs stack up against important government criteria, as well as against reasonable and best practices of analogous companies which include compliance training and risk awareness solutions.

“Risk and compliance leaders are more aggressively including technological tools into their programs, allowing them better insight into the risks that face their organizations and providing tools to combat those risks,” said David Childers, president & CEO, EthicsPoint. “Combining what EthicsPoint does with the comprehensive training, program benchmarking and risk assessments from Corpedia complement risk and compliance programs with a larger suite of tools to strengthen their programs.”

About Corpedia
Corpedia, founded in 1998, is a leader in ethics and compliance e-learning, risk assessment, code of conduct services, and many other areas of ethics and compliance consulting. Working with over 500 customers in more than 150 countries, the company offers measurable and effective online instructional programs and supporting systems that help eliminate exposure and guide organizations through the complexities of today's compliance requirements. Corpedia offers an array of e-learning topics from antitrust to global privacy and protection and also specializes in code design, rewrite and review, and in-depth risk assessment consulting for those organizations that need to weigh their risk areas.

For more information, visit www.corpedia.com.

About EthicsPoint
EthicsPoint, a leading provider of enterprise risk awareness solutions, helps organizations align their governance, risk and compliance (GRC) processes with overall business strategy. We protect corporate cultures and reputations by proactively revealing risk-related trends via the collection, management and understanding of their GRC-related data. More than 2,400 organizations currently use our solutions to increase the quality of GRC data reported to boards and executive teams to facilitate better business decisions. To find out how, please visit www.ethicspoint.com.