Joseph Grmovsek
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JOSEPH GRMOVSEK BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Grmovsek is a former securities lawyer, reformed white-collar criminal, and subject of the educational-documentary film “Collared.”
Joseph Grmovsek is also the first and still the only person in Canadian history to serve a federal sentence of imprisonment for insider trading, having done time in two maximum-security prisons (Millhaven and Kingston Pen) for an over a 15-year activity that involved churning tens of millions of dollars for an eventual eight-figure US dollar gain in what became the most prolonged insider trading case ever uncovered by American and Canadian securities investigators.
After being identified, Joseph Grmovsek cooperated with authorities to absolve many innocent professionals inadvertently swept up in his criminal endeavour, admitted guilt, and began a 39-month prison sentence.
His partner-in-crime and best friend, an American corporate lawyer; however, never made it to sentencing, tragically jumping off a bridge to his death a day before he was scheduled to fly with me to New York to learn his fate.
In honour of him and after a miraculous and life-changing incident that occurred to him in Kingston Penitentiary Joseph Grmovsek dedicated himself to the cause of trying to benefit others through a sharing of what he learned from his negative experiences which include his current efforts to find homes for homeless ex-offenders as the inaugural Program Director for the charity, “Restorative Justice Housing Ontario.”
Joseph’s dramatic story forms the basis of the education-documentary film Collared and, since his release from prison, his talks and speeches either in-person or by Zoom and Webex offer an unparalleled look into the world of white-collar crime, the consequences for those participating in it or affected by it, and the importance of professional ethics and information protection.
Joseph Grmovsek audiences have included investment funds and portfolio managers, law schools and law firms, business schools, regulatory and professional bodies, central banks, and public corporations and their staff.
Joseph’s talks serve as an ethics object-lesson for professionals and organizational bodies as he offers an unparalleled and one-of-a-kind look into the world of white-collar crime, the unforeseeable consequences for those participating in it and affected by it, as well as effective ethics and compliance training, and information protection.
Joseph Grmovsek insights are important for those interested in the protection of the corporate asset that is information, the consequences and reputational damage of failure, “scared straight” ethics training, and the power of redemption.
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financial/corporate/legal and regulatory audiences
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Joseph begins by showing the trailer to the documentary “Collared” to establish his credibility on the topic and then discuss how firms can best protect their information by examining the ways others failed and allowed me and my co-accused to successfully obtain sufficient information to support insider trading in over 120 separate deals spanning 15 years in the most prolonged insider trading case ever uncovered.
Joseph Grmovsek then discuss the unforeseeable consequences of breach of professional ethics and white-collar crime by focusing on his experiences in prison, the personal costs after release, and the tragic suicide of his co-accused. He concludes with a story about a promise he made at his darkest moment in Kingston Penitentiary and his efforts — with their help that day — to keep it.
general/faith -based audiences
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Joseph Grmovsek begins by showing the trailer to the documentary “Collared” to establish who I am and to set a sober tone before discussing his experiences in prison and his efforts at redemption and benefitting others through his experiences after being compelled to do so by a promise made before what many believe was an example of divine intervention on my behalf in Kingston Penitentiary.
making ethics training effective by making consequences real
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Joseph Grmovsek engages with banks, portfolio managers, and professional and investment firms that seek to increase the effectiveness of their efforts at building a compliance culture beyond traditional and dry employee training. As a complement to an existing legal and regulatory program, Joseph Grmovsek shares his own dramatic experience and one-of-a-kind perspective as a way for compliance leadership to increase the effectiveness of and acceptance for their compliance initiatives while making REAL the consequences of failure to employees and their firms.
protecting the corporate asset and avoiding the consequences of reputation damage for breach
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preventing insider trading and its identification and prosecution
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providing staff and management with "scared straight" and “cautionary tale’ business ethics training boosters
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