Juliette Gust co-founded Ethics Suite in 2017 and serves as its President. Ethics Suite offers an ethics hotline intake and case management platform, featuring critical compliance integrations, along with a comprehensive range of consulting, investigations, and ethics and compliance program-related services.

As the former Director of Internal Audit at one of the world's leading hospitality companies with more than 180,000 employees across 100 countries, Juliette developed and led the Global Fraud & Investigations team, with investigators reporting to her from China, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Belgium. She was responsible for the company’s business integrity-related whistleblower hotline reports and investigations. Juliette also played a pivotal role as Project Manager and core member of the company’s Anti-Corruption Compliance Program, where she worked with the team to develop a best-in-class global anti-corruption risk assessment, third-party due diligence, and audit program.

Prior to this role, she served as a subject matter expert within PwC’s advisory practice, leading investigations and engagements both domestically and internationally on issues such as anti-money laundering, sanctions compliance, corruption and bribery, embezzlement, and financial statement fraud. Juliette has presented her findings and recommendations to executive boards, federal and state regulatory agencies, and audit committees.

Throughout her career, Juliette has personally conducted or overseen over 2,200 investigations in 75 countries and provided guidance on more than 11,000 employee ethics line reports concerning misconduct, theft, fraud, and employee relations. She has received multiple awards for her anti-fraud, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering initiatives, including the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide CFO Experience Award and the Wall Street Journal Award for Excellence in Accounting. She was nominated for PwC’s Chairman’s Award for three consecutive years. A Certified Fraud Examiner since 2007, she is also fluent in Spanish.

In addition to her ethics and compliance and investigations expertise, Juliette brings a deep foundation in organizational leadership. Earlier in her career, she held senior operational roles with hospitality brands, including Carlson Restaurants, Caesars Palace, and Broadway Restaurants, where she managed multi-unit operations, supervised openings, and turnaround projects, and led teams of over 300 employees.

Juliette is a sought-after speaker on a range of topics, including fraud prevention, building and managing investigations teams, overseeing global investigations, and implementing effective internal whistleblower programs. She also shares her expertise in developing and monitoring anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, and anti-corruption compliance programs at a variety of events, including:

• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Women’s Summit - 2025
• Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Podcast guest – 2025
• Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual chapter author, “Auditing the Confidential Reporting Hotline and Case Management Effectiveness”
• Institute of Internal Auditors Nisqually and Barbados Joint Chapter Event - 2025
• Psych Health and Safety USA podcast - 2025
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Phoenix Chapter - 2024
• Association of Local Government Auditors - 2024
• IIA/ISACA Phoenix Security and Audit Conference - 2024
• Audit Consulting Education’s Fraud Retreat - 2024
• Baylor University Hankamer School of Business guest speaker, forensic accounting - 2024
• National Association of Black Compliance and Risk Management Professionals Annual Summit - 2024
• Institute of Internal Auditors Phoenix Annual Ethics Event - 2023 and 2024
• Restaurant Leadership Success Summit - 2023
• Council of Great City Schools Annual Meeting of Directors, Chiefs of Finance, and Internal Auditors - 2023
• Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics’ Compliance Auditing and Monitoring Conference - 2022
• Michigan Association of CPAs MICPA's Forensic Accounting & Valuation Services Conference - 2022
• Great Women in Fraud Podcast - 2021
• TEXSOM International Wine Awards and Conference - 2021, 2022, 2023. 2024
• Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Regional Conference - 2017, 2019, and 2020
• Hospitality Innovation Planet (HIP) Madrid, Spain - 2020
• Accounting Today Podcast on Paycheck Protection Loan Fraud - 2020
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Houston Chapter - 2020
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Phoenix Chapter - 2019
• Silicon Valley Bank Fraud Prevention Webcast - 2019
• Ohio Restaurant Association Mid-America Restaurant Expo - 2019
• Hospitality Law Conference - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
• California HR Conference - 2018
• Professionals in Human Resources (PIHRA) Los Angeles - 2018
• Texas Restaurant Association TRA Marketplace Expo - 2018

Juliette is extensively quoted in various media outlets:

• “Internal police whistleblower protections seen as missing piece in reform push” - Fox News
• “INSIGHT: Confidential Reporting of Misconduct Is Key Under DOJ Guidance” - Bloomberg Law
• “Companies Refocusing Internal Investigations Amid Pandemic” - Bloomberg Law
• “10 Myths about Whistleblower Hotline Programs” - Forbes
• “Leveraging Trusted Methods to Mitigate FCPA Risk during COVID-19” - Forbes
• “Can You Trust HR? Two Women Built a Platform To Help People Report Fraud and Sexual Harassment” - Times of Entrepreneurship
• "What ethics hotline data says about employee discontent” - Tech Target
• “Doctor Wins Defamation Suit Alleging Improper Peer Review Process” - Relias Media
• “CEOs Touches Were Not Consensual, Witness Confirms” - Agenda
• “‘Phantom’ Execs Raise Gatekeeping Issue” - Agenda
• “Protocols for Board-Led Internal Investigations of Executive Misconduct” - Agenda
• “Surge in whistle-blower complaints continues: Board Risk Up as Whistle-Blower Wave Crests” - Agenda
• “Are Remote Work Policies Biased” - Human Resources Executive
• “How technology is helping solve the compliance conundrum” - Human Resources Executive
• “Examining the Validity of Workplace Investigations” - Business Insider
• “McDonald’s will require antiharassment training at all restaurants in 2022” - Restaurant Dive
• “Reduce restaurant theft with better onboarding and reporting practices” - Restaurant Dive
• “New Law Protects Whistle-Blowers in Australia” - SHRM
• “Victoria’s Secret added new safety measures; models say it’s not enough” - Bloomberg
• “Leveraging Trusted Methods to Mitigate FCPA Risk during COVID-19” - ABA Business Law
• “New course: Workplace bullying and harassment with Juliette Gust” - Typsy