Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 25

Lots of news as usual in the Compliance Jobs Report this week! The CCO of Uber has decamped to OpenAI (so let’s speculate on who might succeed him at Uber), plus other items from Citibank, Pacific World, CONCACAF, and more. Job leads are in higher education, defense, and healthcare; Meme of the Week goes out to the kids!

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Compliance Jobs

This week we begin with OpenAI, which just hired Scott Schools to be the company’s first-ever chief compliance officer. Schools will “work closely with teams across OpenAI … further strengthening our efforts to thoughtfully drive and navigate the evolving landscape,” the AI giant said in a flawlessly anodyne corporate statement. Schools comes to OpenAI from Uber, where he had been chief ethics and compliance officer since 2018; prior to that, he spent most of his career at the Justice Department. 

This does raise the question of who will hold down the ethics and compliance fort at Uber now that Schools is gone. Let’s note that Heather Childs, Uber’s head of trust and security, was deputy chief ethics and compliance officer when Schools first joined the company. Or maybe Uber will go in some other direction; I don’t know. (If you have something to share confidentially, I’m always at [email protected].) 

Citibank continues to boost its compliance staff. First, the bank grabbed Nathan Martinez as vice president for product integration sanctions compliance. He joins the bank from PNC, where he most recently had worked on regulatory change for sanctions issues. Citi has also hired Neil O’Reilly as assistant vice president for compliance risk management. O’Reilly comes to Citi after three years at law firm Allen & Overy; he’s based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 

PNC, meanwhile, has hired Alayna Corbin as senior internal auditor. Corbin previously worked at Federated Hermes, a financial firm, as a staff accountant.

In Europe, Merve Miskin has joined Nordea Bank as central compliance monitoring and testing officer. She comes to the bank (which has had a bumpy relationship with regulators in recent years) from KPMG, where she had been an internal audit manager. She’s based in Poland.

Brian Kearns has left USAA after six years there, most recently as lead compliance risk manager. Where to? Kearns has joined Cash App, an online payments player, as regulatory lead. 

Grant Brennan has a new job as global regulatory compliance manager at Pacific World Corp., maker of Dippity Do hair gel and other personal care products. Brennan joins Pacific World from Previon, maker of healthcare test kits, where he had been director of continuous improvement.

AFBI, an investment firm based in Florida, has hired Victoria Stearns as chief compliance officer. Stearns comes to the hedge fund after a six-month tour at Compliance Risk Concepts, a compliance consulting firm, where she had been a senior compliance professional. Prior to that she spent at Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisors as CCO.

Patricia Potts has a new role at Wells Fargo, moving from executive director of regulatory relations to executive director of consumer lending risk program strategy.

Lending Club just hired Meghan Cloward as a senior compliance data analyst. Cloward previously worked at Merrick Bank, a credit card issuer and part of the Ally Financial empire, also as a senior compliance data analyst.

In Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Baber has joined Dussur, a government-sponsored industrial development company, as risk and compliance lead. Baber comes to Dussur from BDO’s Saudi affiliate, where he had been a supervising consultant for two years. 

Overtime, a New York company that bills itself as builder of “disruptive new sports leagues” has hired Matthew Kovacs as manager of compliance and regulatory affairs. Kovacs joins the group from the College of William & Mary, where he had been assistant registrar for compliance.

Total Payments, a fintech startup in the payments world, has hired Meyya El-Amine as compliance officer, based in Dubai. She previously was compliance officer at SimplyFi, another fintech startup.

And the Toledo Police Federal Credit Union has hired Bri Hess as compliance officer. Hess previously worked at Sun Federal Credit Union, also based in Toledo, where she had been a business services specialist.

Promotions

CONCACAF, the soccer federation for North and Central America and the Caribbean, has promoted Ingrid Robledo from senior manager for legal operations and procurement to head of compliance. Robledo has been with CONCACAF for 11 years. 

L3 Harris Technologies has promoted Dionna Little from senior principal and employment counsel to senior director of employment law and compliance. (Any addition of “compliance” to your title is automatically a promotion.)

Coherent Corp., a materials and laser technologies business, has promoted Marie Batz Martin from general counsel for global compliance to chief compliance officer. Here’s hoping she got a laser weapon as part of the new role.

Daiichi Sankyo US has promoted Cindy Kohr from associate director for compliance monitoring to director of compliance monitoring. Kohr has been with the Japanese pharma giant in various roles for 21 years.

CDW has promoted Darla Cann from corporate procurement officer to supply chain risk and compliance officer. 

In Australia, Woolworths Group has promoted Inderpreet Rana from compliance technologist to senior compliance technologist.

Bank of America has promoted Racine Garvey from chief operating officer to senior vice president for global markets compliance and operational risk.

Nationwide has promoted Jennifer Woolums from consultant on clients’ compliance issues to technical director for corporate compliance.

Vendors and Service Providers

Christina Peterson has left her job as CCO at RestorixHealth to join consulting firm Ronan Healthcare Compliance, where her title is compliance executive.

Open Req Orders

Clark Atlanta University is looking for a policy development manager, reporting into the chief compliance officer. Job is based in Atlanta; no salary range provided.

RTX Corp. (yes, the defense contractor busted on FCPA charges the other week) is looking for a global ethics and compliance investigator. Job is based in Hartford, Conn., with a preposterously wide salary range of $143,000 to $287,000. 

Included Health, delivering “integrated virtual care and navigation,” is seeking a senior director and corporate compliance officer. Job can be remote, so the salary range is anywhere from $188,000 to $345,000 depending on your location.

Compliance Meme of the Week

That’s all for this week’s report.

As always, if you have a tip or want to brag about your new job, promotion, career milestone, or anything else, email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn. I’m always happy to give credit to the many hard-working people here in our corner of the business universe.