Compliance Jobs Report: Feb. 21
The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at McKinsey, Schneider Electric, Kingfisher, Oxxo, and elsewhere; plus promotions at Unisys, Husqvarna, Royal Caribbean, and more. Job leads are in teaching hospitals, electronics, and environmental defense; and Meme of the Week goes out to Chris Pratt fans!
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Compliance Jobs
This week we start with Teresa McMeans, who has been hired by Aeroflow Health as vice president of compliance and privacy. Prior to Aeroflow (a medical device manufacturer in North Carolina) McMeans had been at CareMax for three years as chief compliance officer.
Jothi Arun just landed a new job at Guardant Health, a biotech startup in Silicon Valley; she’s senior director of compliance there. Arun comes to Guardant after 16 years at Abbott, most recently as senior counsel and director of legal and compliance.
FiberCop, an awesomely named telecommunications company in Italy, just hired Antonio Abbadessa as chief compliance officer. Abbadessa previously worked at Google for three years as head of business integrity for the EMEA region.
CDW has hired Russell Barr senior ethics and compliance manager for the U.K. and international regions (basically, everywhere except the United States). Barr previously worked for a few months building the compliance program at Caroola, a payroll services firm for small businesses; prior to that he was head of ethics and compliance at the RS Group in London.
Joel Mark has joined McKinsey & Co. as associate director of ethics and integrity. Mark comes to the consulting giant from Chime, where he was the payment firm’s first-ever ethics director.
VeSync, maker of smart home products, has hired Matt Dillion as regulatory compliance counsel. Dillon joins VeSync after four years at West Coast Cure, where most recently he had been senior legal counsel.
TN Voices, a social services organization in Tennessee, has hired Holly Davis as senior vice president of compliance. Davis previously worked at Health Connect America for 10 years, most recently as chief quality officer.
Michelle Gallagher has joined Schneider Electric as export control and sanctions compliance manager for North America. Gallagher comes to Schneider after five years at FTI Consulting, most recently as a senior director in the firm’s export controls practice.
SAGA Diagnostics, a cancer technology startup, has hired Christina Garcia as vice president of legal and compliance. Garcia comes to the company — based in Radical Compliance’s hometown of Cambridge, Mass. — from Hello Heart, where she had been vice president of compliance.
IT services firm and government contractor ManTech has hired John Lossing as vice president of industry compliance. Lossing joins ManTech from Health Net Federal Services (which by coincidence just settled a False Claims Act lawsuit with the feds earlier this week), where he had been vice president of compliance.
Talin Efflandt has grooved on over to Warner Music Group as the company’s new manager of internal audit. Efflandt had previously hung out at KPMG for more than five years, most recently as audit manager.
Memorial Hermann Health System has hired Stacey Singer as director of corporate compliance. Singer comes to Memorial Hermann after seven years at Cleveland Clinic, where she most recently was senior manager of technical coding.
Mexican convenience store chain Oxxo has hired Miguel Obed Martínez Resio as regulatory and compliance officer. Resio had previously worked at Flex as senior regional compliance officer for Latin America.
Insulet Corp., a medical manufacturer working on diabetes treatments, has hired Maria Gonzalez as senior director of SOX and IT compliance. Gonzalez comes to Insulet after six years at advisory firm CFGI, where she had been a managing director.
Financial advisory and investment firm Benjamin F. Edwards has hired John Reidy as a senior compliance associate. Reidy previously worked at Wells Fargo Advisers for four years in a similar senior compliance role.
Over in Finland, crypto trading firm Kvarn X has hired Patrick Aarikka as chief compliance officer. Aarikka comes to the firm from Equilibrium Group, some startup working on “foundational blockchain infrastructure,” where he had been head of legal and compliance.
British retail giant Kingfisher has hired Megan Bula as group compliance officer. Bula comes to Kingfisher from Husqvarna Group, where she had been vice president of integrity and compliance since 2022.
Royal Bank of Canada has hired Kartik Ganesh as senior manager for internal audit and capital markets financial risk. Ganesh comes to RBC from Scotiabank, where he had been a senior manager and controller in Scotia’s fixed income operations.
And we didn’t notice this until now, but Realty of America hired Adriana Castillo at the start of the year as chief compliance officer. Castillo joined the brokerage network from Roofstock, where most recently she was associate counsel.
Moving Up the Ladder
Gwen Hassan has been promoted from deputy chief compliance officer to chief compliance officer at Unisys, the government contractor and IT services firm. Hassan, a delightful person (which is nothing unusual in this field; so many compliance officers are delightful), has been with Unisys since 2023.
Bingo Industries, an environmental services and waste removal business in Australia, has promoted Matthew Collaros from national transport compliance manager to group risk and compliance manager.
BNP Paribas Carif has promoted Renata de Benedetti from operational permanent controller (great title) to compliance controller.
Diageo has promoted Manoj Chigal from global head of controls assurance to senior vice president of audit and risk.
Ericsson has promoted Janis Lullen from process architect to improvement and compliance manager. Love that title.
Hitachi has expanded the role for Mukesh Kumar from regional compliance manager for South Asia to regional compliance manager for all of the Asia-Pacific region.
Husquvarna has promoted Mariana Utimati from head of legal and compliance for Latin America to global head of ethics and compliance. Utimati is based in Brazil.
MassMutual has promoted Jason Mullaly from head of regulatory compliance to compliance lead for affiliated distribution.
Morgan Advanced Materials has promoted Gregg Livermore from export compliance manager to director of trade compliance.
Newland Chase, an immigration services firm in Houston (one can only imagine how busy they are these days…), has promoted Bobbie Jean Solis from senior manager to director of data compliance.
Royal Caribbean Group has promoted Sabrina Aguilar from audit and advisory services lead to internal audit manager.
And Stepan Co., a chemicals manufacturer based in Chicago, has promoted Kristina Stoimenova from internal audit manager to senior manager.
Vendors & Service Providers
Big news in compliance vendor land: Spark Compliance, the consulting firm founded by Kristy Grant-Hart, has been acquired by compliance tech vendor Diligent. Grant-Hart and her team will now work as the advisory services wing of Diligent.
Open Req Orders
The Environmental Defense Fund is looking for a head of internal audit. Job is based in New York City, with a salary range listed at $180,000 to $200,000.
Methode Electronics is seeking a compliance manager. Job claims to be based “in Chicago” but actually is next to O’Hare, so plan accordingly; salary range is $120,000 to $162,000.
SIU Medicine, the medical school affiliated with Southern Illinois University, is looking for a deputy chief compliance officer. Job is based in Springfield, Ill., with a salary range listed at a reasonably specific $139,000 to $155,000.
Compliance Meme of the Week
That’s all for this week’s report.
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