SCCE-HCCA Names New CEO
The Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association have named a new chief executive, who previously ran an association for animal hospitals and has long experience in healthcare fields.
SCCE and HCCA, which are sister organizations working under one corporate entity, announced the arrival of Garth Jordan in an email to their respective memberships Wednesday morning. Jordan succeeds Gerry Zack, who resigned last fall, and will make his debut at the SCCE annual conference happening in Nashville in a few weeks.
“We feel strongly that Garth is a great fit for this role and has the right experience, qualifications, and vision that we need to help take the association to the next level,” the SCCE-HCCA board said in its email to members, which was promptly leaked to Radical Compliance. The board cited Jordan’s extensive background in nonprofit leadership and membership advocacy, “and he has a proven track record of driving innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.”
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Jordan comes to SCCE-HCCA from the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) where he was chief executive from 2020 until June. Prior to that he was CEO of a nonprofit consulting firm and chief strategy officer for the Healthcare Financial Management Association in the 2010s. He apparently lives in Denver; unclear whether or when he might relocate to SCCE-HCCA headquarters in Minneapolis.
The AAHA is a considerably smaller organization than SCCE-HCCA, with roughly half the annual revenue ($12.1 million in 2024 for AAHA versus $22.5 million for SCCE-HCCA) and total assets about one-third smaller ($15.9 million versus $23.9 million).
That said, AAHA has had better financial performance in the last five years than SCCE-HCCA. Its revenue stayed relatively stable when covid hit in 2020, and the associate turned a profit in 2021 and 2022 (not surprising, because expenses for many organizations fell during the lockdown years) before running losses in 2023 and 2024 (also not surprising, as businesses built back to normal operations).
SCCE-HCCA, on the other hand, saw annual revenue plummet 40 percent in 2020 because so many live events were canceled, and the group has been rebuilding ever since. (On the other hand, I can personally attest that the quality of SCCE conferences remains as good as ever.)
Anyway, we’ll do our best to get an interview with Jordan soon and confirm whether the two free drinks at SCCE conferences remains in effect.