Compliance Jobs Report: Nov. 14

This week the Compliance Jobs Report includes some regional CCO hires at Walmart, a new CCO at the troubled Australian stock exchange, and more news from Google, Cooper Companies, McKinsey, Penn State, and lots more. Job leads are in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and life insurance; Meme of the Week goes out to the Epstein Files.

We also take any other gossip you might have, even confidentially. If you have a tip to pass along, email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn.

Compliance Jobs

This week we begin with updates from Walmart. First, the company has hired Jane Duke as chief ethics and compliance officer for FlipKart, the e-commerce giant in India owned by Walmart. Duke comes to Walmart after seven years at Tyson Foods, most recently as associate general counsel for regulatory and enforcement. 

Second, Diego Alvarez is rejoining Walmart as chief ethics and compliance officer for Central America (at least, so says Rachel Brand, chief legal officer for Walmart). Alvarez had been chief compliance officer at Fortrex Solutions since 2023, but prior to that he was at Walmart for nine years and was a senior director in international ethics and compliance when he left in 2023.

Pharmaceuticals manufacturer Keenova has hired Olga Zinavenka as head of compliance operations. Zinavenka comes to the company after seven years at Endo, most recently as executive director of compliance operations. 

Brandon LeFlore-Németh has joined Momentum Behavior Services as director of compliance. LeFlore-Németh comes to the social services agency from the Department of Veterans Affairs, where he had been executive officer for management and program analysis. Now he’s building a compliance program of his own! 

Google has hired Emily Wood as senior risk and compliance lead for AI and content, a modern-sounding job title for compliance professionals if ever one existed. Wood previously spent six years at PwC in its cybersecurity and privacy practice. 

ASX, operator of the Australian Stock Exchange, has named Lucinda McCann as chief compliance officer. McCann comes to the exchange from law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, where she had been a partner since February; but prior to that she spent five years at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, most recently as general counsel. McCann succeeds Daniel Moran, who departed earlier this year as part of a larger shakeup at ASX under new board and CEO leadership.

Par Health, a manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals recently spun off from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, has named Megan Roberts as head of integrity and compliance. Roberts previously spent nearly nine years at Mallinckrodt and had been senior director of integrity and compliance. 

Petri Luukkanen has joined TD Securities as director of U.S. markets transaction banking compliance advisory. Luukkanen comes to TD from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, where he had been head of transaction banking compliance. 

Jason Parrish has joined Timeline, a rather coolly named company in London that provides technology to financial advisers, as head of risk and compliance. Parrish comes to Timeline from Climate Asset Management, where he had been chief risk and compliance officer since 2020.

Penn State University has hired Kristen Roe as its next Title IX compliance director. Roe comes to Penn State after 10 years at Montgomery College in Maryland, where she most recently had been head of ADA compliance and the Title IX coordinator.

Esteban Ortiz Jaramillo has joined the Vellar Group, a privately held investment fund, as chief compliance officer. Based in Colombia, Jaramillo previously worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross as regional investigations officer for the Americas. 

Blockchain infrastructure company Paxos has hired Celina Borawski as manager of the partner compliance program. Borawski previously worked at Citibank for several years, most recently as vice president of compliance risk management. 

Rebecca Tomei has joined Evident Scientific, maker of microscopy equipment for life sciences, as global director of trade compliance. Tomei comes to the Boston-area company from Covestro (known once upon a time as Bayer Material Science), where she had been senior manager for trade compliance. 

Dallas-based healthcare tech firm Vizient has hired Anthony Felder as compliance director. Felder had previously worked at Revecore as senior compliance manager and privacy officer. 

GE Healthcare has named Chinmay Joshi ethics and compliance lead in India. Joshi previously worked at Becton Dickinson for three years as deputy manager of ethics and compliance. 

Frost, a mid-sized bank in Texas, has hired Jullianna Karam as compliance officer. Karam comes to Frost from Broadway Bank in San Antonio, where she had been assistant vice president of compliance. 

In Singapore, Summer Yu has a new job as chief compliance officer at Alpha Ladder Group, a fintech working in stablecoins and greentech investments. Yu had previously been at ByteDance since 2022 as global head of compliance. 

And Iris Steyer has left her job as vice president of compliance and sustainability at Autodoc to become general counsel of Alpinitronic, an Italian maker of electric vehicle charging stations. We wish her well in her new role but obviously losing the word “compliance” in your title is a shame. 

Moving Up the Ladder

Mark Geraci has moved up at Cooper Companies, from global compliance manager for Cooper Surgical to corporate counsel for global ethics and compliance. 

Boise Cascade Co. has promoted Tony Liles from external partnerships program coordinator to ethics and compliance manager. 

In Australia, Commonwealth Bank has expanded Nikita Tolani’s role from senior manager for data management and governance to senior manager for AI risk governance and financial crimes compliance. 

Mariya Branagan has moved into a new role within the John Hancock insurance empire, going from senior manager for fund administration at John Hancock Investments to director of compliance at the John Hancock parent company 

Gambling and sports betting business Entain has promoted Tereza Odstrcilikova from compliance executive to head of compliance for Entain’s Canada operations. 

Carlsberg Britvic, a newly created British subsidiary of the Carlsberg beer empire, has hired Ellen O’Kelly as risk, control, and compliance manager. O’Kelly previously worked at Bank of America’s Irish operations for 10 years as vice president of risk, controls, and reporting. 

Morningstar has promoted Nicholas Cooper from compliance associate to compliance officer, working at the firm’s offices in London.

Home Depot has promoted Holly Speed from director of merchandising services to director of service provider management, onboarding, and compliance. 

McKinsey has promoted Bryan Lowis from senior recruiting administrator to ethics and compliance coordinator. 

Moderna has promoted Carla Malloy from logistics manager to trade compliance manager. 

BP has moved Sarah Abbott from senior learning adviser for digital to senior learning adviser for ethics and compliance. 

Raymond James has promoted Joseph de Decker from compliance officer to manager of compliance governance in its Canada operations. 

Elevance Health has promoted Lana Bartleson from senior compliance consultant to compliance manager. 

Google has promoted Rena Moakeh from head of high-priority risk and compliance programs in cloud operations to director of operational risk programs. 

Office equipment maker Grainger has promoted Michelle Stavrou from senior analyst of supplier sustainability to customs compliance manager. 

And Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank has promoted Ohood Bin Haider from executive manager of compliance assurance and oversight to head of the same. 

Vendors and Service Providers

Congratulations to Heather Traeger, general counsel and chief compliance officer of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; and Jim Papagiannis, chief compliance officer of InspereX, for being named board chair and chair-elect, respectively, of the National Society of Compliance Professionals. 

Paul Zhong just joined recruitment firm Morgan McKinley as the risk and compliance search lead for the firm’s Singapore offices, for all you would-be applicants looking to get on the right radar screens. 

Open Req Orders

Allianz Life is looking for a director of ethics innovation. Job is based in Minneapolis, with a salary range of $117,000 to $157,000. Land this role soon so you can spend some time with the great Steve Koslow, chief ethics and compliance officer there, before he retires next spring! 

Amkor Technologies, maker of semiconductor packaging and testing services, is looking for a director of ethics and legal compliance. Job is based in Tempe, Ariz.; salary range not disclosed. 

Anthropic (yes, that Anthropic, the AI giant) is looking for a sanctions and regulatory compliance lead. Job can be based in either San Francisco, New York, or Washington; with a salary range of $270,000 to $345,000 because when you’re an AI startup you can throw money at anything. 

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.