Compliance Jobs Report: Aug. 22
Another week, another Compliance Jobs Report packed with news! We have two new hires in higher education, other new hires at Goldman Sachs, Authentic Brands, City National Bank, and many more. Victoria’s Secret had a few promotions to note, as did Collins Aerospace, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and others. Job leads are in healthcare, microchips, and lingerie.
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Compliance Jobs
This week we begin some hires in higher education. First, Nova Southeastern University has hired Sonya Miller as chief compliance officer. Miller comes to the Fort Lauderdale school from Chicago State University, where she had been general counsel and chief compliance officer. So she is trading away her legal duties and Chicago weather in favor of focusing full-time on compliance at the beach. Well done!
Second, Temple University (go Owls!) has hired James Ponce as chief audit executive. Ponce previously worked at Wake Forest University as chief audit and compliance officer.
Marc Williams has joined Goldman Sachs as head of the compliance transformation office. Williams comes to the Wall Street giant after six years at BNY Mellon, where he most recently had been senior director of data, analytics, reporting, and transformation.
Janos Kühn is stepping down as global head of customer and third-party due diligence at Ericsson, after four years on the job there. No word yet on what Kühn will do next, but he does say he’s excited to “embrace my next challenge in a few short weeks (more about that soon)!” Radical Compliance will stay on it.
Menarini Streamline, an Italian biotech company, has hired Jill Dailey as chief compliance officer of its Streamline Therapeutics division in the United States, which works on cancer treatments. Daily comes to Menarini Streamline after eight years at Incyte, where she had been chief compliance officer.
The great Melanie Sponholz has a new job, as deputy compliance officer at BAYADA Home Healthcare. Sponholz joins the New Jersey-based nonprofit from Waud Capital Partners, where she had been chief compliance officer since 2016.
Dutch Bros. Coffee, a drive-through coffee chain headquartered in Arizona, has hired Maria Washburn as director of GRC and cybersecurity. Washburn pulled into the company after 11 years at American Express, where she most recently was director of information security.
BECU, the credit union for Boeing employees, has hired Janine Weick as a senior compliance auditor. (This means she gets to work with the delightful Amy Mertz Brown, BECU’s chief compliance officer.) Weick comes to the organization from BMO U.S., where she had been a senior compliance officer since 2023.
Los Angeles-based City National Bank has hired Juan Lugo as vice president of fair banking and unfair & deceptive advertising compliance. Lugo joins City National after stints at Pimco and Synapse in various compliance roles.
In Tampa, Fla., Ana Pereyra has been hired by JPMorgan Chase as a senior compliance control testing analyst. Pereyra previously worked at PwC for 18 months as a quality control lead for financial crimes.
BNY has hired Brendan McSherry as head of audit strategy and program management. McSherry comes to the bank from CIBC, another acronym-only bank, where he had been senior director of global internal audit practices management.
Exeltis, a women’s health pharmaceutical business headquartered in Spain, has hired Yvette Warren as head of U.S. compliance. Warren joins the company after seven years at Optinose, where she had been director of compliance.
Tiffani Bragg just turned up at Sensata Technologies, where she is global compliance advisory program manager. Bragg was last seen at VMWare, where she had been senior manager for global ethics and compliance until last fall.
Robert Bush has joined Migrant Help, a British social services organization, as deputy director of risk and compliance. Bush previously worked at the Wellcome Sanger Institute for six years as risk manager.
Qred, a startup bank in Sweden, has hired Marie Demselius as chief compliance officer. Demeselius comes to the bank from Avida Finans, another Nordic financial services firm, where she had also been chief compliance officer.
And another from Sweden: Handelsbanken has hired Michael Lundsten as senior financial crimes compliance officer. Lundsten joins the bank after several years at Swedbank, where he had been a senior AML compliance officer.
Just in from the Cyprus bureau: Ioanna Irakleous has joined Exness, a financial trading firm based there, as compliance officer. Irakleous previously worked at Trading 212, another Cypriot financial services firm, also as a compliance officer.
Hacksaw Gaming, a Maltese gambling business, has hired Peter Mizzi as compliance officer. Mizzi joins Hacksaw after five years at Camilleri Preziosi Associates, where he most recently was compliance manager.
Nicholas Mavromoustakos has been hired by Authentic Brands Group as director of cybersecurity and compliance. Mavromoustakos comes to Authentic from PNC, where he had been vice president of technology infrastructure audit.
Barclays has hired Fernanda Vechi as business oversight compliance specialist. Vechi previously worked as a financial investigator for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, so she’ll be an excellent adviser when they finally launch “Law & Order: Financial Crimes Unit.”
And British online payments business Trustly has hired Gokce Civelekoglu as a senior compliance officer. Civelekoglu comes to Trustly from Notting Hill Genesis, an affordable housing nonprofit, where she had been compliance officer.
Moving Up the Ladder
We have several promotions to note at Victoria’s Secret this week! Pat Lietz has been promoted from assistant vice president of ethics and compliance to vice president; Kasie Clouser has been promoted from senior manager to director; and Allie Konczal has been promoted from senior legal analyst to legal program manager. Congratulations to all!
American Express has promoted Guarav Bhatia from director of finance data governance to vice president of global risk and compliance.
Collins Aerospace, part of the RTX defense contracting empire, has promoted Jeremy Wall from internal audit manager for U.S. government compliance to senior manager of ethics and compliance.
Jennifer Beaudoin has a new role at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, moving from head of anti-bribery and corruption to head of global compliance program strategy, assurance, and management.
ACG Biologics has promoted Alena Cottey from senior manager of regulatory intelligence and compliance to director of the same.
Insurance giant Chubb has promoted Chas Dooley from senior counsel to vice president of compliance.
PLAY Europe, a gambling concern based in Malta, has promoted Valentina Alessandro from compliance manager to compliance director.
Swedbank has promoted Johan Hult from financial crimes and risk officer to compliance officer for oversight and alignment.
Wilshire, an investment advisory firm to institutional investors, has promoted Steven O’Connor from compliance consultant to chief compliance officer.
And Arrow Electronics has promoted Yingpu Jiang from SEC reporting intern to financial compliance analyst. Welcome to the profession, Ms. Jiang.
Vendors & Service Providers
Jennifer Kugler has left her job as vice president of advisory services at Gartner, where she spent the last seven years doing research and analysis on corporate compliance. What’s next? She has joined boutique compliance law firm Kaplan & Walker as a partner.
Open Req Orders
City of Hope, which is a healthcare system rather than an actual city, is looking for a chief internal audit officer. This is a new role and will report to the chief ethics and compliance officer, a relationship bound to raise some eyebrows. Job can be remote, although the business is based in Los Angeles. Pay range is listed at $88.50 to $148 per hour, which is super-weird for a role like this but translates to $177,000 to $296,000 annually assuming a 40-hour week.
Victoria’s Secret is hiring a senior manager of ethics and compliance investigations. Job is based in suburbun Columbus, Ohio, with a salary range of $125,000 to $171,000.
Microchip maker AMD is looking for a senior director and global antibribery, antitrust, and privacy counsel. Job is based in Santa Clara, Calif., with a rather wide salary range of $281,000 to $421,000.
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.