Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 3

The Compliance Jobs Report kicks off October with several retirements to note, plus new hires at Organon, Eli Lilly, Loews, Visa, Nabors, and lots more; and promotions at Bulgari, Caterpillar, Thermo Fisher, Elevance, and elsewhere. Job leads are in nature, nuclear power, and banking. Meme of the Week goes out to voluntary self-disclosure!

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Compliance Jobs

We start this week with three retirements! First, Michael Clarke is retiring from Convatec, where he has been global chief compliance officer and deputy general counsel since 2019. Clarke has spent more than 40 years in various legal and compliance roles, and we wish him well. 

Second, Valerie Puckett is retiring from Modernizing Medicine at the end of this year, after eight years there as chief compliance officer and more than 25 years in the compliance world generally. No word yet on who might succeed her at ModMed.

And third, Julia Mahoney-Hansen is retiring after more than 20 years at John Deere, where she most recently had been ethics and compliance program manager. 

GreyStone Power Corp. just hired Kristi Knight as vice president of risk and compliance. Knight comes to the Atlanta-based utility after 10 years at Cobb EMC, where she most recently was vice president of internal audit and compliance. 

Michael Tirey has hitched a ride with CEER, a Saudi Arabian electric vehicle manufacturer, where he’ll be head of risk management and compliance. Tirey previously worked at Capital One for eight years, most recently as a senior director for financial services compliance. 

Organon, a pharmaceuticals manufacturer, has hired Kevin Verbosh as director of ethics and compliance. Verbosh comes to the New Jersey company from Spark Therapeutics, where he had been director of compliance. 

Eli Lilly & Co. has hired Shantanu Joshi as director of ethics and compliance, working in the pharma giant’s India operations. Joshi joins Eli Lilly from Capgemini, where he most recently had been director of group ethics. 

In suburban Boston, Stoke Therapeutics has hired John Cosgriff as head of compliance. Cosgriff previously spent a few years at Foundation Medicine, another Boston-area life sciences company, where he had been director of compliance. We’re sure he’s stoked about the new gig.

Axis Capital, an insurance firm, has hired Jillian Shelby as head of broker compliance. Shelby comes to the business from Arch Insurance Group, where she had been assistant VP of premium audit since last year.

British asset management firm M&G has hired Tim Page as chief compliance officer. Page comes to the firm after 11 years at Morgan Stanley, where he most recently was international head of compliance for investment management.

Speaking of Morgan Stanley, the investment bank just hired Kim Macmillan as a compliance director, working in the bank’s Scotland offices. She had previously worked at M&G as a senior risk and controls analyst.

Cody Blackburn recently joined cryptocurrency platform Coinbase as senior transaction monitoring analyst. Blackburn previously did a four-year stint at Wells Fargo as a financial crimes investigator.

Rachel Bunting has become one with BeOne Medicines, where she is director of compliance monitoring and investigations. Bunting previously worked at BioCryst Pharmaceuticals for a year as associate director of global compliance operations. 

Loews has hired Karimah Bennett as lead for HR regulatory compliance. Bennett comes to the retail giant from the National Black Worker Center, where she had been HR and operations director.

EnFin, a financing firm for residential solar energy (oh, I get it: “EnFin” stands for “energy finance”), has hired Brendan Kenneally as head of compliance. Kenneally joins the Irvine, Calif.-based firm from Mosaic, where he most recently had been chief compliance officer. 

Visa has hired Pauline Molohan as director of compliance and ethics for the Middle East, working for the credit card giant from Dubai. Molohan comes to Visa from Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, where she had been head of AML investigations.

Apple has hired Elias Osornio as a technology compliance program manager. Osornio arrives at Apple after five years at PwC, most recently as a senior associate.

Financial services firm Ninety One has hired Lee-Anne Flynn as compliance monitoring officer for its South Africa operations. Flynn had previously been compliance officer for Coronation Fund Managers in Cape Town.

Danske Bank has hired Diana Romanova as a compliance officer for its Lithuania offices. Romanova comes to the bank from Hg, a private equity firm, where she had been a compliance assistant.

Nabors Industries, provider of technology and other services to the energy sector, has hired Richard Knight as leader of “compliance, integrity, and audit excellence,” working from the company’s Scotland offices. Knight previously worked at Parker Wellbore in Scotland, directing health and safety compliance for the Eastern hemisphere.  

British travel and excursions company Travelopia has hired Ian Lawrence as director of financial control and compliance. Lawrence arrives at Travelopia from TT Electronics, where he had been deputy group financial controller since last year.

Melissa Sandoval has joined Fruitist as director of compliance and litigation. Sandoval comes to the delightfully named food company, which describes itself as “a premium superfruit brand” from Republic Services, where she had been senior corporate counsel for risk and safety.

OKX, a crypto services platform, has hired Armine Bagdassarian as compliance program manager. Bagdassarian joins OKX from Fiserv, where she had been a technical program manager for three years. 

Jason Weiner just turned up at Needham & Co. as a senior compliance analyst. Weiner comes to the investment firm from PIMCO, where he had been a compliance reporting and training officer until earlier this spring. 

And VOIS, an IT consulting subsidiary of Vodafone, has hired Sandhya Menon as a SOX compliance manager. She previously worked at SBL Knowledge Services in India as senior compliance manager. 

Moving Up the Ladder

AllianceBernstein has promoted Jason Kaney from compliance associate to compliance manager. 

Aviva has promoted Tracy Hunter from global head of financial and non-financial investigations (is there some third kind of investigations I’m not aware of?) to global head of speakup and business ethics. 

Luxury goods maker Bulgari has promoted Claudia Renzi from privacy compliance specialist to ethics and compliance officer. 

Caterpillar has promoted Josué Barba from corporate counsel for privacy to senior corporate counsel working on compliance matters in the industrial power systems division.

Australian engineering firm Downer has promoted Daniel Potter from senior investigator for ethics and compliance to ethics and compliance manager. 

Elevance Health (previously known as Anthem) has promoted Stacy Miller from internal auditor to senior internal auditor.

Industrifinans, a financial services firm in Norway, has expanded the role of Azkara Lohan from chief compliance officer to chief compliance and risk officer. 

Quilter, one of the larger wealth management firms in Britain, has promoted Victoria Connolly from head of compliance monitoring to head of compliance policy.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has promoted Jack Kouweberg from senior trade compliance manager to director of EU trade compliance. 

In Boston, Vertex Pharmaceutical has promoted Meg Garland from compliance director to senior compliance director.

Canadian wealth management firm Wellington-Altus has promoted Susan Chan from vice president of supervision to chief compliance officer. 

WTW, more commonly known as Willis Towers Watson, has promoted Dhrupal Godhaniya from compliance business partner to associate director of compliance. 

Vendors and Service Providers

Remember Jim Needham, associate general counsel at RTX Corp., who ran ethics and compliance there until last year and then headed up AI governance? He just departed the defense contracting giant for a job at FTI Consulting. He’s a managing director helping clients with national security compliance risks.

Umony, a startup working on communications compliance software for financial firms, just raised $15 million in early-stage funding for product development and rollout. The company also announced an advisory board which includes Hemma Lomax, head of compliance at DocuSign; and Tracey McDermott, former head of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and former CCO at Standard Chartered Bank.

Open Req Orders

The Nature Conservancy is looking for a chief audit officer. The role can be remote in either the U.S. or Canada, although “with ample overlap of EST working hours.” Salary range is $180,000 to $280,000 depending on location.

QCR Holdings, a holding company that operates numerous banks in the upper Midwest, is looking for a director of regulatory compliance. Job is based in Moline, Ill., with a salary range of $150,000 to $180,000.

Westinghouse Electric is seeking an ethics and compliance investigator. Job is based in suburban Pittsburgh, with a salary range of $103,000 to $129,000.

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.