Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 10

The Compliance Jobs Report is back with another week’s worth of personnel news! We have a new ethics and compliance boss at Georgia Tech, other new hires at the Nature Conservancy, Danaher, Stripe, Sierra Nevada, and more. Also promotions at AbbVie, Stryker, and Hewlett-Packard, among others; plus job leads in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and toys!

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Compliance Jobs

This week we begin at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which just hired Joshua Toas as chief ethics and compliance officer. Toas comes to the university after 13 years as chief compliance officer at the Research Foundation for SUNY in New York. Go Yellowjackets!

Mika Tapio is moving on after five years as inspector general at Food and Agriculture Organization, an anti-hunger agency within the United Nations. Tapio hasn’t said what he’ll do next but FAO is recruiting a successor for the job, which is based in Rome. 

Cynthia Happleby just turned up at the Nature Conservancy, where she will be director of ethics and compliance for North America, the Caribbean, and Micronesia. Happleby previously held numerous roles at Starbucks, most recently as corporate counsel for brand protection. 

Devin Bates has left Walgreens after 14 years there, most recently as director of compliance. Bates moved to Danaher, where he will be global director of compliance operations for the medical equipment manufacturer’s life sciences division. 

Lincare, provider of respiratory products and services for in-home care, has hired Ashley Sosnoski as deputy compliance officer. Sosnoski previously worked at Biofourmis as global privacy compliance officer. Now she can take a deep breath and dive into her new role.

Thomas Carague has joined CareDx, a biotech firm in California, as senior healthcare compliance lead. Carague previously worked at Puma Biotechnology for five years as senior manager in healthcare compliance. 

City National Bank has hired Kambiz Malik as audit director for compliance. Malik previously worked at Wells Fargo for several years, most recently as audit executive director in the consumer lending division.

First Citizens has hired yet another compliance officer (the bank has been hiring a steady stream of them lately). This week it’s Alyson Moore, who will be a compliance manager there working on securities regulatory issues. Moore previously worked at Huntington National Bank as a risk management specialist.

AI giant Anthropic has hired Amy Hall as a compliance officer. Hall previously worked at Slack for six years, most recently as director of risk and compliance for customer trust. 

Marzi West has a new job as technology compliance strategy lead at Stripe. West joins the payments firm after 12 years at Salesforce, most recently as senior director of product security compliance. 

Shenkman Capital Management has hired Sharon Ingram as deputy chief compliance officer. Ingram comes to the firm from BTC Pactual Capital Management, where she had been chief compliance officer since 2022.

KraneShares, a speciality investment manager based in New York, has hired Kaihla Rettinger as vice president of compliance. Rettinger comes to the firm from Global X ETFs, where she had been assistant vice president of legal. 

Defense contractor Sierra Nevada Corp. has hired Darrell Hineman as vice president of compliance. Hineman previously worked at Viasat for 18 months as director of government accounting. 

National Life Group has hired Amber Adams as deputy chief compliance officer. Adams joins the insurance firm from the American-Amicable Group, where she had headed up legal affairs for AAG’s individual insurance group.

Mom’s Meals, a provider of home-delivered meals to senior citizens and shut-ins, has hired Anthony DiMaio as senior director of privacy and compliance. DiMaio comes to the company after five years as hospital privacy and compliance officer at Texas Health Resources. 

Laynie Gilda is the new chief compliance officer at Air Methods, a med-flight and critical care business based in Colorado. Gilda comes to Air Methods after a year at Sono Bello as vice president of compliance and risk management. 

Kimberly Pittman, last seen at Hubspot as deputy general counsel for compliance and risk at Hubspot until she left there in June, just turned up at ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency business expected to go public sooner or later in a SPAC deal. 

Scarlett Xie has joined power utility National Grid as manager of risk, controls, and compliance. Xie comes to National Grid after four years at TripAdvisor, where she most recently had been senior manager of IT audit.

Sompo, one of the largest property casualty insurers in Japan, has hired Richard Higa as deputy chief audit executive. Higa previously worked at Manulife Japan as head of internal audit; and will report to David Camputo, Sompo’s chief audit executive. 

Fiona Muir has joined AIB Group in London as chief compliance officer. Muir comes to AIB after five years as deputy chief compliance officer at Handelsbanken. 

British recruiting firm Venquis has hired George Tickton as senior compliance executive. Tickton previously worked as a compliance officer at HW3, another staffing business in the U.K. 

Calisen, a British operator of smart energy infrastructure, has hired Dan Harvey as risk, assurance, and compliance director. Harvey comes to the Manchester, U.K.-based business from the Spirax Group, which totally sounds like a spy agency but really is a machinery manufacturer, where he had been head of group head of internal audit.

And in Jordan, Nancy Hamed has a new job as risk and compliance manager at Dinarak, a payments provider. Hamed had previously been at Aramex, a Middle Eastern logistics firm, as corporate compliance and ethics manager.  

Moving Up the Ladder

AbbVie has moved Charles Conner from director global compliance audit to director of global compliance excellence. Technically that would be a lateral move but getting “excellence” in your title feels like a promotion to me.

Finance of America has promoted Lauren Rosenfeld from senior associate general counsel to chief compliance officer. 

The World Bank has promoted Faisal Siddiqui to be global head of business integrity. Siddiqui had previously been deputy chief compliance officer of the International Finance Corp., a subsidiary of the World Bank.

Brighthouse Financial has promoted Katie Hellman from chief compliance officer of its investment advisers group to enterprise chief compliance officer for the whole, well, enterprise. 

BHP has promoted Eduardo Nunes from compliance manager from its Minerals Americas division to head of compliance for the same division.

Stryker has promoted Rosa Romero from associate brand manager in the U.K. and Ireland to senior compliance manager for Iberia. 

The Gap has promoted Shubodeep Choudhury from senior supplier sustainability specialist to manager of vendor compliance. 

HarperCollins Publishers has promoted Jaimie Hanlon from employment counsel to global head of compliance and employment. 

BeOne Medicines has promoted Maksym Sereda from director of clinical operations compliance to head of global program compliance. 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has promoted Aashish Phafat from senior manager of SOX governance to director of SOX compliance and finance analytics.

HITT Contracting promoted Katherine Drumheller from human resources compliance manager to internal audit and compliance manager. 

Party Pics

Congratulations to Promoney, which just held its annual Central and Eastern European Risk and Compliance Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania this week. More than 150 ethics, compliance, and audit professionals talked shop, and yours truly was honored to be there to talk about AI governance.

(If you have compliance or audit events you want to promote or party photos to share, drop me a line at [email protected] any time!)

Vendors and Service Providers

Remember Aaron Karczmer, senior compliance officer at PayPal and American Express and back in the 2010s? He was just named CEO of K2 Integrity, a compliance consulting firm headquartered in New York. Karczmer had previously been chief enterprise services officer at PayPal since 2019.

We have an update on Christi Grimm, former inspector general at the Department of Health & Human Services until President Trump illegally fired her and a bunch of other inspectors general as soon as he took office. She just turned up at BDO, where she will be a managing director in the firm’s healthcare practice. Glad she landed on her feet; still shameful how Trump treated everyone in that episode.

Open Req Orders

Healthcare startup Included Health is looking for a senior compliance principal. Job can be remote, although Included is based in San Francisco. Salary range is $149,000 to $232,000, depending on where you live. 

Hasbro is looking for a senior director of internal audit. Job is based in Boston (Hasbro’s new headquarters!) with a salary range of $174,000 to $261,000. 

Indivior is recruiting an integrity operations specialist. Job is in Richmond, Va. No salary range listed so phooey on them. 

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.