Any chief compliance officer worth his or her salt knows that the compliance function is supposed to report directly to the CEO or the audit committee—and that idea sounds great in theory. Most corporations, however, are not hurrying to achieve that transition.

THE PANELISTS

The following executives participated in the July 20 roundtable on the overlap of legal and compliance at public companies.


Douglas Barnard,
General Counsel,
CF Industries


Lezlie Bartz,
GM, Legal Compliance & Regulatory Solutions,
West, a Thomson Reuters Co.


Matt Broad,
General Counsel,
OfficeMax


Michael Byrnes,
Associate General Counsel,
Rockwell Automation


Richard Crist,
Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer,
Allstate ...