A seemingly endless array of accounting, compliance, and reporting changes continue to bombard companies in all industries, forcing many compliance and financial executives to revisit their in-house training programs to ensure that they address the complex task of readying employees to implement the required changes. In addition to long-time Sarbanes-Oxley Act reporting obligations, companies now […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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The Dos and Don’ts of Corporate Hospitality
Rigorous enforcement activity against those who run afoul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is apparently causing some compliance executives to second-guess even routine compliance decisions on corporate hospitality. That’s what many in the compliance community make of the Justice Department’s first FCPA advisory opinion release of 2011, which reiterates two nearly identical opinion releases […]
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News Corp Appoints Interim General Counsel
Amid the worst legal mess in its history stemming from a widespread phone-hacking scandal, News Corporation has appointed Janet Nova as interim general counsel, following the departure of Lawrence Jacobs, who stepped down from the role in June after a seven-year stint. Nova, who has worked at the media giant for the past 14 years, […]
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Third Avenue Management Names Chief Risk Officer
Third Avenue Management, a New York-based investment advisory firm that offers its services to private and institutional clients, has appointed Thomas Gandolfo as chief risk officer. Gandolfo, who is a member of Third Avenue’s investment team and risk management committee, will assume the newly-created role effective Aug. 1. Gandolfo will be responsible for overseeing […]
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Weatherford International Names Chief Accounting Officer
Switzerland-based Weatherford International, a global provider of innovative mechanical solutions, technology and services for the drilling and production sectors of the oil and gas industry, has hired John Briscoe as vice president and chief accounting officer. It is expected that Briscoe will assume his role with Weatherford in August. Briscoe served as vice president and […]
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Tetra Tech Shuffles Management Team
Tetra Tech, a provider of consulting, engineering, program management, construction, and technical services addressing the resource management and infrastructure markets, has promoted its acting chief financial officer and treasurer, Steve Burdick, to permanently fill the roles. Brian Carter will fill Burdick’s previous position as vice president, corporate controller and chief accounting officer. With more than […]
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First Banks Names New Board Members
First Banks, with assets of $6.92 billion and 149 branch banking operations in California, Florida, Illinois and Missouri, announced the election of two new members to its board of directors. John Poelker and Guy Rounsaville. With over 40 years of experience in the financial services industry as both an executive and a consultant, Poelker currently […]
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QR Energy Names Chief Accounting Officer
QR Energy, an upstream Master Limited Partnership focused on delivering stable cash flow and growth to its limited partners through the exploitation of onshore oil and gas fields, has named Lloyd Delano as chief accounting officer. He will assume the new role effective the end of July. Delano joins QR Energy with more than 35 […]
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An Interview With Former Delaware Court Chancellor Chandler
In the latest of our conversations with leading thinkers in compliance and governance, we talk to William Chandler, recently retired chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Widely respected as one of the nation’s most influential judicial voices on corporate law and governance, Chandler stepped down from the bench in June to join the law […]
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Measuring Compliance Program Effectiveness
For all the time and money spent designing and building ethics and compliance programs, compliance officers—and regulators, and investors, and many others—still want to know: Does all this effort actually work? Apparently the answers are still elusive. How companies measure the effectiveness of their compliance programs was one of the questions posed to senior compliance […]
