- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Ian Sherr2025-04-29T15:00:00
More than half of the people who sit on corporate boards have a background in finance, with far fewer from compliance. But change may be coming.
Panelists in a session of Compliance Week’s 20th National Conference in Washington, D.C., discussed the way boards of directors are changing in response to generational shifts, employment trends, and increasing efforts at corporate accountability. That environment is already leading more boards to work more closely with company compliance functions, including through regular reporting. And it may elevate more compliance professionals to board positions as well.
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2025-04-29T15:25:00Z By Ian Sherr
Too often, compliance professionals do their jobs only to receive a pink slip at the end. Panelists at Compliance Week’s 20th Anniversary National Conference in Washington, D.C. this week said compliance professionals need regular access and reporting lines to CEOs and boards of directors, and to feel free to speak ...
2025-04-30T18:33:00Z By Ian Sherr
Cybersecurity has become one of the most important parts of business operations, particularly as companies face a data breach, attack, or disruption of service. But the impact this responsibility is having on cyber pros needs more attention.
2025-04-30T14:25:00Z By Ian Sherr
We all have terrible attention spans. Understanding how people learn can mean the difference between effective compliance training programs or an eye roll.
2025-04-30T14:03:00Z By Aly McDevitt
The Ukrainian Red Cross Society, CW’s 2025 Compliance Program of the Year award winner, built a full-fledged compliance program from scratch in twenty months during a full-scale war against Russia. “We didn’t just manage logistics; we built momentum,” says URCS’s Chief Risk Officer Dr. Mariia Polomoshnova.
2025-04-28T20:23:00Z By Aly McDevitt
Virgina Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring and the first of Epstein’s victims to go public in 2015, died by suicide on Friday. Her death is a stark reminder of the all-too-human cost of professional negligence.
2025-04-28T20:13:00Z By Ian Sherr
At some point, many compliance professionals say they’ve met an executive who approached their role dismissively. “I don’t want to talk about anything that doesn’t bring money in the door,” one attendee remembers a senior executive saying to them.
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