- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
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Tom Fox2019-01-02T10:00:00
The Petrobras, Stryker, and Polycom enforcement actions serve as a lesson to compliance officers on how to guard against customer bribery schemes.
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