Compliance Perspectives

By Adam Turteltaub Michael Savicki, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), best known as Amex GBT, knows the challenges and opportunities in merger’s and acquisitions. The company recently completed the acquisition of CWT, a global business travel and meetings solutions provider. In this podcast he shares their playbook for effective due diligence, born out of their experience and the heightened regulatory requirements t

By Adam Turteltaub Neurodiversity tends to be spoken of as an issue to be recognized and, quite often, as a barrier to overcome. Katie Roemer, Vice President, Compliance & Privacy Officer at Alta Hospital Systems see it differently: as an asset to your compliance team. In this podcast she points out that many neurodivergent people excel at pattern recognition and system level thinking, as well as root cause analysis, all of which are of great value to compliance teams. They can also help us to

By Adam Turteltaub What do a secret wedding and Richard Nixon have in common with HIPAA? A lot more than you might think, shares Bailey Mack, Chief Compliance Officer at Together for Youth. In this podcast she tells us the interesting history of privacy and the law. We begin in 1890 when a photographer trespassed to photograph a wedding he wasn’t supposed to be photographing. Thirty eight years later in the Olmstead case, wiretapping wasn’t deemed intrusive because no one entered the room. It w

By Adam Turteltaub Executive presence isn’t simply walking in the room and having everyone instantly feel that that you are in charge. It is something different explains Jay Greenberg, the recently retired Chief Compliance Officer at the FBI. Instead, it is being powered by your core values and then making a maximum positive contribution to any situation by fully investing yourself to achieving that assigned mission. Executive presence, he shares, is a skill acquired through the application of

By Adam Turteltaub Listen up people: It’s all about the people. That’s the key message from Gabor Sulyok, Global Head of Commercial and Healthcare Compliance at BioNTech and experienced senior compliance counsel Luciane Mallmann. At its core, ethics and compliance is a human endeavor. While regulations and standards provide the structure, it’s the people within an organization who bring these principles to life. A people-centered approach to compliance programs enhances engagement, supports be

By Adam Turteltaub The rise of generative AI has brought transformative potential to healthcare—from streamlining administrative tasks to supporting clinical decision-making. But alongside these benefits comes a growing concern: Shadow AI. Alex Tyrrell, Chief Technology Officer, Health at Wolters Kluwer explains in this podcast that this term refers to the use of unauthorized, unmonitored AI tools within organizations. In healthcare, where data privacy and patient safety are paramount, Shadow AI