Jeff Stitt on the Craft of Compliance

Mike and Brent welcome to the podcast Jeff Stitt, the President of Acacia Trail Consulting. Jeff walks through how he went from becoming an engineer to being an on-the-spot chief compliance offer appointee in 1992 (01:36), to doing compliance at a bank (05:51), to having the opportunity to build and run a compliance program across Sub-Saharan Africa (08:00), and then to integrating a major acquisition into his company’s compliance program (12:10). Jeff explains how compliance programs are really “underwriting” the business’s activities (14:00) and then talks about the opportunity to build-out a global compliance program at a publicly traded company (16:30). Jeff concludes with a discussion about Acacia Trail (19:28) and what he’s seeing in the trade compliance space today (21:14). Mike and Brent then conclude with another edition of Brent Carlson’s Managing-Up (22:11).

Contact Jeff: jeff@acaciatrail.com

More about Jeff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstitt/

Contact Brent: brent@redflagsrising.com

More about Brent: www.redflagsrising.com

Contact Mike: michael.huneke@morganlewis.com

More about Mike: https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/michaelhuneke