The Compliance Life details the journey to and in the role of a Chief Compliance Officer. How does one come to sit in the CCO chair? What are some of the skills a CCO needs to success navigate the compliance waters in any company? What are some of the top challenges CCOs have faced and how did they meet them? These questions and many others will be explored in this new podcast series. Over four episodes each month on The Compliance Life, I visit with one current or former CCO to explore their journey to the CCO chair. This month, we have our first Director of Trade Compliance, Matt Silverman, Director of Trade Compliance at VIAVI. We discuss Matt’s journey to the Director’s chair and look down the road at where trade compliance will be in 2025 and beyond.
After law school at Loyola, Silverman practiced, rather unhappily for four years as a personal injury and asbestos litigator in Chicago for a couple small defense firms. He then went back to school to get an LLM in international business law at Georgetown Law. It was this experience that drew him to trade compliance where during his LLM program I took temporary positions/externships in a variety of disparate positions including the US Senate, the Office of the US Trade Representative, the World Bank and the law firm of Baker Hostetler.