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, my guest is Kortney Nordrum, Regulatory Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe.
In September 2017, Nordrum joined Deluxe in Investigations and as a Risk Consultant. In March 2019, she moved to Regulatory Counsel and into the CCO Chair. As Nordrum says, she “ it feels like “home” to be in a job I love doing something that challenges and excites me EVERY DAMN DAY”. She owns the full corporate compliance, ethics, and privacy programs; insurance and risk management, commercial litigation, IP, and the commercial contracting function. Some of her key work has been changing the perception of corporate compliance from the Land of No to the Land of Know. Down the road, Nordrum sees