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