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Great Women in Compliance

Ellen Smith – Trade Compliance

Welcome to the Great Women in Compliance Podcast, hosted by Mary Shirley and Lisa Fine. Today’s episode on Trade Compliance, with Ellen Smith, is a celebration of male allyship.  Ellen was nominated to be on the Great Women in Compliance podcast by Matt Silverman.  It is always a joy for Lisa and Mary to see men supporting women and leveraging off the #GWIC podcast to achieve this.

Ellen joins Mary and walks us through some Trade Compliance hot topics of the moment and helps us understand what boycotts are and how they fit into the Trade Compliance landscape.  She also shares her journey about how she came to specialize in this subject matter area and tell us about hanging her own shingle in the space.

One other way you can improve your workplace is with employee recognition, and Mary’s “Living Your Best Compliance Life” column at Corporate Compliance Insights can provide some great insights on the benefits of doing so and some ideas that can brighten someone’s day.

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The Compliance Life

Founding a Trade Compliance Consulting Firm

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 Ellen Smith, who has sat in the chair of a Director of Trade Compliance.

In this concluding episode, Ellen reflects on leaving her trade compliance chair t Baker Hughes during the pandemic and setting up her own consulting company, Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting. She discusses building up her own business and how she was able to reconnect with many people she developed relationships with at all the stages of her career. She emphasized why building your network is so critical and how to use if you move into consulting. She talks about the challenges and rewards of a consulting practice.

Rather than a favorite adopted saying to conclude this series, Ellen talks about the presence of Jay Martin and how his presence added to the ethical culture at Baker Hughes.

Resources

 Ellen Smith LinkedIn Profile

Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting

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The Compliance Life

Ellen Smith – Sitting in the Chair and a Leading Trade Compliance Program

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 Ellen Smith, who has sat in the chair of a Director of Trade Compliance.

In late 2013, Ellen met Jay Martin, CCO at Baker Hughes who convinced her to move to Baker Hughes to help rationalize and rebuild/rebrand the Trade Compliance Department. While at Baker, Ellen had the opportunity to rebuild the trade program 3 or 4 times. The first, when she joined Baker. A second time, when Baker was considering a possible merger with Halliburton. A third time after a merger with GE Oil & Gas as we were a GE company. The fourth and final time came after post separation from GE. The biggest change in this job was that Jay Martin had established a culture of compliance throughout the organization.

Favorite adopted sayings
‘what you see is what you get’
‘Arm-in-arm’
Resources
Ellen Smith LinkedIn Profile
Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting

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The Compliance Life

Ellen Smith-Moving In-House

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 Ellen Smith, who has sat in the chair of a Director of Trade Compliance.

In 2002,  took her my first in-house job at Jockey International – the underwear company. It was a private company, family business, with a small legal department but with tremendous brand recognition and international footprint. Participated in a U.S. Focused Assessment, an early member of CTPAT validation, and a very intense customs valuation investigation and appeal by the CBSA, the Canada Customs authorities. In early 2010, she moved to Texas and joined Billy Jacobsen and Natalia Shehadeh at Weatherford, which was going through an investigation for export violations and bribery allegations.

Favorite adopted sayings

From Jockey– ‘life is like underwear, change is good’

From Mark Jaeger “perhaps”
Resources
Ellen Smith LinkedIn Profile
Amalie Trade Compliance Consulting

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The Compliance Life

Ellen Smith – College & Early Career

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 Ellen Smith, who has sat in the chair of a Director of Trade Compliance.

Ellen graduated from Dickinson College in central Pennsylvania in 1989 with a double major in Political Science and International Policy & Management Studies, spending her junior year abroad in Bologna, Italy.  Her first job was  at a family-owned freight forwarding company. After a couple of years, she started night law school in NYC, eventually graduating from John Marshall Law School. Ellen started her family and then moved into the law firm world, starting at a plaintiff’s med mal firm where she learned how to strategically work through a case in a team. Eventually, Ellen switched practice focus back to her trade roots and went to a boutique International Trade firm in Chicago, where she got her feet wet in the International Trade legal space working on many different customs and export issues.

Favorite Adopted Saying “In all due respect…”