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 Mark Beyer, the Ethics and Compliance Officer at Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
In this concluding episode, Beyer discusses his move to Pedernales Electric Cooperative, the largest electric distribution cooperative in the US. He moved to the role in no small part because of his love for the Texas Hill Country (much like the host Tom Fox-see The Hill Country Podcast). In addition to moving into the CCO chair, Beyer found the risks in such a non-profit electric cooperative very different than a publicly traded for profit enterprise. Beyer has also continued to expand his Compliance Toolkit while sitting in the CCO chair.
Tool No. 11 was the lesson that the CCO could not, should not and did not do everything in the compliance arena. The ‘who’ of doing it is quite important. The company’s customers are a rural base in the Hill Country of Texas and relationships are very important.
Tool No. 12 was expanding his compliance remit to include privacy. Simply because you are a US centric business, does not mean privacy rights do not exist. While they may not rise to the level of GDPR, they exist even in Texas.
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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 Mark Beyer, the Ethics and Compliance Officer at Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
Beyer’s next move took him to LivaNova, a medical device manufacturer, a publicly traded UK company. At LivaNova, Beyer became the head of Ethics and Compliance for North America where he oversaw all aspects of compliance for North America. He also made several additions to his Compliance Toolkit while at LivaNova.
Tool No. 7 was Beyer broadening out his approach to compliance and ethics at a company to a much more holistic approach.
Tool No. 8 was the exposure that Beyer had with the LivaNova C-Suite. Through these interactions he learned to work senior management in a reporting role but also to help educate the C-Suite on their role in a compliance program.
Tool No. 9 was working with corporate legal. In these interactions, Beyer learned the importance of a separate legal and compliance function.
Tool No. 10 was creativity. Here Beyer was mentored by another compliance legendary CCO, High Bigwood. Bigwood was one of the first CCOs to focus on the behavioral sciences for compliance and in compliance programs. He also expanded his views on the marketing of compliance internally.
Resources
Mark Beyer LinkedIn Profile
Pedernales Electric Cooperative
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 Mark Beyer, the Ethics and Compliance Officer at Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
From Lockheed Martin, Beyer moved into the energy space to the oilfield services company Baker Hughes. There he worked under Trade Compliance Director Ellen Smith (check out Ellen’s story from December 2021 on The Compliance Life). He also improved his Compliance Toolkit at Baker Hughes.
Tool No. 5 was learning about compliance program building. A compliance program is far beyond rules, documents and organization. It is business process designed to operationalize compliance. He also learned how to message compliance into the front lines of business.
Tool. No. 6 allowed Beyer to expand the scope of his compliance knowledge, through learning about anti-corruption compliance. Here Beyer worked under At Baker he worked under CCO legend Jay Martin, who was known for his best practices compliance programs.
Resources
Mark Beyer LinkedIn Profile
Pedernales Electric Cooperative
