Security and compliance
10 chief compliance officers
These ten chief compliance officers have each held a chief compliance officer title at a company, in current or former roles. Readers can learn how a chief compliance officer builds and runs a compliance program, works with regulators and weighs regulatory risk against the goals of the business.
Professionals to explore
01—10Howard R. Fields
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer · Mastercard
Former Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at Mastercard (2023–2026), and Executive Vice President, Risk & Compliance Enterprise Solutions and Commercialization there since 2026. His profile describes leading, as Chief Compliance Officer, a global Ethics and Compliance organization focused on enabling sustainable growth and protecting the integrity of the company. He also lists SVP Group Head - AML, Trade Sanctions and Export Controls Compliance Counsel at Mastercard since 2015.
Jacqueline Angell
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer · Vanguard
Chief Compliance Officer at Vanguard since 2022, and former Chief Compliance Officer (2019–2022) and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer (2017–2019) at State Street. Her profile describes over twenty years of experience developing and calibrating compliance programs to realize positive regulatory and commercial outcomes, and building and developing teams.
Julie Walsh
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer · Scotiabank
Executive Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Scotiabank since 2024. Her profile says she leads the Global Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering functions, oversees the management of financial crimes risks and ensures the organization meets regulatory requirements across its global footprint. She was Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief Corporate Governance Officer at Scotiabank (2017–2024).
Katie Rose - DeLeon
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer · Blackhawk Network
Chief Compliance Officer at Blackhawk Network since 2026, and former Chief Compliance Officer at Tango (2023–2024). Her profile describes over a decade of experience architecting compliance and risk management frameworks for financial technology platforms. She was also Global Head of Product, Corporate, and Enterprise Risk Compliance at Blackhawk Network (2024–2026) and Global Head of Compliance Shared Solutions at Stripe (2019–2023).
Marianne Kozma
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Risk Officer · Teachers Life Insurance
Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Risk Officer at Teachers Life Insurance since 2025. She was also Associate Director - Regulatory Compliance Management and Advisory at RBC (2023–2025), General Counsel and Head of Compliance - Middle East at Zurich International Life Ltd (2011–2021) and Senior Legal Counsel - Central region at AIG (2007–2011).
Melissa Lozner
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer · Regeneron
Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at Regeneron since 2023. At Regeneron she was also VP, Chief Compliance Officer (2022–2023) and Vice President, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer (2022). She is a former Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer and Special Counsel at Rafael Holdings, Inc. (2021–2022) and former Vice President, Head of Ethics, Risk & Compliance at Novartis (2016–2021).
Minakshi Yerra, LLM
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer · Corpay Cross-Border Solutions
Chief Compliance Officer at Corpay Cross-Border Solutions since 2025; the profile describes serving as the senior executive responsible for developing, implementing and overseeing Corpay's global compliance strategy across multiple jurisdictions. Former Global Chief Compliance Officer at Ripple (2019–2024) and former Global Chief Compliance Officer at FalconX (2024–2025).
Nicole Cushing, MS, CRCM, CAMS
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer · Nelnet
Chief Compliance Officer at Nelnet since 2022, and former SVP, Chief Compliance Officer at WebBank (2018–2019). Her profile describes a regulatory compliance and risk management executive with a record of building risk-based programs and developing professional teams. She was also Head Of Compliance at Flex (2022) and Vice President Compliance at WebBank (2016–2018).
Noah Perlman
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer · Binance
Chief Compliance Officer at Binance since 2023; his profile says he joined as its Global Chief Compliance Officer. He is a former Chief Compliance Officer (2019–2020) and Chief Operating Officer (2020–2023) at Gemini, where his profile says he also served as President and CEO of the Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Norm A.
LinkedInExperience: Chief Compliance Officer - Robinhood · Robinhood
Chief Compliance Officer - Robinhood at Robinhood since 2022; the profile describes overseeing compliance for all Robinhood businesses. Former Chief Compliance Officer- Robinhood Financial (2020–2022), a role the profile says led the compliance function for Robinhood's retail brokerage business, and former Senior VP, Chief Compliance Officer - Fidelity Personal Investments at Fidelity Investments (2010–2020).
Choose the right perspective
Match the officer's industry and regulatory regime, such as banking, securities, payments or life sciences, to the rules your company faces. Ask whether they built a compliance function from an early stage or ran one inside a large established organization, since the two call for different skills.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What should a company put in place first when it hires its first chief compliance officer?
- 02How do you decide which regulatory risks get the most compliance resources each year?
- 03How should a chief compliance officer report to the board and work with legal and business leaders?
About this directory
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