We are pleased to share a recent interview between Hanzo’s Sean Freidlin and compliance expert Elizabeth O’Keefe. Sean and Elizabeth cover a lot of ground, including the traits that make a strong compliance officer and digging deeper to carry compliance forward. Sean Freidlin: Hello, everyone. My name is Sean Freidlin. I am a Compliance Marketing Manager at Hanzo. And today I am...

In the #MeToo era, with allegations of workplace misconduct on the rise, organizations need a quick and accurate way to evaluate claims. Hanzo’s Sean Freidlin asserts that the internet is a hotbed of potential evidence — if you can sort through it and make sense of it all. They say, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” but that’s not always true. Sometimes the...

Throughout the year, Hanzo’s team interviews industry leaders in compliance, e-discovery, investigations and risk management to learn about their experiences in the field and give them a platform to share advice. Earlier this month, Hanzo spoke with Louis Sapirman, JD, CCEP, an E&C leader and the President of Compliance Innovator, LLC, who has over two decades of experience building effective ethics and...

In this day and age, compliance risks can come from anywhere. Sean Freidlin of Hanzo discusses some of the chief ways innovative marketing campaigns can expose the organization to risk, provides three examples of current risky strategies and offers lessons for the compliance practitioner. Every department in an organization is a potential source of risk that compliance professionals need to understand, measure...

Welcome to Six Questions with an Ethics & Compliance Officer, a new interview series from SAI Global created in conjunction with National Compliance Officer Day. Each post will shine the spotlight on a different member of the E&C community, from established CCOs and CECOs with years of experience to rising stars with a passion for ethical behavior. To be featured in your...

Welcome to Six Questions with an Ethics & Compliance Officer, a new interview series from SAI Global created in conjunction with National Compliance Officer Day. Each post will shine the spotlight on a different member of the E&C community, from established CCOs and CECOs with years of experience to rising stars with a passion for ethical behavior. To be featured in your own Six...

As a marketer, I’ve had the opportunity to attend a lot of ethics and compliance (E&C) conferences and events around the United States in the past 24 months. At these events, I’ve noticed that Chief Compliance Officers and other E&C professionals who attend generally aren’t there to see product demos from vendors. They are there to meet their peers, network, exchange stories...

Every year, Mary Meeker, a partner at venture capital firm KPCB, publishes a comprehensive guide on internet trends. This year’s guide was just released, and SAI Global’s Sean Freidlin offers highlights for the compliance and ethics practitioner. The findings can be hugely informative when it comes to ethics and compliance training and strategies in terms of mitigating data privacy and cybersecurity risk…...

Movies and pop culture, whether directly or indirectly, often teach us many of the lessons we learn in our lives. As the legendary character of Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder may have been the first on-screen character to teach us about ethics and compliance.