Michael Savicki on Due Diligence During Mergers & Acquisitions [Podcast]
By Adam Turteltaub
Michael Savicki, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), best known as Amex GBT, knows the challenges and opportunities in merger’s and acquisitions. The company recently completed the acquisition of CWT, a global business travel and meetings solutions provider.
In this podcast he shares their playbook for effective due diligence, born out of their experience and the heightened regulatory requirements that they face. Among the insight he provides:
Integrate your efforts with the business unit’s and work cross-functionally
Partner with finance and the commercial team
Have a solution-oriented “yes and” mindset
Be sure the due diligence process focuses on all the risks: legal, regulatory, operational and reputational
Perhaps most importantly: think beyond the transaction. Look to what the acquired entity will need post-acquisition. Embrace the technology that will help get you where you want to be, including AI, which can help spot emerging risks sooner, while freeing your team up to do more strategic work.
16 Dec 2025
Katie Roemer on Neurodiversity as a Compliance Asset [Podcast]
By Adam Turteltaub
Neurodiversity tends to be spoken of as an issue to be recognized and, quite often, as a barrier to overcome. Katie Roemer, Vice President, Compliance & Privacy Officer at Alta Hospital Systems see it differently: as an asset to your compliance team.
In this podcast she points out that many neurodivergent people excel at pattern recognition and system level thinking, as well as root cause analysis, all of which are of great value to compliance teams.
They can also help us to communicate better. Meeting their needs can help with general workforce training. Some examples include:
Avoiding densely packed slides with light fonts that are hard to read
Breaking the learning up into discreet pieces
Previewing what is going to be learned and the length of training
Letting the audience know what is the most important part of the training
Giving key takeaways and highlighting key points
To leverage the neurodiverse fully, she recommends creating a psychologically safe environment that encourages everyone to speak up without fear of consequences. This enables the expression of a diverse range of ideas from the entire team.
Listen in to learn more about the how the neurodivergent can be an asset to your compliance efforts.
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Bailey Mack on the History of Privacy Legislation [Podcast]
By Adam Turteltaub
What do a secret wedding and Richard Nixon have in common with HIPAA? A lot more than you might think, shares Bailey Mack, Chief Compliance Officer at Together for Youth.
In this podcast she tells us the interesting history of privacy and the law. We begin in 1890 when a photographer trespassed to photograph a wedding he wasn’t supposed to be photographing. Thirty eight years later in the Olmstead case, wiretapping wasn’t deemed intrusive because no one entered the room. It was as if a privacy violation could occur only if there was trespassing involved.
That began to change in the 1960s in which thinking evolved and the idea gained currency that privacy was about violations of the person’s right to privacy, rather than to property.
Watergate led to further changes in which citizens were given access to government records about them. And, since then, more legislation has come and likely will.
Listen in to learn more, and if you’re an SCCE or HCCA member, don’t miss her article in Compliance & Ethics Professional® magazine.
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Michael Savicki on Due Diligence During Mergers & Acquisitions [Podcast]
Published 23 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Another big factor, and I think is very important to underscore, is the ability to work through a cross -functional partnership in a global matrix organization such as ourselves. Compliance can't be effective if it operates in a silo, and we are incredibly fortunate to have a very strong leadership team and see suite that understands the value of an effective risking compliance program. We work very closely with our product and tech, teammates to put together compliance controls right into our existing tools and platform, things like compliance by design, embedding sanctions, privacy controls, right into our technology solutions. […]
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