Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom welcomes Doni Hoti, co-founder and CEO of Adclear. Hoti brings a fascinating perspective on embedding compliance directly into content creation. He begins with the shift in advertising and marketing compliance from a slow, “checkpoint” back-office function to an embedded, revenue-enabling capability. Hoti explains that modern content creation involves many stakeholders and must move at near-real-time speed, while enforcement risk and the cost of losing customer trust keep rising. He describes how AI has broken traditional review models by increasing both content volume and speed expectations and how Adclear uses horizon scanning across global regulators, agentic AI, and company-specific policies to deliver more dete

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom welcomes Michelle Tavares, a former federal government forensic accountant and former USCIS EB-5 compliance officer who helped rewrite the EB-5 statute into the Reform and Integrity Act (RIA). Michelle Tavares brings a rare blend of forensic accounting, securities litigation, and federal investigative experience to her perspective on EB-5 visa program compliance and adjudication. Having worked on white-collar crime matters and immigration policy, and as a compliance officer for the EB-5 program, she helped shape the Reform and Integrity Act, which strengthened oversight, penalties, and investor protections. Tavares believes the old EB-5 framework lacked meaningful enforcement, and she argues that USCIS now properly

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom welcomes Mara Senn, Founder and CEO of Ethakos. What is innovation in compliance? Mara Senn certainly shows it in this podcast. Her path to founding Ethakos spans Big Law, early FCPA and anti-corruption work, investigations at the World Bank, and senior in-house compliance roles at major Fortune 500 companies. That experience gave her a clear view of the everyday frustrations compliance teams face, especially clunky tools, dirty data, and rigid workflows that slow down real investigations. She built Ethakos as an AI-native, highly configurable platform to solve those pain points, using “vibe coding” with Claude to move quickly while keeping human judgment at the center of every decision. In her view, the platform reflect

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom speaks with Bennett Borden of Clarion AI Partners. Borden is a lawyer and data scientist whose career has long focused on the intersection of law, data, and technology, including AI governance, compliance, and the legal implications of generative AI. Drawing on experience at the CIA, in big law, and leading AI-focused legal practices, he views generative AI as a disruptive force reshaping both legal services and business models. Borden argues that effective AI governance requires “governance engineering”: translating legal obligations into technical controls and measurable proof of compliance rather than treating compliance as a separate burden. He also encourages lawyers and organizations to embrace AI proactively,

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Paul F. Welter, co-founder at Bayshore AI. Welter is a German-qualified lawyer whose path into legal innovation began with an early background in software engineering, giving him a rare combination of legal and technical expertise. That experience led him to study how legal reasoning could be automated at Stanford Law School’s Codex, and later to co-found Bayshore AI to build LLM-based tools for in-house legal and compliance teams. He believes AI can help scale legal and compliance support because demand far exceeds human capacity, but he expects adoption to happen gradually through copilots, policy chatbots, and targeted workflow automation rather than a sudden transformation. At the same time, he stres

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Brian Holyfield, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at SendSafely. Holyfield discusses why the right compliance question on cybersecurity is not whether a breach will happen but when and what data will be exposed, often through vendors. He explains “blast radius” as the scope of access and data reachable during an incident and argues organizations should prioritize architecture, data minimization, and retention controls alongside prevention. He also highlights risks from accumulated file attachments, overbroad user access, interconnected systems using OAuth tokens, and “standing access” via long-lived machine credentials that can be abused without obvious login anomalies. Holyfield discusses examples inv

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with Clarence Chio, co-founder and CEO of Coverbase, about modernizing third-party risk management as AI reshapes vendor due diligence. Chio describes how traditional onboarding relies on long questionnaires, SOC 2/ISO documentation, and trust centers that streamline document exchange but were built for human-driven workflows. He argues AI makes the process risky and increasingly meaningless because vendors can auto-complete questionnaires convincingly and customers can analyze them with AI, eroding the value of nuance and attestation. Chio contrasts static, point-in-time evidence with the need for dynamic, continuous security evidence, noting software changes faster than annual assessments and third-part

Innovation comes in many areas and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with s Diego Panama, new CEO of LogicGate.  They discuss his career from Microsoft product management to scaling Live Ramp to an IPO, building go-to-market at Olo, and joining LogicGate through a planned CEO transition with co-founder Matt Kunkel. Panama describes his focus on scaling operations while preserving a customer-first, values-driven culture, and sharpening the company’s positioning as the leading AI GRC platform for enterprise. The discussion highlights AI’s role in moving GRC from check-the-box defense to real-time, strategic enablement, including holistic risk visibility across silos, third-party risk blind spots, and always-on monitoring. Panama explains LogicGate’s workflow agents and the

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with Justin Roopnarine, Partner at Limitless Capital. Roopnarine is an engineer whose career has spanned the Air Force, financial engineering, software engineering, and both public- and private-sector problem solving. He brings a practical perspective to evolving compliance and risk management, arguing that organizations need systems that can adapt to changing conditions rather than rely on static checklists or rigid SOPs. Roopnarine believes algorithmic auditing can make compliance more repeatable and effective by using rules, metrics, and programmatic checks to document decisions, monitor thresholds, and quickly identify where breakdowns occur. At the same time, he emphasizes that AI and technology s

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with Matt Friedman, who provides a 2026 update to the fight against the international scourge of human trafficking and modern slavery and discusses his latest book, Awakening the Advocate. Friedman is a leading voice in the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery, known for founding and leading the Mekong Club and for more than 35 years of advocacy, policy work, and corporate engagement. He views modern slavery as a vast, still underaddressed crisis, where tens of millions remain trapped while the number of survivors helped and criminals convicted remains far too small to match the scale of the problem. Friedman believes the biggest barrier is not compassion but awareness and that educatin

Welcome to the award-winning Innovation in Compliance. In this episode, Tom welcomes back Gerry Zack, and they discuss the growing use of AI in compliance and the launch of Eastward AI. Gerry Zack brings a practical, cautionary perspective to AI-powered compliance and risk management, shaped by 18 months of advising organizations on how AI is being used in real compliance programs. He sees AI already embedded in functions like hotline support, policy-to-risk mapping, website scanning, behavioral analytics, transaction monitoring, and even parts of investigations, while warning against overreliance on it in sensitive investigative work. As one of the architects of Eastward AI, he helped evolve the platform from a CSRD and double-materiality tool into a flexible compliance and enterprise risk management solution that supports frameworks such as COSO ERM, DOJ guidelines, ISO 37301, and ISO 31000. Overall, Zack believes the real opportunity lies in reducing organizational paralysis, using AI responsibly, and con

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits Kunal Vankadara, CEO & Co-founder of Haast, to discuss how AI can help regulated organizations scale compliance as content volume explodes and regulatory scrutiny increases. Vankadara believes AI-powered compliance automation is especially valuable in content review because many decisions are subjective and context-driven, such as judging whether a disclaimer is sufficiently prominent. In his view, LLMs can be trained on a company’s risk tolerance to apply those standards consistently at scale, reducing false positives and sending only gray-area issues to human experts. As AI-driven content creation and regulatory scrutiny continue to grow, he sees this approach as a way to make compliance faster, more re

Innovation comes in many areas and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode,  host Tom Fox visits with Kunal Chopra, CEO of Certivo, an AI-native regulatory intelligence and compliance management platform for supply chains.    Chopra recounts his tech and supply-chain background (Amazon, Microsoft, Groupon, prior CEO roles) and explains his insight that compliance is fundamentally about market access and revenue protection, not box-checking. He describes how global regulations are increasing in scope, enforcement, fines, and deadlines, creating repeated, deadline-driven scrambles and visibility gaps for executives. Certivo aims to flip compliance from reactive to proactive by identifying applicable regulations by market and product, ingesting product data from systems like ERP/PLM, and using AI to coordinat

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits Dan Duffy, the Cyber Practice lead at Consulting Solutions and a longtime cybersecurity and executive-search professional. They chat about the paradox of rising security spend alongside increasing burnout and turnover. Duffy argues organizations cannot hire their way out of broken structures: undefined workflows, lack of playbooks, shadow IT, fragmented accountability, and excessive alert volumes cause teams to drown, making burnout a business risk rather than an HR metric. He emphasizes auditing workforce design, mapping workflow needs, and ensuring executive and board-level support, including proper CISO reporting lines and authority. They discuss the emerging demand for an AI compliance officer, the need f

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Mouhcine Jalili, VP of Growth – iGaming at Software Mind, on reframing iGaming compliance as a design, delivery, and platform challenge rather than an end-stage legal checklist. Mouhcine argues compliance failures often stem from siloed teams, fragmented legacy platforms, inconsistent vendor integrations (B2B2C), and release management across jurisdictions with differing rules (e.g., spin time, buy-bonus features). He emphasizes strong release governance, modular and configurable architectures, automated controls that cannot be bypassed, and real-time monitoring and alerts to prevent harm, including responsible gambling interventions based on early behavioral signals. Scaling successfully requires stan

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but also embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode,  host Tom visits with Tim Morss, CEO at SpeakUp, about the evolution of speak-up systems from the employee perspective. Morss describes his background in compliance technology and SpeakUp’s global footprint, emphasizing that employee expectations favor frictionless, mobile-first, intuitive reporting with transparency and feedback over 800-number hotlines and complex forms. He notes common program gaps: hard-to-find reporting channels, poor mobile experiences, overreliance on telephony (especially problematic for non-English speakers), insufficient guidance on what to report, and weak trust due to lack of follow-up and perceived inaction. They consider generational preferences, privacy-aware deployment, such as QR code placem

Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Nikunj Bajaj, Co-founder & CEO at TrueFoundry, about enterprise agentic AI infrastructure, governance, and hidden costs most organizations are not accounting for. Nikunj describes TrueFoundry’s platform as a single control plane for enterprises to build, ship, and govern agentic AI applications, inspired by Meta’s internal ML stack, which he says is about a decade ahead of the rest of the industry. He argues enterprises over-focus on model and tool selection when problem definition and effective use are the real constraints. On governance, he identifies two failure modes: avoiding meaningful use cases entirely to sidestep governance risk, or trying to solve all governance problems up front and ne

Innovation spans many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Noor Aziz, a Saudi Arabia–based governance, risk, and compliance professional with extensive ISO lead auditor credentials, internal audit and controls experience, and a growing focus on AI governance. Noor argues that effective compliance must be practical and business-friendly—clear ownership, escalation, accountability, and evidence—so it still functions under operational pressure rather than becoming bypassed. She emphasizes leadership commitment, culture shaped by observed behavior, and integrated GRC to reduce silos that create duplication, inconsistent reporting, and “governance fatigue.” On AI, she frames governance as a board-level issue because adoption is outpacing accountability, creating futu

Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with George Tziahanas, VP of Compliance and Associate General Counsel at Archive360. Tom interviews George Tziahanas on why organizations must move beyond data storage to providing data integrity, lineage, and accountability as a foundation for AI readiness. George defines “data defensibility” as the ability to defend how AI systems were trained and operate when AI decisions are not easily explainable, such as in rules-based automation, emphasizing upstream data provenance, monitoring, and audit trails. They discuss increasing regulator and stakeholder focus on authority and accountability, and how litigation can shape compliance, citing early e-discovery practices influenced by the Zubulake v. UBS Wa

Innovation comes in many forms, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom visits with Dr. Dennis Cummins to discuss his new book, “Invitational Selling: The Human Connection Advantage.” Dr. Dennis Cummins, a globally recognized authority on invitational selling, champions a sales approach that prioritizes building authentic connections over traditional hard-sell techniques. Rooted in his extensive experience selling from the stage, Dr. Cummins believes in the transformative power of meaningful conversations to understand and effectively meet customer needs. His philosophy is detailed in his new book, “Invitational Selling: The Human Connection Advantage,” which promotes inviting customers to engage rather than pressuring them into a purchase, fostering authentic relationships that exte