Innovation In Compliance With Tom Fox

Welcome to a special 5-part podcast series, sponsored by Diligent. Over this series we will consider a risk-based approach toe third-party risk management. Over this series I will visit with Michael Parker is the Director of Advisory and Consulting Services, Stephanie Font, Due Diligence Service expert; Kairi Isse, Managed Services Group Manager; Adam Bailey, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Alexander Cotoia, from the Volkov Law Group. In this Part 1, I visit with Michael Parker on the need for risk mitigation to bring a third-party into a relationship with your organization. Parker has worked in the compliance arena for six years, learning from his experience in government and tech. For a compliance program to be successful, executive leadership and there must be Board of Director buy-in for oversight as well. The goal of a third-party risk management platform is to protect the assets of the business and create a single source of truth. Through such a mechanism, third parties can be can screened