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S2E14 | Thinking Around the Corner: KKR’s Bruce Karpati Embraces the Passion and Purpose of Ethics, Compliance

17m · Principled · 03 Dec 09:00

LRN’s Dr. Marsha Ershaghi Hames interviews Bruce Karpati, global chief compliance officer at KKR. Karpati has experience both within the government, when he led the SEC’s Asset Management Unit, and within companies, which gives him an appreciation of the importance for compliance and taking regulations seriously. He shares the key characteristics for a chief compliance officer to be successful, talks about innovative initiatives he is implementing to get lift-off for his programs across KKR’s portfolio companies. These endeavors help to ensure the company gets ahead of potential threats. What You’ll Learn on This Episode [0:53] Karpati shares a bit about KKR as an organization and its reach? [1:32] He talks about his program and how it approaches compliance across a global footprint? [3:09] How does he partner locally to convey some of the core critical messages? How does he hold those local stakeholders accountable? [4:38] How much two-way input is he open to from a cultural compliance standpoint? [5:51] What innovative tactics does Karpati employ as it relates to lift-off of his compliance strategy? [8:51] Karpati recounts his time leading the SEC’s Asset Management Unit and how his approach to E&C was impacted by sitting on both sides of the compliance profession? [11:31] What are some of the characteristics a CCO needs to have to be successful? [15:27] What drew him to a career in compliance?

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