Provides strategic legal counsel for the executive management team and all business units. Focus areas include contracts, M&A and regulatory matters. Leads a globally dispersed team of compliance professionals in the delivery of compliance risk-mitigation solutions during a period of tremendous growth and international expansion.

Reconnected with a former colleague and served as his firm's Special Counsel in the financial services and M&A practice areas.

General Counsel to the NomuPay Group of Companies. Responsibilities included all legal matters affecting the Group's regulated and unregulated fintech operating entities and product development teams around the globe. Focus areas included commercial agreements, overseeing in-house and external legal services providers, regulatory compliance and dispute resolution matters. Acted as Chief Compliance Officer through December 2023.

General CounselJanuary 2021 - May 2022Responsible for all legal matters other than corporate secretary accountabilities. Relevant domains included litigation, legal operations, contracts, legal staffing and legal budgets.Associate General Counsel. July 2016 - January 2021.Provided legal services to all areas of the business. Key responsibilities included providing advice and negotiating transactions in the areas of software licensing and development, privacy, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, M&A, lending, debt issuances, payments, over-the-counter transactions such as derivatives and repos, and securitizations. Chief Compliance Officer. August 2019 - Present.Oversaw the compliance function, including policies, procedures and operations. Managed the compliance team. Acted as Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Anti-Money Launder Officer.Senior Legal Counsel. January 2015 - July 2016.Led a series of major software licensing initiatives, and was responsible for legal issues in connection with a Canada-wide contract for debit card processing and a multi-billion dollar national credit card program for credit unions.Other Roles:Interim General Counsel for six months while the General Counsel was Interim CEO. Served as acting member of Executive Team responsible for all legal operations.Interim Head of Compliance Services for 10 months. Oversaw P&L, business development and operations for a business line providing internal AML services as well as comprehensive outsourced AML services and consulting to small financial institutions across Canada.Head of Procurement for five months. Established a centralized procurement function.

Directly responsible for all legal and compliance matters affecting this non-bank global payments technology provider and its international affiliates.General Counsel and Member of Executive Team. Responsible for legal strategy, operations and corporate governance. Areas of focus included: software licensing and general contract matters; regulatory reviews; operational management; legal process improvements; corporate governance; HR matters; tax and finance support; board support; IP, data, privacy and security.Chief Compliance Officer/CAMLO. Responsible for all aspects of the company's general compliance and anti-money laundering/anti-terrorist financing (“AML/ATF”) compliance program. Areas of focus included: performing risk assessments; corrective action plans; compliance reviews; project management; managing the AML/ATF team and developing training programs. Also responsible for engaging with regulators and demonstrating robust AML/ATF policies and mitigation strategies to banks and other payments partners.Product/Operational. Business launch leader for hyperREMIT.com, a Canada-to-Philippines remittance service, growing the business 25% each month during its first year. Directed legal and compliance diligence that culminated in the sale of hyperWALLET and its affiliated entities to a private equity firm in May 2014.

Directed legal affairs for international recruiting company, reporting directly to the founders. Drafted and negotiated commercial contracts for use with the company’s international roster of clients, candidates and third-party agents, including service contracts and waiver agreements. Drafted intellectual property registration submissions and responses, and advised regarding threatened and pending litigation.

Transactional Associate.

Transferred with practice group from Parker Poe.

Practiced with Banking and Finance group.