Michael Philpott Email & Phone Number

Michigan

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

• Led regulatory risk assessment for U.S. and seven international retail markets, with particular focus on antitrust, financial services, food safety, environmental, and health and safety domains. • Facilitated data and information analysis, drove interview design, guided cross-functional discussions, drafted recommendation of risk prioritization for mitigation resource allocation, and managed production of final reports for senior company leadership.• Guided annual process enhancement designs, based on lessons learned and continuous feedback from stakeholders, to more efficiently identify and prioritize risk for global senior leadership decisioning. Enhancements included scoring methodology, data-information collection and analysis methods, process design, and reporting.• Designed and conducted annual training of risk assessment methodology and process for program participants.• Produced annual GRRA reporting for assigned markets and subject matter areas, providing senior leadership assessments on priority regulatory risks to aid decision-making on effort and resource allocations.• Integrated independent AML-financial services compliance team’s risk assessment into GRRA annual reporting.• Identified dozens of action plans to anticipate regulatory risks across company’s portfolio of markets, resulting in continued compliance with laws and regulations.

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

• Laid groundwork for centralization and cross-coordination of operations between departments in global governance. For example, drove and facilitated establishment of data and technology working group to begin coordination on identifying redundancies, as well as initiating design of commitments tracking program to centralize tracking of commitments made to external parties.• Identified, planned, and managed initiatives and projects for global governance organization across spectrum of domains, with goals to identify potential risk, increase efficiencies, reduce cost, and improve cross-departmental cooperation.• Coordinated annual operating plan between global governance departments and global business services.• Led research and provided ad hoc reports and recommendations to the executive vice president of global governance.

Greater New York City Area

• Oversaw client projects for large global and national financial institutions, including team leadership, project planning, resource management, tracking and reporting progress, budget planning and monitoring, executive-level client communications, and delivery of client-ready reports. Drove achievement of project milestones and goals to great client satisfaction.• Conducted and performed business analysis, testing, and quality control during multiple client engagements for large domestic and global financial institutions. Designed and conducted account testing under regulator orders, reviewed policies and procedures, developed business requirements for system updates, and conducted gap analyses. Drove delivery of process improvement recommendations, mapping of regulations to procedures and controls, submission of remediation results to federal regulators, and compliance account reviews.• Managed teams of consultants during regulatory account testing engagements, leading personnel to timely completion of sampled and high-volume populations within strict deadlines.• Coordinated multiple business development projects by gathering data, managing team input, driving creation and quality control of deliverables, and overseeing budget projections. Facilitated $900,000-plus in sold work.

Led five-person team in managing consultant-client relationship during two graduate research projects. Finalized project scopes, developed and managed project plan, and presented findings. Delivered quality, and actionable and improved client solutions to real-world problems for organization’s enterprise architecture team.

Corning, Ny

Developed tiered operational assessment tool for 25 departments’ key processes, equipment, and staffing to maximize effectiveness of recovery decision-making in event of operational shutdown of four facilities. Designed and developed financial impact tool to enable senior leadership to prioritize recovery efforts projected to save up to $15,000 per hour in costs and lost revenue during emergency scenarios.

Various

• Recipient of the Bronze Star Medal and Meritorious Service Medal• Led eight-person team planning operations, coordinating globally with units and agencies at multiple levels, and synchronizing intelligence-training program for all forces in Europe, encompassing 1,900 personnel. Standardized training management for deploying units, implemented strategic change to overcome 30% budget decrease, and maintained 100% training and readiness. • Led eight-person team in 24 / 7 intelligence analysis to support complex missions for 300-person battalion during 12-month deployment to Iraq. Planned and coordinated reconnaissance and surveillance operations. Advised battalion commander on threats, capabilities, and vulnerabilities.• Managed comprehensive training program to certify 300 soldiers for combat operations in Middle East. Planned, coordinated, and drafted all operational orders for training events and overseas deployment. • Guided team of nine fire support specialists in U.S. and while deployed to Iraq for 15 months, employing fire support assets in support of 140-person unit.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Activities and Societies: Eller Professional Sales Club (President), Eller Graduate Entrepreneurship Club (Treasurer)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Cornell Army ROTC (Cadet Training and Operations Officer), Scabbard and Blade (Member)