Gravie is at the forefront of driving change and improving the healthcare industry by creating innovative employer-sponsored health benefit solutions that put consumers first.

Centralized compliance programs, improved operational results and established Compliance as an influential and trusted business partner to financial advisors and home office leaders.- Responsible for compliance with SEC, FINRA, OCC and state regulations for company’s general and separate accounts, broker-dealer assets and in-force life insurance.- Led a team of 170 individuals.- Oversaw the implementation of an enterprise-wide processes for assessing and monitoring cybersecurity, privacy, compliance and legal risks. - Chaired Enterprise Compliance Committee which included responsibility for monitoring external trends and new regulations, quantifying and mitigating enterprise-wide compliance risk, and reporting to the Audit Committee.- Led multiple executive-level assessments of distribution strategy and presented recommendations to CEO’s leadership team and the Board of Trustees. - Implemented data analytics, new technology tools and process improvements in compliance department, enabling reduction in costs three years in a row while maintaining program quality.- Member of Northwestern Mutual’s Human Resources corporate committee and regularly tapped to shape and communicate HR efforts focused on change management, culture, diversity and inclusion, and leadership development.- Thought leader on enterprise Data & Analytics Oversight corporate committee, which established operating principles and provided ongoing oversight for data and analytics use, privacy, and data governance and ownership across the company.

Aligned team’s work to company strategy and led changes to underwriting standards to accept a broader range of life insurance applications while maintaining quality. - Strengthened connection between team’s work and company strategy by establishing operating plans and metrics for team of 100+ underwriters, specialists and people leaders. - Created vision for and implemented first structured service models for underwriting cases of top advisors, new advisors and high face amount applications.- Proposed new underwriting standards and secured support of business partners in actuarial and life product departments to increase flexibility in underwriting approvals while maintaining mortality. - Built a culture of trust and invested time in talent development. As a result, Gallup engagement scores of overall team increased both years of my leadership. In 2013, direct reports rated their engagement at 4.89 out of 5.

Led company-wide alignment effort supporting first-ever long term company growth targets.- Leadership role in securing executive approval of company’s first 5-year growth targets. - Led a team that delivered company-wide change management plan and consulted across the enterprise to connect each department’s goals to the enterprise targets. Presented recommendations to Board of Trustees regarding life insurance sales results, which were approved.- Secretary to enterprise Management Committee (CEO and direct reports) and Strategic Execution Committee. Managed committees’ agenda planning and communications with broader executive leadership.- Led cross-functional evaluation of life insurance sales results and presented recommendations to Board of Trustees.

Advised business partners on the broker-dealer and investment advisory business of Northwestern Mutual, which is delivered through a registered broker-dealer and SEC investment advisory subsidiary (Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, one of the 10 largest independent broker-dealers) and an OCC-regulated trust company (Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company).

Executive Committee member and direct report to the CEO. Managed all legal activities of the firm and the board of directors, including brokerage and advisory business, private equity investment, investment banking engagements, internal investigations, conflicts management, litigation matters and SEC filings. Regularly involved in shaping new business initiatives and the management of legal risk and conflicts of interest.

Supported the General Counsel in executing on the company's industry-related and general corporate legal matters. Received the company's 2004 Paragon Award for individual employee excellence.

Advised clients on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, Small Business Investment Company formation and investments, SEC registration, corporate governance, corporate bond issuances and real estate transactions.