Jim is an attorney and management consultant with over twenty years of compliance and legal experience advising global financial institutions of all types and sizes, including managing regulatory and internal change, leading remediation efforts and transformation and change projects, and liaising with regulators during inquires, exams, and all aspects of the enforcement and remediation processes. During that time, Jim has designed and implemented multiple enterprise-wide integration, transformation, change management, and process enhancement projects designed to meet rigorous regulatory expectations and industry best practices.

Jim regularly assists various types of financial and cryptocurrency firms on diverse advisory, risk, assurance, and audit engagements to design, implement, validate, and assess enterprise and compliance risk management, corporate governance, financial crimes, and cross-border processes and controls. He is passionate about partnering with all lines of defense at clients to successfully define and navigate challenges, determine innovative and best-in-class solutions, and ensure all key stakeholder input and collaboration throughout all phases of a project lifecycle.

Throughout his career as in-house counsel, compliance and ethics officer, and external counsel and consultant, Jim has gained unique insight across the lines of defense and engaged with all levels of management, boards, and regulators to design, implement, assess, and remediate enterprise risk management (ERM) and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) systems to provide quality assurance to the board, auditors, and regulators. Jim combines deep regulatory and risk expertise with strong business and people skills to connect risk and compliance to strategy and development. His technical fluency in all of the risk and governance disciplines provides unique insight into strategic projects to identify patterns and interrelations across risk silos, prioritize key risks, balance business objectives with regulatory expectations, and formulate innovative, efficient ways to achieve risk and compliance goals. Jim’s solid understanding of the regulatory frameworks, industry standards, and risk methodologies, tools, and technologies relevant to various types of clients and risks enables him to advise on practical GRC and ERM strategies that tie together all risk activities into one coherent framework to align boards, executives, business units, and functions around risk appetites and key priorities to support better decision making and resource allocation and position ERM as a value-adding partner rather than a cost center or compliance burden.

In his free time, Jim enjoys cooking and outdoor activities, including hiking, climbing, canoeing, camping, and skiing. Jim is a volunteer firefighter, secretary of the related non-profit corporation advising on its business affairs, and president of the benevolent committee leading fundraising efforts on behalf of the department.