A former Disney Chief Compliance Officer, on your team part-time.
Asheva places senior compliance and legal leadership inside growth-stage and private-equity-backed companies, for the months you need it: a first regulatory exam, a deal, an investigation, or the point where compliance outgrows the team you have.
Who this is for
- Founders and CEOs of funded companies without a senior compliance or legal lead
- Operating partners and deal teams at private equity and venture firms with a portfolio company that needs one
- General counsel who need a compliance leader, not another policy writer
- Companies with cross-border sales, sanctions or anti-corruption exposure
Path one: Fractional Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel
You get an experienced executive for one to a few days a week, not a consultant who hands you a binder.
- Build or repair the compliance program: policies, training, hotline, testing, reporting to the board
- Prepare for and manage regulator and auditor contact
- Lead internal investigations and respond to government inquiries
- Sanctions, export controls, anti-bribery and third-party risk for companies selling across borders
- Compliance and legal diligence and integration for acquisitions
- Hire and hand over to your first full-time compliance lead when you are ready
Path two: Board and AI governance advisory
For boards and audit committees that need a clear view of AI risk from someone who has reported to an audit committee.
- AI governance framework and oversight reporting for the board
- Audit committee briefings on AI and regulatory risk
- AI due diligence for acquirers, targets and their counsel
- Response to DOJ, SEC or Treasury scrutiny
Where the judgment comes from
- Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, The Walt Disney Company, reporting to the Audit Committee
- Led the governance integration of Disney's $71 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox
- Primary legal and sanctions officer during the Russia/Ukraine crisis, advising the CEO and senior executive team
- Directed a 200,000-employee compliance system rollout
- Responded to DOJ, SEC and Treasury inquiries, and their international counterparts
- Earlier: Hughes Hubbard and Reed (anti-corruption, trade compliance, internal investigations)
About Alicia
Alicia Schwarz served at The Walt Disney Company as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer. Before that she practiced at Hughes Hubbard and Reed in Washington, D.C. She holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a BBA from Howard University, and is admitted in New York and Washington, D.C.
She works with a small number of companies at a time.
How it works
- A 20-minute call. You describe what is coming at you. She tells you what to do first, even if you do not hire her.
- A short written scope: the problem, the first 30 days, and the time she will spend each week.
- She starts working inside your team and reports to you, or to your board.
- You scale up, hand over to a full-time hire, or stop.
Questions
Why fractional instead of a full-time hire? Most companies do not have enough steady compliance work for a full-time senior executive, but cannot go without one. A fractional lead gives you the experience at a time commitment that fits.
How many clients does she take at once? A small number, so each gets her direct attention.
Tell me what is coming at you.
A 20-minute call is enough to know what to do first.
Book a 20-minute call or email [email protected]