Compliance Initiatives’ Principal, Worth D. MacMurray, is a consultant and a recognized expert on global corporate compliance and anti-corruption matters. He is presently on assignment in Munich, Germany assisting Siemens AG - a 420,000 employee, € 100+ Billion, NYSE and DAX 30 company - with the creation and implementation of a comprehensive global corporate compliance program.
Mr. MacMurray has served, in recent few years, as the US federal agency - approved corporate compliance officer in several “troubled company” situations: as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - approved compliance officer for Peregrine Systems in San Diego, CA - in connection with Peregrine’s partial SEC settlement; and as the US Army - approved Ethics Program Director and Compliance Officer for government contractor ISS in Gaithersburg, MD - implementing and administering an Administrative Compliance Agreement.
Previously, Mr. MacMurray served as general counsel of several Washington DC area public companies, including GTSI, Intersolv and Landmark Systems. He has significant international and US legal, operational, regulatory, transactional, commercial, and dispute resolution experience.
Mr. MacMurray actively contributes to subject matter thought leadership. He serves on the Leadership Council of the Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) and was a 2005 Steering Committee Co-Chair - drafting and editing the OCEG Framework (a private sector - generated multi-disciplinary compliance, ethics and risk management construct.) He is a columnist for the OCEG quarterly publication GRC 360 on governance, risk management, compliance and culture topics. Mr. MacMurray presently serves on the Advisory Board for the National Business Ethics Survey 2007 – (Ethics Resource Center), and as a principal Group member for the World Bank Institute’s anti-corruption tool project on collective action(s).
His recent speeches include: throughout Germany, at various Siemens management conferences and meetings, on applicable compliance standards and program concepts; in Rome, to the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations) on “US Corporate Governance”; in Washington, to the Iraq Commission on Public Integrity on “Anti-Corruption Compliance in the US Private Sector”; and in Atlanta, to the Practicing Law Institute (“PLI”) Corporate Compliance Institute, on risk assessment methodologies.
Mr. MacMurray’s most recent articles are: “Agency Administered Compliance Programs – A Compliance Officer’s Perspective” in the May, 2006 Federal Ethics Report; and “Private Sector Response to the Emerging Anti-Corruption Movement” in the September, 2006 Development Outreach (World Bank). His article “OCEG Foundation Views, Tools & Techniques: The Process Component – A (Hypothetical) FCPA Case Study” appeared in the OCEG Winter ’06 – ’07 GRC 360 supplement to Compliance Week, Inside Counsel and Treasury & Risk Management.
Mr. MacMurray is a graduate of Georgetown University, J.D., and Princeton University, A.B., (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs). He is a member of the Oregon State Bar.
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