With more than 15 years of experience in Compliance, Yoab Bitran joins Albagli Zaliasnik (az) as the new director of the Compliance group to lead, together with Rodrigo Albagli, a value proposition based on the prevention and active management of legal, regulatory and reputational risks for companies and organizations.
He is a lawyer from the University of Chile with a Master’s degree in Business and Corporate Criminal Law from the same institution. He also holds an LL.M from Boston University.
He has served as academic director of the Thomson Reuters Compliance LatAm Diploma and professor of the Legal Management Program LatAm Diploma at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV).
Throughout his career he has actively contributed to the compliance and corporate ethics industry as Head of LRN Latin America, the largest company in the world dedicated to ethics and compliance.
His professional career also includes his time as an International Associate at Chadbourne & Parke and as part of the legal management of ENAP.
Rodrigo Albagli, partner at the firm and who manages the compliance area at az, emphasizes that “Yoab will strongly support our expansion plan for the Compliance area, which represents a strategic pillar for the sustained development of az in the coming years.”
“It is time to push for excellence in ethics and compliance. Yoab has the experience, tools and knowledge to support companies in raising standards and guiding the effective implementation of compliance programs,” Albagli emphasized.
Yoab focuses his practice on advising companies of various sizes and industries, as well as on building and sustaining ethical corporate cultures. One of his main goals is to promote ethical leadership and best practices in the region, and he is frequently invited as a speaker at international conferences and events.
“I am excited to maintain and strengthen az’s leadership in our country and become a regional benchmark in compliance best practices. We have the opportunity to have a significant impact on raising ethical standards in Latin America, taking advantage of our role as founders and coordinators of the Compliance Latam platform,” concluded Yoab.
