TRADE COMPLIANCE - Key Persons
Christel Vilogron has been directly involved with global trade compliance for more than 25 years before founding IEBP Global Trade Compliance, where she assists clients in the following primary areas: trade compliance risk assessments, audits, training, compliance programs, manuals and hands-on guidance involving activities regulated by the Bureau of Industry and Security; Office of Foreign Assets Controls; U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division; and of the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. She improves clients' export-compliance and related business processes with a focus on optimization, operational efficiencies and cost-savings. Prior to this, Christel worked at the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in Licensing and Audits, both in Washington, D.C. and in Newport Beach, CA, where she led the Distribution License Audit Program and completed more than 800 government-directed compliance audits of major corporations worldwide (11 years). The following 15 years, Christel worked for medium size and Fortune 500 companies, where she set up Global Trade Compliance Departments, formed teams and developed and managed sustainable trade compliance programs.
A former member on the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration, Christel is a current appointee to the District Export Council of Southern California; she serves on the board of Directors of Women in International Trade-Los Angeles, and is a member of the International Compliance Professionals Association. Christel has a B.A. in International Relations and speaks German fluently, plus basic Spanish and French.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Management Team
- PRESIDENT
Craig T. Ridgley is the President and CEO the Trade Compliance Group. In addition to running the company, Craig performs trade compliance assessments and develops client compliance programs under the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security's (BIS) Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Craig also conducts client compliance and business process improvement analyses to reduce costs and promote risk mitigation. Craig began his career with the Trade Compliance Group when he joined as a Senior Advisor in 2010.
In his time with the Trade Compliance Group, Craig developed the Trade Compliance Assessment Tool - The TCAT. This tool allows compliance professional to conduct import and export compliance assessments remotely. It is a cloud-based tool that performs comprehensive compliance assessments in hours instead of days or weeks.
Prior to consulting for the Trade Compliance Group, Craig was the Senior Manager, Global Trade Compliance for Symantec Corporation where he directed the classification of the 1000+ Symantec encryption products. Additionally, he was responsible for obtaining all of the import and/or export authorizations for these encryption items for all of the foreign countries in which Symantec conducted business.
Prior to Symantec, Craig was the Global Trade Compliance Manager and Empowered Official for Flextronics, Inc, responsible for the trade compliance programs of over 400 Flextronics facilities around the globe. Before coming to Flextronics, Craig was the North American Manager for Export Compliance for the Managed Services Organization of JP Morgan Chase. In this role, Craig directed the export compliance teams for such Fortune 500 companies as Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Avaya, GE, and others. Before taking on this role, Craig was a Senior Consultant with the JP Morgan Chase Trade Management Consulting Group.
Craig graduated with Honors from California State University with a B.A. in English Literature.
Job Titles:
- ADVISOR & DIR. UK MATTERS
- Chairman of the Export Group for Aerospace
- Senior Adviser and Director, UK Matters
David Hayes has many years experience in export controls, both from an industry and regulator's perspective. In addition to his work with the Trade Compliance Group, David is a Director of his own firm, David Hayes - Export Controls, located in the British midlands.
Until early 2007, David was the Corporate Head of Export Controls for the Rolls- Royce Group, where he worked regularly with the Rolls-Royce Main Board and was instrumental in establishing the Board Exports Committee.
Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, David worked for TRW Aeronautical Systems (later Goodrich) where he was responsible for export compliance globally.
In 2007, recognising an increasing demand from industry, especially in relation to UK companies having to deal with U.S. controls, David established his own consultancy. David continues to provide services to Rolls-Royce, as well as to a rapidly expanding international client base.
David is the Chairman of the Export Group for Aerospace and Defence (EGAD), the UK's leading trade body on export controls, and a widely recognised expert in his field. David is a regular speaker at national and international export control events. David served as the UK export control subject matter expert for US Consultants Booz Allen Hamilton Inc on the Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) Phase
In addition, David is a guest lecturer on MSc programmes run by Nottingham and Southampton Universities and has recently been closely involved in developing export control training, which is to be offered jointly by Cranfield University and EGAD.
David is involved in many export-control forums, both in the UK and abroad, and has regularly given evidence to UK Parliamentary Select Committees on export control issues.
In what little spare time David has, he spends flying - he is a qualified pilot and flies both fixed and rotary wing aircraft. David spent ten years serving as an Intelligence Officer with 7006(VR) Intelligence Squadron of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, specializing in Air Defence and Electronic Warfare and was a member of the Association of Old Crows. David is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS).
Job Titles:
- CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
- Member of the Management Team
- President
Dr. Paul Freedenberg has extensive experience in export control and trade issues. Freedenberg was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the first Under Secretary for Export Administration at the Department of Commerce. This new Under Secretariat was created by the Congress in order to separate the export control function from export promotion. Serving as Under Secretary from 1987-1989, Freedenberg administered both export control policy and trade laws, such as anti-dumping and countervailing duty regulations, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Administration (1985-87).
Prior to his Commerce Department service, Dr. Freedenberg was Staff Director of the Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittee on International Finance for seven years. That Subcommittee has jurisdiction over issues such as international trade and finance, technology transfer, multilateral banks, and the International Monetary Fund. He worked for the late Sen. John Heinz (R-PA) and former Sen. Jake Garn (R-UT). Prior to that he was Staff Economist to the Joint Committee on Defense Production, serving the Ranking Republican Sen. Edward Brooke (R-MA). He began his Capitol Hill career as Legislative Assistant to Sen. J. Bennett Johnston (D-LA).
From 1989 to 1998, Paul Freedenberg was an international trade consultant with the law firm of Baker & Botts, LLP in Washington, DC. He specialized in general international trade issues as well as technology transfer, export licensing, export financing, export enforcement, and both foreign and domestic banking and investment issues. Most recently he was Vice President for Government Relations of AMT - The Association for Manufacturing Technology.
Dr. Freedenberg received his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Chicago and was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana from 1970 to 1976, where he created a new program in national security studies. He is the author or co-author of several articles on export policy and international banking, including "The Commercial Perspective" in Export Controls in Transition, edited by Gary Bertsch and Steven Elliot-Gover (Duke, 1992).
Job Titles:
- Executive
- Executive VP
- Member of the Management Team
- Partner
- Executive Vice President & Practice Chair
Frank Record is the Executive Partner at the Trade Compliance Group. With more than 25 years of experience in the legislative and executive branches, he has substantial high-level experience in a wide range of trade and security issues.
Serving until September of 2006 as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, Mr. Record directed the activities of the ISN Bureau comprising more than 200 civil and foreign service personnel. He was its representative in senior staff meetings, inter-agency meetings and hearings before Congress as well as policy dialogues with foreign government officials.
From 2004 through 2005, he was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Arms Control Bureau and subsequently assumed the responsibilities of the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the newly created ISN Bureau. He helped to staff and manage its newly created Offices for Counter-Proliferation Initiatives, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism, and Strategic Planning and Outreach.
From 1990 through 2004 he was a Senior Professional Staff Member for the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In this capacity, he was responsible for economic and security policy issues, including oversight of the Export Administration Act, numerous sanctions related bills, and the reauthorization of several trade and investment promotion agencies.
From 1988 through 1990, he served as the Deputy Vice President for the Export Import Bank developing and implementing its legislative and external affairs strategy. He previously worked as the minority counsel for the House Banking Committee on a number of finance and trade issues; as a staff consultant for a bipartisan foreign policy caucus on trade and security issues; and as a researcher and writer for the Worldwatch Institute.
Married with three children, he is a graduate of Harvard College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, SAIS, where he currently serves as a member of its Advisory Council. ..
Job Titles:
- FOUNDER
- Member of the Management Team
Martin Kalin is the Founder of the Trade Compliance Group. Founded in 1986 as MK Technology, for many years he was its President and a Senior Consultant. Today, the Trade Compliance Group provides one-stop services to the international trade community for trade controls consulting, in-house training, internal compliance tools, and customer screening. The Trade Compliance Group collaborates with sister company Spark Media, a prize-winning production company to produce best-in-class export-compliance training videos.
Formerly a consultant, Martin Kalin's expertise was complex de minimis calculations, commodity and technology classifications, and negotiations for Commerce Department advisory opinions in these areas. He also dealt with munitions trade controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
In 1992, he formed MK Data Services with Kenneth Harris.
Marty Kalin also founded Export Control News, now The Export Practitioner. He also has been an active trade and investment consultant on a number of business projects in Russia and other countries within the former Soviet Union. He is an entrepreneur and founder of a number of other technology companies.
He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service where he specialized in international relations. In 1983, he was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by Secretary of State George Shultz for his work within the U.S. Department of State on Lebanon and the Middle East.
He is an active member of EO, the "Entrepreneurs Organization" in the Greater Washington, DC area chapter, where he serves on its Board and is responsible for chapter learning activities.