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Grant Thornton names Beatrix Bernauer as chief risk and compliance officer
February 25, 2021 GMT
CHICAGO (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 25, 2021
Grant Thornton LLP has named Beatrix Bernauer as its chief risk and compliance officer, a new role at the firm.
In the role, she will design and execute the firm’s enterprise-risk management program and practices, including frameworks and methodologies to support effective risk identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring.
Bernauer, a principal in the firm, has served as Grant Thornton’s chief compliance officer for the past three years establishing standards, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, as well as the firm’s own requirements. She has also led the firm’s data-privacy program and sustainability-reporting program. In her new role, she will continue to oversee these important areas and also ret