Kathalin
Carvalho
Kathalin is the Sr. Director of Compliance at Lazydays RV, a publicly listed company and an iconic brand in the RV industry that provides RV sales, service, and ownership experience for consumers across the United States. At Lazydays, she is responsible for overseeing the planning, development and execution of the overall corporate regulatory compliance of the organization. Kathalin has over 17 years of experience working in the areas of regulatory, corporate, risk compliance and criminal investigations with governmental, non-governmental, domestic and international corporations.
Before joining Lazydays, Kathalin was the Director of Global Regulatory Compliance of Foundever, global leader in the customer experience (CX) industry. At Foundever (formerly Sykes), she was responsible for regulatory oversight, analysis, testing, and development across all company’s line of businesses including development of internal control processes, compliance monitoring, auditing, and remediation mechanisms to ensure organizational compliance with regulatory requirements. Prior to Foundever, Kathalin served as the Director of Regulatory Compliance of Jabil, a publicly traded company and global provider of manufacturing and supply chain solutions headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. At Jabil, she was responsible for providing support and oversight in the implementation of regulatory risk management strategies and tools across all worldwide Jabil sites and industries for 8 years. Throughout her professional career, Kathalin had provided compliance oversight and support to other domestic and international corporations such as the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Provest, Banco Do Brasil and Citibank.
Kathalin is from Maracaibo, Venezuela where she obtained a Law degree from the Universidad del Zulia. She attained a master’s degree in criminology from The University of South Florida, and she holds a Master of Laws International Law and Business (LL.M.) from Stetson University College of Law in Florida. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified Compliance Corporate and Ethics Professional (International). She is the founding Co-Chair of the ACAMS Central Florida Chapter and remains as an active Board Member of the same Chapter to date. She has written on several corporate compliance topics and has presented on anti-corruption and corporate compliance topics to domestic and international audiences.
Kathalin was showcased by the Association of Certified Anti-money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) as one of the most influential women who is making her own mark in the Anti-money laundering and financial crimes field. Kathalin serves as the President of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Hispanic Advisory Council and stays very active performing community outreach work with other local non-profit organizations within the Tampa Bay area. She is fluent in both English and Spanish and speaks Portuguese.
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