Ken Pettit
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Phone: 248-269-8366
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Ken is Senior Counsel with Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, and a business partner who serves as Chief Compliance Officer, directing StraightLine’s compliance program. (In addition to being a licensed attorney (Ohio), Ken is also a CPA (Ohio).)
Ken has deep experience in the compliance/risk and legal fields, with prior overall oversight of functions as a chief compliance officer and chief legal officer. Immediately prior to joining Calfee in 2024, Ken was a Senior Principal Consultant for a large, international governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) consulting firm in the financial services industry, working with Registered Investment Advisers (domestic and foreign) and Registered Investment Companies, establishing compliance programs and providing counseling regarding regulatory requirements, including pertaining to alternative investment vehicles and ETFs. He also served as an outsourced chief compliance officer.
Ken has deep experience in the compliance/risk and legal fields, with prior overall oversight of functions as a chief compliance officer and chief legal officer. Immediately prior to joining Calfee in 2024, Ken was a Senior Principal Consultant for a large, international governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) consulting firm in the financial services industry, working with Registered Investment Advisers (domestic and foreign) and Registered Investment Companies, establishing compliance programs and providing counseling regarding regulatory requirements, including pertaining to alternative investment vehicles and ETFs. He also served as an outsourced chief compliance officer.
Ken’s earlier career also emphasized compliance functions--with chief compliance officer and general counsel roles in the investment management industry, including serving as a group compliance manager for a Tier 1 bank; as the Director of Finance for the Hamilton County (Cincinnati), Ohio Auditor’s office; and via experience at large, full-service law firms in Cincinnati and Anchorage, Alaska.
Prior to law school, Ken began his career with a Fortune 100 company’s international corporate financial audit department (a financial-management training program), and later initially entered the investment management industry as a mutual funds administrator.
Ken received his J.D. from Duke University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Alaska Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board. He also received an M.A from Duke University in Public Policy Studies. Ken earned his BBA (with distinction) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in (1) Accounting and (2) Management Information Systems Analysis & Design.
Prior to law school, Ken began his career with a Fortune 100 company’s international corporate financial audit department (a financial-management training program), and later initially entered the investment management industry as a mutual funds administrator.
Ken received his J.D. from Duke University, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Alaska Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board. He also received an M.A from Duke University in Public Policy Studies. Ken earned his BBA (with distinction) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in (1) Accounting and (2) Management Information Systems Analysis & Design.