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Karina Klever

CEO & Founder Klever Compliance

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Fee Range - $5000
Region - North America

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Karina Klever

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Karina Klever has spent more than 35 years in technology, starting in 1989 as a computer operator. After programming and decades of project/program managing, compliance took a larger focus starting in the early 2000s. Karina would go on to establish GRC COEs (Governance, Risk & Compliance Centers of Excellence) for Fortune 500 companies, and has been doing this for over 20 years. Success span industries, maturities, regulations, and frameworks. After years of witnessing compliance being implemented as nothing more than a checkbox exercise, Karina opened her own boutique company to guide midsized companies into establishing governance programs that are appropriate for their particular industry, level of maturity, size, risk posture, and goals.  Checkbox compliance leaves gaping security holes so Klever Compliance brings appropriation and common sense to the solution.

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“Listening to Karina helped our IT group to understand that GRC is not about a checkbox listing. It’s actually about establishing controls across our company that support security & maturity. “

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