Diana Lutz

Diana is a member of the company's leadership team and Managing Director of the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) consultancy at STEELE. In this hands-on role, Ms. Lutz leads a team of seasoned legal and compliance professionals with expertise in risk assessment and modeling, compliance program development and implementation, and benchmarking.

Diana Lutz was appointed Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer in February 2010. In her role as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at STEELE, Diana has oversight and management responsibility for all internal governance and ethics and compliance matters, including the Company’s business conduct program, related internal investigations, internal audit, and regulatory compliance to ensure an accountable and transparent business environment.

Diana’s legal and compliance career spans more than two decades covering both public and private sector experience. She is a former Assistant Attorney General and a member of the State Bar in three states. Since entering the private sector, Diana has held senior ethics and compliance and legal positions in the energy, utility and insurance industries. She has been a trusted advisor, having assessed risks and controls and designed risk mitigating compliance programs to the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100. She has in-house experience designing and directing Fortune 200 Ethics and Compliance programs.

Ms. Lutz was Director of Corporate Ethics and Compliance at Qwest Communications in Denver, a Fortune 200 company with over 40,000 employees, where she oversaw the implementation of their corporate policies, records management, education, and ethics and compliance risk mitigation processes. She joined Vetco International in Houston as Vice President of Ethics and Compliance. At Vetco, Ms. Lutz worked to implement the global anticorruption program for 12,000 employees accross 30 countries. After Vetco Gray was acquired by General Electric (NYSE:GE), Ms. Lutz was retained to integrate the two companies ethics, compliance and risk mitigation programs. In 2007, Ms. Lutz was recruited by LRN to develop their consulting practice. In her role as Practice Leader, she advised clients on ethics, compliance and risk program design and implementation strategies including policies, procedures, education and other actions necessary to achieve their organizational objectives for ethics and compliance program operation.

She is considered an expert on anticorruption compliance program development and its integration with enterprise level governance, risk and compliance programs. She is a frequent lecturer, including at the Practising Law Institute and the Compliance Ethics Institute, and has written extensively on these subjects.