Theodore L. Banks
President
Compliance & Competition Consultants, LLC

Theodore L. Banks (Ted) is President of Compliance & Competition Consultants, LLC, a firm devoted to assisting corporations in development of effective and efficient programs in the areas of corporate compliance, product distribution, internal investigations, and records management.  Formerly, he served as Chief Counsel & Senior Director, Global Compliance Policy, at Kraft Foods in Northfield, Illinois.  While at Kraft, his responsibilities also included complex litigation, corporate transactions, records management, antitrust, and supervision of computer applications used in the Corporate and Legal Affairs Department.

Throughout his career, Ted directed many substantial corporate transactions and litigated cases.  He supervised the $19 billion acquisition of Nabisco by Kraft, and the $8.7 billion IPO of Kraft Foods Inc.  He successfully coordinated the defense of the antitrust challenge by the State of New York to Kraft's acquisition of the Shredded Wheat cereal business through a full trial on the merits.  

Even before there were PCs, Ted helped develop computer applications used in the Kraft Law Department, with an emphasis on tools that helped serve clients.   In the corporate compliance area, he has focused on using adult learning techniques to make these efforts educationally effective.  He has taught hundreds of attorneys how to communicate the compliance message effectively through the use of video, audio, computer presentations, intranets, and computer-based training – and by making sure the audience has a little fun.