Doug Whitehead

About Doug Whitehead

Strategic Risk & Compliance Leader with 10+ years of international experience…

Experience

1. Compliance Policy Manager, Global Selling (Gne)

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   Dec 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Manage U.S. programming for complex regulatory and customer safety issues • Led end-to-end strategy for cross-border regulatory compliance resulting from de minimis cancellation, enabling $300M+ in revenue• Launched pilot program for FDA medical device, dietary supplements and pet foods regulation, enabling $4M in sales. Assessed risk for Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP)• Design compliance strategy for CPSC e-filing and programmatic auditing systems for pesticide (EPA, FDA) derisking strategy • Launched CPSC derisking strategy for toys and children’s clothing vertical, enabling $4.3M in revenue• Led new market scoping for two emerging markets (UAE, MX) with complex regulatory environments• Designed metrics and processes for policy and moderation, incident management and stakeholder engagement.• Oversaw compliance qualification for 10K+ categories in Q3 ’24.

Education

• University of Washington

  BA, Linguistics

  2001 — 2005

• IUP (Tsinghua/UC Berkeley)

  Advanced language study, Mandarin and Classical Chinese

  2003 — 2004

• Vermont Law and Graduate School

  Master of Environmental Law and Policy, Environmental Law and Policy

  2017 — 2018

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  Master of Philosophy (MPhil), China Studies (Linguistics)

  2005 — 2007