Heather Novitsky
General Counsel, with nearly two decades experience in financial services and corporate environments, skilled in leading legal, compliance, risk management, and government relations teams.
- Role
- General Counsel at LendingTree
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Heather Novitsky
Experienced General Counsel with nearly two decades of expertise in financial services and corporate environments. Currently serving as General Counsel at LendingTree, leads a legal team and advises senior executives on compliance, corporate governance, and regulatory issues. Accomplishments include successfully challenging regulations, facilitating investment financing, improving regulatory compliance, and embedding legal functions into business operations. Leads AI governance efforts and corporate strategy regarding legal risks.
Experience
General Counsel
May 2023 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US
Reporting directly to the CEO, serves as a trusted advisor to the senior executive team and board of directors on all legal, regulatory compliance, and corporate secretary matters. • Facilitated investment financing, corporate buybacks and reduced debt load. Partnered with CFO to advise and execute $175m financing investment, corporate buyback initiatives, and other initiatives to reduce corporate debt load.• Reduced regulatory investigations, closed multiple investigations without further action, and improved compliance exam results. Implemented regulatory compliance programs, policies, and procedures. Exam scores improved from lowest scores to highest scores within two years.• Embedded the legal team into business functions. Assigned representatives from the legal team to business verticals to provide legal guidance to internal business partners in support of their business strategy.• Positioned company as an industry leader to influence positive changes to policies. Created government relations priorities and built a team to bring awareness of industry issues and position company as a credible industry leader. • Influenced impacts of the FCC Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Single Seller Rules. Participated in FCC comment cycles about single seller consent requirements under the TCPA and impacts to consumers and comparison shopping; key participant in industry litigation seeking to overturn final order; leading compliance workstream to ensure compliance if and when new rules go into effect. • Identified process improvements to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and save money. Developed a record retention program, established a marketing compliance review process, and developed legal, compliance and contracts dashboards to show real time tracking.• Lead artificial intelligence committee to assess use of AI tools and the opportunity and risk. Partner with product, tech, and info security to implement policies, and procedures to govern use of tools.
Education
University of Notre Dame
BA, Political Science
1999 — 2003
Georgetown Law
JD, Law
2003 — 2006
Skills
- Privacy Law
- Cyber-Security
- Payments
- Information Security
- Mobile Communications
- Glba
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Hipaa
- Legal Writing
- Legal Research
- Intellectual Property
- Fcra
- Litigation Management
- Copyright Law
- Corporate Governance
- Licensing
- Litigation Support
- Bankruptcy
- Data Privacy
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