Katherine Kelton

About Katherine Kelton

Katherine Kelton has over 20 years\' experience as a global general counsel, chief compliance officer, and chief people officer designing and executing enterprise-wide risk management strategies across healthcare, technology, and services sectors. She excels at building efficient teams, and transforming complex regulatory obligations into competitive advantage for organizations ranging from $14B public Fortune 200 to private equity to venture-backed startup. Katherine has deep expertise in the healthcare, wellbeing, and research sectors, including global privacy and data protection, fraud and abuse, wearable technology, import/export, clinical research support, intellectual property, crisis response, distributed staffing, and governance.She is the General Counsel and former Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Global Regulatory at Vault Health, where she built a global compliance and risk infrastructure while scaling to $1.2B revenue during the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency. As Chief Compliance Officer at Aramark Corporation, she led an award-winning ethics and compliance program for employees operating in 20+ countries, reporting to the Audit Committee and Board of Directors.Katherine has managed boards and C-Suites through crisis response, federal and state government investigations, M&A, and return of capital through both a successful exit and a dissolution.She is a dedicated non-profit director, Chair of The Wilma Theater and past President of The Forum of Executive Women, and advises growth-stage companies including Thoropass (cybersecurity compliance) and Regenerous Labs (AI solutions).A solution-oriented, collaborative leader known for shaping corporate culture through principled governance, her clients and teams have described her as someone who \"earns relationships through trust and competency\",\"no drama\",\"high EQ\", and \"good with dysfunctional teams.\" Core expertise: Global Compliance & Ethics • Enterprise Risk Management • Regulatory & Policy Strategy • Board Governance • Crisis Response & Investigations • Data Protection (GDPR, HIPAA) • AI Governance • ESG • Anti-Bribery/FCPA • Import/Export • IP Protection

Experience

1. General Counsel, Corporate Secretary

   Vault Workforce Screening, A First Advantage Company

   Jul 2021 — Present

   Led legal, risk, and compliance functions for high-growth telehealth startup providing COVID-19 testing, men\'s health, decentralized clinical research support across 50 states, UK and Ireland reporting to Board of Directors. Built compliance, risk, and regulatory legal teams as first Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Global Regulatory while scaling to 1.2B revenue. Retained as general counsel to lead board and management through dissolution.

Education

• Harvard University Graduate School of Design

  Certificate, Design Discovery

• Williams College

  B.A., Political Science, Women's Studies

• Boston College Law School

  JD