Innovation in Compliance with Tom Fox

Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode,  host Tom Fox welcomes Evan Sampson, a noted health care compliance attorney.

Sampson traces his path from commercial litigation to representing healthcare practices on HIPAA/privacy and reimbursement matters, then moving in-house at a network of plastic surgery centers, where he managed compliance focused on fraud, waste, and abuse, and on evolving out-of-network billing rules leading into the No Surprises Act. Sampson explains how compliance programs can create business value beyond risk mitigation by uncovering inefficiencies and opportunities, such as identifying downcoding in medical billing and using complaint investigations to spot growth areas. He describes how his litigation background helps him anticipate how issues will unfold over time in investigations and litigation, thereby improving his credibility with business leaders. They discuss building a culture of compliance in fast-growing healthcare organizations, tracking regulatory changes across primary and secondary sources, and leveraging AI and data analytics to detect claim outliers and strengthen compliance.

Key highlights:

Healthcare Compliance Shift

Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Compliance Creates Value

Building Compliance Culture

Tracking Regulatory Changes

AI in Compliance Analytics

Resources:

Evan Sampson on LinkedIn

Post & Schell

Innovation in Compliance was recently honored as the Number 4 podcast in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts.

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox welcomes Tim Khamzin, Founder & CEO of Vivox AI, to discuss building explainable, trusted AI agents for financial crime compliance teams.

Tim describes his background in banking operations automation, including large-scale digital transformation and the development of compliance products, and explains how large language models since 2023–2024 enable the automation of unstructured compliance work without extensive model training. He outlines key challenges in AML/KYC operations—15% of bank headcount tied to compliance, heavy manual repetitive investigations across multiple systems, and cultural resistance to adopting technology.

Tim emphasizes “explainability” through consistent, repeatable investigations with audit logs and screenshots that mirror human workflows, and “trust” through transparency, compliant vendor choices, and clear communication of limitations. Tim introduces Vivox compliance analyst, “Rachel,” a platform of collaborating agents that supports onboarding, customer due diligence, and false-positive reduction, improved via structured human feedback (thumbs up/down) to learn firm-specific standards.

He explains how Vivox stays aligned with evolving regulations by engaging with bodies such as the UK FCA and tracking frameworks such as the EU AI Act and Singapore guidance, with a focus on auditability and explainability. Tim predicts most compliance work will shift to AI agents, with humans handling complex cases and a new role of “compliance engineer” emerging to configure and evaluate agents, alongside industry consolidation and operating-system-style vendor platforms.

Key highlights:

From Banking Automation to Founding Vivox AI: The Opportunity in LLMs

What’s Broken Today: Manual Investigations, Backlogs, and Culture Gaps

Explainable + Trusted AI: Audit Trails, Screenshots, and Transparency

Regulators’ Top AI Concerns: Black Box, Bias, and 99% Accuracy

Inside ‘Rachel’: The AI Compliance Analyst & Human-in-the-Loop Feedback

The Future: Compliance Engineers, Agent “Operating Systems,” and Consolidation

Resources:

Tim Khamzin on LinkedIn

Vivox AI

Innovation in Compliance was recently honored as the Number 4 podcast in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts.

Innovation spans many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode,  host Tom Fox interviews Matt Kunkel, CEO and Co-Founder at LogicGate, about the company’s governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform and current market trends.

Matt recounts his path into regulatory risk and compliance work that led to founding LogicGate and launching its Risk Cloud platform in 2015. A major focus is AI governance. Tom and Matt explore how and why senior management is asking compliance teams to provide governance frameworks despite the absence of a single standard (e.g., NIST/ISO/SOC). Matt explains organizations need scalable processes to triage and route large volumes of AI usage requests, apply guardrails based on data sensitivity and criticality, and avoid becoming a bottleneck to innovation. He emphasizes training and culture to address employee misuse, highlighting risks of exposing proprietary data and the need to define what information is acceptable to input into AI models.

The discussion turns to LogicGate’s culture and how it has been sustained during rapid, organic growth (no acquisitions). Matt outlines LogicGate’s six values: Be as One, Embrace Your Curiosity, Empower Customers, Raise the Bar, Own It, and Do the Right Thing. For evaluating AI and modernizing compliance programs, he frames value in three outcomes: making money, reducing costs, or reducing risk, and describes LogicGate’s value realization framework that translates efficiency and ROI into business terms. He also describes Risk Cloud as an orchestration layer for compliance programs and anticipates more “intentional AI” and selective use of agentic capabilities rather than fully autonomous end-to-end program execution.

Key highlights:

From Consulting to GRC: Coding, Madoff Investigation, and Founding LogicGate

Why AI Is Supercharging the “G” in GRC

LogicGate’s Culture Playbook: Values That Scale with Hypergrowth

How to Evaluate AI Tools in Compliance: Proving Value, ROI, and “Intentional AI”

Cybersecurity in 2026: AI-Powered Social Engineering, Deepfakes, and Risk Mapping

What’s Next for GRC by 2030: Agents, Responsible AI, and Tech as the Glue

Resources:

Matt Kunkel on LinkedIn

LogicGate

Innovation in Compliance was recently ranked Number 4 in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts.

Innovation occurs across many areas, and compliance professionals need not only to be ready for it but also to embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox welcomes Yakir Golan, CEO & Co-founder at Kovrr, who shares his professional journey from the Israeli intelligence community to his current role at Kovrr.

With a rich background in Israel’s intelligence community and significant experience with cybersecurity vendors, Golan champions integrating frameworks with analytics to effectively assess and navigate risks, emphasizing governance as a vital component for sustained innovation. He advocates proactive measures to address AI-enabled insider threats, urging businesses not to wait for perfect regulatory clarity amid the fast-paced evolution of AI technologies. Golan’s holistic approach to compliance transcends mere regulatory adherence, focusing on business-driven proficiency in cybersecurity and AI to meet the dynamic demands of the business landscape.

Key highlights:

Financial Models for AI Risk Governance

Enhancing AI Governance with Adaptive Frameworks

Empowering Innovation Through Strategic Governance and Compliance

Unified Approach: AI-Cybersecurity in Enterprise Risk Management

Resources:

Yakir Golan on LinkedIn

Kovrr 

Innovation in Compliance was recently ranked Number 4 in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts.

Innovation touches every part of the modern enterprise, and compliance professionals must be prepared not only to respond to change but to lead through it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators on the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox welcomes Anik Shah, Global Director of Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Compliance at Sandisk, for an insightful discussion on the pivotal shifts in FCPA enforcement during 2025 and what they signal for 2026.

Shah outlines his extensive professional background, including his prior roles at the SEC and DOJ. The conversation explores key developments from 2025, including the Executive Order pausing certain FCPA investigations, the Blanche Memo’s four criteria for opening FCPA cases, and the implications of revisions to the Corporate Enforcement Policy. He also analyzes the Communications Cellular enforcement action to highlight practical compliance lessons, focusing on strengthening AML controls, managing third-party risk, and deploying proactive compliance measures amid renewed anti-corruption scrutiny.

The episode concludes with a forward-looking discussion of emerging anti-corruption risks associated with advanced AI technologies, large AI construction projects, and related permitting activities, both in the United States and globally. Shah offers strategic recommendations for compliance professionals seeking to anticipate and manage these evolving risks.

Key highlights:

• 2025 as a Pivotal Year in FCPA Enforcement

• The Blanche Memo and Corporate Enforcement Policy Revisions

• Anti-Money Laundering and Third-Party Risk Management

• Large AI Construction Projects and Permitting Risks

• Global Anti-Corruption Laws and Compliance

• Key Takeaways for 2026

Resources:

Anik Shah on LinkedIn 

Sandisk

Innovation in Compliance was recently honored as the Number 4 podcast in Risk Management by 1,000,000 Podcasts.