- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Dave Lefort2019-01-14T10:00:00
It was a tight race, but we are officially declaring Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the executive most in need of a compliance makeover in 2019.
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