The Steele Foundation, a global business advisory and risk-management company providing investigative, security, and consulting services, has appointed Diana Lutz to the newly created position of managing director and chief compliance officer. Lutz will report to Kenneth Kurtz, president and CEO of STEELE International.

In this new executive capacity, Lutz will be responsible for enhancing STEELE’s integrated governance, risk, and compliance framework across the company that captures ethics, compliance, and regulatory areas, and effectively supports an accountable and transparent business environment. She will have management oversight for the company’s ethics and business conduct program, related internal investigations, internal audit, and regulatory compliance matters.

Lutz brings over 15 years of legal and compliance experience to Steele, including in-house experience designing and directing Fortune 200 ethics and compliance programs. She is a former assistant attorney general and a member of the state bar in three states.

In addition to her experience at Qwest Communications as director of corporate ethics and compliance, Lutz was vice president of ethics and compliance at Vetco International, where she worked to mitigate the risk of doing business in remote locations with a high potential for corruption.