Michael is the Chief Compliance Officer at Arkadios Wealth, where he leads the compliance program for the RIA and provides comprehensive compliance and business support to Arkadios’ Advisors. With over three decades of experience, Michael has held pivotal compliance roles across retail, institutional, and independent broker/dealers, as well as RIA firms, including ING, Barclays, and UBS. His extensive background includes leading the compliance program for a $110B fixed income advisory platform and an $80B RIA. He played a key role in the creation of a family of mutual funds, oversaw due diligence teams for corporate acquisitions of a $6B life insurance company and a $7.7B financial services, and managed regional compliance across five countries in North and South America.