Emme Devonish

Emme Devonish is Senior Compliance Counsel and engages with leading organizations on program assessments, benchmarking, and roundtables on insights into ethics and compliance issues for their clients and the BELA community. Additionally, she is a Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional and an SHRM Certified Professional. She maintains a license to practice law in the State of New York and retired from the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2012.

She began her career as an Attorney-Adviser at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Later she worked as a Director in the Compliance Department at The Prudential Insurance Company of America and then as a Vice President at Nomura IBJ Global Investment Advisors before joining the Corporate Department at Kelley Drye & Warren as a Senior Associate.

Her knowledge of securities law and regulatory compliance best practices led her to several high-level project-based roles, including as International Legal Counsel at Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management and as Finance Counsel at the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in Paris, France. Upon her return to the United States, she served as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Transamerica Investment Management in Los Angeles and thereafter formed her consulting practice, Creative Compliance Communication Services, LLC.