Maria D’Avanzo is the chief evangelist officer at Traliant, an online compliance training provider. She has 30 years’ experience as an attorney and chief ethics and compliance officer at financial institutions and publicly traded global organizations, where she built both ethics and compliance programs and global data privacy programs from the ground up. Maria earned her Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the College of the Holy Cross.  She is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut and holds NASD Series 24, 7 and 63 financial securities licenses.