The Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org)
Highlights of an organization that 'punched above its weight'
Highlights of an organization that 'punched above its weight'
In 2011, Pamela Passman left Microsoft to launch the Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org), a non-governmental organization focused on educating organizations about leading approaches to managing risk, improving governance and compliance, and advancing the rule of law.
During her time at Microsoft, she saw how the company invested significantly in putting business processes in place to reduce risks—and then collaborate with third parties to improve their practices.
She saw an opportunity to share this approach more broadly and educate other companies about the management systems that should be in place to address several pressing risks including anti-corruption, cybersecurity, intellectual property and trade secret protection.
In the years that followed, the CREATe.org team spoke with leading companies, conducted research and presented findings in whitepapers, articles, presentations and other platforms. Following are a few highlights.
Pamela Passman is former Vice Chair of the Ethisphere Institute, and founder and President of the Center for Responsible Enterprise and Trade (CREATe.org), distinct entities with a common mission to promote leading practices to manage key governance, compliance and risks for companies and their global supply chains. CREATe.org’s effective approach to helping companies measure internal capabilities and manage risk led to the spin-off and sale of its services subsidiary, CREATe Compliance Inc., to another industry leader, the Ethisphere Institute.
Passman speaks and writes on enterprise risk management, data protection, cybersecurity, intellectual property, anti-corruption, and doing business in Asia.
Prior to founding CREATe.org in October 2011 and CREATe Compliance in 2016, Passman was the Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Global Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, Microsoft Corporation. From 2002 to 2011, Passman led Microsoft’s regulatory compliance work across a range of issues, including privacy, security, law enforcement, telecommunications and other issues related to cloud computing. Passman also led Microsoft’s global government relations and public policy work and philanthropic programs and had leadership responsibilities for its cross-company global corporate citizenship efforts.
She first joined Microsoft in 1996 and until 2002 led the Legal and Corporate Affairs organization in Asia, based in Tokyo, with a focus on Japan, Korea and the People’s Republic of China. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. Passman practiced law with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. and Nagashima & Ohno in Tokyo, Japan.
Ms. Passman serves on the Board of Kinaxis Inc., a Toronto-listed SAAS supply chain management company, and served on the Board of IO, a data center infrastructure/cloud computing company that was sold to Iron Mountain in 2018.
She currently serves on the Board and as Treasurer of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), and as a Trustee of Lafayette College. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on its Nominating and Governance Committee.
Ms. Passman is a graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Virginia School of Law. She was a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow in Japan.
Events Around the World
From DC to Brazil, Austria, Japan and beyond
Guidance and tools to assess and improve anti-corruption programs and a leading voice on the ISO 37001 Anti-Bribery Management System Standard
CREATe.org was a recognized leader in advancing the leading practices for trade secret and IP protection
CREATe.org conducted research, assembled senior leaders in advisory councils, and shared leading practices through articles, and presentations. CREATe.org also co-founded the Cyber Readiness Institute.
An impressive Board and Advisory Council
Brad Smith Lanny Breuer Margery Kraus
Hau Lee Keith Maskus Richard Locke
Alan Larson Roberto Abdenur Ambassador Susan Schwab
By Pamela Passman, President and CEO, Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade
By David J. Kappos and Pamela Passman
By Pamela Passman, President and CEO, Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org)
By Pamela Passman, Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org)
By Hau Lee, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Pamela Passman, Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade
University/Think Tanks: Pamela Passman, President and CEO, Center for Responsible Enterprise And Trade (CREATe.org)
CRAIG MOSS
