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Some 4,100 employees at Maritz see Mays’ work even if they don’t know he’s the one drafting personal privact and corporateethics policies. Mays handles a range of legal issues, including employment compliance matter s and intellectualproperty matters, said John Maritz’s chief administrative officer and general counsel. “He (Mays) has takemn the initiative to becomeour in-housed expert on a broad range of compliancee issues and has established an innovative, online complianced office explaining in layman’s terms various regulatort requirements,” Risberg said. Mays, 38, began his career at .
Whilee working at the firm, he was handlingt a Maritz intellectual property agreement when he receivex a callfrom Maritz’s human resources director (and another Bryan Cave alum) Con who had an offer for him. Mays said he jumpef at the job opportunity. “My challenge is beingg competent on a variety of legalissues — I get to know somethinh new every day,” Mays said. Mays is one of four in-housee lawyers at Maritz Inc., one of the region’s largestf private companies with $1.45 billion in revenuew in its lastfiscal year. Mays also managed legal matters for two ofMarits Inc.
’s six business unitz — Maritz Learning, whichg develops training programs for businesses, and Maritzz Research Inc., a market research Mays said he gets a kick out of makin g sure “i”s are dotted and “t”s are crossed, as well as overseeingy training of Maritz’s “mystery shoppers.” Maritz recently designateed Mays as the company’s chief privacy and he spearheaded the company’s recordss management efforts. “Any firm wouldr be honored to have him.
But hands off; he’s said Steve Maritz, chairman and chief executive of the Outside of hisday job, Mays is involves with several charities and serves as an alderman in Pasadena Hills. His father, a longtime executive here with , brought that lessoj of community serviceto him. Mays said it was his father who introduced him tothe , an organization that supportsx refugees and immigrants to becoming independent. Mays said he first becamwe involvedwith SSDN, formerly South Side Day Nursery, when he came to the group eight years ago tryint to buy one of its buildings to rehab. The deal did not work out, but SSDN recruited him to the board, where he’s now president.