Derek Mays - St. Louis Business Journal:

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Some 4,100 employees at Maritza see Mays’ work regularly, even if they don’t know he’s the one draftint personal privacy and corporateethics policies. Mays handlea a range of legal issues, including employment compliance matters and intellectuaklproperty matters, said John Risberg, Maritz’s chief administrativse officer and general “He (Mays) has taken the initiative to become our in-house expert on a broad rangr of compliance issues and has establisheed an innovative, online compliance office explaininyg in layman’s terms various regulatory requirements,” Risbervg said. Mays, 38, began his career at .
While working at the firm, he was handlin g a Maritz intellectual property agreemenyt when he received a callfrom Maritz’sx human resources director (and another Bryan Cave alum) Con McGrath, who had an offet for him. Mays said he jumped at the job “My challenge is beinb competent on a variety of legalissued — I get to know somethinh new every day,” Mays Mays is one of four in-housed lawyers at Maritz Inc., one of the region’s larges private companies with $1.45 billion in revenue in its last fiscalk year. Mays also manages legal matters for two ofMaritzs Inc.
’s six business units — Maritz which develops training programsa for businesses, and Maritz Research Inc., a markett research subsidiary. Mays said he gets a kick out of makingysure “i”s are dotted and “t”s are crossed, as well as overseeinh training of Maritz’s “mystery shoppers.” Maritz recentlyh designated Mays as the company’s chiet privacy officer, and he spearheadeds the company’s records managemenf efforts. “Any firm woule be honored to have him. But hands off; he’w ours,” said Steve Maritz, chairman and chief executivw ofthe company.
Outside of his day job, Mays is involvefd with several charities and serves as an alderma inPasadena Hills. His father, a longtime executive here with , broughtf that lesson of communityy serviceto him. Mays said it was his father who introducede him tothe , an organization that supportsx refugees and immigrants to becoming independent. Mays said he first becamee involvedwith SSDN, formerly South Side Day Nursery, when he came to the grou p eight years ago trying to buy one of its buildings to The deal did not work out, but SSDN recruited him to the where he’s now president.