Braden Weatherhead, Managing Director – Contract Compliance, KPMG
Braden is a Managing Director and KPMG’s commercial line of business leader for contract compliance. He has over sixteen years of experience in providing royalty audit services to multinational organizations in a variety of industries including High Technology, Semiconductors, Consumer Products, Diagnostics, and Pharmaceuticals.
Braden has a deep experience in helping to establish and execute global contract compliance programs combining elements of data analytics, royalty monitoring, audit targeting and remediation. Braden has led the development of cloud-based data aggregation, monitoring and executive dashboard tool to help better identify licensee compliance issues which range from erroneous reporting, low royalty payment and fraud. Braden has led reviews of major multinational third party arrangements, including: joint ventures, collaborations, Most-Favored-Nations (“MFN”), cost-plus manufacturing, royalty and profit-sharing arrangements.
Additionally, Braden has led over 250 third-party compliance reviews in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific regions. He has significant experience successfully managing relationships between potentially contentious third parties in an audit environment. Braden is also well versed in performing advanced data analytics and has developed analytical tools to implement proactive monitoring solutions leveraging third party data.
All together, these programs have resulted in the identification of over $300 million in overpaid rebates & discounts while strengthening contract lifecycle management and strategy.
Braden is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the AICPA.
