Tyson M. Avery currently serves as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer of Lucid Motors. He is responsible for leading, developing and enhancing the global ethics & compliance and labor & employment departments of a newly, publicly traded luxury EV company.
Prior to his time in the company, Avery was the Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer of Starbucks. He was responsible to the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Starbucks Board of Directors for championing the partner experience through the company’s Mission & Values and mitigating compliance risk by empowering ethical behavior and reducing misconduct. He also led and administered the global internal investigations and data privacy programs for the company.
Avery also served as SVP, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer and Director of Internal Audit for CBRE, Inc. In this position, he was the senior leader responsible to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors for the global ethics & compliance and internal audit programs, which includes both domestic and international responsibilities. His E&C office was charged with creating and sustaining best practice systems, policies, and tools to enable employees, businesses and partners to act ethically, stay in compliance and live by CBRE’s corporate values of Respect, Integrity, Service and Excellence (RISE). In addition, he led the independent, solution-focused auditing group that supports the business in driving efficiencies and positive change. He led a team of over 80 dedicated professionals, and worked in Los Angeles, CA.
Prior to CBRE, Avery served as the Director of Ethics & Compliance of ITT Defense. In this role, Mr. Avery built an integrated and sustained ethics and compliance program for a $6Bn organization in the aftermath of one of the largest regulatory prosecutions in US history, including over $100 million in fines and remediation. He was also the Global Process Owner for Compliance of a Corporate-wide SAP implementation. Mr. Avery also held various leadership positions in ITT as legal counsel and within the areas of Ethics and Compliance, Industrial Security, Trade Compliance, and Environmental, Health, and Safety.
Preceding his corporate experience, Avery spent ten years as an officer and judge advocate serving in the US Marine Corps where he held positions of increasing responsibility, including prosecuting and defending felony level criminal cases, serving as one of the first Geneva Convention Magistrates in Iraq, and serving the President of the United States as the sole military attorney in the White House Counsel’s Office. In 2004, the American Bar Association named Avery the Young Military Lawyer of the Year. He was also awarded the Bronze Star for his service during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. In 2018, Tyson was recognized as the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for the UC Riverside, School of Business. Tyson holds a B.S. from the University of California, Riverside and a J.D. from the University of Kansas.
