Gregory Bates

Greg leads the Ethics and Compliance program at Aduna Global, a global technology company. Prior to joining Aduna in 2025, Greg was a Member (equity partner) at Miller & Chevalier Chartered, a boutique international law firm in Washington, DC. At Miller, he focused his practice on corporate compliance and related governance with a particular experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating compliance programs and conducting internal investigations. His practice was grounded in the connection of business and law and his belief that legal and compliance professionals should be reasonable and trusted advisors and partners to their clients. Greg has extensive experience advising legal and compliance departments, management, and Boards of Directors of privately and publicly held companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and government entities on business critical compliance issues, including anti-corruption laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), international anticorruption treaties, and leading practices to prevent, detect, and respond to fraud, waste, abuse, and related illicit or illegal activity. Greg supported Miller colleagues in their roles as Independent Compliance Monitors, counseled clients with Monitors, and played a compliance leadership role in-house at a Fortune 500 company that was subject to deferred prosecution agreement (DPA), consent agreement, and Monitor. He spent more than five years in-house in progressively more senior roles, culminating as the Compliance Director for Latin America and counsel to global enterprise risk management and the internal audit team before joining Miller in 2017. Greg has experience in dozens of countries across the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. He is trilingual and routinely counsels and advises clients in Portuguese and Spanish, in addition to his native English.