Case Study: Bumble Bee Seafoods achieves a stronger global ethical culture with NAVEX’s software ecosystem

Bumble Bee Seafoods Shores Up Ethical Culture with NAVEX Global’s Software Ecosystem

Bumble Bee Seafoods, North America’s largest branded shelf‑stable seafood company with about 1,500 employees and a global supply chain, needed to formalize an ethics and compliance program that would resonate across diverse operations and address industry risks like third‑party corruption, supplier welfare and regulatory compliance. When Jeff Killeen became the company’s first Chief Compliance Officer, he faced the challenge of consolidating compliance functions, using resources efficiently, and building a culture that supported the company’s values.

Bumble Bee adopted NAVEX’s integrated E&C ecosystem—EthicsPoint for hotline and incident management, RiskRate for automated third‑party due diligence and monitoring, NAVEXEngage for training, and PolicyTech for policy management—to centralize data and workflows. The solution increased visibility into incidents and supplier risks, reduced administrative burden for a one‑person compliance team, enabled global training and policy attestations, and helped embed a stronger ethical culture reinforced by an internal excellence-in-compliance awards program.

Bumble Bee Seafoods

Jeff Killeen

Chief Compliance Officer