Kaito Lee
About Kaito Lee
Kaito Lee is the Security Compliance Manager at Expedia Group, with a diverse background in compliance, finance, and education.
Title and Current Role
Kaito Lee currently holds the position of Security Compliance Manager at Expedia Group Security. Since 2020, he has been based in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area. In his current role, he focuses on ensuring the company's adherence to security compliance protocols.
Previous Roles at Expedia Group
Kaito Lee has held multiple positions at Expedia Group before his current role. From 2019 to 2020, he was a Senior Compliance Analyst in the eCP Controllership team in the Greater Seattle Area. Prior to that, he served as a Compliance Analyst for one year from 2018 to 2019, and as an Associate Analyst in Price Quality and Compliance from 2017 to 2018, also in the Greater Seattle Area.
Other Professional Experience
Before joining Expedia Group, Kaito Lee was a Marketing Associate/Intern at angelMD from 2016 to 2017 in Seattle. He also gained valuable experience in the finance sector, working as a Financial Institutions/Public Sector Intern at Citi in Brussels, Belgium in 2015, and as a College Summer Intern — Private Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley in Irvine for two months in 2015. Additionally, he worked at J.P. Morgan in New York as a recipient for eight months in the same year. Earlier, he spent two years as an English teacher at California School of English, from 2013 to 2015, in Temecula/San Juan Capistrano.
Educational Background
Kaito Lee has a diverse educational background. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics and Japanese from the University of Washington. He also achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management, General from Vesalius College. Both degrees were completed in 1970.
Key Projects and Initiatives
During his tenure at Expedia Group, Kaito Lee has made significant contributions to the company's security compliance efforts. He designed and led the implementation of Expedia Group's first SOC 2 Program using a Common Control Framework. He also developed a third-party information security questionnaire repository to support partner audits. Additionally, Kaito performed a SWIFT assessment and collaborated with various teams to ensure the remediation of gaps prior to self-attestation.