Cherie Axelrod

Chief Enterprise Risk Officer at Western Union

As Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, Cherie Axelrod coordinates Western Union’s Compliance, Risk and Internal Audit teams and enables a consistent approach for managing risk across the organization. Cherie has more than 30 years’ experience in finance, compliance, auditing, operations, risk, and project management in financial services and telecommunications. She joined Western Union in 2012 and during her tenure has been the Chief Auditor, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer and U.S. Settlements Lead, and held leadership roles in Global Compliance Risk, Consumer Fraud, U.S. and Mexico Global Field Operations, Project Management, and several other compliance areas.

Prior to joining Western Union, Cherie was the divisional CFO for the Consumer & Small Business division of Qwest, and also worked for GTE Hawaiian Tel in the Far East and Pacific Islands.

Cherie has an MBA from Chaminade University, and a BS in Industrial Management / Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. She is based at Western Union headquarters in Denver.

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The Western Union Company is an American financial services and communications company. Up until it discontinued the service in 2006, Western Union was the best-known U.S. company in the business of exchanging telegrams


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