AI-assisted Export Classification: Opportunity, Risk and Governance

Barb Kazimierczak is a global subject matter expert in export controls and trade sanctions at Kenvue. She also brings extensive experience in antiboycott compliance and anti-corruption practices. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Barb has over eight years of global trade compliance experience spanning the defense, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial manufacturing, and consumer health industries.

Barb has over eight years of experience advising organizations across a broad range of industries, including defense and aerospace, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, industrial manufacturing (Michelin-type sectors), and consumer health. She has held in-house and consulting roles supporting complex regulatory programs and guiding companies through global compliance challenges, including U.S. consent agreements, sanctions enforcement, and cross-border risk management.

Her experience includes direct collaboration with U.S. regulators such as the Departments of Commerce, State, and Treasury (OFAC) as well as engagement with foreign authorities across the UK, France, and the Netherlands. Barb has supported strategic remediation, export licensing, classification governance, and internal investigations in high-risk jurisdictions and for globally distributed operations.

She began her career in Congress, where she gained firsthand experience with the legislative process by supporting the development and advancement of congressional bills on a range of regulatory and policy issues. Her time in government shaped her understanding of the broader regulatory landscape and laid the foundation for her leadership in global trade compliance.

Barb holds a B.A. in International Relations and Political Science from Florida International University, along with a Law Certificate in International Affairs from Florida State University.

Aman Kakar is a member of the SAP Counsel, Export Controls & Sanctions Compliance with extensive experience in export controls and sanctions compliance.

He brings over 13 years of experience advising global organizations across multiple industries. Aman has served as in-house counsel in roles including Global Trade Legal at Amazon Web Services and as part of the International Trade and Investment Practice Group at ArentFox Schiff. In these positions, he advised U.S. and global compliance and business teams on the application of U.S. export control laws to hardware, software, technology, and services, ensuring operational compliance across multiple jurisdictions. His work has spanned the full range of regulatory requirements, including U.S. export controls, economic sanctions, trade remedies, and foreign investment laws and regulations.

Earlier in his career, Aman served as a staff attorney at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Office of Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement & Compliance, where he advised enforcement and compliance officials on statutory and regulatory requirements.

Keith Huffman is Chief Legal Counsel, Export Control US (Global) at SAP and based in the UK. In this role he serves as legal advisor on U.S. export control and sanctions laws applicable to SAP’s global activities. His responsibilities include adopting and implementing SAP global corporate policies and strategies, helping manage SAP’s global export control and sanctions compliance program, training stakeholders on export control and sanctions requirements, collaborating with SAP legal teams on contract negotiations and advising operations and compliance teams regarding U.S. export control and sanctions laws requirements.

Previously, Mr. Huffman was in private practice in London and Washington, D.C. for international law firms, and prior to this he worked in the U.S. Government, focusing on a wide array of foreign policy and international trade matters.

Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.

Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.