Michael Laden

Michael Laden has been licensed by U.S. Customs since 1981. He served the maximum two-term limit on the Commercial Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) providing advice on customs matters to the U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Homeland Security. He is a member of the CBP Trade Support Network (TSN) which designed the CBP computer architecture known as ACE (Automated Commercial Environment).

He was the executive sponsor of a self-filing program for customs entries (more than 200,000 entries annually) and helped a mass retailer achieve the coveted ISA designation. Mr. Laden is also credited with developing some of the most creative and ingenious customs compliance programs, policies and procedures; allowing his employer to achieve unprecedented levels of compliance while lowering associated landed costs.