Camille Joseph Varlack

Camille Joseph Varlack is a partner and the chief operating officer of Bradford Edwards & Varlack LLP, where she leads the firm's risk and crisis management practice. Ms. Varlack represents large financial institutions and their employees, and individual clients in government investigations, and provides advice on employment and corporate governance matters.

Ms. Varlack is a former Assistant District Attorney in Kings County. She later joined AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, where she served as Assistant Vice President and Counsel and as Corporate Secretary of a broker-dealer subsidiary. Ms. Varlack thereafter returned to public service and served as principal court attorney to a New York State Supreme Court Justice as well as Special Counsel for Ethics, Risk and Compliance to the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services.

Ms. Varlack served under Governor Andrew M. Cuomo as Deputy Director of State Operations, Chief Risk Officer and Special Counsel. In that capacity, she managed the operations, general policy development and implementation of major policy initiatives for New York State agencies and authorities. Ms. Varlack was in charge of leading teams through statewide crises including natural disasters, storm response, potential terrorist activities and cyber attacks, as well as responding to a multitude of public health crises. As Chief Risk Officer she was helped manage audit, compliance and internal control issues for state agencies and was instrumental in the development and implementation of the first statewide enterprise risk management system.

Most of Ms. Joseph Varlack's free time over the past twenty years has been spent mentoring and performing community service through a variety of organizations, including, but not limited to, her past service as a member of the Board of Managers of the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA, and the Steering Committee for the Ronald H. Brown Law School Prep Program for College Students at St. John's Law School. Ms. Joseph Varlack continues to serve her community through her work in Brooklyn, NY, with several community service focused organizations.

Ms. Joseph Varlack graduated from the University of Buffalo, B.A., and Brooklyn Law School, J.D., where she served as a Senior Editor for the Brooklyn Journal of International Law.