Camille Joseph Varlack

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Camille Joseph Varlack
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Joseph Varlack in 2024
Deputy Mayor of New York City for Administration
Assumed office
January 13, 2025

She began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County. Subsequently, she joined AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, where she served as Assistant Vice President and Counsel, and as Corporate Secretary of a broker-dealer subsidiary. She then returned to public service as a principal court attorney to a New York State Supreme Court Justice. She also served under Governor Andrew Cuomo in the New York State Executive Chamber as deputy director of State Operations from March 2018 to April 2019. In that capacity, she managed the operations, policy development, and the implementation of major initiatives across more than 60 state agencies and authorities. She 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.

Prior to that, she served as Chief Risk Officer and Special Counsel from July 2017 to April 2019. As Chief Risk Officer, she oversaw 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. From March 2020 to June 2020, Varlack served as a member of the New York State COVID-19 Task Force. From May 2015 to August 2017, she served as Special Counsel for Ethics, Risk and Compliance to the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services.

References

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