Camille Joseph Varlack is the Chief of Staff to the 110th Mayor of New York City. She is a founding partner and former chief operating officer of Bradford Edwards & Varlack LLP, where she led the firm’s business advisory, employment, risk and crisis management practices. Ms. Varlack represented large financial institutions and other clients in government investigations, civil litigation, employment disputes, audit defense and provided guidance on many other matters.
Ms. Varlack is a former Assistant District Attorney in Kings County. She previously served as Assistant Vice President and Counsel of AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and as Corporate Secretary of a broker-dealer subsidiary. Ms. Varlack was a principal court attorney to a New York State Supreme Court Justice, and served as Special Counsel for Ethics, Risk and Compliance to the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services.
Ms. Varlack served in the New York State Executive Chamber 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 60+ 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.
Ms. Varlack earned her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School, where she served as a Senior Editor for the Brooklyn Journal of International Law and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a past chair of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
