Our Team
Jay M. Cohen | Senior Advisor
Jay serves as Senior Advisor with CSLG and brings with him perspectives that span compliance executive leadership, law enforcement and professional services.
Prior to CSLG, Jay served as a Managing Director in the Risk Advisory practice at Deloitte, where he helped companies in insurance and other industries develop and strengthen their compliance programs. Jay led teams of professionals to conduct compliance risk assessments: assist organizations in addressing changes in laws and regulations in critical areas including sales practices, information governance and data privacy; manage required remediation of compliance problems; and initiate major projects for “Compliance Modernization” – strengthening organizational compliance through better insights into risk, efficient deployment of resources, and the effective use of data and analytics.
Before joining Deloitte, Jay had more than 20 years’ experience as a compliance professional, most recently serving as the Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Assurant, Inc., a global, specialty insurance company. Jay led Assurant’s comprehensive program to identify and address the legal and regulatory requirements for Assurant's varied, worldwide insurance businesses, conduct due diligence of new business opportunities and address the Affordable Care Act.
Previously, Jay served as a corporate compliance officer for well-known organizations such as:
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
The Mony Group
Oxford Health Plans
Prudential Insurance Company of America
In public service, Jay was Chief of the Appeals Bureau and First Deputy District Attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, where he led a team of over 50 appeals experts, successfully argued a case in the United States Supreme Court, and helped to prosecute high-profile homicide cases.
Jay also served in a number of positions in New York City and State government including Special Counsel to the New York City Commissioner of Correction, Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Department of Investigation and Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Jay has served as a Member of the Editorial Board for the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics, a Fellow at the Ethics Resource Center and a Member of the Executive Committee for The Yale Law School Association.
Education:
Jay earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.A. from The George Washington University.
Admissions:
New York (active)
Provides services with CSLG in a non-practicing attorney role