Leah Ramos is Chief Compliance Officer at Suffolk, a national construction company with more than $10 billion in annual revenue, 3,500 employees, and 16 offices throughout the country. Suffolk manages some of the most complex, sophisticated projects in every sector, including healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, transportation/aviation, government and public work, mission critical, advanced technology and commercial.
Leah leads Suffolk’s compliance program, overseeing legal and regulatory compliance and driving the company’s culture of integrity. Before joining Suffolk, Leah was Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at a global construction services company, where she ran the compliance and audit programs. Prior to that, she was Director of Financial Disclosure Compliance and Counsel at the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state agency charged with enforcing the state’s ethics and lobbying laws.
Before her government service, Leah spent over a decade as a litigator at Am Law 100 firms, focusing on complex commercial and employment matters at Morrison & Foerster LLP and Thompson Hine. LLP. Early in her career, she clerked for the Honorable Denny Chin, then a district judge in the Southern District of New York, and began her practice as a litigation associate at what is now K&L Gates.
Leah received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her JD from Fordham Law School. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, teaching legal writing and research and lawyering fundamentals to first-year students.
Leah is a Speaker for the Conducting Effective Internal Investigations program.