Crystal R. Jezierski works with clients to manage governance and risk requirements and to design, implement, and lead compliance programs. Ms. Jezierski is a compliance expert and former compliance executive with 25 years of government and private sector experience. She has served as associate general counsel, assistant secretary for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, senior vice president for Global Ethics at Walmart, a partner with the global law firm Baker McKenzie and as chief counsel for Oversight and Investigations with the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.
While with Walmart, Ms. Jezierski was the global lead for the vision, strategy, implementation, and execution of Walmart’s ethics program. Under her tenure, she set and maintained the company’s standards of ethical conduct and its processes for identifying conduct that violated its Statement of Ethics. She was also responsible for the governance and processes for Walmart’s response, review, substantiation, and related discipline, for allegations received by its ethics helpline. Ms. Jezierski was also responsible for their Conflicts of Interest program and ethics program reporting to executive and board leadership.
In private practice, Ms. Jezierski worked with global companies to conduct compliance risk assessments and to design and implement their compliance programs, including: advising on compliance standards and controls, training, communications, program oversight, testing the effectiveness of their compliance program, and advising on how to respond to compliance failures and misconduct reports. She also successfully defended compliance programs before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) resulting in reduced law enforcement penalties or the declination of law enforcement actions.
Additionally, Ms. Jezierski was a deputy assistant attorney general for Legislative Affairs at the Justice Department. In her public sector roles, she provided strategic advice to top DOJ officials and leading U.S. Congress members on federal law enforcement priorities, congressional oversight of the Justice Department and other federal law enforcement agencies, and congressional investigations.
Ms. Jezierski is a graduate of the College of William and Mary School of Law and Denison University and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
