Jim Nortz is a leader in the field of corporate compliance and ethics with extensive experience in developing and implementing compliance and ethics programs for multinational corporations.
Jim is currently serving as Compliance Director at Bausch & Lomb, where he has responsibility for developing, evaluating and supporting all aspects of the company’s global compliance and ethics programs.
Prior to joining Bausch & Lomb, Jim served Chief Compliance Officer at Kraton Polymers, Vice President of Business Ethics and Compliance for Adecco and Vice President of Business Ethics and Compliance for Crompton Corporation. Jim also served as a senior advisor to the Ethics Resource Center (“ERC”) providing the ERC with assistance in formulating effective strategies for seeking corporate support for programs designed combat governmental corruption around the world and in preparing the question set for the ERC’s 2007 National Business Ethics Survey.
Jim served as an officer in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, first as a criminal defense counsel in Europe and then for four years as a litigation attorney in the Army’s Environmental Law Division in Arlington, Virginia. Upon leaving military service in 1994, Jim joined Witco Corporation as a Senior Attorney in which he was a safety, health and environmental affairs and litigation counsel.
Jim has published numerous professional articles on compliance, ethics and corporate governance issues. Jim writes the monthly business ethics columns for the Association of Corporate Counsel Docket and the Rochester Business Journal. Jim has also published articles in Ethikos and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association News Letter. Jim was the first author to be published on Corporate Compliance Insights, a web site that is specifically designed to provide a forum for knowledge exchange between compliance experts on important and timely topics in the areas of ethics, compliance, risk, and governance.
Jim has lectured extensively in the field of business ethics and compliance to business, professional and academic groups including the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association, the Westchester/Fairfield County Corporate Counsel Bar Association, the Conference Board, the MAPI Manufacturers Alliance, St. John Fisher’s School of Pharmacy, Geneseo University, and Bentley College. Jim is also a faculty member for the Practicing Law Institutes’ Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2009 in New York City.
Jim serves on the board of directors of the Ethics and Compliance Officers Association and is the current chair of ECOA’s Healthcare Industry Group roundtable. Mr. Nortz founded and chaired a business ethics roundtable in the Westchester, New York/Fairfield, Connecticut area and serves on the steering committee of the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation. Jim also participated on the Open Compliance and Ethics Group’s (“OCEG’s”) steering committee and assisted in the development of OCEG’s first “Red Book” Framework document. Jim is currently also a member of the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation Steering Committee and Chairman of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association’s Healthcare Industry Sector group.
Jim has a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Jim Nortz has authored the following articles for Corporate Compliance Insights:
If you wish to contact Jim Nortz, please use the information listed below:
Jim Nortz
Bausch & Lomb
Compliance Director
One Bausch & Lomb Place
Rochester, NY 14604-2701
Office: 585-338-8156
Mobile: 585-260-8960
Email: james.a.nortz@bausch.com
