In the latest of our conversations with corporate governance and compliance officers, we talk with Richard Suminski, deputy general counsel and chief ethics and compliance Officer of Tyco Electronics, about the establishment of that company’s ethics and compliance function, following its spin-off from Tyco International in 2007.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...