When Darrel Byer was hired at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York, the system was troubled by numerous investigations. His compliance chief handed him two thick binders and told him to “fix it.”

Byer, now the deputy chief risk officer at the MTA, did help fix the biggest transit system in North America by building out a comprehensive compliance program.

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