Faculty and Administration Profiles

Art Weiss

About

Art Weiss is Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer for TAMKO Building Products LLC in Joplin, Missouri.  He designed and implemented TAMKO’s first Compliance and Ethics Program, established an anonymous employee reporting system, created and delivers Prevention of Harassment and Ethics training to all employees, and developed TAMKO’s first Code of Ethics.

He serves as President  of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA).  He is a member of the Compliance Certification Board, the faculty of SCCE’s Basic Compliance and Ethics Academies, and the examination writing committees for the CCEP (Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional), CCEP-F (Fellow) and CCEP-I (International) certifications. 

Prior to joining TAMKO, Mr. Weiss served six years as a Senior Counsel in the Law Department of Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Chicago, where he worked on matters of Compliance, Trade Regulation, Marketing, Retail Operations and Loss Prevention.  His responsibilities included review of marketing materials, creating a customer complaint database, and responding to regulatory and legal inquiries and challenges.

Before joining Sears, Mr. Weiss served nine years as an Assistant Attorney General in the States of Texas and Missouri, four years leading the Consumer Protection Division of the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, four years as an Assistant District Attorney in Topeka, Kansas, and two years as an Associate Counsel for the National Association of REALTORS®.

 He is a former Deputy Sheriff and radio news reporter, editor and anchor.

Degrees

BS, University of Kansas
JD, Washburn University Law School

Program Areas

Global Compliance