Senior Compliance, Investigations & Risk Advisory
Compliance Expertise When the Stakes Are High.
Mannes & Associates provides senior-level compliance, investigations and risk expertise to healthcare, life-sciences and other regulated organizations—without the cost of building capabilities in-house.
25+
Years Experience
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Primary Focus
Compliance & Investigations
Core Expertise
Executive-Level
Advisory Approach
The Challenge
When Compliance Becomes a Business Need
Organizations face compliance challenges that demand immediate, experienced attention.
An allegation has been raised.
Compliance needs have outgrown your infrastructure.
Leaders need an independent assessment.
You need senior compliance expertise without another full-time executive.
A regulatory or operational issue has emerged.
Management needs a practical remediation plan.
Mannes & Associates helps you move from uncertainty to action.
Core Services
What We Do
Four core service areas built for regulated organizations facing real compliance challenges.
Independent Compliance Investigations
Independent, legally defensible investigations conducted by those who understand compliance and investigations. Hotline allegations, whistleblower complaints, misconduct, fraud, conflicts of interest and regulatory concerns from intake and triage to evidence preservation, interview, reporting, and root-cause analysis.
Discuss an InvestigationCompliance Program Assessments
A productized 90-Day (or less) Compliance Program Assessment covering compliance maturity, risk, policies, Code of Conduct, hotline, privacy, investigations, conflicts, training, regulatory adherance, monitoring and governance.
Assess My Compliance ProgramFractional Chief Compliance Officer
Experienced compliance leadership without a full-time executive. Program development, governance, risk assessments, executive & board support, policies, hotline oversight, investigations, reporting, and remediation.
Explore Fractional CCO ServicesCompliance Crisis & Emerging-Risk Response
Something happened. Now what? Risk assessment, investigation strategy, incident response, exposure assessment, fact development, escalation and remediation for allegations and emerging risks.
Talk to an AdvisorWhy Mannes & Associates
Experience That Connects Compliance to Reality.
Real-World Investigative Experience
Decades of hands-on investigations experience across regulated industries, law enforcement and corporate compliance environments.
Regulatory & Industry Expertise
Deep knowledge of healthcare, life sciences and education regulatory frameworks, including OIG, FDA, HIPAA and institutional compliance requirements.
Executive Perspective
Senior leadership experience as a Chief Compliance Officer and integrity leader informs every engagement—strategic, not just tactical.
Practical, Risk-Based Solutions
Recommendations are grounded in operational reality. Clients receive clear, actionable guidance—not theoretical frameworks.
Independent & Objective
No product to sell, no audit firm to protect. Mannes & Associates provides objective assessment and independent perspective.
Discreet & Confidential
Sensitive matters require discretion. Every engagement is handled with the confidentiality that compliance and investigations demand.
About the Firm
Mitigating Risk, protecting assets, & preserving integrity Since 2003
in 2003, Mannes & Associates started as a bespoke security and crisis preparedness consultancy in Washington, DC - when Ben Mannes applied his experience as a Metropolitan Police Officer and former Federal Law Enforcement Officer on the New York Terrorist Trials operations command to helping protect clients in the property management, government contracting, events, and faith based communities. As his experience grew into oversight and compliance, so did Mannes & Associates, with his collaborating with Marieo Foster (former US Treasury law enforcement chief), Gen. Sidney Baumgarten, JD (former NYC Deputy Mayor), and Tori-Lynn Heaton (retired law enforcement investigator and New England's foremost subject matter expert on intimate-partner violence). Combines, Mannes & Associates brings more than 150 years of combined professional experience in compliance, investigations, ethics security, crisis preparedness, education integrity, and risk management to every engagement. Our team has served in senior leadership roles across the government, healthcare, life sciences, financial services, legal, and education sectors — and provides the expertise you need to assure your organization is protected and legally defensible without straining your budget.
With a focus on leading outsourced compliance functions for organizations operating under heightened regulatory scrutiny, we can help you build compliance, risk, security, and investigations programs from the ground up, creating assessments and plans that advise boards and executive leadership on compliance risk and governance for clients of all sizes and risk profiles.
Mannes & Associates was founded to give regulated organizations access to senior compliance, risk, and security expertise—on demand, without the overhead of a full-time executive. The firm serves healthcare, life sciences, education, financial services, transportation, legal, government, nonprofit, media, and other regulated industries nationally.
The Mannes & Associates Team
(from left to right) Marieo Foster, Tori-Lynn Heaton, Gen. Sidney Baumgarten, and Ben Mannes
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