Lindsey Simon advises private equity, venture capital, and real estate firms as the Founder and CEO of Simon Compliance, a boutique firm she started in 2010 to help investment advisers comply with the ever-changing laws and regulations in the securities industry.

Lindsey has more than 25 years of experience as a securities professional and previously served as a Senior Attorney with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Enforcement, as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Carpe Diem Capital Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund, and as an Associate in the litigation department of the Chicago office of Winston & Strawn.

Lindsey earned a B.A., cum laude, from Emory University, and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.