Simon Lorne

Current public company boards: Teledyne Technologies Inc.

Prior public company boards: Opsware Inc.

Executive Experience:  Simon has served in a wide variety of public sector, academic and private sector positions during the course of his career. In the public sector, he was most notably General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, serving under Chairman Arthur Levitt. In the academic sphere, he served as the co-director of Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College and is an adjunct professor at the New York University Law School and the NYU Stern School of Business.

In the private sector, Simon is currently the Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer of Millennium Management LLC. He is also Chairman of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the London-based voice of the alternative investment industry. Prior to 2004 he was a partner in the Los Angeles-based law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; the global head of internal audit at Salomon Brothers; and the global head of Compliance at Citigroup.

Additional information: Simon has authored two books (“Acquisitions and Mergers: Negotiated and Contested Transactions,” and “A Director’s Handbook of Cases”), three practitioner-oriented monographs and a number of articles in law reviews, magazines and other publications. He is a frequent speaker at academic and industry symposia dealing with issues in the areas of securities regulation, securities law more broadly, and internal controls.

Simon also serves on the boards of a number of nonprofit organizations. In 2015 he was selected as one of the 1 most influential corporate directors by the US National Association of Corporate Directors.

Simon is a graduate of Occidental College, with an A.B. (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., magna cum laude).