This is the next installment in an occasional series of discussions about key topics in corporate compliance.

Simon Lorne is the vice chairman and chief legal officer of Millennium Management, a $30 billion (AUM) alternative asset management company. He also serves on the board of directors as chairman of the audit committee and is a member of the nominating and governance committee at Teledyne Technologies. Prior to joining Millennium, Sy was a partner with Munger Tolles & Olson, and previously served as a managing director, with responsibility for legal compliance and internal audit, of Citigroup/Salomon Brothers. From 2000 to 2007, he served a director of Opsware Inc., a provider of data center automation software. From 1993 to 1996, he served as the general counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. Since 1999, he has been co-director of Stanford Law School’s Directors’ College. Sy has served on the Advisory Council of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board since 2011.