Room 85 at 7pm on Wednesday 4/5

Dinner will be provided

Tom Hardin previously spent much of his career as a hedge fund analyst focused on long-short equity investing. In 2008, as part of a cooperation agreement with the Department of Justice, Tom assisted the U.S. government in understanding how insider trading occurred in the hedge fund industry. Known as “Tipper X,” Tom became one of the most prolific informants in securities fraud history, helping to build several of the 80+ individual criminal cases in “Operation Perfect Hedge,” a Wall Street house cleaning campaign that morphed into the largest insider trading investigation of a generation. Since resolving his case in 2015, Tom consults and speaks on insider trading, ethics and compliance issues from his former analyst seat perspective to investment firms, corporations and universities. As a complement to existing legal and regulatory compliance efforts, Tom discusses the poor rationalizations which led to him crossing the line, his double life as a government informant and his view on current high-risk areas for employee fraud to occur. Tom holds a B.S. in Economics with a Finance concentration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is the subject of an upcoming CNBC documentary.