Erik Olsen joined Vident Asset Management in 2021 as its Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to joining Vident, Mr. Olsen served as a Managing Director at ACA Group as the Head of Registered Investment Company Compliance. He led a team of three compliance consultants focused on our industry, providing ongoing and customized regulatory compliance consulting and compliance program review services to registered investment companies, their investment advisers and sub-advisers, and other service providers. He joined ACA in 2012 as a Senior Principal Consultant. Prior to ACA, Mr. Olsen was a compliance director at Legg Mason. In that role, he headed the firm’s Global Compliance Examinations team, overseeing compliance program and risk control reviews of Legg Mason’s worldwide investment advisory affiliates and distribution units. Before Legg Mason, Mr. Olsen served as a Securities Compliance Examiner in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (Investment Adviser/Investment Company). As an examiner, he conducted regulatory examinations of registered investment advisers and registered investment companies. At the SEC, he also helped launch the CCO Outreach Program. In 2005, he received the SEC Chairman’s Award of Excellence. Prior to the SEC, Mr. Olsen worked in the Mutual Funds Legal and Accounting Departments of Deutsche Asset Management. Mr. Olsen earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance from Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland).