Christie Simons – Global Semiconductor Center of Excellence Leader | US A&A TMT Leader | Audit & Assurance Partner

Christie is a senior partner based in the San Francisco Bay area with close to 30 years of experience working with technology clients in the bay area and around the world. She currently leads Deloitte’s Global Semiconductor Center of Excellence (CoE) which integrates Deloitte’s multi-functional capabilities across geographies to bring the best of Deloitte to our global semiconductor clients within consulting, advisory, tax and assurance services. She is also the National Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) industry leader for Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance practice serving clients and bringing industry expertise and education to Deloitte’s TMT audit and assurance professionals.

Christie has served in a number of significant leadership roles both in US and abroad, while maintaining key client and account responsibilities.  She led the succession process for 750 audit partners nationally and built the Emerging Growth Company practice in San Francisco. Christie currently leads large multi-national client service teams in delivering transformative services to several multi-billion global publicly listed semiconductor companies. Additionally, she has served emerging growth and global companies headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area with audit and assurance services, as well as, lived and worked in Deloitte's Asia Pacific practice for several years. Christie has significant experience with initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and debt offerings in the U.S., Asia, and European markets as well as merger & acquisition, and divestiture transactions.

Christie has a passion for working with technology companies and their executives to bring insights, solutions and information on industry trends to shape conversations and inform C-suite agendas for strategy and operations to grow, transform and mature in the marketplace.