Tara Raam

Senior Compliance Director & Counsel

Tara Raam is the Senior Compliance Director & Counsel at Lightspeed, a position they have held since 2025. Raam previously served as a General Attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2023 to 2025 and worked as an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton from 2017 to 2023. They earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2017, where they distinguished themselves as a James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, also serving as the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems. Prior to their legal career, Raam was a Corps Member for Teach for America and a high school math teacher at Kirby High School from 2012 to 2014, and received a magna cum laude degree from Boston University in 2012.

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San Francisco, United States

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