As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Clarence Lee is involved in all aspects of ICON’s business. Lee began his career as an analyst, keen on numbers and having an uncanny ability to identify problems or irregularities. During a stint at the metals trading division of Continental Grain, for example, he discovered several irregularities – enough so that he wound up closing the very division that had hired him. From there, Lee moved on to the position of Chief Financial Officer of Conti Milling, an international animal-feed and flour-milling operation, where he became one of the company’s leading experts in commodities trading which led to an assignment with the foreign-exchange, government securities and merchant bank group – Conti Financial. Later, Lee joined ICD Group, a petrochemicals group operating out of the former Soviet Union, which grew from $500 million in sales to about $50 billion in 18 months. Eventually, Lee ran into ICON founder, and college friend from Yale, Lance Lundberg, at a social function. He suggested Lee meet with ICON chief executive officer John Kramer, which led to his joining ICON. Lee earned a BA degree in economics from Yale University.