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# Simon Brewer
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/simon-brewer/
- Published: 1999-01-03T00:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-03T23:42:34.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #individual

**Simon J. Brewer** is an American accountant based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is Chief Financial Officer of [Operation Underground Railroad](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Operation-Underground-Railroad) and owner of Brewer Initiatives.[\[1\]](#fn1)

## History

Brewer worked as an unpaid minister for the [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Latter-day-Saints) on a two-year mission to Russia from 1997-1999\. Upon his return, he worked as a night auditor for a Marriott International.[\[2\]](#fn2)

Brewer studied at the University of Utah from 2000-2004, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting with a minor in Russian. He was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi and the Golden Key International Honor Society. He graduated in 2005 with a Masters Degree in Accounting, as a member of Beta Alpha Psi.[\[1:1\]](#fn1)

### Career

From 2005-2009, Brewer worked as a Supervising Senior Associate at KPMG. His clients included the United States Departments of Energy and the Interior, CHG Healthcare and United Way.[\[2:1\]](#fn2)

He then worked as an Associate Instructor at the University of Utah in the accounting department from 2010-2013\. Meanwhile, he served as a Partner and Chief Financial Officer for Night of the Running Dead.[\[2:2\]](#fn2)

Brewer worked as Vice President of Finance and IT at Wilson Electronics from 2013-2016, and Chief Financial Officer of Norbest from 2016-2018.

On November 25, 2016, Brewer incorporated Brewer Initiatives alongside Joseph Brewer.[\[3\]](#fn3)

In 2018, Brewer was recruited as CFO at [Predictive Technology Group](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Predictive-Technology-Group) and its subsidiaries, [Predictive Biotech](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Predictive-Biotech) and [LifeCode Genetics](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Predictive-Diagnostics).[\[2:3\]](#fn2)[\[4\]](#fn4)

From May 2019 to July 2021, Brewer worked as an Adjunct Instructor in the University of Utah's Accounting Department.[\[5\]](#fn5) According to one of his students, Brewer would frequently go on tangents and tell "irrelevant stories about Area 51 during his time auditing."[\[6\]](#fn6)

In July 2021, Brewer became Chief Operating Officer of [Operation Underground Railroad](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Operation-Underground-Railroad) until February 2023, and continues as Chief Financial Officer.[\[2:4\]](#fn2)[\[7\]](#fn7)

## External links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-brewer-cpa-9041121/)

### Further reading

- September 17, 2023: "[Leading human trafficking NGO has close ties with questionable genetics company](https://whiteroseintelligence.com/index.php/2023/09/17/leading-human-trafficking-ngo-has-close-ties-with-questionable-genetics-company/)" by [Liam Sturgess](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Liam-Sturgess)

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1. *Simon Brewer, CPA.* LinkedIn. Retrieved August 31, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.08.31-221259/https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-brewer-cpa-9041121/> [↩︎](#fnref1) [↩︎](#fnref1:1)
2. *Experience | Simon Brewer, CPA.* LinkedIn. Retrieved August 31, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.08.31-223914/https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-brewer-cpa-9041121/details/experience/> [↩︎](#fnref2) [↩︎](#fnref2:1) [↩︎](#fnref2:2) [↩︎](#fnref2:3) [↩︎](#fnref2:4)
3. Utah Department of Commerce. (2023, May 24). *BREWER INITIATIVES, LLC.* OpenCorporates. <http://archive.today/2023.08.31-223200/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us%5Fut/10173083-0163> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. Nevada Secretary of State's Office. (2023, August 11). *LIFECODE GENETICS, INC.* OpenCorporates. <http://archive.today/2023.08.17-033628/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us%5Fnv/E0161822011-9> [↩︎](#fnref4)
5. *Simon Brewer, CPA.* University of Utah. Retrieved July 1, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.07.01-083431/https://faculty.utah.edu/u0183537-Simon%5FBrewer,%5FCPA/teaching/index.hml> [↩︎](#fnref5)
6. *Simon Brewer at University of Utah.* Rate My Professors. Retrieved September 12, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.09.12-233449/https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/2496391> [↩︎](#fnref6)
7. *Operation Underground Railroad Inc, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer.* (2022, September 29). ProPublica. <https://web.archive.org/web/20230831054532/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/463614979/202202729349301610/full> [↩︎](#fnref7)