Cindy Deleon

Cindy Deleon is the founder of Deleon Trade LLC, an international trade and customs compliance consulting firm. Before forming Deleon Trade LLC, Cindy served as a Senior Auditor and Assistant Field Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Regulatory Audit Division in Chicago for 12 years. While working with Customs, she conducted and supervised numerous focused assessments, quick response audits, free trade agreement reviews, drawback audits, NAFTA audits, and prior disclosure reviews.

Cindy utilizes her audit experience to assist clients in strengthening their internal control program to ensure Customs compliance and pass the focused assessment or other audits. She works with clients to analyze import operations to identify risks and develop compliance manuals and procedures. Also, she has prepared prior disclosure documentation and statistical samples using the same EZQuant software used by Customs and conducted comprehensive special trade program reviews to respond to Customs inquiries.

Cindy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, with high honors, from DePaul University in Chicago. In addition, she has successfully completed multiple advanced Customs training courses. Cindy is fluent in Spanish at a native level.