Meet Jamie

Jamie Schlag

Essential Presentations

  • Maximizing Branch Audit Efficiency: Best Practices, Expertise and Technology to Finish the Year with Confidence, RegEd Webinar, September 2025

  • Students Only - From Classroom to Boardroom: Navigating Your Path in Financial Service, Women's Initiative Impact Network Conference 2025, Association of African American Financial Advisors Webinar

  • Year-End Compliance Considerations for Broker-dealers and Investment Advisers, RegEd Webinar, October 2024

  • Decoding FINRA Rule 3110: Insights for Branch Inspections,
    Quest CE Webinar, October 2024

  • What's Missing From Your Compliance Program?,
    Hadrius Webinar, September 2024

  • Enterprise Risk Management Best Practices & Hot Topics,
    OneVoice 2024, Financial Services Institute

  • Supervision in the New Hybrid Workforce Office World,
    NSCP National Conference 2023

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Senior Vice President and Head of Client Engagements

Jamie Schlag, Senior Vice President, Head of Client Engagements, has extensive expertise in compliance – including more than 13 years of experience in broker-dealers and investment advisory functions. She is skilled in the areas of compliance, supervision, and operations of dually registered independent broker-dealers with their own RIAs, as well as working with independent RIAs. Jamie is deeply knowledgeable in securities products, trading, auditing, AML compliance, FINRA, SEC, MSRB, and state securities and investment advisory rules and regulations.

Since joining Essential Edge, Jamie has partnered with financial institutions on a wide range of outsourced compliance-related services, such as development and implementation of policies and procedures, conducting branch inspections, AML and 3130 exams, regulatory and internal exams, and remediation. She oversees all client engagements and the teams executing them.

Jamie is dedicated to serving and advocating for clients, representatives, and firms within the financial services industry, with appointments to the National Society of Compliance Professionals Regulatory Advisory Committee as of January 2024. In addition, Jamie served on the FINRA Qualifications Exam Content Committee – SIE in 2022, served on the Financial Services Institute’s Compliance Committee from January 2023 – January 2025, and serving as an advocate on behalf of the financial services industry and its members for FSI’s Capitol Hill Day in 2023 and 2024. She is a member of NSCP, FSI, ACAMS, ACAMS – Minnesota Chapter, and InfraGard – Minnesota Chapter, along with numerous roundtable and networking groups.

Jamie holds Series 7, 24, 52, 53, 57 and 66 licenses. She maintains Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional (CRCP®) and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) designations.

She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders and Speech Language Pathology from Minot University.

When not working, Jamie enjoys crocheting, binge watching the latest series or true crime podcast, and spending time with her husband, twin daughters, and mischievous Bernedoodle and Labradoodle.

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