Lindsay graduated from Stanford University in 1938 and ended up working for the Office of Strategic Services[3] during World War II.
During the war, as the head of Mission Lindsay, he parachuted to the Slovene Partisans in 1944 and worked with them to blow up the rail lines in Southern Austria.
[4] In the private sector he spent time at the Ford Foundation,[5] McKinsey & Co., and as head of Itek, a high tech company, which, among its products, developed the camera's for satellites that overflew the Soviet Union and scouted the moon and Mars.
After his retirement, he started a seven-year stint helping Ukraine's International Management Institute turn its curriculum towards a market economy.
The program continues today in an expanded form to include not only participants from Ukraine but also from the other countries surrounding the Black Sea.