Robert Lamm

Bob Lamm chairs the Securities and Corporate Governance practice at Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A. in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is an Independent Senior Advisor to the Deloitte Center for Board Effectiveness. Bob previously held a number of senior in-house legal positions, including assistant general counsel and assistant secretary of Pfizer; vice president and secretary of W. R. Grace; senior vice president - corporate governance and secretary of CA Technologies; and managing director, secretary and associate general counsel of Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. He also has extensive experience with small- and mid-cap companies, as well as nonprofit entities.

Bob is a long-term member of the Society for Corporate Governance. He has chaired its Securities Law Committee and served on its Corporate Practices, Finance, National Conference, and Small- and Mid-Cap Companies Committees, as a member of its board of directors, and as chair of its National Conference Committee.

Bob has received the Society’s Bracebridge H. Young Distinguished Service Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award in Corporate Governance from Corporate Secretary magazine.

Bob is a member of the Florida and New York Bars and the American Bar Association. He frequently speaks and writes on securities law, corporate governance and related topics. He currently serves as a Fellow of The Conference Board ESG Center, as a member of the board of editors of The Corporate Counselor, as a member of the South Florida Board of Advisors of The Commonwealth Institute, and as a member of Gunster's Women Leadership Forum Committee, and he previously served as a member of the Markets Advisory Council of the Council of Institutional Investors.  He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.