Bart Friedman is currently Chair of the Board of Giant Eagle Enterprises, a food, pharmacy and convenience store conglomerate based in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. He is Lead Independent Director of Ovid Therapeutics (NY) a biotech company, as well as Senior Counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He has been in the leadership of Boards of two additional industries, insurance and finance: Deputy Chair of Allied World Insurance Holdings (Zug, Switzerland) and Chair of the Board of Sanford Bernstein Mutual Funds. (NY). He has served on the Boards of over a dozen NGO’s, including, currently: The Brookings Institution (currently Audit Committee Chair), Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts (formerly Audit Committee Chair and currently Compensation Committee Chair), The Guggenheim Museum’s Works and Process (Board Chair); and as a member of the Membership Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. Bart had also served as The Juilliard School Board of Trustees Vice-Chair and as a member of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Visiting Committee. He was recently elected as a member of the Concordia Leadership Council. As part of his decades as a Partner and now Senior Counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, he has represented numerous corporate Boards in the Fortune 500 including two in the Fortune 10. He is married to the Art Historian and Author Wendy A Stein. He has two grown sons, Benjamin, married to Lauren Sanchez and Jacob, married to Isabel Parkes.Attorney Advertising - Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome