Glen Lewy '74

Senior Managing Director, Hudson Ventures
"Doing it All: Leading in Finance, Law, and Nonprofits"

Glen joined Hudson Ventures in 2000 as a Senior Managing Director. Glen spent 25 years as an adviser to some of the world's largest and most prestigious corporations, having distinguished himself as both a lawyer and investment banker. Glen was a senior partner and member of the Management Committee of Wolfensohn & Co., when it was acquired by Bankers Trust in 1996. Following the acquisition, he served as a member of the Management Committee of Bankers Trust. Prior to joining Wolfensohn & Co., he had been a partner involved in the practice of corporate law, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He holds a B.A. degree from Amherst College and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Glen has combined his career in finance with a very full set of activities in the not-for-profit sector, including a three-year term as National Chairman of the Anti-defamation League, a civil rights organization with more than 300 employees, a $50 million annual budget and worldwide influence. He also serves on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of The New York Historical Society, New York City’s oldest museum, and the SEED Foundation, an entrepreneurial developer and manager of public boarding schools for at-risk children, which has won numerous awards for innovation in education.  He is also a member of New York’s Council on Foreign Relations.

Glen believes that an active professional life in finance and an active philanthropic life mutually reinforce each other—making the participant far more successful in both of those fields of endeavor.  In combining those activities, Glen was mentored by two of his partners at the Wolfensohn firm, Jim Wolfensohn, who became President of the World Bank, and Paul Volcker, who was the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve System. Glen, in turn, has mentored many other finance professionals in how to combine those activities. He has also developed some very interesting insights into similarities and differences between the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors in terms of governance and operations that relate to how we think about those enterprises.

Glen will be at Law School on Thursday, March 6^th to share his insights and lead a lively discussion on combining what participants often think of as two very different spheres of activities: integrating a successful for profit career with nonprofit leadership.  The challenges facing finance and legal professionals today make it particularly important to think about how best to get involved in a wider range of socially important activities.

Lunch will be provided.