Summary Bio

Edward Grebow is the Managing Director of Lakewood Advisors, LLC a boutique financial advisory and consulting firm providing services to financial institutions, media technology firms, financial technology companies and not for profit organizations. Mr. Grebow founded Lakewood Advisors in 2018 after spending 5 years as Managing Director at TriArtisan Capital Advisors where he advised financial services and technology companies and not for profit organizations. Mr. Grebow joined TriArtisan in November 2013 after serving as President and CEO of Amalgamated Bank, where he raised new capital, resolved regulatory compliance issues and refocused the Bank on serving labor unions, their affiliated benefit plans and municipalities. Prior to his work at Amalgamated, Mr. Grebow was a Managing Director of J.C. Flowers & Co, a leading private equity firm focused on the financial services sector. Mr. Grebow was retained by J.C. Flowers & Co in 2007 to run its $25 billion acquisition of Sallie Mae. Until June 2006, Mr. Grebow served as President of the ULLICO Inc. family of companies, including the $5 billion Union Labor Life Insurance Company. As President of ULLICO, Mr. Grebow successfully developed and implemented a business plan that recapitalized the Company, restored its financial strength rating and rebuilt its product management and marketing capabilities. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Mr. Grebow served as President of the Metropolitan Television Alliance (MTVA), a consortium of 11 New York Area Broadcasters seeking to rebuild the TV and Emergency Services transmission tower that had been destroyed in the attack. Mr. Grebow came to the MTVA after a decade in the broadcasting industry. He was Deputy President of Sony Electronics, Inc., and President of Sony's Broadcast and Professional Company from 1999 to 2001, and led television equipment manufacturer Chyron Corporation, as President and CEO in 1997. Mr. Grebow spent seven years with CBS, Inc. where as Executive Vice President he was in charge of operations and a significant expansion of the broadcast network in the 1990s. Prior to his work in the broadcast industry, Mr. Grebow was a leader in the rescue of Bowery Savings Bank as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. He began his career as an accountant at J.P. Morgan & Co, Inc. where he held many positions including Vice President, advising management on finance, technology and bank acquisitions.

Mr. Grebow currently serves as Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE:DO), as Chairman of Alcentra Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:ABDC) as a Director of College Avenue Student Loans, as a Trustee of New York Public Broadcasting Station WNET and of the Laborer's Charitable Foundation. Mr. Grebow is a former Trustee of The George Washington University and The Firefighters Charitable Foundation. He was appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo to the NY State Hospital Review and Planning Council.