Bart Friedman
LAW
OVID THERAPEUTICS
New Zealand
Biography
Bart Friedman, J.D., has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2015. Mr. Friedman was a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, a New York law firm, since 1980 and became senior Ccunsel as of January 2017. Mr. Friedman’s practice focuses on corporate governance investigations and advisory and crisis advisory. Earlier in his career, Mr. Friedman worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission, initially as special counsel and later as assistant director. Mr. Friedman currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Sanford C. Bernstein Mutual Funds and as the lead director of the board of directors of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG, a publicly held company. He currently serves as chair of the audit committee of the Brookings Institution, chair of the audit committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and treasurer of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Mr. Friedman earned his A.B. from Long Island University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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