Richard Lam

Richard Lam is President and CEO of the Center for Career Education, Development, and Planning Inc. (CED&P). Richard brings 15 years of leadership and management experience in the education nonprofit space to leading CED&P. He also leverages his experience from the business world to inform the development of the educational program. At CED&P, Richard focuses on organizational strategy, development efforts, campaign planning, community outreach, curriculum development, academic competition program management, and new initiatives execution.

 

Richard received his Bachelor of Science in Business and Political Economy from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Richard was President of New York Future Problem Solving, Inc., an educational nonprofit organization, where he also previously served in leadership positions including Vice President and Director. Additionally, he has significant private markets investment experience from his roles on the Global Private Equity and Global Real Assets Investment Committees at Willis Towers Watson which are responsible for managing $32 billion of private markets assets as well as from his time as a member of the Investments team at 1199SEIU Funds which manages over $11 billion across its mandates. He has also previously held positions at Cathay Bank and Bloomberg L.P.