Board of Directors

Laurence W. Cohen is founder and CEO of Seven Bridges Advisors, a multi-family investment office for wealthy families and foundations. Previously, Larry was managing partner at Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz, a tax lawyer at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy and Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge, and clerked for The Honorable John Garrett Penn, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He served as Chair of the Brown University Investment Committee from 2009 to 2015 and Vice-Chair from 2015 to 2019, and also served as a member of the Brown University Corporation and its Executive Committee. In addition to HCWH, Larry is a member of the Boards of The Health Initiative, a nationwide effort to spur a new conversation about investing in health, and The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Prior Boards include The American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Communal Fund, Health Leads USA, Blythedale Children’s Hospital, Brown University’s Advisory Council on Economics and VH1 Save the Music Foundation. He was honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Primetime Emmy Awards for his contributions to VH1 Save the Music.