Christopher J. Ryan has served as Lakeland’s chief executive officer and president since November 2003, secretary since April 1991, and a director since May 1986. He was executive vice president of finance from May 1986 until becoming president in November 2003. Ryan also worked as a corporate finance partner at Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney, senior vice president of corporate finance at Laidlaw Adams & Peck, Inc., managing-corporate finance director of Brean Murray Foster Securities, Inc. and senior vice president of corporate finance of Rodman & Renshaw, respectively, between 1983 and 1991. He also served as a director of Lessing, Inc., a privately held restaurant chain based in New York, from 1995-2008. Ryan received his BA from Stanford University, his MBA from Columbia Business School and his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School.