Joan Lamm-Tennant is the independent Chair of the Equitable Holdings and AllianceBernstein Boards of Directors. She has been a Director with the Equitable Holdings Board since January 2020 and also currently serves on the Boards of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMBC) and Element Fleet Management Corp. (TSX: EFN).
Ms. Lamm-Tennant brings significant industry, risk management and academic experience having held global business leadership roles and a distinguished career as a professor of finance and economics.
Ms. Lamm-Tennant is also the founder of Blue Marble Microinsurance, a purpose-driven insurtech firm focused on providing innovative insurance products to global, underserved markets, where she served as its CEO from October 2015 to May 2020. Prior to this, she was Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Global Chief Economist and Risk Strategist at Marsh & McLennan and its subsidiary, Guy Carpenter. Ms. Lamm-Tennant also held numerous leadership roles at General Reinsurance Corporation including President of General Re Capital Consultants.
In addition, Ms. Lamm-Tennant was an adjunct professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she was the Laurence and Susan Hirsch Chair in International Business and received the 2016 Wharton MBA Excellence in Teaching award. She was also a tenured professor of finance at Villanova University and held the Thomas Labrecque Chair Professorship in Business.
She is the recipient of the 2017 Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2013 APIW Insurance Woman of the Year, and the 2012 International Insurance Society Kenneth Black Award for service and commitment to the advancement of the global industry.
Ms. Lamm-Tennant holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Investments from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Bachelor of Business Administration with honors in accounting from St. Mary's University.