Lawrence Lasser

After graduating from the Harvard Business School in 1967, Lawrence J. Lasser joined the Putnam Management Company as a securities analyst. He worked at Putnam for his entire business career, rising to become president and chief executive officer of Putnam, before retiring in 2003. During his 18-year tenure as CEO, Lasser oversaw all of Putnam’s mutual fund and institutional investment activities, distribution and marketing, and client services. In this time, Putnam’s assets rose from approximately $10 billion to $434 billion. Lasser is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a trustee of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.