Larry is the former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a multi-state commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. During his 17-year tenure, CFG grew 30-fold and became one of the 10 largest commercial bank holding companies in the United States. Currently, he sits as Chairman of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the largest educational publishing company in the United States. He is also a Director of Textron Inc., a leading global multi-industry company, and Tiffany & Co., a leading American luxury brand.His long record of leadership positions in business and the community includes the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Board of Trustees. He is an Honorary Trustee of The Brookings Institution and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In service to the banking industry, Larry served on the Federal Advisory Council, a panel of 12 bankers who serve as a key source of information for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He has also served as Director of The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2002 through 2004 as well as the FDIC Commission on Economic Inclusion. Larry currently sits on the board of Management Sciences for Health, a large international public health organization, and the Board of Advisors of Rosie’s Place, a sanctuary for poor and homeless women in Boston. He has previously served as an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and on the Board of Directors of Boston's Dimock Community Foundation, Inc. He takes particular interest in the issues of immigration and urban poverty, and has chaired his own family foundation – The Fish Family Foundation – since 1999. Throughout all of these endeavors, he has lived by the belief that an organization's only sustainable competitive advantage is its people.